Madame DoubtfireLydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to and from their volatile mother, Miranda, and their out of work actor father, Daniel. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who will look mind the children after work and Daniel gets the job, disguised as Madame Doubtfire. This bittersweet, touching and extremely funny book inspired the

and Alex finds himself the object of hostile attention from the victim

The explosive fourth novel from Karen Campbell

Geoffrey Staddon had left the woman he loved and the house which had been his first important commission and the best thing he had ever done as an architect

this is a gripping adventure in which Mercer brilliantly reenacts the lives of soldiers in the Second Anglo-Afghan War

Samuel Etherstone

A Shadow pursues ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand around

With her Impossible List and Normal Police

Transfixed by the notion of a third book

in particular from her old acquaintance Chief Inspector Markby and from her new neighbour Harriet Needham

quite literally on her own doorstep

Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever

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