The Survivors

Birds fly over the streets of Saxet. A sense of despair looms in the air as the Resistance prepares for the annual tests. 

Seven deadly tests.

Designed to kill and leave behind the Survivors, the ones who must be eliminated. With blood on their hands and a grave history with Saxet, Resistance leader Veronica Blanchard, will stop at nothing to find every last one.

16-year-old Mavis Sterling, naïve and unsure of her place in society, is selected to take part in the tests. With her life on the line, Mavis discovers she will do anything to survive.

After the tests, Mavis flees to the abandoned city that surrounds Saxet. Battling between the loss of her family and the uncontrollable pull to the dark and mysterious R, Mavis’ life will never be the same.

As she navigates her new life and what dangers are around every corner, she discovers her hands were not made for playing piano, they were made for throwing knives.

The Sweetest Days

Gary is an Afghan war vet whose wounds are invisible.
Crossing Canada, he ends up in Montreal, discovering magic, whispering names of mellifluous city streets to himself. Beautiful but lonely ballerina Felicity harms herself, ending in a psychiatric ward, meeting Gary recovering from a breakdown incurred during a failed job search.
When Gary obtains gainful employment and Felicity’s selected to star in ‘The Nutcracker’, they have one sweet date. Gary's in love with this lovely, sensitive girl who understands him and Felicity discovers this struggling, independent loner may just be her ‘Mr. Perfect’.
Felicity is introduced to Dick, the most sought after bachelor in town, who decides she’s to be his trophy wife. Now, Felicity and Gary's love is doomed and forces him to confront demons from the past to remain in Montreal and experience another sweetest day with her again…

The Tale of a Hip

The Tale of a Hip is an account of the author’s 80-year life to date, through a period of huge social change, during which, technology has taken over from nature. It is the story of true love lasting six decades, despite the fact that physical aspects of the relationship were less good than they might have been, due to an unsuspected structural problem that only came to light when Pamela and her husband, John, took up dancing in their 40s.

The mystery of Pamela’s shifting bones is unravelled piece by piece, from art-influenced early years in Yorkshire, through the excitement and romance of working in a burgeoning post-war London, to marriage and, later, to obsession with dancing, resulting in back and hip issues for many years.

The Tale of Buttons the Dragon

Join Buttons the Dragon as he learns his dragon skills. 

Follow his progress as he explores his home and surrounding area on Material Mountain.

Meet his new friends and his brothers, Zippy and Popper, and his Sister, Lace.

Go with him to school and visit the village of Longtimeago where you will meet the Knights.

Buttons is excited to tell you his story and hopes you will be his friend.

The Tale of Dotty Mouse - a 1 Only

When Michelle, a struggling writer, falls in love with and buys a very expensive handmade mouse - a 1 only, she does not realise that the mouse has actually come to life.

Michelle takes her home to live with her six children, four dogs, three horses and a house full of teddies, and that is when strange things start to happen.

Whilst in the shop, Dotty has heard that she is a 1 only, but she does not know what she is a 1 only of, so sets off on a quest to find out.

After having adventures with all the dogs and animals on the farm, Dotty does eventually find out what she is, but along the way she has found out something much more important.

The Tales of Hamish the Haggis

Come and join Hamish on his many adventures through the Scottish Highlands. 

Hamish is a friendly, misunderstood but lonely Haggis; that’s right, you heard me, a haggis – they are real you know!

Hamish manages to make friends with an equally lonely mouse….or is she a mouse? 

Will they both manage to travel safely through the unrelenting rain, howling wind and rocky slopes of the Scottish Highlands, meeting many friends and foes (even the famous Loch Ness monster) in search of wise old elves…?

The Tales of Hidden Truth I

As little Azure’s fears and doubt begin to grow more and more powerful, she sets out on a quest to find the one thing that can liberate her: the fabled ‘Dream Flower’! Along the way, she meets various people and beasts, and learns more about the world, while steadily reaching her goal. In the second story, we follow Globalea’s road to power and her fall from greatness. As she narrates her story and of her various ordeals, more and more of her emotions reach out, ultimately resulting in dramatic showdowns and a heart-stopping finale.

The Tales of Mr Mouse and Friends

Join Mr. Mouse as he tends to his award-winning garden, makes friendships, meets Hilda his future wife, all the while drinking lots of tea and eating lots of cake. Mr. Mouse is a popular character whose door is always open, who is on hand to help anyone who needs assistance, who will rally around a worthwhile cause and who is highly thought of throughout the woodland community. Each chapter is a short story of its own and set in a season, there are twelve chapters following Mr. Mouse over three years. Read about the woodlands during a harsh winter when the woodlands are covered in six-foot snow drifts, during spring when the season is changing from winter, summer when Mr. Mouse’s award-winning gardens are at their best and autumn when the trees and plants are losing their leaves.

Mr. Mouse with a house on the River Louse will become a favourite bedtime story for your children.

The Tales of Mr. Mouse – Meet the Children

First, you met Mr Mouse and his friends Frog and Bee in the wonderful storybook The Tales of Mr Mouse and Friends by Jacqueline Mead. Now meet his children. Mr Mouse met his match in the first book (Chapter 5, Mr Mouse Meets his Match) Mr Mouse and Hilda married and had 12 children: 11 sons and a daughter. In the first book, you met the children briefly as they got into trouble on a day out on a raft (Chapter 10 Coastguards Save the Day). This book introduces each child, through the use of adjectives we learn that Fletcher is fun and fast, Brian is brave and brainy. We learn their favourite thing to do and their favourite colour. Hidden in each picture are three objects for your child to find. Each illustration brings to life the child as we see Iain invent a robot and Edgar measuring a very large egg. Enjoy this book with your child as they learn new words, fall in love with the children and have fun too. In the next adventure book the children will have their own story to tell, meet the children now but hold on tight, things are going to get a lot more fun.

The Task

Darkness is coming to the Warm Realm. The magic that protects it has been broken. The Mistress, with the help of the forest creatures, must gather the Sworn children to help her discover how this has happened and who is responsible. Can the Sworn children save the Warm Realm, or will darkness prevail?

The Tattoo

Every adventure we embark on shapes who we are, enriching our lives with new experiences and wisdom. In this moving narrative, follow the journey of a hero whose bravery and determination inspire us all. Through trials and triumphs, this hero learns to embrace love and resilience, and we are invited to witness the transformative power of these emotions on the characters around them. Written with love and patience over the course of four years, this is a story that will stay with you long after the last page is turned.

The Terrible Twins And Their First Pony Ride

The Terrible Twins, Kit and Kat, are excited to go on their first pony ride.With their brother in tow, who knows what adventures will unfold in the English countryside?Read on to find out what happens in this charmingly illustrated book for children.