Charlotte

“…if you had opened your window that night from the castle, you would have enjoyed a true spectacle. She was standing beneath the vastness of the sky, just a sliver above the grass, brushing against it with a generous thin dress, barefoot. Swinging her hips and putting her arms up, she was getting into a tender dance, caressing the flower buds, brushing the ground, the tree barks and the wet leaves of the night.”

Charlotte Tetterton

Unloved, yet strong and spirited, nine year old Charlotte Tetterton survives the cruelty and oppression of the King’s family with kindness and love for her animal friends… her only friends, whom she speaks to every day. She tries to make a clever plan to get a letter to her mummy, who is living in a faraway country, in hopes that her mummy would come quickly to rescue her and her older sister Moyra.Moyra has no idea what Charlotte is suffering on a daily basis at the King’s house. Charlotte is hesitant to tell Moyra for fear that she would cause her to sacrifice her educational goals because of her and make Moyra very unhappy.When Charlotte’s plans fail, she runs in desperation to the friendly village Postmaster who has always been kind to her. Charlotte reveals all to the Postmaster of what has been going on at the King’s house that causes her great distress on a daily basis. When the friendly postmaster visits Mrs. King, Charlotte is terrified. She is sure that he has broken his promise to help her and has come to tell Mrs. King all that Charlotte has revealed. Charlotte is quite sure that this can only result in terrible discipline for speaking badly about the King’s family to such a respected man in the village. Charlotte dreams of a handsome Prince coming to rescue her as in the story of Cinderella…

Charrrge!

Doug the bull and Mavis the cow are two best friends and love spending time together. So when their farmer moved Doug into the next field, away from Mavis, Doug became angry! Doug started to ‘charrrge’!

Now with the help of his friends, Doug needs to find a way to stay calm, to be able to stay on the farm!

Chasing Clouds

Elodie Taylor has a lot to be thankful for. She has great friends, a hardworking boyfriend, and a job she enjoys… but sometimes she wonders whether that’s enough. She’s always had a thirst for adventure that, no matter how hard she tries, just won’t go away.

With the help of her two best friends, and a chance encounter with a handsome stranger, Elodie embarks on a journey that could change her life and satiate her longing for escape.

But all is not smooth sailing in Elodie’s shiny new world, and a betrayal means that she soon finds herself tangled in a dark web of deceit and desire, a web that could see her relationships pushed to breaking point.

 Elodie is torn and must make some difficult decisions – decisions that could have high costs, and not only for her.

Annabelle Knight is best known for her appearances on This Morning and Big Brother’s Bit on the Side, presenting segments on sex and relationships.

Annabelle’s bestselling first novel The Endless Autumn (published by Austin Macauley) was listed as one of Cosmopolitan’s top raunchy reads.

Chasing Happy

Have you ever looked around yourself and thought that there’s just got to be more to life than this? I did. Have you ever wondered why, despite giving your best efforts at life in all its departments, it still always feels like there’s something missing? I did. Ever thought that ‘completely happy’ is really an illusory state of being that only exists and belongs in fairy tales? I did, and so did most of the other people I knew. Well, I’m here to tell you now that if that’s true, you can call me Cinderella!......And we all know what happened to Cinderella, don’t we? She found Happy! You can too!

‘Truly and completely Happy’ is not only possible but also much closer than you may think, and if you haven’t experienced it yet, it’s simply because, so far,  you haven’t looked in the right places.

Brannie takes an informed and humorous approach in looking at how you too, can go about finding ‘Happy’, that bright, shiny place on your horizon; not too far away, but always somehow just out of reach for today...! Until now!

Chasing Happy is written in a practical, easy and friendly style that will have you smiling as it inspires you to dare to make your own dreams come true.

Chasing Rainbows

“Maybe when you are grown up, perhaps have a husband or wife,

You look over your shoulder through the days of your life.

Little things come back to you, to your mind,

Poems, stories and it is a beautiful time that you will find.”

Chasing Rainbows is a charming collection of poems encompassing the views of the author’s sixteen-year-old self on topics such as everyday life, love, happiness, and much, much more.

Cherries

The London Borough of North Wick hasn't got anything going for it till the Chief Executive of the Council makes some big plans.

She wants to put it on the map for all time, but her plans go awry with the help of the Urban Farm and the local street girls.

Mix into that a Russian oligarch and his plans for a take-over, and the metamorphosis by her downtrodden PA make this the cure reception of the century.

Cherry Pickers

18-year-old Bobby Kemp got to the ‘60s in time alright, no further than Leeds, and remembered all of it. What a year: school out and passed the 11+. So, being a white-collar worker for the council is his future. A steady job then, set for life. A steady girl, engagement, marriage, kids, house, car, pension. But steady on, is that all? He hasn’t done anything, yet.

His feeble rites of passage – steady as she goes, poop-poop, bleat – are dissed by a passing back-packing Californian, Ben Gaunt, who’s seeking his family roots near York. To Bobby’s ill-content at getting nowhere, slowly he offers, ‘It’s your life, man. Just go...’ And he does: he drops everything and goes on the road into the ‘60s.

Along this passage there are side alleys, little ginnels and dead ends, each with characters and their stories to walk with for a while, until he just goes...

Chewin Air

Dancing between the cosmos and daily life, Phil’s poetry weaves a magical path through the jungle of the modern world to a place of comfort and safety. His experiences have given him a unique perspective into pain, heartbreak, and loss so that he can best show the way out of these toxic environments. At the same time, he shows the beauty in simple things, pride in a good day’s work and joy for the love that shines everywhere. Life is a challenge, and we must be willing to meet it head on and with this book and his healing words, the way becomes clearer.

Many of his inspirations come from dreams, meditations or shamanic journeys and offer solutions generally considered esoteric. Each word is measured for its emotional impact and the stories are engaging because they have a ring of truth.

The poet employs many styles within the pages of this book from traditional forms like rhymes and sonnets as well as new, experimental free-forms. Any lover of language will enjoy this read.

Child Centered Education

Children are the harbingers of the propositions advanced in Child Centered Education with a primordial-connection to the world, with an urge to belong, explore and experiment. Primed to learn, from their first moments, the ensuing adventures could be what will set your child on the road to discovery, happiness and personal well-being. Whether grappling with the mysteries of Language or Mathematics; transfixed at the awesomeness of life; singing to his heart’s content; or immersed in nature, every opportunity must be wholeheartedly embraced. Copper-fastened by a discipline, redolent of expectation, challenge and surprise, teaching, is as variegated, as the imagination is creative. Acquiring those fundamental skills of engagement, in the process, may be what will ultimately enable them to navigate their way between the cognitively demanding, the spiritually uplifting and the social, seamlessly and effortlessly.

Child of a Bygone Era

This book is written with charm and humour by a child who grew up between two worlds – an idyllic childhood in Hong Kong in the 1950s which was shattered by his return to England at the age of seven to a new life as a boarder at a Catholic preparatory school.

From the age of seven to seventeen, he travels between these worlds and comments on all the changes that occur in this dynamic decade. He sees Hong Kong develop from an entrepot to a booming manufacturing powerhouse with the effect this has on the Cantonese and their relationship with Europeans and compares this life to the smog-bound, tired English way of life only just beginning to recover from the devastation of the Second World War.

It is a joy to read and is a fascinating record of two worlds by a child of a bygone age.

Childhood Awaits Every Person

“I didn’t know it was like this,” exclaimed an eight-year-old. This book reveals the depth and extent of childhood yearning for the natural world and their enjoyment and wonder of it. Learn to appreciate this desire and discover the child within yourself so you too can discover your own inner child’s love and care for the planet. Addressing the climate crisis begins with the discovery of our own inner child and that deep yearning, wonder and enjoyment of nature.

You will also delight in the story which ends with the plea: “Please, please can the world not crush this child, his gentle, profound, and astonishing soul. So remember – trees are part of love, and the land is always there, under the concrete. And if there arises in Suffolk a guru, a visionary, a spiritual leader of awesome ability – I won’t be surprised if he’s called Paul, and has freckles, and skips now and then when he walks.