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They say there's no place like home. It's where the heart is....Meet the little boy who believes in miracles. Meet the mother who loves to bring babies home from the newborn aisle of her supermarket. Meet the husband who carves a longed-for baby out of ice as a gift for his wife. Meet the widow who is reminded of romance whilst standing at the kitchen sink. In this prize-winning short story collection, Carys Bray weaves together moments of joy, heartache, sadness and unwavering love as told through 17 very different notions of home.

Hilton Cubitt is worried. Drawings of "dancing men" keep appearing around his house and they're frightening his wife, who seems to know what they mean. Can our brilliant hero solve the mystery of these drawings before disaster strikes?

Someone keeps breaking into shops and houses and smashing statuettes of the French general and statesman, Napoleon. Why? The police are baffled, so they call in the one man who can solve the mystery: London's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes.

1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece saves his life, drawing him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori, a kind, lonely immigrant from Japan. Although Mori seems harmless, a chain of unexplainable events soon suggests he must be hiding something. When Grace Carrow, an Oxford physicist, unwittingly interferes, Thaniel is torn between opposing loyalties.

When James Cook's daughter was nearly one, he began to suspect that she wasn't simply a 'late bloomer', as he and his wife were telling friends and family. Emily was strongly taken by images and patterns around the house, had a marked response to music, but never pointed at anything, and hadn't crawled yet. At the age of two-and-a-half, after months of invasive tests, Emily was finally diagnosed with severe autism and everything changed.

Hari Patel is dead; he was killed by a lorry as he stepped out into the road without looking. Now he's a ghost, and that's where the real trouble starts.... This terrifying ghost story will chill your blood! From acclaimed author, Eleanor Updale.

Dan and his little sister, Claudia, aren't really religious - though Claudia is obsessed with asking questions about Christianity. Dan's just obsessed with the Muppets. Then, one day, they both get to answer the big question about what happens when you die.... A funny, touching story about the afterlife from acclaimed teen author Philip Ardagh.

The famous race horse Silver Blaze has disappeared, and the horse's trainer, John Straker, has been murdered. The great detective travels to Dartmoor to investigate. Can he discover who killed Straker and track down Silver Blaze...before it's too late?

The King of Bohemia wishes to marry...but before he can do so, he needs Sherlock's help! Can the sleuth retrieve an embarrassing photograph of the royal, before a scandal erupts and the king is forced to cancel his wedding plans?

Has our crime-fighting hero finally met his match? The evil Professor Moriarty seems able to guess his every move. As Holmes closes in on his arch-enemy, the two prepare to meet in a final confrontation. Who is going to win?

Alex loves magic tricks - and he's good at them, too. But when he stumbles into eccentric Mr Olmos' back garden, he sees a kind of magic he can't explain: three tiny flames floating in the air. Soon, Alex and Mr Olmos are swept up in a great adventure of secrets, genies and an ancient, bitter rivalry.

Tom Ward is the Spook, the one person who can defend the county from bloodthirsty creatures of the dark. But he's only 17, and his apprenticeship was cut short when his master died in battle. No one trusts Tom's skill, not till he's proven himself. And a 15-year-old girl named Jenny knows more about the three mysterious deaths in the county than Tom does. She is a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, and she wants to be Tom's first apprentice – even though a female Spook is unheard of.

Alex has a lot of the same concerns most of us do growing up (exams, puberty and, in his case, a punctuation obsession plus a little quantum mechanics) but since his brain surgery, everyone in his life is behaving a little mysteriously. Maybe it's adjusting to life after epilepsy or maybe it's the pressure of his pending scholarship application, but Alex is starting to see the world differently.

The Mickledean Parish Workhouse is known to be a place of dread. Though it has long ceased to be a workhouse, no one wants to live there, and tales are told of frightful spirits and a ghostly carriage. Then Rosie and Doug arrive, and fall in love with the tumbledown old house... A terrifying ghost story that will chill your blood, from acclaimed author Jamila Gavin.

Mindfulness is the art of living in the present. It is a way of finding happiness by paying attention to the world around us–and more importantly, to the world within us–at any given moment. In an age of distraction, we are in danger of losing sight of what is truly meaningful to us. Mindfulness brings focus and awareness back into our lives.

Anne arrives in London in search of adventure when trgedy finds her. A thin man, dishevelled and giving off a stench of mothballs, topples onto the tracks and is electrocuted on the rails. Scotland Yard believe it is an accidental death. But Anne is not convinced. Who was the man in the brown suit who she saw poking around the body? And why did he leave so sharply, leaving a message behind: "17-122 Kilmorden Castle"?

Today we need a new type of leader. As we enter the fourth industrial revolution, we need leaders with the wisdom to address new ways of working, to make a positive change in the world. One of the key premises of Mindfulness-Based Leadership is that leadership is about being, not becoming. We make a bigger difference by looking within ourselves than by striving to become what we are not.

The Charles Dickens Non-Fiction Collection contains all of Charles Dickens' major published works of non-fiction. Although lesser known than the novels for which he is remembered, Dickens' eye for detail and character observation is seen just as clearly in his travelogues, essays, and letters, giving us an insight into Dickens and 1800s London, America, and Europe.