If Only He’d Told Me: A foster family pushed to the limits (HarperTrue Life – A Short Read)The third in a series of true short stories from foster carer Mia Marconi. Brody had been on the at risk register since birth but was only removed from his alcoholic parents when he reached the age of six. Foster carer Mia Marconi was thrilled when he first arrived a boy the same age as her son. It can be so bewildering for foster children when they arrive. The older ones are usually withdrawn and sullen. The younger ones will be screaming, spitting

Will organic intelligence be a brief precursor to a machine-dominated culture

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painting a Neverland that

Lalani embarks on a dangerous journey across the sea in the hope of safeguarding her own future

old friends Runstom and Jax find themselves caught between two bloodthirsty armies

who vanished shortly after World War II

the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates gathers together the very best work by contemporary American short-story writers into a definitive

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and Daniel Post Senning—the great-great grandchildren of Emily Post

Can these two women help each other and can they help Stephanie before it’s too late

Sam Warburton OBE was not only a titan of Welsh rugby

Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world