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Esther Freud

Harper Collins Education

'This book ranks alongside PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA as one of the very few great contemporary novels about childhood' William Sutcliffe, Independent on Sunday 'Everything was going to be different this year' - Tess is nine years old and wants her new family to work out, even though her brother Jake is not so sure. THE WILD is a brilliant, clear-eyed evocation of the collision of families and step families, adult and childhood worlds.

The Wild

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

Hideous Kinky (Om)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Mr Mac and Me

<p>A mysterious Scotsman arrives in a village on the Suffolk coast and captures the imagination of a young boy. But as war is declared with Germany, his habit of staring out across the sea attracts suspicion. Off-mint.</p>

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

It is 1914, and Thomas Maggs,  the son of the local publican, lives with his parents and sister  in a village  on the Suffolk coast. He is the youngest child, and the only son surviving.   Life is quiet - shaped by the seasons, fishing and farming, the summer visitors, and the girls who come down from the Highlands every year to gut and pack the herring.      Then one day a mysterious Scotsman arrives. To Thomas he looks for all the world like a detective, in his black cape and hat of felted wool, and the way he puffs on his pipe as if he's Sherlock Holmes.    Mac is what the locals call him when they whisper about him in the Inn.  And whisper they do, for he sets off on his walks at unlikely hours, and stops to examine the humblest flowers.  He is seen on the beach, staring out across the waves as if he's searching for clues. But Mac isn't a detective, he's the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and together with   his red haired artist wife, they soon become a source of fascination and wonder to Thomas      Yet just as Thomas and Mac's friendship begins to blossom, war with Germany is declared. The summer guests flee and are replaced by regiments of soldiers on their way to Belgium, and as the brutality of war weighs increasingly heavily on this coastal community, they become more suspicious of Mac and his curious behaviour...      In this tender and compelling story of an unlikely friendship, Esther Freud paints a vivid portrait of a home front community during the First World War, and of a man who was one of the most brilliant and misunderstood artists of his generation.  It is her most beautiful and masterful work.

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I Couldn't Love You More

Genre Fiction

<p>When her mother decides to take her and her sister away from life as they know it and move to Morocco, a five-year-old English school girl embarks on an adventure-filled romp through northern Africa.</p>

Hideous Kinky

Literary

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