In the sequel to Friends Forever, Lyn Andrews writes a gripping wartime saga in Every Mother's Son - a tale depicting the power of love and the inner strength of the women of the Liverpool Blitz. Perfect for fans of Anne Baker, Joan Jonker and Kate Thompson.Molly and Bernie have been friends forever. As young girls they left Ireland seeking new beginnings in Liverpool. Now they are marrying their sweethearts and looking forward to enjoying the lives they've worked so hard to build. But as the Liverpool Blitz begins, it seems as if their dreams are about to be destroyed.Night after night, horrific bombing tears the city apart. As wives and mothers, both women know that they could face great tragedy. But they also know that their friendship, and their love for their husbands and sons, will give them the strength to find the happiness they deserve...

    Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool.

    Arthur Conan Doyle provides a rich and fascinating set of mysteries to challenge his sleuth in the new stories. As before, Watson is the superb narrator, and the magic remains unchanged and undimmed.This fascinating volume also includes the collection His Last Bow. In the title story, we are told how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retirement to help the government fight the German threat at the approach of the First World War. Here are two sparkling sets of stories featuring the greatest detective of them all.

    There are simply too many birds in them. This book introduces the reader to Britain's most obvious birds. But it does more than that: it also explains them. It explains the way that different birds do different things, eat different food, sing different songs and live different lives, and it explains why they are different. If you are a would-be birdwatcher but don't know where to start, A Bad Field Guide is for you. It will help you understand birdwatching: but far more important, it will help you begin to understand birds. Robin...But have you ever wondered what a red breast means to a robin? A red breast is not just the way a human can recognise a robin when it comes a-calling, when it sits on a spade or a Christmas card. The red breast is not just a bit of chance colouration. No: the red breast is the core of the robin's being. The red breast is the love, the honour and the glory of a robin. Have you noticed that a robin positively flaunts it? It is as if he is telling the world: for God's sake, I'm a robin!

    "A Modest Proposal," also an imaginative, enduring work, is political lampoonery at its finest. This Enriched Classic Edition includes: • A concise introduction that gives readers important background information • A chronology of the author's life and work • A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context • An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations • Detailed explanatory notes • Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work • Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction • A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson

    After his conversion to Jesus Christ, he was constantly amazed by the fact that the God of infinite grace should have saved him from his sin. As a minister of the gospel, he loved to proclaim the grace of God to sinners and earnestly persuaded his hearers to embrace by faith the Lord Jesus Christ in whom is found the free pardon of all our sins.Published by Bunyan in the year of his death (1688), this little book brings together the fruit of his thinking on the grace of forgiveness. With the warmth and fervency of spirit of a true evangelist, he beautifully unfolds the riches of God's grace and mercy to the greatest of sinners. Here, as the subtitle of the book says, is 'Good News for the Vilest of Men'! 'I have been vile myself, but have obtained mercy; and I would have my companions in sin partake of mercy too: and, therefore, I have writ this little book.' John Bunyan

    There has never been a collection of his very best short stories offered to the trade. Hodgson's sea stories have unusual authenticity owing to his having spent a lot of time on merchant's ships-he left his family in 1890 at the age of thirteen to spend eight years at sea, where the experience of mistreatment, poor pay, and worse food was contrasted by Hodgson's immeasurable fascination with the sea. His obsession for the sea fills his writings. This volume collects the very best of Hodgson's sea stories-which has not been done before-with some of the most exciting and dramatic creatures of fantasy on the written page, exhibiting the sea in all her moods: wonder, mystery, beauty, and terror."This collection brings together the very best of his short stories, together with a sampling of his poetry. It includes a variety of his sea horrors along with two non-fantastic pieces: "On the Bridge," a journalistic story written immediately after the sinking of the Titanic which attempts to show some of the various factors which contributed to the tragedy, and the suspenseful nonfiction story "Through the Vortex of a Cyclone," which is based on Hodgson's own experiences at sea." - From the Introduction by Douglas A. Anderson"Among connoisseurs of fantasy fiction William Hope Hodgson deserves a high and permanent rank . . . Few can equal him in adumbrating the nearness of nameless forces and monstrous besieging entities through casual hints and significant details, or in conveying feelings of the spectral and abnormal." - H. P. Lovecraft"Among those fiction writers who have elected to deal with the shadowlandsand borderlands of human existence, William Hope Hodgson surely merits a place with the very few that inform their treatment of such themes with a sense of authenticity." - Clark Ashton Smith

    Based on the authors' years of experience as ESL teachers and their rigorous review of past exams, this book offers proven vocabulary-building activities and exercises. Appropriate for students pursuing all academic disciplines, it features: -400 words in key categories, including food, computers, society, history, finance, politics, friendship, science, the arts, and more-Many skill-building activities and exercises, including paraphrasing, synonym and antonym matching, and prefix and suffix identification-Proven strategies for incorporating new words into everyday vocabulary-Special sections on synonyms, roots, prefixes and suffixes, and sentence structure

    Features works including "A Cross for Easter" - a whodunnit set on New Providence Island, The Bahamas; "Master Thief" - a Euro-Bahamian folk tale; and "Sunday, Funday" - the story of a tense but illuminating afternoon in the life of a rum drinking construction worker, Hezekiah Pratt.

    500 sets. Preface by James Methuen-Campbell.This definitive collection of seventy-six short stories and related autobiographical writings, presented in the two volumes of "Where Nothing Sleeps", is suffused with the paradoxical appeal of Denton Welch: his self-obsession and Gothic morbidity of outlook, ranged against his dogged individualism and ability to charm and fascinate the reader with the 'freshness and pinpoint detail of his perceptions'. Admired by literary luminaries as diverse as William Burroughs and Edith Sitwell, Welch, author of "Maiden Voyage", was only thirty-three at his death in 1948. An Old Boy of Repton and Goldsmiths' College, he had a memorably idiosyncratic personality and never lost his feeling of being excluded from society in general, perhaps because of his early childhood in China and, as he became aware later in life, his homosexuality. But the fact that he was able to rise above severe physical infirmities inflicted by a tragic road accident when he was twenty to create some memorable writing and artwork, demonstrates that he also possessed a remarkable strength of character.

    You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

    When Spot's mum and dad go out for the day, his grandma comes to stay. What games will they play?These little stories are just right for little hands and are perfect for all Spot fans.

    500 numbered copies. Note: There was also a special, slipcased limited edition: 150 copies of The Wandering Soul with The Lost Poetry Along with The Lost Poetry, The Wandering Soul is one of the books admirers of William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) have been waiting for.Contents: 'Foreword: The Last Redoubt' by Mike Ashley, 'Introduction: The Wandering Soul' by Jane Frank, References. Avenues to Publication: 'Physical Culture: A Talk with an Expert', 'From the Blackburn Evening Telegraph', 'Physical Culture Versus Recreative Exercise'. 'Health from Scientific Exercise'. Love of the Sea: Aboard the Canterbury, Ship's Log, Glossary. Story-telling through Slide Lectures: 'A Sailor and His Camera', 'Through the Heart of a Cyclone', 'When the Sea Gets Cross', 'A Cyclonic Storm', 'Through the Vortex of a Cyclone'. The Light that is on Land and Sea: Portfolio of Photographs. Speaking His Mind: 'Is the Mercantile Navy Worth Joining?-Certainly Not', 'The Poet vs. The Stonemason', 'The Trade in Sea Apprentices,' 'The Peril of the Mine', 'How the French Soldier Deals with Spies', 'A Pen Picture of How Frenchmen Fight', 'The 'Emergency Door' of the Sea. 'Out Boats'', 'An Old French Woman and Her Chickens'. Sentiment Through Verse: 'Boy Billy Boo-Hoo', 'Little Feet of Maggie Lee', 'The Heart Cry', 'Monsieur les Vidoques', 'Tramp! Tramp!', 'Nevermore', 'The Ocean of Eternity', 'Sea Revelry', 'One Nation Are We', 'Pillars of the Empire', 'Gun Drill', 'The Conqueror'. Personal Gestures: 'The Fruit of the Tree of Life', 'Scraps! Scraps!! Scraps!!!'. Coasts of Adventure: 'Down the Long Coasts', 'S.O.S.: The Real Thing', 'The Regeneration of Captain Bully Keller', 'The Island of the Crossbones', 'The Inn of the Black Crow', 'Jack Gray, Second Mate', 'The Friendship of Monsieur Jeynois', 'Judge Barclay's Wife', 'Captain Dan Danblasten'. Obituary: 'A Literary Letter'. With fifty-six illustrations. Tragically killed in action at the end of World War One, Hodgson has acquired a formidable reputation for his classic weird writings, which include the monumental novel The Night Land, and atmospheric tales of maritime terror fuelled by his early adventures as an apprentice in the Merchant Navy. In The Wandering Soul, Jane Frank has compiled much previously unpublished and uncollected material, gleaned from editor and science-fiction historian Sam Moskowitz's 'Hodgson Archive'. Presented here are 'Coasts of Adventure', a collection of stories never before published in book form; Hodgson's 'Ship's Log' from one of his early sea voyages; photographs of Hodgson and his family; newly-discovered poetry; Hodgson's wonderful and historically important sea-going photographs; factual articles from contemporary newspapers and journals; and an unpublished slide lecture, all augmented by Jane Frank's carefully researched Introduction and a critical appreciation of the fiction and poetry. The wide-ranging elements of the book are melded together by William Hope Hodgson's uniquely potent imagination and vigorous approach to life, and their publication can only enhance our understanding and appreciation of his life and work.

    It joins the famously infamous Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs and the very smelly but loveable Jack and the Beanstalk in a glittering line up of wickedly funny productions which children and audiences just love. The plot twists something like this: Mr Wolf thinks he's a match for Little Red Riding Hood and her three little piggie pals. He snatches a lead on her and gobbles up Grandma - but his hair raising antics will cost him his skin. And it's sweet Little Red Riding Hood herself who has the ace up her sleeve - or, to be frank - the pistol in her knickers. Schools can now buy a performance licence online at the brand new A&C Black musicals website (live from March 05), which also has a forum, a Hall of Fame, and regular updates and free extras to download. Another winner!