Orion: 2711 books
by Elizabeth Willey
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A powerful fantasy novel in its own right, set in an expansive and complex fantasy universe, The Price of Blood and Honor brings to a grand climax the tale, begun in The Well-Favored Man and A Sorcerer and a Gentleman, of the kingdoms of Landuc, Noroison, and Phesaotois. The bitter, centuries-old...
Prince
Purple Reign
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Prince was an icon. A man who defined an era of music and changed the shape of popular culture forever. There is no doubt that he was one of the most talented and influential artists of all time, and also one of the most mysterious. On 21st April 2016 the world lost its Prince; it was the day the...
Scenes and Apparitions
The Roy Strong Diaries 19882003
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Funny, barbed and moving ... magnificently readable' THE TIMES
Scenes and Apparitions covers a period of Roy Strong's life from 1988 to 2003. A sequel to Splendours and Miseries, it is an unmissable record...
The Believers
How America Fell For Bernard Madoff's $65 Billion Investment Scam
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
How America fell for financier Bernie Madoff's $65 billion investment scam.
It was luxurious Palm Beach, by the manicured lawns and Olympic-sized swimming pool, that financier Bernard Madoff ravaged the world of philanthropy and high society he had strived so hard to join, vaporising the assets...
Is It My Fault, Mummy?
A little girl locked in a prison of guilt. A loving foster carer determined to free her
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Foster carer Maggie Hartley is used to receiving placements at short notice, but the arrival of seven-year-old Paris sees her handling one of her most heart-breaking cases yet.
Paris arrives at Maggie's house with the police, after the traumatised little girl is found wandering the streets...
The Girl No One Wanted
The heartbreaking true story of a child with no home to call her own
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Eleven-year-old Leanne is out of control. Since being taken into care at the age of three, she has had over forty placements, each carer less able to cope with her anger and destruction than the last.
Late one night, foster carer Maggie Hartley receives a terrified call from Leanne's current...
Denied a Mummy
The heartbreaking story of three little children searching for someone to love them.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
When Maggie's latest placement arrives on her doorstep, it is clear that Sean, Dougie and their big sister Mary have been through unspeakable traumas in their short?lives.
Violent and malnourished,?the siblings have been left to fend for themselves by their drug-addicted parents. Maggie must...
Sold To Be A Wife
Only a determined foster carer can stop a terrified girl from becoming a child bride
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The powerfully moving new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Maggie Hartley.
Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.
To...
Battered, Broken, Healed
A mother separated from her daughter. Only a painful truth can bring them back together
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
A new challenge faces foster carer Maggie Hartley: this time it's not a child that's at risk, it's her mother. Can Maggie help Hailey to escape her abusive husband, and reunite her with her baby daughter? A heartbreaking true story perfect for fans of Cathy Glass, Casey Watson, Angela Hart and Rosie...
Wings on My Sleeve
The World's Greatest Test Pilot tells his story
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history.
In 1939 Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realising he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve:...
by Tim Pat Coogan
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
From the personal to the political, this is the much-awaited memoir from Tim Pat Coogan.
Ireland's best-known journalist, broadcaster, historian and bestselling biographer Tim Pat Coogan has not only reported the news - he's been the news. Through the Irish Press, where he served as editor...
Little Merchants
The Golden Era of Youth Delivering Newspapers
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Hefting a newspaper bag, the paperboy trimmed playtime with his daily routine. But routines rupture. Undeterred by dangers and disasters, rascals guide the reader along paper routes sharing their adventures and misadventures. Their evocative stories arc from hilarious to horrific, and poignant to...
The Second Bounce Of The Ball
Turning Risk Into Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
'One of the best books written on entrepreneurship in recent years' FINANCIAL TIMES
In business, everyone can see the first bounce of the ball. It is the second bounce that is uncertain. Ronald Cohen, one of the world's leading private-equity investors, argues that the entrepreneur's aim is...
Going to Sea in a Sieve
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The first hilarious volume of comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker's memoir, and now the inspiration for the major BBC series CRADLE TO GRAVE, starring Peter Kay.
'And what was our life like in this noisy, dangerous and polluted industrial pock-mark wedged into one...