Leonard And Hungry Paul

Leonard and Hungry Paul are two quiet friends who see the world differently. Content with their circumstances, they use humour, board games, and silence to steer their way through the maelstrom that is the twenty-first century. But things are beginning to change. There’s a death in the family. Leonard is interested in a woman at work. And Hungry Paul has entered a competition with a sizeable financial prize. Should the pair choose to stick with lives of comforting predictability – or forge new paths for themselves?

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April 1958. Leonard is shocked when he arrives with his mother in the port of Southampton. His father is a stranger to him, it’s cold, and even the Jamaican food doesn’t taste the same as it did back home in Maroon Town. But his parents have brought him here to try to make a better life. So Leonard does his best not to complain, to make new friends, to do well at school – even when people hurt him with their words…and with their fists. How can a boy so far from home learn to enjoy his new life when so many things count against him?

Havana Sleeping

Havana in the 1850s is a city as dangerous as it is exotic. The murder of a humble night watchman at the British Consulate seems to worry neither the Consul nor the police. But one person cared; the enigmatic courtesan, Leonarda. In wintry England, George Backhouse is plucked from obscurity in the Foreign Office and given an unexpected promotion. His task: to travel to Cuba and take a stand against the illegal slave trade. But Havana is a tinderbox of intrigue. To protect their interests, the powers-that-be in Whitehall are prepared to turn a blind eye to many things. Leonarda will not. But what of George Backhouse?

The Killer In The Choir

Although she hadn’t known Leonard Mallett very well, Carole Seddon feels duty bound to attend her fellow committee member’s funeral. As she suspected, the sermon is very predictable – not unlike Leonard himself. What she couldn’t have predicted was that the deceased’s daughter would use the occasion to publicly accuse her stepmother of murder. Did Heather Mallett really kill her husband? Deciding to get to the heart of the matter, Carole’s neighbour Jude joins the new community choir – and discovers that amidst the clashing egos and petty resentments lurk some decidedly false notes. At least one chorister would appear to be hiding a deadly secret – and it’s up to Carole and Jude to unearth the truth.

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April 1958. Leonard is shocked when he arrives with his mother in the port of Southampton. His father is a stranger to him, it’s cold, and even the Jamaican food doesn’t taste the same as it did back home in Maroon Town. But his parents have brought him here to try to make a better life. So Leonard does his best not to complain, to make new friends, to do well at school – even when people hurt him with their words…and with their fists. How can a boy so far from home learn to enjoy his new life when so many things count against him?

Music From Home

Having lost her mother at a young age, Maria Conti is close to her father, Leo, who owns an Italian restaurant, Leonardo’s. Secretly, however, she worries over Leo’s drinking and gambling binges. Maria has no one to advise her as Leo’s family is in Italy and her mother’s family in Ireland rejected her when she married a foreigner. Then Leo is tragically killed. In the dark days that follow it emerges that he has left them deeply in debt. Maria has no choice but to turn to her estranged Irish family. As she uncovers a bitter legacy of secrets and lies, she comes to realise that her mother was not the person she’s been led to believe she was.

I, Mona Lisa

Listen to my history. My adventures are worth hearing. I have lived many lifetimes and been loved by emperors, kings and thieves. I have survived kidnap and assault. Revolution and two world wars. But this is also a love story. And the story of what we will do for those we love. In Leonardo da Vinci’s studio, bursting with genius imagination, towering commissions and needling patrons, as well as discontented muses, friends and rivals, sits the painting of the Mona Lisa. For five hundred tumultuous years, amid a whirlwind of power, money, intrigue, the portrait of Lisa del Giocondo is sought after and stolen. Over the centuries, few could hear her voice, but now she is ready to tell her own story, in her own words – a tale of rivalry, murder and heartbreak. Weaving through the years, she takes us from the dazzling world of Florentine studios to the French courts at Fontainebleau and Versailles, and into the Twentieth Century.

I, Mona Lisa Audio MP3 CD

Listen to my history. My adventures are worth hearing. I have lived many lifetimes and been loved by emperors, kings and thieves. I have survived kidnap and assault. Revolution and two world wars. But this is also a love story. And the story of what we will do for those we love. In Leonardo da Vinci’s studio, bursting with genius imagination, towering commissions and needling patrons, as well as discontented muses, friends and rivals, sits the painting of the Mona Lisa. For five hundred tumultuous years, amid a whirlwind of power, money, intrigue, the portrait of Lisa del Giocondo is sought after and stolen. Over the centuries, few could hear her voice, but now she is ready to tell her own story, in her own words – a tale of rivalry, murder and heartbreak. Weaving through the years, she takes us from the dazzling world of Florentine studios to the French courts at Fontainebleau and Versailles, and into the Twentieth Century.

A Ration Book Wedding

February 1942: Twenty-three-year-old Francesca Fabrino, like thousands of other women, is doing her bit for the war effort in a factory in East London. But her thoughts are constantly occupied by her unrequited love for Charlie Brogan, who has recently married a woman of questionable reputation, before being shipped out to North Africa. When Francesca starts a new job as an Italian translator, she meets handsome Count Leonardo D’Angelo. Just as she has begun to put her hopeless love for Charlie to one side, he returns from the front, his marriage in ruins and his heart burning for Francesca at last. Could she, a good Catholic girl, countenance an illicit affair with the man she has always longed for? Or should she choose a different, less dangerous path?

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