LifeClem Ackroyd lives with his parents and grandmother in a claustrophobic home too small to accommodate their larger than life characters in the bleak Norfolk countryside. Clem's life changes irrevocably when he meets Frankie, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, and experiences first love, in all its pain and glory.

The Trojan War is known as a man's story: a quarrel between men over a woman

It was a time when old certainties had been shredded: by popular insurgency

at the height of the industrial revolution

Tyll Ulenspiegel is here

G had run home from school on summer afternoons to watch the Tour on television

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the adored pet terrier owned by national treasure Enid Blyton

as they exploited a new cosmopolitan age

Social media influencer Vex King overcame great adversity in his early to become a source of hope for thousands of young people

at work and in repose

Still unwed

author of The Mirror and the Light