Hedgie Hotel

Wishes and dreams are what a little girl had, but sadly, that’s all she had.

Every child wants their very own pet to cuddle and love, don’t they? But this little girl could only dream of having one.

Her mum’s answer every time she asked was always a disappointing “no, sorry love.”

But things were about to change when a mysterious garden visitor needed help desperately!

Held

A love story spanning decades as two men not only fight the world for their love and its changes surrounding them but also one another while they battle the one thing that tears them apart.

At the tender age of fifteen, Matt and Justin instantly fall in love. While time grows and matures, so do they and their relationship. Years pass and are torn from one another as their lives take them in separate directions. The political and social constructs start to define their lives and the people who they become.

Can what we believe holds us, end up being our own destructive force, potentially being the one thing that destroys us, crumbling our lives?

Eventually, we all have to let go.

Hello Troj

Hello Troj is a book that took over three decades to experience and 12 years to write. It is a book about growing up as a young female arts protégé during the last decade of Communism in Eastern Europe, in a society shaped by a rapidly disintegrating censorship apparatus struggling to sustain itself, in the world of the so-called “Intelligencia” governed by middle-aged white men, many of them prone to predatory behavior and accustomed to getting their own way. It is a deeply personal and unapologetic coming-of-age story that circles around the suicide of a younger brother and trying to figure oneself out in the context of dystopia and chaos.

But this is also a book about growing up in a family of heroes and madmen, all of them insanely creative but never recognized as anything but average, invisible, “just regular folks”. There is nothing “regular” or “average” about them.

Heterogeneous Poems

‘I have read individual poems to a number of people who say they have enjoyed them – I am sure you will too! Some are romantic, some funny; there are also poems of the present and the past.
‘I hope the illustrations that accompany some of the poems help to deepen what the poem is trying to convey to the reader: the combination of words and pictures will give you a sense of enjoyment and of involvement in the poems themselves. In lots of cases, you will be able to immerse yourself in the adventure of the poem, recalling things that in the past you have seen or heard of. All of this will add to your enjoyment of the book.
‘To give you a little more insight as to how the whole saga of the poems began, let me take you back to 1945 when I was stationed on the Burmese border. Having little to do after the day’s events gave all of us lots of time to think about: home, our friends and the family. So it was only natural that to occupy some of those hours my thoughts looked elsewhere. I always remembered that poem by William Wordsworth I learnt as a boy, “I wandered lonely as a cloud” – you remember it? Most of us do, anyway. As it passed through my thoughts, I thought to myself, “Why don’t you write some poetry?”
‘I thought about it a lot, mulling it over in my mind, but decided that this was not perhaps the time. In the end, the thought came back to me from time to time, over the years: “Should I?”
‘Well, as you can see, it finally did happen, after all those years. So never say never.’
Raymond Hunt

Heterogeneous Poems 2

This second volume of Raymond Hunt’s Heterogeneous Poems gives us poetic postcards celebrating the many parts of the world he has visited over the decades, from the Andes mountains of South America to the Great Wall of China, alongside evocative snapshots of Raymond’s beloved English countryside.
Once you delve into this delightful assortment of verse, you will be sure to find something to make you smile, or think – or maybe a bit of both.

Hetty

This is the story of a young woman’s dilemma in World War II. How can she and those she loves survive the problems they face?

Our story opens as Hetty prepares for Will’s return from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. She has learnt that Will has been tortured and disfigured in the camp and it was only the thought of her and his daughter, Mary, conceived on their wedding night, which kept him alive.

However, two years earlier, Hetty thought that her hasty marriage to Will had ended when she got the telegram “Missing, presumed dead!” Now he was coming home. How can she tell him about her new baby, Dorothy?

Staying with Will’s parents in Somerset, a young asthmatic teacher, David, is kind to Hetty and her young child, Mary, and they fall in love. But then there is the problem of what happened when they went blackberrying.

How on earth can these damaged people find a new way to live?

What will the outcome be?

Hi! I’m Peps

All Peps dreamed of was a home of his own.

Born on the streets, blind and scared, he found safety at a rescue centre. But he always wondered if he would one day find a cosy bed and a family to call his own.

Join Peps on his journey to his fur-ever home.

Hickory, Dickory and Doc, Three Mice Who Live in a Clock

Hickory, Dickory and Doc, Three Mice Who Live in a Clock is the story of the adventures of three little mice and their quest to fix the clock they live in. It explores the characters they meet on their journey, how they help Mary find her little lamb and their encounter with itsy bitsy spider, to mention a few. Hickory is the inventor who has never had anything work; Dickory is a dreamer who spends his days dreaming about what might be, and Doc, well unlike his name, is always thinking that he’s poorly. Come along for their journey which will take them on an adventure to the town of Rhymeville. 

Hidden Treasure

Here is a spell-binding and profound memoir for our times, sparked by the sudden death of a beloved partner. An intensely intimate yet fresh and light approach draws us into the delights of love, the consuming nature of grief, and a potent journey which unveils the mysterious treasures inherent in heartfelt engagement with the significant ups and downs of life.

Not only are we privy to the depth of the author’s thoughts and feelings but her partner comes across as a person with a real and secret unknown life all his own beyond the page, giving an appreciation for the profundity of a person we will never directly know. And a spectacular forest in New South Wales comes alive as an integral vital companion in this journey of discovery.

Hidden Treasure is not so hidden, it is a light of mature love that two attuned adults brought to life which emerges as a spiritual journey of deep relationship with the mystery of life.

This book acknowledges the vagaries of life with all its pitfalls and yet – ultimately – it is uplifting, ending on a hopeful joyous note. It holds the potential of nourishment for those who are grieving in a world currently dominated by loss and contains inspiration of the most dignified kind, beautifully portrayed.

Hidden Words

‘Perspective of danger changes when reality floods through the dark. 

It takes wild events of immense forbidden love for Christopher to realise he’s been living life all wrong.

Christopher has to make serious changes in order to become the person he’s always wanted to be. 

Unfortunately, his biggest enemy is always close in his mind.’

Hide and Seek Grandad At the Beach

Jack and Amelia Barker were brother and sister who lived at home with their parents. Like many children, they laughed and played together, watched TV, and sometimes they even squabbled! They loved mealtimes around the table to enjoy yummy food and share what had happened in their day. Like many children, they also had a grandad. He was a cheeky grandad who was always telling jokes and making them laugh. But most of all, he always seemed to know when they had a day out and find the best place to hide from them and surprise them. This Saturday they were heading to the beach for a day in the sand and sea. I wonder if Grandad would be there and, if so, where they might find him.

Highland Heritage

Helen Glenkerry shook her hair back, scooping it up into a ponytail and fastening it with a lace from her sandal lying on the bank. The water in the burn was icy cold and crystal clear. Rolling her white cotton trouser legs up, she pushed some pebbles along the sandy bottom with her toes as the grasses caressed her feet. Closing her eyes and breathing the cool clear air deeply, she knew she would love living here.

The horse stood like a statue as James Mcklinross watched the girl. What was she doing here and where had she come from? There was danger here; she would have to go. He walked his horse to the edge of the burn. As she turned and saw him, he blinked; he thought she was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen. His voice sounded stern: ‘Where do you think you are going and where have you come from? Don’t you know you are trespassing?’