Catherine E Clarke

Writing the Town Read

On July 7th 2005, London is high on the success of winning the 2012 Olympics bid. The celebrations come to an abrupt end when terrorists attack the city's transport network, striking Underground trains and a bus during the morning rush hour. At the other side of the country, in comparatively peacefu...

Stanley Gets a Guinea Pig

Stanley is a little boy in need of a pet and he knows just what type of pet he wants. It has to be a guinea pig. He’s even decided what it will be called! Along with his little sister Serena, Stanley goes for a holiday to stay with his Auntie Lois and Uncle Richard. Besides sampling Uncle Richard’s ...

Paradise Plums and Cocoa Beans: Schizophrenia and Celia's Longing for Home

In 1958 at the age of fourteen, Celia de Verteuil left her French Creole family and home in Trinidad. Having been diagnosed with schizophrenia, Celia was destined for the United Kingdom, to receive treatment and care for her illness. Celia lived the rest of her life in the UK and never saw Trinidad ...

Our Glorious Popes

I could not put it down. Such enthusiastic responses as this are typical upon reading this powerfully written his-tory of the Church as illustrated in the challenging pontificates of ten of her more illustrious champions of orthodoxy. As one reads through the first forty-two pages, one is virtually ...

The Loyolas and the Cabots: The story of the crusade of Saint Benedict Center 1940-1950

From the foreword: This book is going to press one year after the people of the United States, and eventually the people of the world, were shocked by a stubborn profession of faith made on the part of some Boston Catholics, who were at once silenced and interdicted by the ecclesiastical and sacerdo...

His Personal Shopper

Isabelle Baker is a woman who loves the finer things in life. Her work in a high-end department store exposes her to plenty of glamor--and plenty of beautiful men. But Isabelle's also a lady and she keeps herself under tight rein. So when her gorgeous personal shopping client makes an entirely inapp...

Looking Past

"Without offering coping mechanisms or advice, this is ultimately an uplifting story about being true to yourself and becoming a mother on your own terms." Today's Child MagazineSarah Marchley is eleven years old when her mother dies. Completely unprepared and suffering an acute sense of loss, she a...

Rydon Hall

Charles Goldforbes is the new Latin teacher at Rydon Hall, the third best boys' prep school in Churley, south-west London. Along with the job come two related problems. One is the hideous Florian Bavington, aged 13 but already a master of low-level disruption. The other is the disturbingly alluring ...

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