Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Seed Time
Robert and Michael are at a crossroads in their lives—Michael is alienated by his father's death and profoundly disaffected at school, Robert is worried about his friend and the impending failure of his father's business. When they retrieve a tankard—once belonging to the 19th-century poet John Clare—from a heath pond, their find becomes national news. But the heath is designated for housing development—and the contractor is the one responsible for the death of Michael's father. Following public protests over the future of the heath, the contractor bribes Robert's father—financial help for his ailing magazine if he will persuade the boys to help end the protests. But Robert and Michael withstand the blackmail and the defense of the heath is ultimately successful. They are all profoundly altered by these events. For Michael it is the beginning of a process of rehabilitation, and Robert's family begin to deal with their debts and family relationships in a different way.
Hodder Literature
Graham Hayton and his family have just moved to Sentinel House -0 a place that echoes with the ghostly tread of marching footsteps and where words emerge out of the condensation on the wondows. When Graham's little sister starts talking about her friendship with the long-dead Private Whitaker, a WW1 court-martialled soldier, he begins to fear that his dad's job as a computer scientist working on a top-secret new deadly weapns system might have something to do with it. A terrible set of events are about to be set in motion...
Dead Negative
Elliot's father was an acclaimed war photographer killed in Paris three years previous. When Elliot's mother makes a press announcement that his father's photograph collection will be auctioned, it stirs up unexpected interest from the Bosnian embassy, ostensibly looking for evidence of war criminals. Elliot begins to explore his father's photographs, leading ultimately to clues about his father's death, and a growing awareness of the parallels between Bosnia and other ethnic conflicts.
Control-shift
In their new home in the country, Graham and small sister Matty sense terrifying secrets are hidden there. Graham's father works on a state-of-the-art computer-guided weapons system for the future - shortly to be shown to the big players in the international weapons market. Troubled by the shifting presences and his small sister's conversations with an unseen young man she calls Paul, Graham looks for the key to the past. What the uncovers shakes the foundations of his existence: a secret First World War research establishment using British military prisoners as guinea-pigs, a young man executed for speaking out. Past and future come together when his father is arrested for treason: the codes for the new weapons' operating system have been published on the Internet. By his father? Or, as Graham believes, the final act of 'a young man who felt he'd failed in his own life and has seen the demons driven away in ours...'
Operating Codes
There is something strange about Sentinel House. From the first night they moved in, Graham and his sister Matty sense they are not alone in the house. With his father busy designing a top-secret weapons system, Graham is told to let his suspicions lie. But when the weird phenomena begin -- the voices, the mysterious writing appearing on a foggy window -- Graham decides to investigate. When his father is charged with a crime he did not commit, Graham's life turns upside down and his close-knit family is threatening to tear apart. Will Graham's family and life ever be the same? And just who is living in the Sentinel House? Part ghost story, part story of a family struggling to stay together, Operating Codes invites readers to consider the operating codes that influence the society in which they live.
Fallout
When Greg returns to school after illness he finds that his usual Maths partner has been changed and he now has to work with Inderjit Sandhu. They struggle to like each other, and Inderjit accuses Greg of having an ego 'the size of three counties', but then they stumble upon a secret that draws them together.
Writing Children's Fiction
Full of both inspirational and practical advice, Writing Children's Fiction: A Writers' and Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing for some of the most difficult and demanding readers of all: children and young people. Part 1 explores the nature, history and challenges of children's literature, and the amazing variety of genres available for children from those learning to read to young adults. Part 2 includes tips by such bestselling authors as David Almond, Malorie Blackman, Meg Rosoff and Michael Morpurgo. Part 3 contains practical advice - from shaping plots and creating characters to knowing your readers, handling difficult subjects and how to find an agent and publisher when your book or story is complete.
Drei Tage Wicklow
Auf dem Flughafen Dublin treffen sie sich zufällig: Mat-thias und Nick, alte Freunde aus Lübeck, jahrelang aus den Augen verloren, aber Matthias weiß sofort: Jetzt brauchen sie Zeit füreinander. Nick steckt in einer Liebes-geschichte mit einer verheirateten Frau, sein Leben ist auf den Kopf gestellt, er muss das mal jemandem erzählen, der wirklich zuhört. Sie nehmen sich drei Tage in den Wicklow Mountains. Sie richten sich ein, besorgen Essen, gehen wandern, und vor allem: Sie reden miteinander. Männergespräche werden es, um Liebe und Frauen und Nicks Leben, aber auch um das sechste Gebot und Gott, den Nick immer nur den „Chef“ nennt. Matthias spielt den Seelsorger, muss aber bald erkennen, dass ihn Nicks Geschichte an seine eigenen Grenzen bringt. Mit dem Urteil „Ehebruch“ ist es nicht getan, und den ersten Stein darf Matthias sowieso nicht werfen.
Home
'Packs a huge emotional punch... heartbreaking...' - Daily Mail Jesika is four and a half. She lives in a flat with her mother and baby brother and she knows a lot. She knows their flat is high up and the stairs are smelly. She knows she should not draw on the wall where the wallpaper is peeling or touch the broken window. And she knows she loves her mummy and Toby. She does not know that their landlord is threatening to evict them and that Toby’s cough is going to get much worse. Or that Lauren, her new best friend, has a secret that will explode their world.
