Product Description: Although she had loved poetry from childhood, Eileen Elizabeth did not discover her talent for composition until late in life. Following a Creative Writing course in 1996, she developed an interest in. and a talent for, composition and this led, in December of that year, to the publication of “Just for the Record”, which forms the first part of the present volume...read more

At a family party, Alice is feeling left out and disgruntled. So when a strange girl turns up and pretends to be an old friend, she plays along as a joke. But soon the newcomer - the other Alice - is inveigling her way further and further into the family circle. Who is the other Alice, and what does she want?

Jade has always felt secure and loved - by her doting parents and her best friend, Jack, who everyone assumes she'll marry one day. But things start to go wrong when Jade feels that her parents and Jack are keeping secrets from her. And the secrets turn out to be painful ones.

When Alex's mother goes off to live with her new partner in the country, Alex goes too, determined to hate it, but soon meets two very different girls who affect him in very different ways. This is a novel about a boy coming to terms with his new life after his parents' marriage breaks up.

Adapting to life by the sea is difficult for Cat and her sister Ana. Cat feels responsible for Ana - particularly when the bullying starts. But she has her own life to sort out too. The boy down the road, Sebastian, seems interested in her - but Cat suspects his motives.

Product Description: Art student Kate Palmer runs away from the problems of her life to work as a housekeeper on the Scottish Isle of Lochbarra for the disturbingly attractive Laird of the isle, Rory McClaine, and his young ward, Jamie. But there are still plenty of problems to deal with here: unwanted admirers and vexing questions about Rory McClaine's activities...read more

This Open University Reader examines the practices of learning and teaching which have been developed to support lifelong learning, and the understanding and assumptions which underpin them. The selection of texts trace the widening scope of academic understanding of learning and teaching, and considers the implications for those who develop programmes of learning. It examines in great depth those theories which have had the greatest impact in the field, theories of reflection and learning from experience and theories of situated learning. The implications of these theories ar examined in relation to themes which run across the reader, namely, workplace learning, literacies, and the possibilities offered by information and communication technologies.The particular focus of this Reader is on the psychological or cognitive phenomena that happen in the minds of individual learners. The readings have been selected to represent a range of experience in different sectors of education from around the globe.

Product Description: Cassy Westwood, young, beautiful and aristocratic, seems in the eyes of the world to have everything. Yet her marriage to the urbane Charles has failed miserably. Cassy is courageous in the face of trouble and fearlessly follows her own destiny...read more

When 16-year-old twins Fawn and Ginna's school hits the headlines for anarchy in the corridors, Fawn's life begins to fall apart. Her boyfriend Adam leaves and Ginna starts skipping school to hang out with gang-leader Spider. Then Fawn falls for the new music teacher, Ben Woods.

Product Description: Jesca Browning, adopted by a family who do not want her to leave home to study ballet, finds that a fierce desire to dance burns within her. Destiny sends her to an audition where she meets her childhood hero, the legendary Leo Levinsky, with whom she forges a strong bond...read more

Product Description: The flooding of a Reithdale valley splits the farming community, and two families are drawn into a bitter feud. During a drought, when the old village and old memories are exposed, Jez Davies meets Martha Hetherington in the forgotten valley and falls in love...read more

Product Description: High in the Yorkshire Dales, young Lizzie battles alone to keep her failing sheep farm together. All her thoughts are taken up with trying to avoid financial disaster - until a mysterious stranger comes to the farm. Try as she might Lizzie cannot forget Guy Olafson, and it seems that he is set to stay in Wyedale...read more

Product Description: Adam Daniels didn't want young and beautiful Crysta Goldry working for him. His secretaries invariably fell in love with him - and he had enough trouble with his temperamental wife, Natasha. Crysta didn't want to work for him, but she was desperate to leave her Newcastle home...read more