Sophie Duncan

60 puzzles full of the joys of Spring. All you need is a pencil to keep yourself amused for hours!

A perfect gift for any puzzler.

60 large puzzles for those who want a challenge. All you need is a pencil to keep yourself amused for hours!

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• How To Solve Nonograms - don't worry if you've never tried these brilliant puzzles, this step by step guide will help.
• 60 huge nonograms
• Solutions

A perfect gift for any puzzler.

Great for any crochet lover to keep track of all your crochet projects with this crochet journal planner notebook. One place to organise and plan 50 projects. Specially designed for crochet with sections for materials and yarns, stitches and techniques, and pattern details.

A perfect gift for anyone who loves crochet.

Robin, wildling and sorcerer, has married his love, Mariam. Both of them still apprentices, they are living with Robin's Ma, who is also the town midwife. It is early Spring, and Mariam is heavily pregnant with the couple's first child, known fondly as 'Cabbage'. Cabbage is restless, and having inherited wildling power from both Rob and back up Mariam's family tree, that means Mariam has to put up with starts of magic to go along with normal baby kicks. When those kicks turn into labour, the untamed magic inside Mariam threatens her and her child.

Ma, outside the magic, can do nothing more than look after Mariam's human needs. Rob, too, in this is powerless. Mariam, ignorant of the ways of the Wild Wood, must battle her own body to survive and save her child. Can she make it through her ordeal, and can anyone help her?

When Spring Arrives is book 2 of The Call of Midwinter.

Robin Wild, apprentice sorcerer, has grown up among humans, but he only half belongs to their world. Rob was found as a baby two decades ago during the first snows of Winter. The kind-hearted, sensible residents of the town where he had been left saved him and then raised him as one of their own. That he is at least part Wildling, the mysterious creatures from the Wild Wood, has always been obvious; his winter magic sometimes running ahead of his human control. Now, though, the Wild Woods are calling him, and Robin must answer their summons.

Robin is half Winter Wildling. His mother comes from the Wild Wood to the north of the little town where he was raised. All his life his magic has been a battle: human control against savage, icy sorcery. He can keep it in check most of the time, but sometimes he must answer the call of midwinter that rests in his heart.

This volume brings together the first three stories from the Call of Midwinter series:

The Call of Winter

When Spring Arrives

A Song of Farewell

Life is looking good for the Robin, Mariam and their daughter Rowan, still know affectionately by all as Cabbage. However, a storm is coming. Robin can feel an unsettled strangeness to the power of what should have been just an ordinary snowstorm. It is making Cabbage restless as well. Such nerves could be put down to the natural tumult reacting with their Winter Wildling blood. Yet, Mariam's power of divination comes from quite another source and she too is sensing that something is wrong. What awaits in the coming maelstrom? Is it trouble that Mariam is discerning? Robin must face the challenges brought by the ice and snow and use all that he is to fight a terrible destiny that comes from the same power that made him?

Two stories of love and romance sprinkled with real magic.

Of Cats, Curses, and Cheaters: A Magical Romance by Natasha Duncan-Drake

Jack loves his cat, Eric. Eric hates his boyfriend Matt. The reason why will change Jack's life forever.

What Fate Wants: A Fae-Human Romance by Sophie Duncan

Jay just wants to be an ordinary guy, but Fate won’t let him. The fae love-magic he inherited from his dad ran riot at his 17th birthday party, turning it into a orgy. After lots of tests and investigations, everyone has decided it wasn’t his fault, but what is worse for Jay is that no-one can say exactly why it happened, or stop the attacks from happening again.

At last, in disguise and shadowed by his family sprite, Jay starts his final A-level year as a new, anonymous pupil, at Boundlands school, hoping he can finish his education without his magic interfering. Things aren’t that easy for the young hybrid though; when one of the human pupils, Chris, reveals he knows Jay’s secret, it looks like the carefully planned new life is already imploding.

How does Chris know who Jay is and what will it mean for his erratic magic? Find out what Fate has in store for Jay and Chris in this tale of two unusual lives bound together by wild love-magic.

Mina has only been an Ensign Navigator on the interstellar cruiser, Queen Elizabeth VI, for two weeks, so everything is exciting and new. She counts herself lucky to have been assigned to the same ship as her little brother, Alistair, and she doesn’t want to do anything to jeopardize their posting. It’s an easy mission, a charter flight to Aurelia Prime to celebrate the primeversary of the discovery of Carbon Prime, the reason everyone can travel between the stars.

Yet something is not right and Mina senses the wrongness. That feeling is confirmed when one of the descendants of the pioneers who discovered the miracle fuel is found dead in her cabin, frozen to death by a coolant leak. At least, that is what their leaders are saying. Mina doesn’t believe it. It must be something to do with the strange, impenetrable vessel encased completely in Carbon Prime that has suddenly appeared in their path and is now shadowing them to Aurelia Prime?

No longer trusting the superiors who only seem interested in their glorious history, Mina and Alistair look to lower ranks to investigate what is really going on. Something is bad in the history of Aurelia Prime; something is missing from the official records. Can Mina find out what it is in time to save all on board the QE VI?

New friends should be breathing, right?

While launching into student life, Shani has to deal with the challenges of moving into a crumbling old house, getting to know her housemates, and the heady desires of new love. all the while, struggling with an unnerving backdrop of shadows and presences only she can sense.

After one crap A-level, Shani got her place at uni through the clearing process, so everything was very last-minute. Thus, she's ended up at the university's 'last chance saloon', a huge, but rundown old townhouse that maintenance seems to have forgotten. Still, beggars can't be choosers. At least she can afford the rent, and for that she's willing to put up with her new neighbours, the ones she can see, and the ones she can't.

But are the shadows that haunt the corners of this crumbling residence going to be as tolerant of Shani and her oblivious housemates?

Enjoy novelette, The Lodger, over a cup of coffee, or are you brave enough to read it by candlelight?!