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Celebrating Halloween, this book encourages young children to unleash their creativity and imagination. It invites them to explore various artistic skills while enjoying the festive spirit of the holiday. Perfect for fostering a love of art and self-expression, it offers a fun way for kids to engage with the season.

»Das ist die Geschichte, wie wir nach Frith gekommen sind. Und wir gehen hier nie, nie wieder weg.« Amy und Lan haben die beste Kindheit überhaupt. Sie leben auf einem kleinen Bauernhof im Westen Englands. Ihre Eltern sind gute Freunde, die aus der Stadt nach Frith gekommen sind, um das einfache, bessere Leben zu leben. Sie mähen ihr eigenes Heu, schlachten ihre eigenen Truthähne. Amy und Lan lieben ihre Freiheiten und die Tiere, um die sie sich kümmern, einschließlich eines Kalbs namens Gabriella Weihnacht. Doch schon bald bringen die Erwachsenen die Harmonie der Gemeinschaft durcheinander. Es sind nicht nur kleine alltägliche Streitigkeiten im ländlichen Paradies. Vor allem Lans Mutter und Amys Vater sollten von ihren Kindern wissen, nicht mit dem Feuer zu spielen. »Aufs Land« ist ein Liebesbrief an die sorglose Kindheit und ein köstlicher Seitenhieb auf das Ideal des einfachen Lebens.

Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood, growing up on a West Country farm - three families, a couple of lodgers, goats, dogs and an orphaned calf called Gabriella Christmas. The adults are far too busy to keep an eye on Amy and Lan, and Amy and Lan would never tell them about climbing on the high barn roof, or what happened with the axe that time

READ THE TENSE TWIST-FILLED RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE OUTCAST. Family secrets can be deadly... Newly-weds Dan and Bea decide to escape London. Driving through France in their beaten-up car they anticipate a long lazy summer, worlds away from their ordinary lives. But their idyll cannot last. Stopping off to see Bea's brother at his crumbling hotel, the trio are joined unexpectedly by Bea's ultra-wealthy parents. Dan has never understood Bea's deep discomfort around them but living together in such close proximity he begins to sense something is very wrong. Just as tensions reach breaking point, brutal tragedy strikes, exposing decades of secrets and silence that threaten to destroy them all. 'A suspenseful, beautifully written thriller about the corruption of money and abuse within a dysfunctional family' Guardian

The story follows Luke, a passionate young playwright seeking a fresh start in London after a troubled childhood. There, he encounters Paul Driscoll, an ambitious producer, and Leigh Radley, the captivating woman Paul adores. As their lives intertwine, themes of ambition, love, and the complexities of relationships unfold, highlighting the struggles and aspirations of each character in the vibrant theater scene.

**** As read on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime **** Luke is a young playwright: intense, magnetic and hungry for experience. Fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East he arrives in London and shares a flat with Paul, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, fiery Leigh. The three of them set up a radical theatre company, their friendship forged in rehearsal rooms above pubs, candlelit power cuts, and smoky late-night parties, part of a thrilling new generation of writers, directors and rising voices. When Nina, a fragile actress, strays towards their group, Luke recognises a damaged soul and the balance between the friends is threatened. Luke is torn between loyalty, desire and his own painful past, until everything he values, even the promise of the future, is in danger. Suddenly the fallout threatens to be immense.

A sinister tale of haunting beauty, from The Outcast author Sadie Jones. It is the eve of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday and the family has assembled at Sterne, the once grand, now crumbling, family seat. The cake is iced, the wine decanted, the house gleams invitingly. But before the first dish can be served, a mysterious group of strangers arrives at the door. Victims of a local train accident they are seeking shelter at the house. The Torringtons welcome them in but there is something unsettling about the group and, as night falls and a storm rages outside, the family begins to wonder if something more malevolent than stranded travellers is in their home...

Passionate and brilliantly rendered, Small Wars questions how honor can exist amid cruelty and asks what becomes of intimacy in the grinding gears of empire. A major in the British Army, Hal Treherne is a dedicated soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. He is eager to lead his men into combat; his wife, Clara, however, is relieved when they are posted instead to seemingly peaceful sun-kissed Cyprus. But war erupts over unification with Greece, the island is consumed by violence—and Hal discovers that his military training cannot help him navigate the minefields of moral compromise that lie beneath every battle he fights. Clara grows fearful of her increasingly distant husband. When she needs him most, she finds the once-tender Hal a changed man—a betrayal that is only part of the shocking personal crisis to come.

Hal a Clara se seznámí ještě při Halově studiu na vojenské akademii Sandhurst. On pochází z rodiny s dlouhou vojenskou tradicí a vojenská kariéra mu připadá jako jediné možné životní naplnění. Clara později i s maličkými dcerkami následuje svého milovaného manžela tam, kam ho armáda pošle. Pobyt ve vojenském ležení na Kypru se pro jejich vztah stává vážnou zatěžkávací zkouškou. Zatímco Hal zpočátku vůbec nepochybuje o oprávněnosti britské okupace ostrova, Claru brzy ovládne tušení, že v téhle „malé válce“ s kyperskými vlastenci nemůže nikdo zvítězit. Stejně jako na bitevním poli, v něž se na Kypru nečekaně proměnila jejich vášnivá láska...