When young, inexperienced but very ambitious female reporter, Emily Strauss, blags her way into newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer’s office, she comes away with a treacherous assignment: to discover what happened to Anna Zemeckis, one of many women who have disappeared during the 1893 World’s Fair. With the support of a young man who is just…
This is the story of an extraordinary journey from a past too painful to imagine to the future every child deserves… Based on William Horwood’s own heartbreaking boyhood in south-east England after the Second World War, when he faced the stigma of illegitimacy and the trauma of early loss. It is the triumphant story of…
Skallagrigg unites Arthur, a little boy abandoned many years ago in a grim hospital in northern England, with Esther, a radiantly intelligent young girl who is suffering from cerebral palsy; and with Daniel, an American computer games genius. Skallagrigg – whatever the name signifies, or whoever he is – will come to transform their lives.…
One evening a frightened and bedraggled golden eagle is brought to London Zoo and confined forever to a bleak cage far from his native Scotland. Soon it becomes tempting for Creggan to forget his past and bury his memories of the mountains and sea and, above all, the glorious skies of his homeland. But there…
When an extraordinary series of sculptures and paintings by the renowned 20th century artist James MacAskill Stonor are brought together for the first time at an exhibition in New York the event compels the reticent artist to reveal for the first time the true story of how they came to be created….A profound study of…
