Jane Williams
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Grandparenting Grandchildren is the first guide of its kind written specifically for grandparents, and aims to help you raise well-rounded, ready-to-learn, happy grandchildren. It covers the key influences on healthy development: movement, music, sleep and food, explaining both how they benefit the brain and how to implement them in your grandchild's life. Learn to build a loving, supportive relationship, while constructing essential life skills for...
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Ruby's leaving London. She's not running away from her ex per se, but an exciting opportunity in a new city has landed at the perfect time. Nic is moving to London. After a bad break-up, he's excited to see where big-city life could take him. When a chance meeting throws the pair of them together for just one night, it's clear that this could be the start of something special. But there's one problem: she's leaving, and he's just arriving. So, after...
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Cambrian Tales appeared in serialised form in Ainsworth's Magazine from March 1849 to March 1850 and has not previously been published as a novel.Like the political pamphlet Artegall, also included in this volume, it constitutes part of Jane Williams' attempts to defend Wales against the notorious 'Blue Books', the 1847 government report which damned the Welsh as ignorant, immoral, and barbaric.A comedy of manners, set in and around a Welsh country...
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Elizabeth Davis - known in Wales as Betsy Cadwaladyr - was a ladies' maid from Meirionnydd who travelled the world and gained fame as a nurse during the Crimean War. She was a dynamic character who broke free of the restrictions placed on women in Victorian times to lead a life of adventure. Journeying to many exotic parts of the globe, she came into contact with international events in the horrors of the field hospital at Balaclava, where she served...
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With their seeking out of common ground between strangers, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers, Jane Williams's poems are full of warmth and delight in being alive. Bullies, funerals and 'business as usual' exist here, but so too does the possibility of being 'surprised by joy'. The language is beautifully sparse and understated, hitting home with sudden, images, which are startling and powerful. Begging the Question is a book to keep by the...
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'Jane Williams's first collection of haiku delights with all the insight and generosity that her readers admire in her longer works of poetry. In distillations that are alive to the small and fleeting moments of life and the echoes they ring in the heart, Echoes of Flight is joyous and life-affirming and a welcome addition to Australian haiku literature.' – Lyn Reeves, Vice President, Australian Haiku Society
'Echoes of Flight is a wonderful treasure...
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Break all the rules but not all at once.
Remember you are just visiting. Try not to get too attached. When you're ready, come home. I've left a light burning in the ruins.
In her latest volume, Jane Williams, winner of the Anne Elder Award and the D.J. O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship, continues to test the boundaries of what poetry can be rather than what many people assume it is.
This is a collection with urban grit. It will speak to you in themes...
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Absorbing, empathetic and cerebral all at once. Using ordinary language and often extraordinary turns of phrase, Williams manages to peel back the complex layers of our everyday lives with remarkable grace and clarity.'-Judy Johnson
'Jane Williams has the rare ability to make our ordinary days feel not just vividly real, but also cared for, and precious. In scenes from her own life and the sympathetically observed lives of others, there is a lovely...
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From early poems re-imagining Bible stories to new work influenced by her travels through Asia, award-winning poet Jane Williams' keen interest in the connections between people pervades.
Days Like These offers readers familiar with her work a treasured collation and to those coming to it for the first time a tantalising introduction.
Here you will find sorrow and joy inextricably linked in a captivating verse that is ultimately a celebration...
13) Our Stop
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A wonderfully funny will-they-won't-they romance, perfect for those who loved Sally Thorne's 99% Mine and Helena Hunting's Meet Cute. What if you almost missed the love of your life? Nadia gets the 7:30am train every morning without fail. Well, except if she oversleeps or wakes up at her friend Emma's after too much wine. Daniel really does get the 7:30am train every morning, which is easy because he hasn't been able to sleep properly since his dad...
14) The lucky escape
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2021.
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Left at the altar, Annie, after a chance encounter with Patrick, an old friend who reminds her of who she used to be, throws caution to the wind and goes on her honeymoon with a man who¿́¿s not her husband.
15) The love square
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2021.
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Penny Bridge has always been unlucky in love. So she can't believe it when she meets a remarkable new man. Followed by another. And then another. And all of them want to date her. Penny has to choose between three. But are any of them The One?
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"When you lose your luggage, the last thing you expect to find is love...
RIGHT PLACE
As she touches down in Italy, Izzy couldn't be more excited. She's needed a reason to let her hair down, and she knows that the wedding of the year in a lavish Tuscan castle will be just the ticket...
RIGHT TIME
On the morning of his best friend's wedding, everything is going wrong for Sam. And when he finally reaches the hotel and unzips his luggage, his day...
17) The Lucky Escape
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ONE CANCELLED WEDDING
When the day finally comes for Annie to marry Alexander, the last thing she expects is to be left standing at the altar. She was so sure he was Mr Right. Now, she has no idea how she could have got it so wrong.
ONE UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER
After a chance meeting with Patrick, an old friend who reminds her of who she used to be, Annie takes a vow of her own: she'll say yes to every opportunity that comes her way from now...
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Evie Bird is a romance writer whose latest bestseller is being made into a Christmas movie.
Duke Carlisle is a world-famous actor who has landed the role of leading man.
When Evie and Duke meet on set, it’s a frosty encounter – even icier than the cobbled Bavarian streets they're filming on.
But after images of them arguing leak to the press and put the movie in jeopardy, they are left with no choice but to fake date until the cameras stop rolling.
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19) Our stop
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[2020], ©2019.
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"Nadia gets the 7.30 train every morning without fail. Well, except if she oversleeps or wakes up at her friend Emma's after too much wine. Daniel really does get the 7.30 train every morning, which is easy because he hasn't been able to sleep properly since his dad died. One morning, Nadia's eye catches sight of a post in the daily paper: To the cute girl with the coffee stains on her dress. I'm the guy who's always standing near the doors. Drink...
20) The Love Square
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She's single. But that doesn't mean it's not complicated…
THE LOVE SQUARE is a fresh, funny and feel-good exploration of hope, romance and the trust it takes to finally fall in love – and Laura Jane Williams is about to take the Love Triangle to a whole new level. How is Penny Bridge supposed to find 'the one' when she has to choose between three? Think Mamma Mia, for a new generation.