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The Tales of Wollaton Hall
The wonderful wedding of Martha and Paul is about to take place at the great Wollaton Hall, but when a bunch of stuffed animals come alive at night, they have other plans for the day.Will these mischievous animals cause havoc and ruin the day, or will love save the day? Find out in this hilarious laugh-out-loud story.
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The Curious Leader
Great leaders don’t succeed because they have all the answers—they succeed because they stay curious.
In The Curious Leader, Kim-Adele Randall reveals how curiosity transforms leadership from a position of authority into a force for growth, trust, and innovation. Drawing on decades of boardroom experience, personal stories, and practical frameworks, she shows how the best leaders unlock performance not through control, but through the courage to ask better questions.
Inside, you’ll discover how to:
• Transform feedback from defence to discovery
• Build cultures of psychological safety where innovation thrives
• Balance data-driven decisions with authentic human connection
• Lead with authenticity and confidence through uncertainty and change
• Harness curiosity as a daily practice that fuels both performance and possibility
Whether you’re a seasoned executive, an emerging leader, or simply someone who wants to make a bigger impact, this book equips you with the tools to lead with clarity, compassion, and curiosity.
Because in a world evolving faster than ever, curiosity isn’t optional—it’s your greatest advantage.
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Imagination of a Runaway Mind
With this book I want to take you on a journey into my mind, and at the end of the book I may or may not let you back out. I have lots of observations in my poems, and at times you may recognise your family members, friends, or even yourself in some of them. Some might scare you and give you nightmares. Others may cause you to experience tears of laughter. Your emotions will be battered and bruised into submission by my unique storytelling style. I guarantee it’s like nothing you have ever read before. My poems are very varied and deal with all kinds of subjects, both for your delight and horror. They are full of twists and turns that keep you guessing and wondering, “Where the hell is this going? My thoughts now turned into words sprawling through the imagination of my runaway mind… I dare you to look inside…
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Bertram the Bull Terrier
Bertram was a bull terrier who becomes an unlikely friend of a fox called Fulton. This friendship between different lifestyles causes its own problems, from which a unique adventure occurs. Can Bertram and Fulton overcome the difficulty they are presented with, or will they both fail?
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Oswald the Ostrich
Oswald is no ordinary bird. He is an ostrich who can’t fly, but whose speed is legendary on the farm. Oswald was unhappy with his situation in life and thought he could do better. One day he escaped the farm he lived on and set off to find a life of freedom and new friends. Would Oswald find what he was longing for?
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Back to Earth
If there is a place where people don’t have to work but they can get food and everything, and they are healthy, they live long.But there is no private life, no personal love, no family and no own child.Compare with the conditions on the Earth: there are often many chaotic disasters. Would you choose the former or the latter?Let’s have a look at the protagonist’s strange experiences and his choice of belonging…
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Immigrant Saga
Around the year 1100 AD there was a lot going on in the world. A Northern people, known as the Vikings, had converted to Christianity and stopped their raiding (or Viking, as they knew it). To the south the Vikings, in that part of the world known as the Rus, had established a city called Kiev and traded as far away as Constantinople. In the Americas things had not gone so well, and the colonies in Newfoundland and Maine would not survive.
Far to the east another Polynesian people, escaping troubles, had migrated to a place they called Rapanui (Easter Island) and had started carving their huge stone figures, which would puzzle visitors for centuries to come. All was not well on the island, though, as resources were scarce and disputes had arisen between their tribes.
At the bottom of the world, not far from the Antarctic waters, there was a sleepy little land known as Aotearoa (New Zealand). In a century or so it would be colonised by yet another Polynesian group, the Māori, but for now it rested quietly amid bird song and was as yet untouched by the hand of man. Or so we thought.
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Put the Phone Away
When New Zealand schoolteacher Chris Valli confiscated a student’s cell phone during class, he never imagined it would cost him his career and ultimately, deregistration. Cast out by the system he once served for 10 years, Chris was left questioning everything he believed about respect, consequences and having the mental health strategies or behavioural toolbox to cope as a former primary school teacher who transitioned to secondary.
In the ashes of his teaching career, Chris finds a new voice—as a journalist and author in what he describes as owning his mistakes and truths. With raw honesty and insight, he chronicles the silent struggles inside classrooms, the moral grey zones teachers walk daily, and the dangerous power of community public perception in the age of viral outrage.
Put the Phone Away is a powerful memoir of redemption, reinvention, and resilience. It’s a story for every teacher who’s ever felt powerless, for every parent navigating the digital minefield, and for every reader who’s ever wondered what really happens behind the school gates.
With humour, heartbreak, and hard-earned wisdom, Chris Valli shows that sometimes, losing everything can help you find your true calling. Chris says his growth didn’t come from success but from sitting with the truth he once tried to avoid. “Teaching made me perform. Writing made me reflect. And in that reflection, I finally found myself. Vulnerability is a strength.”
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4 Armour-Plated Friends
Please allow Lola, Rocky, Colin and Pauline to introduce themselves to you and become your friend whilst reading what they get up to at work, enjoying their holidays and just hanging out being best friends. Find out how useful and unusual it is to be Lola, Rocky, Colin and Pauline, who are all armour-plated but look and behave differently.Lola is an armour-plated armadillo and a vegetarian.Rocky is an armour-plated rhinoceros and needs to go to Specsavers.Colin is an armour-plated crocodile and his eyes are yellow but can turn red.Pauline is an armour-plated Pangolin and likes to roll up into a tight ball.
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A Smattering of Applause
These disparate short stories form a cohesive whole in the lives and tales of a starving artist, a war correspondent, a shelter survivor and other vivid characters.Their struggles and at times inept counsel lead to a resolve that surpasses the reader with redeemed prophecy like life itself; the examples of the underclass narrate the troubling complexities of class and hypocrisy. With humour and dignity, the lesser self is elevated to a higher truth and a greater communal understanding.
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Dating Before the Internet
Based on a true story about dating before internet dating was available. It is about trying to find the right man to share your life with, marriage or not, but finding a suitable man was proving to be a trial and error, mainly error, with upsets and sexual encounters along the way. An unforgettable experience. Take the bull by the horns and have a go.
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TimeShips and GalaxyShips
Embark on another exhilarating journey with the intrepid Clason twins, Tarvin and Harden. Guided by their wise old grandfather Axel, they travel back in time to Earth’s enigmatic Carboniferous period aboard Axel’s state-of-the-art TimeShip. Their mission? To launch a fleet of six unmanned GalaxyShips into the vast expanse of the Milky Way.These GalaxyShips, cruising at whatever sublight speeds our rocket engines can muster, will deploy survey drones to map the cosmos in stunning 3D detail as they cruise through the galaxy during our past until we trigger them to download their data in our present. These maps, created millions of years in Earth’s past, hold the key to humanity’s future exploration.When reported to Earth in the present day, their detailed maps are the lifeline for quantum navigators, providing them with the quantum-mapped destinations for their starship’s quantum entanglement drive. By quantum jumping from one drone-mapped location to the next, new exploratory ladders to the stars are established, paving the way for humanity’s routes for bold journeys into and across the galaxy.Join the Clason twins on this thrilling adventure, where the past and the future intertwine in a dance of cosmic proportions.
£16.99
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