Visual Arts for Middle Schools is an instructional resource book designed for art educators. The book focuses on five art disciplines: drawing, painting, design, portraiture and art history/integration. Over 200 exemplary student art works, developed in the classroom, illustrate a quality art education program. The book is designed to provide teachers with instructional strategies that stimulate personal expression and higher thought process. Each of the 40 lessons encompass objectives, ma...

The first book in an intense thriller series featuring Inspector Hannah Kaufman.On her way to work one ordinary Wednesday morning, Inspector Hannah Kaufman is unexpectedly called to Stockholm South Hospital, where she's confronted by a far from ordinary event. Armed men are inside the children's hospital, threatening to kill one child an hour if their demands aren't met.Hannah and her colleagues face a dramatic hostage situation with enormous media attention. Meanwhile, ins...

Single mother Emelie swaps city bustle for the peaceful rhythms of Sardinön, a tiny Swedish island where life is never quite as quiet as it seems. Managing the community centre, juggling three spirited daughters, and nurturing a secret romance with Andreas, the local gardener, Emelie quickly discovers that Sardinön is home to a delightfully quirky cast of characters.From yoga-loving potters and tango-dancing widows to saw-playing musicians and a tap-dancing council inspector, the i...

Song at Dawn, by Jean Gill1150 in Provence, where making love and making paper are both crimes against the Church.Estela wants to be Queen Aliénor's troubadour and ex-crusader Dragonetz los Pros is commanded to teach her. In a world where love and marriage are as divided as Christian, Muslim and Jew, personal and political passions create deadly enemies.Smash all the Windows, by Jane Davis

On the island of Sardinön, Easter is fast approaching but Emelie still has some difficult questions on her mind. Should she take the job at the community centre? If her new partner Andreas has a child with a lesbian couple, and he moves in with Emelie – then she'll have a baby in the house. Does she want that? And her finances are a constant worry, but it seems that the vase she's been left by Aunt Astrid is worth a bit of money and perhaps that will improve her situation. But when the vas...

London 1949. The lives of three very different women are about to collide.'An extraordinary novel so rich and detailed you emerge feeling as if you've just watched a classic film.' ~ JJ Marsh, authorLike most working-class daughters, seventeen-year-old Caroline Wilby is expected to help support her family. Far from home and alone in a strange city, she must grab any opportunity that comes her way. Even if that means putting herself in danger.

It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again.'An all-round triumph.' John HudspithWinner of 'The Selfies' Best Independent Fiction Author Award at London Book Fair 2019For the families of the victims of the St Botolph and Old Billingsgate disaster, the undoing of a miscarriage of justice should be a cause for rejoicing. For more than thirteen years, the search for truth has eaten up e...

Budapest in the autumn of 1944 was a city full of terror, tension and conspiracies. Members of the SS and the Hungarian Arrow Cross movement roamed the streets looking for Jews and other opponents. The German and Hungarian Nazis planned to exterminate the last surviving large Jewish population in Nazi-occupied Europe. Ranged against them was a loosely knit network of neutral diplomats, lower-level church activists and a fragile but growing resistance movement. In an inferno of intrigue, a ...

Books have been her only solace. Now they're about to change her life.'Dorcas is as appealing and extraordinary in her circumstances as Elizabeth Bennett or Mrs Dalloway' ~ JJ Marsh, author of Salt of the EarthLondon, 1775: The only surviving child of six, Dorcas Turton should have been heiress to a powerful family name. But after her mother's untimely death, she is stunned by the discovery that her father's compulsive gam...

In any 24 hours there might be sleeping, eating, kids, parents, friends, lovers, work, school, travel, deadlines, emails, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter, the news, the TV, Playstation, music, movies, sport, responsibilities, passions, desires, dreams.Why should you stop what you're doing and read a book?Reading is not an innate human ability. Many people can't read. Many people would rather read a newspaper, a magazine, a blog, a cereal packet, than a novel.But peop...

A richly imagined literary historical novel set in Georgian London, based on a true story.Volume 2 of the Chiswell Street ChroniclesLondon, 1780. As the city smoulders in the aftermath of the Gordon Riots, booksellers James and Dorcas Lackington refuse to answer despair with charity. Instead, they place their faith in something far more radical: books.Convinced that reading...

'A compelling portrayal of the bohemian life of an activist poet, the men she loves, and the issues she fights for.' Eleanor SteeleA rose garden. A woman with white hair. An embossed envelope from the palace.Lucy Forrester, for services to literature, you are n**ominated for a New Year's Honour.Her hands shake. But it's not excitement. It's rage.For five decades, she's performed angry poems, attacked government policy on ev...