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War is hard enough when your dad is missing in action, and even harder when you have to leave everything you know and love. Twelve-year-old Harry is one of three thousand people leaving the coast in Devon during the Second World War as US troops move into the area, planning secret D-Day rehearsals on the beach there in April 1944. But what if your most treasured possession is left behind?

When a child like her own newly adopted daughter is abducted, WPC Jane Velalley shares the long cruel hours of waiting and hoping with the distraught mother. Child protection is a tough job. Searching for clues in a race against time, escalating emotional distress and criminal activity, and with her own home life in turmoil, Velalley must use all her energy and wits and still hold tight to everything she loves and values most herself.

What is magic?Ben wants to find out. His teacher tells him to draw something magic. Ben draws a pig and paints him orange with blue flowers on his back. He calls the pig Hugo. But what if Hugo really is magic?

A golden decade of cinema in the 60s and 70s, cinema in Leicester Square - movie stars, the rich and famous, all the Royal family, press and film media buzz, and thousands of cinema fans.

Moving, but it’s not just to another house! Chrissy doesn’t want to leave her school friends, and she knows her cat Moon won’t like being on an old river barge. But this is a new natural and magical world for her – and for her mother too. Chrissy makes a new best friend, Ben. But when a big storm comes, can everything work out?

“What do we do,” the teacher asks, “when we think someone is being a bully?” Daisy comes up with a very new approach – tell your pets! Everyone laughs, especially the school bully – but for a worried new girl and for Daisy herself could this new theory somehow work wonders?

Millie’s grandpa Big Frank has been the lighthouse keeper all his life, but when Jack-o-the-lamp comes to the island to automate the light, Millie is worried. What will her grandpa do now without the lighthouse he calls his ‘Dear Old Girl’? A big storm is brewing, but when Big Frank and Millie try to warn them, the ?shermen take no notice. But they need Big Frank’s help when the storm sweeps in, and he needs Millie’s, when the lighthouse lamp goes out… A children’s chapter book with atmospheric black and white illustrations for adventure story fans. ‘A story full of warmth and drama for all ages. Unputdownable.’ Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnight Mister Tom ‘A tender exploration of family, our ever-changing world and the enduring power of the sea. A perfect book to read snuggled up by the ?re with a child.’ Daisy Coulam, Grantchester and EastEnders screenwriter

Felicity Fair Thompson is a writer and ?lm maker and lives on the Isle of Wight. Her documentary Carisbrooke Castle was broadcast on SKY TV and three of her other fourteen independently made travel ?lms for the retail market, were shown on Australian television. She has taught Creative Writing for Screen South, Connexions, Isle of Wight Council, Isle of Wight College, and alongside Sir Andrew Motion for the Bi-centenary celebrations for Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as well as guiding young writers with learning dif? culties, and teaching independently. Her published writing includes three children’s stories, an EU funded community play, theatre reviews, personality pro? les, award winning poetry, scenic travel features, and three novels: Cutting In was one of three top ? nalists in the People’s Book Prize 2014. The Kid on Slapton Beach has received rave reviews. Hold Tight is her latest novel.Exit the King, performed at the 2017 Ventnor Isle of Wight Fringe Festival, and in January 2018 at Carisbrooke Castle, is her ?rst play.

A storm is brewing and fishermen are in trouble. Can Millie get grandpa's dear old girl to light up again? Children's chapter book in bigger format with atmospheric b/w illustrations.

Now Freddie has a new wizard outfit, what he needs is a spider! But when he has one imprisoned in a glass jar by his bed, and the lights turn out for the night, in the darkness there’s more magic around than Freddie ever imagined. This garden spider can play scary games! And he is determined Freddie will let him go...