Loz The Worry-Eating Monster

Loz loved to eat worries. Loz was a worry-eating monster.

Loz loved to eat worries – little worries, big worries, worries about food, worries about school, worries about absolutely anything.

Sitting in his special chair, Loz would wait for the sound of tinkling silver bells and then be off to eat a child’s worries. It was the best job in the world.

Lucie

Lucie the beaver feels left out because she is different from the rest of her family. One day a storm threatens to destroy the dam in which her and her family live but Lucie is strong and Lucie is brave. Can this extraordinary beaver save her home?

Lucy and the Others

Lucy and the Others is the first collection of poems by Danny Horn.

By turns thoughtful and funny, and sometimes frenzied and despairing, this collection of new poems captures the unique perspective of a generation trapped between frequencies.

Lucy Finds Her Forever Family

Meet Lucy!

She is an adorable Labrador puppy with a big heart, who has a knack for bringing people together and helping everyone to see the best in each other.

Follow Lucy as she is taken from her mother and watches her brother and sisters all chosen to be part of new families.

Will anyone want a tiny little chocolate brown Labrador puppy?

Will Lucy ever manage to find her own forever family?

Luke Woam - The Missing Link

Luke Woam is out to become a missing person finder. With such awesome skills as being long-term unemployed; award-winning daytime television trivia knowledge; racking breadcake trays (and occasionally injecting jam into doughnuts when needed in an emergency) and generally being good at nothing useful, Luke sets out with his girlfriend in tow, to the metropolis that is London, to work on his first ever case—locating a runaway teenage girl. It’s a case that will take him way out of his comfort zone of his bed, settee, console, television and unhealthy snacks, which (like everything else in his life post-school), have mostly been paid for by the benefit system.

Luke and his partner, Tina, are thrust into a dangerous world far unlike their own back in small-time Bolton. On the plus side, they do possess a cheap, tacky, lucky charm purchased from a gypsy-like night-time street peddler of an old lady; the charm is probably of no real help to be honest, but alas, it is all in the belief, innit? And, both are in their early 20s still, is that a plus or minus, who knows in this lark?

So, do the UK’s newest, fledgling double act crack their maiden case, or does this missing maiden case crack them? One thing is for sure though, it definitely is a case of people, cultures and cities on a cataclysmic, nay, apocalyptic collision…well, they come into contact anyway!

Lulu and Skeeter get up to Mischief

Lulu and Skeeter are kitten twins who have little adventures in their back garden. Sometimes they get up to mischief together but they are never really naughty, they just have fun and play kitten games. Lulu is a cream-coloured kitten who usually leads in their mischief, whereas Skeeter is a tabby kitten, and even though he is bigger than his sister Lulu, he is a little bit afraid of doing some of the things that Lulu does.

Lulu and Skeeter, the Kitten Twins

Lulu and Skeeter are kitten twins who have little adventures in their back garden. Sometimes they get up to mischief together but they are never really naughty, they just have fun and play kitten games. Lulu is a white-coloured kitten who usually leads in their mischief, whereas Skeeter is a tabby kitten, and even though he is bigger than his sister, he is a little bit afraid of doing some of the things that Lulu does.

Lulu...Re-member your heart

Have you forgotten who you really are? Where did you bury all your excitement for life, for joy, for simply being yourself, no matter what? The 'baby' of ten children in a small town in 1950s Northern Ireland, Lulu watched, listened and absorbed the dreams and struggles of her family, where life was tough, and they didn't have much, and love was never really spoken but came as hot dinner and clothes to wear. A dominant, powerful daddy and a tired, gentle mammy, with alcohol both their provider and the unwelcome thief of family life. Step inside her memories, through the eyes of that little girl. Let yourself laugh and cry at the innocent spark that is Lulu, and discover the depth of feeling and meaning each little child absorbs from everything and everyone around them, and how this makes us who we are. Lulu entices you into RE-membering the little child inside you, to let your own memories bubble up into the light. Let Lulu lead you back to knowing the divine spark of life that you really are, and allow yourself to play again. You are love, and you are meant to shine. WE all were born to be this. As you polish up your heart, you can be more YOU, and release all the freedom, joy, creation, excitement and thrill of being alive.

Luna and Helio The Eclipse

Luna and Helio is a fictional tale of the sun and the moon, and of their place in the solar system. It is a story of how one day Luna must stop Helio from making a very big mistake. This is a heart-warming tale of friendship and the value of helping each other to do the right thing, even when it isn’t easy.

Lyrical

Lyrical is a contemporary fiction novel set in the mid to late nineteen eighties.  The setting focuses primarily around the County of Angus on the north east coast of Scotland. Lyrical depicts the ever-revolving changes within the lives of its characters.  As you build their personas, the author tantalises, frustrates and teases the reader as she shapes the characters traits, dislikes and passions within your mind

The author uses two of the main characters, Louise Dixon and Charlie Grey to demonstrate the choices, growth and development (inclusive of maturity) they encounter as they make the transition from young adults to adults. Louise Dixon has grown up in a single parent family with her dad, Daniel. The book relays the struggles, demands and emotional challenges that a single parent family encounters over the years: the mid-1980s social norms inclusive of a nuclear family, two parents with two children to differ from these created predjucies, individuals being judgemental against father. Thankfully, this was beginning to change when marriage rates went down as couples decided to live together and divorce rates went up in the late 1980s.

Mabel Murphy

It’s 1920s London and the world is in a deep economic depression. Times are very hard and the city is rife with unemployment, poverty and disease. One family in East London
have managed to keep themselves afloat, housed and fed, despite having one parent with a long-term mental health condition, but that is all about to change as their teenage daughter is catapulted into a series of life events which are traumatic, heartbreaking and shocking but which make her become a much stronger and more resilient human being than she ever dreamed possible.
This is a harrowing story of innocence, shame, hostility and vicious cruelty from the very people who should be caring for those in need, but it is tempered with love, hope and the potential to change one’s situation given the right opportunities.
Although fictional, this was a true story for many women of that time and is based on several older women whom the author met and supported whilst an NHS nurse in the large hospital system.

Macbeth and Julius Caesar

Macbeth, with the murder on his mind, has a vision.

“Is this a dagger I can see… see but cannot touch?

The hilt is turned toward my hand, but still… I cannot clutch.

It is a dagger… of the mind to lead me to his room

Although unreal, it’s like the one I draw to seal his doom.”

He draws his dagger.

“I must move soft, that no one hears my footsteps on the stone

In silence then I make my way, my presence never known…”

A bell rings.

“The signal sounds, the time has come for Duncan… it’s a knell

I go… it’s done, I send him now to heaven, or… to hell.”

He enters the room.

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