Kirjahaku

Jonah's family is broken. He lives with Mum and visits Dad. He loves his parents, but its not easy pleasing them both. Jonah feels he's being pushed in different directions - and nobody is happy. Then something amazing happens and things will never be the same.

Anne has always believed in fairies, but when she is asked to help a magical princess, she finds out that believing in fairies and believing in herself are two very different things ...Anne and her friends Samantha, Vera and David are about to go on an adventure of a lifetime ...and Fairy Land isn't just for the fairies.

Alicia is in trouble. All she wanted was to save the universe but it doesn't look like she can do it. Not alone anyway, but with the help of a Seeker, a Starian and the Chosen One, the universe might just stand a chance!

Worlds apart, two girls will soon change each other's destiny. Sophie finds a magical locket. The bully's at school will never be the same. Under a curse, Princess Lillijannah waits to be rescued.

Nana is going to visit her friend Nancy and she's taking the family with her. Nancy can't wait as she has a special surprise ...

Winner of SPA Richard Titmuss Prize 2024. Recent welfare reforms, based on austerity narratives and a gender-neutral rationale, have failed to recognise the ways in which women and men experience the different demands and rewards of paid employment and unpaid care. This book draws on a wealth of qualitative longitudinal evidence to cast light on women’s lived experiences of welfare and work. Giving voice to social security recipients, this book uncovers the hidden gendered bias of conditional welfare reforms to challenge dominant political discourses, policy design and practice norms. It combines and develops three interdisciplinary perspectives – feminist analysis, lived experience and street-level bureaucracy – to offer a new understanding of British welfare reform policies and practice.

Winner of SPA Richard Titmuss Prize 2024. Recent welfare reforms, based on austerity narratives and a gender-neutral rationale, have failed to recognise the ways in which women and men experience the different demands and rewards of paid employment and unpaid care. This book draws on a wealth of qualitative longitudinal evidence to cast light on women’s lived experiences of welfare and work. Giving voice to social security recipients, this book uncovers the hidden gendered bias of conditional welfare reforms to challenge dominant political discourses, policy design and practice norms. It combines and develops three interdisciplinary perspectives – feminist analysis, lived experience and street-level bureaucracy – to offer a new understanding of British welfare reform policies and practice.

At long last, the untold story of the mysterious Mrs Brontë. They were from different lands, different classes, different worlds almost. The chances of Cornish gentlewoman Maria Branwell even meeting the poor Irish curate Patrick Brontë in Regency England, let alone falling passionately in love, were remote. Yet Maria and Patrick did meet, making a life together as devoted lovers and doting parents in the heartland of the industrial revolution. An unlikely romance and novel wedding were soon followed by the birth of six children. They included Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, the most gifted literary siblings the world has ever known. Her children inherited her intelligence and wit and wrote masterpieces such as Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Yet Maria has remained an enigma while the fame of her family spread across the world. It is time to bring her out of the shadows, along with her overlooked contribution to the Brontë genius. Untimely death stalked Maria as it was to stalk all her children. But first there was her fascinating life’s story, told here for the first time by Sharon Wright.

The DeVos children have a terrible secret. Nan is very good at protecting her brother and sisters from anyone finding out what happens on the Vos farm. Her family have kept secrets for generations. The neighbours, professionals and even the school doesn't suspect a thing. But the roses growing behind the house tell the world the secret that has been kept for generations. One of unimaginable abuse in one of the most heinous cases of child abuse and one that would change child protection laws for years to come.