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Ray Bailey – The Common
London is drowning in blood. The Russian mafia is tightening its grip on the city, leaving the Metropolitan Police struggling to keep control. But for DI Ray Bailey and DI Dennis Carter, this isn’t just another case—it’s war.
As seasoned cops, they know the system doesn’t always work. To bring the Russians down, they turn to the one man ruthless enough to fight back—Billy Anderson, the last of the old-school London gangsters with his own score to settle. Together, they wage a brutal campaign, where justice is served in blood and betrayal lurks at every corner.
Caught in the crossfire is DI Laura Banks, who, when working on the case of a missing six-year-old, uncovers some deadly truths.
As the streets become a battlefield, one question remains: how far will they all go? Because in a city where power is taken, not given, the difference between a cop and a criminal is just one bad decision.
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The Girl Who Carried the World in Her Backpack
Rue has a backpack as big as her dreams—patched, worn, and bursting with possibility. One bright morning, she zips it up, waves goodbye, and sets off to explore the world. From the colourful chaos of India’s Holi Festival to the quiet hush of Egypt’s golden dunes, Rue collects memories from every place she visits – tucking leaves, postcards, powder, and laughter into her ever-growing red backpack.
The Girl Who Carried the World in Her Backpack is a heartwarming, adventure-filled picture book that takes young readers on a vibrant journey across the globe. Through Rue’s eyes, we glimpse the beauty, wonder, and wildness of the world – from maple forests in Canada and wild animal safaris in Tanzania to cherry blossoms in Japan and glowing lanterns in Vietnam. Each destination adds a new treasure to Rue’s backpack – and a deeper understanding of the world to her heart.
Inspired by the author’s own 410-day solo journey across the globe, this story celebrates curiosity, courage, and the magic of travel. Perfect for little explorers and dreamers, this book reminds us that the world is wide and waiting – and that every adventure begins with a single step and a backpack full of wonder.
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The Furry Stowaway
A wave of celebration swept the neighbourhood when the long-lost parcel was finally discovered at the airport. For everyone, the find was a heartwarming reminder of why it’s so important to protect the rare and wonderful animals we share our world with.
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Far-Reaching Shadows
Helleh, originally from Berlin and of Jewish descent, is now an elderly lady, having survived years of living in concentration camps. The one thing that saved her was her ability to play the violin and become part of the Mädchenorchestra, the Girls’ Orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Now with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, she lives in an Edinburgh nursing home, but her mind has become a place of torture and the shadows that lurk deep within shift and turn to take her back to the place she fears most: Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Rosie, a young nursing assistant, befriends Helleh, and through their friendship is able to help unravel the hidden secrets of her tortured mind, but doing so, she exposes disturbing links to her own family’s story and finds dark shadows that have lurked undiscovered for many years.
Penny is Rosie’s Nana; as a child evacuee, she is sent from London to the Scottish countryside, but her family are killed during an air raid on London, leaving her an orphan at the age of 12, broken and lonely. At 15 she meets a German PoW working as a farmhand, who sweeps her off her feet; she alienates everybody to be with him, then realises too late that he is not what he seemed. There is a darkness inside him that she couldn’t see and now she is alone, with nobody to turn to.
The far-reaching shadows that have permeated through the generations of these two families stem from the atrocities of the Third Reich and the rise of Hitler’s power; shadows that have shaped the personalities of individuals, which ultimately affected both Helleh as a camp survivor and her entire family, and shadows that have affected Penny and the lives of her child and granddaughter.
As the story unfolds, connections between the two families are uncovered and thus the far-reaching shadows penetrate deeper and deeper into their lives until Helleh, Rosie and Penny are left struggling to re-emerge from their own dark shadows.
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The Adventures of Alicia Parker
Seven-year-old Alicia Parker, a fearless tomboy, is adventurous, mischievous, and daring. She learns from her grandmother, Lucy, that an evil spirit possesses the Chinese apple tree in her backyard.
Alicia, full of childish eagerness and self-confidence, decides to challenge the tree spirit dreaded by all, and a fierce battle ensues between the two...
Polly, the two-faced governess of Alicia, cuts her foot while she is crossing a river. She cries in anger and pain that it is a curse…
The Adventures of Alicia Parker take you to unexpected, humorous, and magical spaces. Adults and children emerge as the protagonists, laying bare their hidden aspirations and vulnerabilities.
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Schism
What brings a father and son to want to fight on opposing sides in a civil war? What causes brothers to find themselves firing muskets at each other? Why did some of the early supporters of Parliament’s cause in the early part of the 1640s change sides to a growingly disliked King Charles in the second half of the decade? What drove ‘the Rump Parliament’?
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Our Emotional Complexities
Our Emotional Complexities is a powerful journey into the raw, unfiltered core of what it means to feel. Each page captures a single emotion in its purest form, offering a space to pause, reflect and connect. These are the poems that speak to the moments you thought no one else understood. Let yourself be seen. Let yourself feel. Let the words guide you through the beautiful, messy complexity of being human. This is not just poetry. This is emotional truth, one feeling at a time.
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Frontline Earth
What if the end of World War III… was just the beginning?
When the satellites fall, the power goes dark, and the global order collapses overnight, every person on Earth becomes a soldier in a war no one was prepared for.
Hidden beneath decades of black-budget programmes, secret alliances, and buried bloodlines lies a truth so explosive it could shatter everything we thought we knew about history—and the future. The world’s elite have known this day would come. They just never expected it to arrive so soon.
Frontline Earth unleashes a world on the brink, where ancient families, rogue intelligence factions, and so-called conspiracy theories converge in a battle for humanity’s survival. At the centre is Marine Alex Matthews—torn between his oath and a shocking discovery that will change the course of the war, and the planet, forever.
Blending geopolitical thriller with pulse-pounding action and a shadow of science fiction, Frontline Earth: The Last Alliance is the explosive debut from Xander Lucas—where every conspiracy was just a warning, and the end of peace… was only the beginning.
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I Am
Bread, light, a gate, a vine, and the way are fairly unconventional ways to describe yourself and yet they are some of the most profound and accurate descriptors the Lord Jesus uses to describe Himself.
This book explores the seven ‘I am’ statements found in the Gospel of John, plus another nine occasions where the words ‘I am’ are spoken.
We examine why these declarations are a lifeline for those who believe in Christ, giving some fresh insight into what Jesus meant when He said:
‘I AM.’
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The Patient's Bequest
Davina Blackley was once a competent, confident senior officer in the Western Australian Police Force—until toxic masculinity got her fired. Now she investigates insurance claims, a far cry from her old life.
Then everything changes again. One moment, she’s trailing a man who falsely reported stolen gold bullion (he’d merely hidden it, waiting for prices to rise). The next, she’s alone in a dark cell, hands tied, a bag over her head. She almost died—and still can’t remember everything that happened.
Now her boss insists on therapy. Counselling. Talking to a stranger about feelings. Worse? She’s been saddled with a partner. The guy (whose name isn’t Ted) doesn’t play well with others. He’s a brilliant investigator, no doubt, but now he also resents being encumbered.
Their mission: Investigate two massive insurance claims that, if paid, would spike premiums for everyone—a scenario the Board finds unacceptable. Ted and Davina, the so-called “Dream Team”, must dig up evidence to refute both claims. But there’s something they don’t know—Perth’s most vicious crime boss is invested in both matters.
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The Investigator's Pigsticker
When you are neck deep in trouble, the best thing to do is to stop, give up, and hope for the best. But this wasn’t his way. Never had been. At school, he was constantly in trouble with the teachers. At home, growing up, he was always being harassed by his parents. He very quickly developed a tendency to find someone – anyone but him – to blame.
Like that bitch detective who caught him out in an interview. He’d always never said anything other than “lawyer” when being interviewed by police. But it wasn’t his fault, because she’d tricked him.
So, when he was incarcerated for 10 years – 3653 long days, including leap years, of bad food, poor sanitation, overcrowded cells, hard seats and harder men – he spent the time thinking about what he’d do to her. When he was able to think. Because he didn’t have an easy time of it in jail. Which was her fault, of course.
Davina Blackley had almost been killed before. But now, she knew she was actually dying. And this time, she was on her own. No-one looking down a telescopic sight at the brute attacking her. She was no longer part of the Big Blue Gang. She had no tools. Certainly no weapons. No food, water or even clothes. So she really was in deep trouble. Maybe just stop then, give up, and hope for the best?
Or do something?
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The Orphan's Goddaughter
Ian Lombard is no-one’s idea of a vigilante. A career truck driver, on the wrong side of sixty and recently forced into retirement, he accepts that the good life is not something he can aspire to. Dying well is about the best he can hope for.
Then a chance encounter shocks him out of his gloomy self-absorption. A goddaughter he never knew he had was fatally injured when she tried to intervene between a drug dealer and a vulnerable friend. Lombard—who wasn’t always a truck driver—has a history and a talent that very few people know about and decides that karma needs a hand.
Detective Superintendent Davina Blackley looks exactly what she is: an experienced, diligent and competent high-ranking police officer. She is tasked by the Commissioner to do something about the Cadre, a shadowy organisation that is behind most of the drug deals in Perth. She is determined to bring the people responsible for the young girl’s death to justice, but she is hamstrung by the lack of evidence and the absence of any real intelligence about the cadre and makes a critical mistake.
Lombard has no access to the little information the police have about the Cadre. He has no-one to help him and no authority to do anything. But balancing this is the fact that he is unencumbered by the constraints of the Criminal Investigation Act. He doesn’t have to worry about procedural fairness, rules, regulations or even personal scruples, so he sets out to do something and, in the process, creates havoc.
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