The first in a clever and charming new crime series that will immediately delight all fans of Agatha Christie and Alexander McCall Smith.Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon. Living in Hampstead with her confidante and landlady, Mrs. Bentley, who once let rooms to John Keats, Laetitia makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator.Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in the neighboring village of Highgate with his wife and ten children. Frederick finds the cases, and Laetitia solves them using her arch intelligence, her iron discretion, and her immaculate cover as an unsuspecting widow. When Frederick brings to her attention a case involving the son of the well-respected, highly connected Sir James Calderstone, Laetitia sets off for Lincolnshire to take up a position as the family’s new governess--quickly making herself indispensable.But the seemingly simple case--looking into young Charles Calderstone’s “inappropriate” love interest--soon takes a rather unpleasant turn. And as the family’s secrets begin to unfold, Laetitia discovers the Calderstones have more to hide than most.Dickensian in its scope and characters, The Secrets of Wishtide brings nineteenth century society vividly to life and illuminates the effect of Victorian morality on women’s lives. Introducing an irresistible new detective, the first book in the Laetitia Rodd Mystery series will enthrall and delight.

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Jane is the only one to befriend Staffa, the strange new girl in her class. The only thing Jane doesn't like about Staffa is her mother, Lady Matilda. Nonetheless, Jane agrees to go on holiday with Staffa. Travelling with them is the painted box Lady Matilda always keeps by her side. Jane wakes one night to see a strange glow coming from it.

Tom doesn't know he is a demisprite - the child of a fairy and a human - until he meets his three fairy godmothers. They've been summoned to protect him, but they can't stop bickering, and two of them are hardened criminals. Tom must survive their botched magic spells, learn to fly and enter the dangerous Fairy Realm to save his parents...From the author of Beswitched: "One of the most enchanting, funny and suspenseful stories to have been published for some time" ("The Times").

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Cat's father gives her a stone that has amazing powers. All is not well in the feline world, for the cats' symbol of nationhood, the Blessed Sardine has gone missing. And the only one who can find it is a small marmalade cat called Cat.

Having spent much of her childhood in the family circle of her loving next-door neighbors rather than the home of her cold, remote parents, an adult Cassie makes a deathbed promise to her neighbor that she will help the family's impractical sons to find loving wives. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Poorly equipped for the modern world given an eccentric mother and lack of education, four aristocratic sisters, facing a mountain of debt and a deteriorating family home, set out in London society in search of rich husbands. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Old Noshie and Skirty Marm have committed a terrible crime. They've sung a frightfully rude song about the Queen of the Witches. Now they are to be banished from Witch Island for ever! But where can they go? The sleepy village of Tranters End is about to become home to two wacky witches. Three books in one bumper volume.

Product Description: Since the foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, it is claimed that more than 30 million people have been starved, beaten or tortured to death, "suicided" or executed in Chinese labour camps. This study also claims that millions of people still suffer in the camps today, and that the West participates in the iniquitous system of slave labour, through trading goods produced in the laogai, and dealing in transplant organs from prisoners executed to order...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Gathering in a room at their exclusive English boarding school, four girls make a blood vow of eternal friendship in 1907, and in the subsequent years of pain and loss, their promise holds them together until one betrays the others. Reprint. PW.

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