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Surrounded by death, newly transitioned London Underground worker Raagavi Saranthan cannot understand why all those around her are being violently murdered. Especially as it is those who have caused Raagavi misery who seem to be the victims of the mysterious Cheerleader. Enter Rachel Cortes, a DCI who seems to follow no laws, nor answer to anyone. Can Cortes get to the bottom of the case or is the supportive Cheerleader creating a better world? Inspired by the authors experiences on their path to gender discovery. Explores the realms of mental illness and the dangers of stereotyping. Highlights problems experienced by the LGBTQ

The Inside Story sweeps away the many myths that have surrounded the intriguing figure of Malcolm Arnold. It offers arresting new facts about his life, fresh insights into his music and much food for thought about the care of the mentally ill and its legal aspects.

Tessa is nine-years-old when a humiliating experience forever alters her naive perception of the society in which she lives. Nathan is twelve-years-old, dark haired and inscrutable. To Tessa, he is a dead-pan, distant ghost flitting into view and then dissolving in a blink... but an odd conversation with him changes it all.

In affluent post Edwardian Melbourne, the lives of two sisters are irrevocably altered as the secrets and misdemeanours of their parents' generation have a devastating impact on theirs.

Pursuing a dream instilled by early David Attenborough television adventures, a young man from the industrial northwest of England is advised at school to become a veterinary surgeon as a first step towards a career working with wild animals in Africa.

Some strangers are dangerous, some embody kindness. Joanna can survive only by learning who is who, and which is which, before it is too late.

It's the late postgenomic era and the loss of habitable landmass has led to severe limits on human birth. In the drive for species perfection, fewer and fewer can breed, and the long-simmering tension between the reproductive 'haves' and 'have nots' is coming to the boil.

This is a story of adventure, romance and cultural history. It's a story of travel to many parts of the world; performances for TV, in iconic sports arenas, private performances in Presidential palaces and for Royalty across several continents.

This story tells of the timeless challenges brought about by immigration, settlement, and belonging; of lives challenged by terrible circumstances, where often the power of love can be the only strengthening shield.

We used to get standing ovations. Now we get ovations for standing. The last place in which that great lady of the theatre Elspeth Quest wishes to spend her final years is Dustingford Hall, rest-home for retired actors and entertainers.

Mary's own story is here revealed and given value in its own right, not merely as 'the wife of ...' or 'the mother of ...'. This remarkable woman deserves her own place in history.

All major cities in Africa have at least one international school and they are prominent in the lives of transient diplomats, other expatriates, and, increasingly, of the local middle classes. They throw up multiple challenges as different cultures interact, not always easily or willingly.

Christopher is the eldest of seven in a middle-class English family. Theresa is the thirteenth child of Chinese immigrants in the British colony of Singapore. This is the story of how they met after the war, having grown up on opposite sides of the world.

1955. Five naive students are on an expedition from Oxford University to Southern Morocco, a country in the throes of a Nationalistic uprising.

This is a wedding that will change lives - and not just the lives of the bride and the groom.

Seventeen-year-old Amrey X has one fatal flaw. She can lie in a city forced to speak the truth. For 200 years, citizens of Axiom have been subjected to a truth serum. Forced to stand oath from the age of seven. And for 10 years Amrey has conformed. Until now. Things are changing...

"That tree has a history. In the old days people called it the See-Saw Tree. Just imagine how that community will feel should it be threatened. Just imagine what might happen if any of the Council's plans went ahead and they cut down that oak tree, that special oak tree..."

Can love overcome death? A pharmacy storage room. The grim sight of the body of a youngster, eyes frozen into black holes and face livid. From the top of his ear spreads a bloody gunk - it's clear that the Grim Reaper has taken his bounty.

April, 1944. A man is waiting to assassinate a prominent figure. He is not motivated by revenge or profit but by his belief that this one act of violence will save many lives and secure a greater peace for the whole of Europe.

Kenny spills his love of Cornwall onto the pages of All Summer Long. His four years as a lifeguard on Cornwall's gorgeous beaches during the 'swinging' Sixties and Seventies saw him reveling in the liberating glories of surf, sand and their sensualities.

In ancient times, epilepsy was a condition felt to be sacred. Early myths and mystique surrounding it led to persecution, demonisation, incarceration and social rejection.

WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT OURSELVES CAN MAKE OR BREAK US Two sixteen-year-old girls. Formerly best friends.

Two women, separated by two generations and continents, both trapped in their grief and unable to move forwards. Upon inheriting Stazzana, a crumbling farmhouse in the wilderness of northern Tuscany, Emma flies out to Italy in the hopes that unravelling the truth of the past will heal her present.