Little Leap ForwardThe first in Barefoot Books' Young Fiction line, this sensitively written, real life story focuses on growing up in Beijing in the 1960s, at the time of the Cultural Revolution. Little Leap Forward offers children an intimate and immediate account of a child's experiences as Mao Tse Tung's Great Leap Forward policy tightens its grip on China.

Sharpe finds himself enmeshed in a web of political intrigue for which his military expertise has left him fatally unprepared

but is the killer closer to home

I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea

while the second part delves into the practical applications of this knowledge in daily life

enigmatic Jude

and finally kills the city's champion

they had been told they would receive a mysterious package containing secrets he could not reveal while living

he discovers girls including the vivacious Winnie de Verdon whom he rescues from burning to death

Soldier of fortune Cal Jardine travels to Barcelona to help with the athletic games rivalling the Berlin Olympics

The new Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery - When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone is ordered by King Henry to deliver a series of mysterious letters to the restless western reaches of Wales

At sixteen

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