343 títulos para "Thistle Publishing"
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Goblin Market
Coleman, Maryanne
978-1-909869-38-7Have you ever wondered what happened to the faeries you used to believe in? Back then, they lived at the bottom of the garden, and left rings in the grass, and sparkling glamour in the air, to remind you where they were. But that was then - now you might find them in places you might not think to l...
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Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus
Trow, M J
978-1-909869-29-5'And death shall come on soft wings to him that touches the tomb of the Pharaoh.' The wings that retired Superintendent Lestrade comes on are those of a de Haviland Hercules. The archaeologist Howard Carter has made the discovery of the century in the Valley of the Kings but all around him, men are...
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Maxwell's Ride
Trow, M J
978-1-909869-33-2Peter Maxwell can handle kids by the tens and dozens, but two nieces give him a little more pause. Thank goodness for Sylvia Matthews, who can always be relied upon to sweep up any waif, stray or relation into her welcoming arms. On a trip to a theme park, Maxwell's ride on the log flume is a litt...
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The Great Naval Race
Padfield, Peter
978-1-909869-40-0More than the story of the intense battleship-building competition between Great Britain and Imperial Germany before the First World War, this is a study in envy: Kaiser Wilhelm II, grandson of Queen Victoria, reflected Prusso-German resentment at Britain's world power, and longed for a fleet to riv...
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Lestrade and the Brother of Death
Trow, M J
978-1-909869-26-4Recovering from a broken leg after his ignominious fall from the Titanic, Lestrade should have had a peaceful time convalescing. But an attempt on the life of his future father-in-law makes him realise that a policeman is never really off duty. What is particularly puzzling is the arrival of a lette...
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Heads Up
Carman, Dominic
978-1-909869-30-1From Eton, Westminster and St Paul's to Wycombe Abbey, Withington and Winchester, Heads Up tells the inside story of the men and women running 32 of England's leading independent schools - and the problems they face. Heads Up uncovers the secret world of this impressive, powerful group as they batt...
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A Child Called Freedom
Lee, Carol
978-1-909869-31-8A CHILD CALLED FREEDOM commemorates the Soweto Uprising of June 1976, when 15,000 black schoolchildren took to the streets to demand a better education. The police opened fire on unarmed teenagers, and hundreds were killed in what has been described as the apartheid regime's single biggest massacre...
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Cabin Fever
Smith, Mandy / Stow, Nicola
978-1-910198-14-8Shortlisted for The People's Book Prize 2015. BUCKLE UP FOR THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE... Mandy Smith spent twelve years strutting down the aisles as one of Richard Branson's sexy and sassy flight attendants. In Cabin Fever she tells the good, the bad and the downright naughty tales of life in the air....
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A Bride for Sunil
Mackenzie, Joyce
978-1-910198-15-5A TALE OF STORMY RELATIONSHIPS IN THE MELTING POT OF POST-COLONIAL INDIA Victoria Standford is a poor but beautiful Anglo-Indian girl who has been dealt a poor hand in life. Her impulsive decisions have left her pregnant, the feckless English father of her child long gone. She meets Sunil Roy Choud...
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Today I'm Alice
Jamieson, Alice
978-1-910198-24-7When Alice was a teenager, strange things started happening to her. Hours of her life simply disappeared. She'd hear voices shouting at her, telling her she was useless. In her nightmares, scenes of abuse that had haunted her since early childhood became more detailed... more real. Staring at hers...
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The Art of Letting Go
Banks, Chloe
978-1-910198-20-9Shortlisted for The People's Book Prize 2015. "This thoughtful book won't disappoint." Dan Purdue To the inhabitants of Brackton, retired physicist Rosemary Blunt is nothing but a respectable recluse. But Rosemary has a secret, and he's lying comatose in a hospital only a few miles away. Should sh...
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Disease & History
Cartwright, Frederick F. / Biddiss, Michael
978-1-910198-23-0A newly revised edition of an established classic in the history of medicine. Arising from collaboration between a doctor and a historian, Disease and History offers the general reader a wide-ranging and most accessible account of some of the ways in which disease has left its often dramatic mark o...
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