by Philippa Gregory '[Rowan] nodded and disappeared before his eyes. It was as if she had melted into air. One moment he held her warm hand and saw her confident smile under the shadow of her hat, and the next there were just shadows, not even the outline of her shadow, not even the whisper …
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The Evening and the Morning
by Ken Follett 'A moment later [Edgar] realized he was looking at something even worse than a monster: it was a Viking ship, with a dragon head at the tip of its long curved prow.' It is more than thirty years since Ken Follett published Pillars of the Earth, his first successful full length historical …
Say No To Slavery
Today is Anti-Slavery Day. In spite of the work of William Wilberforce and many others to abolish it, slavery is still alive and well, and not only in the Third World. Across the planet, millions of children are forced to work for a pittance, or for nothing at all, some of them sold by their …
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