Kate Thompson

Little Wartime Library

The New Policeman #1

The New Policeman

Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed.

The first book in a trilogy about terrifying genetic experiments. Danny is different. He's slower than other kids his age, and prone to violent outbursts. But when Danny runs off to find his biological mother, his older stepbrother Christie impulsively follows him. Along the way the two boys are joined by a runaway girl, a bird, and a dog that can speak to humans. However, nothing can prepare them for what they learn when they finally locate Danny's mother at her laboratory, Fourth World. It seems Danny's mother has been performing experiments-secret experiments-with terrifying genetic significance...

Book One of the Missing Link Trilogy

Fourth World

London, 1944. Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a café and a theatre offering shelter, solace and escape from the bombs that fall above. Along with her glamorous best friend and library assistant Ruby Munroe, Clara ensures the library is the beating heart of life underground. But as the war drags on, the women's determination to remain strong in the face of adversity is tested to the limits when it seems it may come at the price of keeping those closest to them alive. Based on true events, The Little Wartime Library is a gripping and heart-wrenching page-turner that remembers one of the greatest resistance stories of the war.

A gripping, heart-wrenching page-turner based on real events

The Little Wartime Library

On a cold day in eightheenth-century England, a poor young boy agrees to watch a stranger's fine horse for a golden guinea but soon finds himself in a difficult situation when the king's guard appears and wants to use him as bait in their pursuit of a notorious highwayman.

Highway Robbery

Sisters Rio and Dervla are reunited at their father Frank's funeral, having been estranged since the death of their mother 20 years ago. While clearing out Frank's home, the sisters come across passionate love letters to their mother from a man named Patrick. It is plain from the letters that Patrick - not Frank - was Rio's natural father."

The Kinsella Sisters

When freakish weather grips the Arctic regions and moves southward, an Irish girl and her strange companion save the world from disaster through their ability to switch into animal forms.

Switchers

A book about programming, improving skill, and avoiding mistakes.The author spent two years researching every bug avoidance technique she could find. This book contains the best of them.If you want to program faster, with fewer bugs, and write more secure code, buy this book!http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net

Zero Bugs and Program Faster

Wartime Book Club

La creatura che abitava la notte

Creature of the Night

JJ Liddy sometimes blames his unreliable temperament on the visit he made to Tir na n'Og, the land of eternal youth, when he was fifteen years old. It's perhaps not surprising that his children have also turned out to be a little eccentric, especially eleven-year-old Jenny. She forgets to go to school, can't bear to wear shoes, and spends entire days roaming the mountainside. It's up there that she meets the ghost. He is guarding a pile of rocks known as the beacon, and when some archaeologists arrive to excavate it, they run into the strangest kind of obstruction. But it is not people the ghost fears, and when the real enemy finally reveals itself, the future of the entire human race is threatened. Only Aengus Og and his fairy kin can help now.

The Last of the High Kings

Golden girl Calypso is used to getting what she wants, closet romantic Dannie is mistress of her destiny and determined never to fall in love again, while single mother Rosa dreams of a life of freedom from tyrannical, sexist bosses. But after a series of disasters, can they rebuild their lives?

A Perfect Life

Maddie Godard: chief copywriter, The Complete Works advertising agency. Smart. Sussed. Scared. Because when your self-esteem's been trampled and your world overturned, you have to act fast. Maddie escapes from busy Dublin to seemingly tranquil Saint-G yroux, an idyll in rural France. There, she is led into temptation by beautiful, roguish Sam, cajoled into becoming a life model by renowned artist Daniel Lennox, and haunted by a portrait of a woman with a secret to share. Can this mysterious beauty help Maddie exorcise her demons? In this moving, bittersweet, joyously romantic tale by the bestselling author of GOING DOWN and the MISCHIEF books, Maddie Goddard confronts her innermost fears, makes new friends, and learns that life really is worth living...

The Blue Hour

If only real life was like the movies! Fleur O'Farrell seems to have the perfect life. Living in the idyllic village of Lissamore on Ireland's West Coast, she has her own vintage clothes business as well as her very own Mr. Big. But when she starts to proffer anonymous advice via the internet to a young girl with a tangled love-life, Fleur's big heart leads to big trouble, as this act of kindness uncovers a darker side to her charmed life! Similarly, newly-wed Dervla Vaughn appears to be living the dream. However, with husband Christian working away more often than he's at home, there's trouble in paradise. Left alone to care for her demanding mother-in-law, Dervla wonders how her once-enviable life changed beyond all recognition! Surely married life should be blissful, not stressful? Meanwhile, the once-sleepy Lissamore is now a whirlwind of activity as the The O'Hara Affair is filmed in its picturesque surroundings. And with many locals being seduced by the glamour of the movies, who knows what could happen! Take a trip to heavenly Lissamore in this warm, witty read that will pull at the heartstrings.

The O'Hara Affair

Zwischen den Zeiten

"Four years after It Means Mischief, Deirdre O'Dare is now an established actress with a long-running slot in the soap Ardmore Grove. When Deirdre learns that she's to be killed off, she retires to the beautiful Irish countryside for a few weeks to try her hand at producing a screenplay, and is surprised to discover that she has a talent for writing. ith her love life as tangled as ever, and still angry at her on-off actor boyfriend, the seductive but faithless Rory McDonagh - now on the verge of success in Hollywood - she falls into a passionate relationship with the young lord of the manor, the gorgeous Gabriel Considine. But will the course of true love run smooth?"

More Mischief

The unsung and remarkable stories of the women who held London's East End together during not one, but two world wars. While the men were away at war it was strong women like Joan, Marie, Babs, Beattie and Minksy who ruled the streets of the East End. Kate Thompson tells the real stories of the war experienced by these matriarchs, a tribe of working-class women in the stinking streets, teeming tenements and sweatshops of East London. Forget church halls and jam making, these powerfully authentic stories will have you questioning what you thought you knew about wartime women. From standing up to the Kray twins, taking over the London Underground, and crawling out of bombsites, these women fought to survive and protect their community in some of our country's darkest hours.

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