Derina Dinkin

To the young people of today, the 1960s seem like another age. But for those born around this time, this era of childhood is like yesterday. From James bond to Barbie dolls and frilly shirts, life was very different to how it is now. This delightful compendium of memories will appeal to all who grew up in this incredible decade, whether in town or country, wealth or poverty.

A specially published book of 70 inspirational essays written by internationally renowned educator, historians and scholars marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz - to be read one a day.

It's just your average Friday night. Then the police show up.

Your mum's been caught on CCTV, breaking into a giant chemical company. They say she's working undercover for A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E, a group against animal testing - but how is that possible? She's not a spy - is she? Now she's on the run - and only you can uncover the truth. And you've got to crack a code to do it.

For years after the death of Christ, Mary Magdalene lived tranquilly trying to forget the young man she met when she was twenty. The young man from Nazareth who changed her life irrevocably and chose a cruel death rather than life with her.

The harrowing story of Shirin-Gol, an Afghan woman who fought against the poverty and fear she had known since childhood. War and life as a refugee increased her problems but she remained solid in her support for her husband and children.

Amelia Earhart died mysteriously before she was forty, disappearing in the South Pacific on an around-the-world flight attempt in 1937. She was the best-known female aviator in the world, and set the record for the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched her on a double career as a fighter for women's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel. And as her dream has persisted through the decades, so has her story, and her spirit.

Anila Tandy, the ‘Bird Girl of Calcutta,’ is given the chance of accompanying a scholar on an expedition to record bird life in Bengal. She hopes that this will give her the chance to search for her father who has been missing for many years and is now presumed dead.

This is a portrait of America in the 1920s, an era of invention, glamour and excess. It was punctuated by terrifying events including the march down Washington DC's Pennsylvania Avenue by the Ku Klux Klan, but also produced a glittering array of artists, musicians and film stars, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Charlie Chaplin.

For many people Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a turkey and trimmings, pudding and brandy butter. And yet it wasn't always that way. Gone are the gluttonous banquets featuring boar's head and brawn - but how did we get to the Christmas food of today?

Historian Annie Gray digs into the evolution of our festive meal, from the birth of the twelve-day celebration under Edward I and the the restoration of holiday splendour under Victoria to the present day. Organised by festive dish and illustrated throughout, At Christmas We Feast is a delectable trip through time - stuffed full of classic recipes, doused with history and tradition, and sprinkled with the joy of the feasts of Christmas past.

As a result of a blood transfusion a young gifted 11-yr-old girl contracts AIDS.The story portrays the complex reactions of Amanda's mother, brother and grandparents, as well as those of the New England community in which they live.

Moving and intimate story of the author's record-breaking achievement of sailing around the world single-handed.

In 1964 Mary Whitehouse became the unlikely figurehead of a mass movement: the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association. For almost forty years she waged war against the programme makers, pop stars and playwrights who she felt were dragging British culture into a sewer of blasphemy and obscenity. X rated, contains offensive language.

Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. She was also a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland countryside. This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved stories.

Considered by many the world’s greatest composer, Ludwig van Beethoven achieved his ambitions against the difficulties of a bullying and drunken father, growing deafness and mounting ill-health. Here, Anne Pimlott Baker tells the story of the German composer’s life and work, from his birth in Bonn in 1770 and his early employment as a court musician, to his death in Vienna in 1827. She describes his studies with Haydn in Vienna and his work during the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon. His most financially successful period followed the Congress of Vienna in 1815, despite several unhappy love affairs and continuous worry over his nephew, Karl. Beethoven is a concise, illuminating biography of a true virtuoso.

After forty years Janina Bauman is ready to tell the story of her life and experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto during the holocaust.

Remaining unread in a Welsh castle, this is a story that has waited 200 years to be told. Married to Lord Edward Clive, son of Clive of India and Governor of Madras (1798-1803), the journals of Lady Henrietta Clive take us on a double journey, across war-torn southern India in the last decade of the 18th Century. This book is edited and annotated by the Texican anthropologist, Nancy Shields.

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser, convincing proud Prussians, Bavarians and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France – all without destroying itself in the process? In a unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history, the story of the German Empire is told from its violent beginnings to its calamitous defeat in the First World War.

Between the parching land and the mothering sea lived a tribe, our ancestors. One of them a child, Li, is different, a thinker, a questioner, preparing herself and them, unawares, for the huge change coming. Four million years later, that sea is dry. Another child, Vinny, visits the site with her father. She too is a thinker, a questioner, a herald of change..

Aged fifty, on a whim, Marion Dunn joined a boxing gym. Training to improve fitness quickly became something of an addiction, and then a source of transformation. This is her myth-busting tale of four years of slogging in an amateur boxing gym in northern England.

On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponders the strange circumstances that led her to leave her husband John, and his mathematical obsessions, in England and venture to Africa to help world-renowned scientist Eugene Mallabar with his studies of wild chimps.

But the more Hope studies Mallabar, the more she comes to believe that something isn't right. That behind Mallabar, and his obsessive work, there lies another, more sinister truth: one that might also help explain Hope's reasons for leaving England...

CONTENT WARNING: contains explicit language

Young care assistant in a nursing home listens to a gracious dignified woman reveal the secrets of her past and finds that her own marital secrets are not dissimilar.

The author has travelled the globe in search of the oddities of nature, prized so highly for jewellery and adornment. And why, when we can now manufacture synthetic gems, do jewels still hold such appeal?

In her quest for her Anglo-Burmese roots, author and journalist Sue Arnold unravelled a fascinating tale of two worlds and discovered a new Burmese family.

On a journey that takes her from Afghanistan to the Australian outback; from China to the saffron harvest in Spain, the author discovers the history of colour. From the efforts of artists and artisans to reproduce the rainbow, to the impact of their work on the world.

The events of a hot English summer in the 1930s are seen through the eyes of an 8 year old. Her family and neighbours become involved in adultery, deception and darker misdemeanors.

Curry is known as the food of India. In this book the author describes how the history of India is reflected in the food,how various conquerors influenced Indian cooking over the centuries, and how this cuisine was exported to the rest of the world.

Tracey Beaker, the Great Inventor of Extremely Outrageous Dares - and I dare YOU not to say this is the most brilliant story ever!

I thought I was going to live happily ever after with Cam as my foster-mum. Well, ha ha! It hasn't turned out like that. Cam's so MEAN! She won't buy me designer clothes so all the other kids at my new school laugh at me. No wonder I bunk off and go to this special secret place. There are these two boys I meet there, Alexander and Football. We play the Dare Game - and I always win. I'm the greatest. I AM!

A collection of stories of some of history's most remarkable women, as imagined by the finest female authors of historical fiction for children. We encounter both famous figures and lesser-known heroines from across the ages, from warrior queens to anti-nuclear activists.

A collection of stories of some of history's most remarkable women, as imagined by the finest female authors of historical fiction for children. We encounter both famous figures and lesser-known heroines from across the ages, from warrior queens to anti-nuclear activists.

Investigator, Nancy Drew, is on the trail of a kidnapped Rock Star - but discovers a lethal conspiracy.

Helen and Chris are in their last year at school when Helen discovers that she is pregnant. Deeply unhappy and confused, she resolves to break off their relationship. Chris is bitter at Helen's decision, believing that he should be involved in any plans for the baby's future, but Helen needs time alone to make sense of her conflicting feelings.

This fascinating book, which is based on first-hand accounts from veterans, provides an important insight into how Germany and Austria were rebuilt after the end of the Nazi tyranny.

In 1992 the author was able to fulfil the dream to travel with Rabari nomads on a year's migratory cycle through the Thar Desert, Rajasthan.

A beautiful house in the country and a new life for the family is the dream of many city dwellers. But what happens when reality fails to live up to the dream? Anyone planning such a move should first read this cautionary tale. Originally published anonymously, the author is now revealed as Daisy Waugh. X rated, contains offensive language.

In 1961 Dora and her young daughter Josiane were shipped from France to Israel after they were declared vagrants. Here Josiane tells the story of their hand-to-mouth existence and of how her mother’s bizarre behaviour fuelled prejudice and violence.

Like Dr Jekyll, we all have a dark side… but this Text Guide will help students make sure examiners see them at their best! It contains everything they need to write unbeatable essays about Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and it's suitable for all major GCSE English exam boards.

Inside, you'll find clear, thorough notes on the novel's context, plot, characters, themes and the writer's techniques - plus quick warm-up activities, in-depth exercises and realistic exam-style questions at the end of sections, alongside challenging questions for students aiming for Grades 8-9.