Molly and the Lockdown


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Molly and her friends are suddenly plunged into a lockdown and have to adapt to a new way of living. Molly completes jigsaws, plays her fiddle, and looks after her pets, whilst her mother helps others on the island and her father is stuck far away on the mainland. With a vaccine on the horizon, this story ends with a message of hope.In collaboration with Irish publisher An tSnathaid Mhor, the story will be released simultaneously in three languages: English, Irish and Welsh. A great resource for people home-schooling, it helps educate children about the challenging circumstances surrounding COVID-19, UK-wide lockdowns and the vaccine, as well as providing a hopeful message for both children and adults.




The Girl from the Hermitage


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Galina was born into a world of horrors. So why does she mourn its passing? SHORTLISTED: Impress Prize LONGLISTED: Bath Novel Award LONGLISTED: Grindstone Novel Award It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating soup made of wallpaper, with the occasional luxury of a dead rat. Galina's artist father Mikhail has been kept away from the front to help save the treasures of the Hermitage. Its cellars could now provide a safe haven, provided Mikhail can navigate the perils of a portrait commission from one of Stalin's colonels. Nearly forty years later, Galina herself is a teacher at the Leningrad Art Institute. What ought to be a celebratory weekend at her forest dacha turns sour when she makes an unwelcome discovery. The painting she embarks upon that day will hold a grim significance for the rest of her life, as the old Soviet Union makes way for the new Russia and Galina's familiar world changes out of all recognition. Warm, wise and utterly enthralling, Molly Gartland's debut novel guides us from the old communist world, with its obvious terrors and its more surprising comforts, into the glitz and bling of 21st-century St Petersburg. Galina's story is at once a compelling page-turner and an insightful meditation on ageing and nostalgia. 'A beautifully written book that takes you right into the characters' world. Highly recommended' LUCINDA HAWKSLEY




Magic in the Time of Corona - Novella


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Molly is in trouble. On the eve of her college graduation, she must pack her bags and run away, after upsetting the vindictive witches of May's Coven. Homeless and hiding her identity, she ends up in Edinburgh at a time of Corona. She sleeps in the park and walks the streets by day, while seeking a new coven that can protect her. Terrible nightmares haunt her, reminding her of what she saw back in May's Coven and the fate that awaits her if she is found. In the midst of the danger, she meets Ryan, a young Scottish journalist. His down to earth style and unassuming confidence are everything she's been looking for, and their time together gives her strength and hope. But Ryan falls sick. Will their love survive when Coronavirus strikes? ---- About writing the book - an author dealing with the stress of a pandemic. "I wanted to write a book that would help me deal with what I was feeling... I wrote a few times a week, exploring what magic would have added to my experience of Edinburgh. For example, the duck pond that Ryan mentions is a place that my husband and I loved to visit before lockdown, and I missed it. And the supermarket where Molly and Ryan meet is the same one where we'd get bread to feed the ducks and swans. I also used to love going to Arthur's Seat, the park where Molly spent her homeless nights. But it was now on the other side of town and I couldn't risk the bus ride to get to it. So, in my writing I went to these places. I went there as Molly, a young and brave witch." Dune meets The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, in today's world of a pandemic. Great for lovers of Discovery of witches: A story of love in the time of Corona (in the time of covid), of how to find love behind the mask. Are you a witch? Or maybe a witcher? - Read this covid book and see if you can relate!




Molly's Big Decision


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Readers' Favorite - Award Winner! Never in her wildest dreams did nine-year-old Molly believe she could be loved again. Molly’s fed up with the cruel Mr and Mrs Furrows who run the orphanage. She wants out. When a mysterious palace appears outside her bedroom, she thinks ... Now’s my chance. Molly is invited to join the royal family, but there’s a catch. It involves a secret mission and magic tokens. She has only one month to complete her mission and accept the king’s invitation. If she doesn’t, will she ever get another chance to get away from Mr and Mrs Furrows? Join Molly on her adventure and discover the hidden message of the story - secret missions happen every day when you’re a child of God. A gift for you inside the book Bonus offer: download the compelling prequel - Molly’s Sudden Problem




The Marvelous Adventures of Molly and Charles


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From the author of Janie Smallwood and the Mystery of the Man in the Woods, comes an moving and inspirational tale of friendship born of tragedy, and nourished by neighborly relationships, that brings lasting change to Washington D.C.'s political scene, culminating in an epic crusade for DC statehood. Join Molly and Charles on an amazing series of adventures!!




Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon


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Be yourself like Molly Lou Melon no matter what a bully may do. Molly Lou Melon is short and clumsy, has buck teeth, and has a voice that sounds like a bullfrog being squeezed by a boa constrictor. She doesn't mind. Her grandmother has always told her to walk proud, smile big, and sing loud, and she takes that advice to heart. But then Molly Lou has to start in a new school. A horrible bully picks on her on the very first day, but Molly Lou Melon knows just what to do about that.




Normal Girl


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"Randa, what's wrong with you?" "Nothing. I mean, I'm a crazy cocaine addict with a hankering for heroin, but other than that, I'm just a nice Jewish girl from the Upper East Side with Prada shoes. How could anything be wrong?" Molly Jong-Fast's Normal Girl is striking-and as funny as it as real. Inspired by her own experiences growing up in the decadent, fast-paced netherworld of New York City's jet set, Jong-Fast's debut novel is a hilarious, hard-edged walk past the velvet rope. At just nineteen, Miranda Woke seems to have it all. Her parents are famous socialites, she's already been written up on Page Six sixteen times, she's on all the right invitation lists, and drugs and alcohol are never in short supply. But while her image screams "It girl," she'd rather be a normal girl, and the A-list feels even more uncomfortable than her Manolo Blahnik shoes. In fact, she's become the "living embodiment of an awkward phase" with "more issues than Harper's Bazaar." Neither Xanax nor Deepak Chopra tapes help. And now that her junkie party has trashed her parents' house, she has to liquidate her trust fund to pay Mom's decorator for a quick fix. But worst of all, Miranda thinks she just murdered her own boyfriend. In an all-too-glamorous world where the cell phone is always ringing, Miranda sees no escape other than a downward spiral of cocaine, Valium, and heroin. It takes friends who offer more than air kisses to force Miranda to look in the mirror and get some help.




Molly Falls to Earth


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"As Molly experiences the singularity of the seizure over the course of seven minutes, she is haunted by her past: memories of love and infidelity, thoughts of her family and her work, and of the city itself. She also reflects on the disappearance of a lover she last saw ten years earlier, his sister, and the secrets that connect all three of them"--




Molly and the Whale


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Oscar the Ferry Cat


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Oscar is an ordinary cat living in Scotland until one day his life is turned upside down when he finds himself alone on a ferry. Will he ever find a friend and somewhere he can call home Oscar the Ferry Cat is based on a true life event - in April 2014 Molly Arbuthnott lost her family cat on a Caledonian MacBrayne ferry. Though Oscar was never seen again his memory is now immortalized in the minds of all the children who read this tale.