Jessie Granton and The Invisible Steps

Jessie Granton and The Invisible Steps
Author: Simon Whitworth
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2023-11-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1805146408

From a simplistic beginning, a dark mystery unravels, with complex plot lines, creating an enigma of a world that lives amongst us, where failure is punished by death and light is removed to let darkness enter.

The Silent Violinist

The Silent Violinist
Author: GERTRUDE. GIBBONS
Publisher: Matador
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2021-08-28
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9781800464896

What if all our lives were pieces of music? With alternating passages; fast, slow, melancholic, joyful. We make friends with those in the same key and fall out with those who aren't. And what does music communicate? Might it speak to us, literally?

Looked After Boy

Looked After Boy
Author: Lynda M Brennan
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2021-01-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1800468024

In this coming of age story, fourteen-year old Joe Mac struggles to find his own voice in a hostile world that constantly disempowers him. After years of neglect, Joe, his brothers and sisters are taken into care and separated. Despite betrayals and failures of the system supposedly protecting him, Joe vows to get all his family back together.

The Magician and the Merchant

The Magician and the Merchant
Author: David Phillips
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1800464665

Pelagius is a young man in an old town. Bored by the safe and dull, he decides to leave home to make his fortune his own way. In this world, money does not grow on trees, so he takes on the career of a merchant. Loading a cart with fancy goods, accompanied by his faithful horse and cunning cat, he starts his journey to a distant town. To get there safely he must cross a land of thieves. Once there, he will meet two wise men. One is a scientific magician. The other is the secretive chief of police. Pelagius learns the strange ways of that city and begins to sell his goods. But it is a vain and dangerous place. Indeed, it plans an invasion of his own home town. The magician has a love of football, so offers to join him on condition that they create a proper football team while preparing the town for defence. Helped by his wife (our hero married young) and the children of the local school, our friends must come up with one cunning plan after another to save them all. First, Pelagius crosses the sea to find allies. These turn out to be an alien tribe with a logic different to our own. The story builds to a climax when the two sides must battle each other. This is a story enlivened by humour and some original songs. It is written clearly enough for younger readers but has some advanced ideas that will appeal to all ages.

The Last Green Man

The Last Green Man
Author: Ian Pillinger
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-11-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1785893416

“What is the meaning of the hidden wall painting in the abandoned Church? Who is Seth? Only the Martyn twins can answer these questions...” Fantasy and magical young adult tale, The Last Green Man, follows the story of the fourteen-year-old Martyn twins, Jenny and Jake. They are sent to live with their grandparents in a deserted and failing Wiltshire valley, where they must adapt to a very different lifestyle. As they explore their new surroundings, their unexpected arrival is noticed by a mysterious creature emerging from materials ‘borrowed’ from the nearby landscape. At first, this chaotic assemblage of twigs, leaves and mud is childlike. However, watching and waiting out of sight, the furtive ancient being develops as the twins realise they must face a bewildering sequence of lost secrets... The truth behind rediscovered local stories encourages the elusive creature to become ‘Seth’, a vagrant who has unsuccessfully appeared in the valley many times previously. Seth reveals himself to the twins as ‘The Last Green Man’, and despairs believing an evil local family will never be overthrown without human intervention. Will Jenny and Jake agree to help or should they stay well away from this creature? The Last Green Man will appeal to children, aged nine and above, who enjoy reading fantasy and magical fiction. It will also interest those who enjoy adventure stories.

Six Cats Find a Home

Six Cats Find a Home
Author: Richard Freeman
Publisher: Matador
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2022-03-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781803130934

Six cats are in cages, waiting to be taken away one by one by humans, The cats don't want to be parted so they escape and look for shelter, which they find in a house that is empty, they think.

Tramping on Life

Tramping on Life
Author: Harry Kemp
Publisher: Echo Library
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2008-12-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781406876024

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

Uncle

Uncle
Author: J. P. Martin
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-10-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1448172918

Uncle is a millionaire elephant who has a B.A. and wears a purple dressing gown. He lives in a labyrinth of skyscrapers connected by water chutes, lifts and railways, and littered with oil lakes, walls of sweets and towers of treacle. He and his followers amuse themselves by exploring his home and falling into adventures with its inhabitants, a collection of lunatics, dwarfs and ghosts. Uncle also frequently fights with the inhabitants of neighbouring Badfort, among them the repulsive Jellytussles (a quivering blob) and the cowardly Hitmouse. 'A classic in the great English nonsense tradition' Observer

J.P. Martin

J.P. Martin
Author: J.P. Martin
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2018-01-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1788031067

The much-loved UNCLE series of children's books by JP Martin, illustrated by Quentin Blake, were fantastical, surreal, funny and heart-warming. Originally told by Martin to his children, they were finally published when he was over eighty years old