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Eighteen-year-old Isobel Stanhope is keeping a lot of secrets. There's the fact that she's head over heels in love with a Duke who doesn't know she exists; there's the fact that her family is penniless but nobody in society knows about it; and then there's her job at the Aviary, an investigative agency run by women that specializes in digging up scandal on powerful men.

When Marigold Bloom finds her family business in trouble a chance encounter with the devastatingly handsome and extremely bad-tempered Oliver Lockhart leads her to the Aviary—a secret agency of women who specialize in blackmailing troublesome men. Soon, Mari is the agency's newest recruit, sent to investigate the mysterious return of Oliver's long lost sister. Forced to masquerade as a newly engaged couple, it is up to Mari and Oliver to determine if there is an imposter in their midst. But what happens when the line between truth and fiction starts to blur?

The first audiobook in a brand-new series from award-winning children’s author Laura Wood. Join Effie Kostas as she fights to become Student Council President in her new school. With a campaign team of loveable misfits, she tackles the truly important subjects: gender imbalance, outdated school conventions...and good-looking boys stealing the last slice of chocolate cake at lunchtime. A laugh-out-loud rallying call for switched-on kids everywhere.

From the winner of the Scholastic Montegrappa Prize for New Children's Writing - it's Halloween at Saint Smithen's. When the Brimwell town hall burns down, the amateur production of Macbeth is moved to the school and it's all hands on deck. But when the play is struck by a series of mysterious attacks, it's up to Poppy, her friends and her circus family to save the play and unmask the culprit.

Poppy Pym has grown up in the circus, taming lions before lunch and learning acrobatics in the afternoon. But when she turns eleven, her circus family decides she needs a more traditional education, and she is sent to boarding school. At first Poppy doesn't fit in at St Smithen's, a school that is very different from the circus. Then an ancient Egyptian ruby arrives at school, and dangerous accidents start occurring. Suddenly it's up to Poppy to save her new school and solve the mystery of the pharaoh's curse!

A secret spy threatens St Smithen's, and Poppy Pym must solve her most difficult mystery yet! When a mysterious runaway van crashes into St Smithen's on the first day of the new school year, Poppy knows it's going to be an action-packed term! But when accidents continue to happen at St Smithen's, Poppy can't shake the feeling that her every move is being watched. With the Christmas holidays looming, secrets lurking in every corner and rumours of a dangerous beast on the loose....

Another great adventure in the Poppy Pym series! A school trip to the seaside couldn't come at a better time - sea and sand could be just what I need to take my mind off my past. But things are not what they seem here at Crumley Castle, and it's not long before I, Poppy Pym, find myself in the middle of my most dangerous case yet. Impossible disappearances, long-buried secrets and dangerous threats. Can the ghost stories be true? Or is the real villain right under our noses?

Effie is changing the world, one classroom at a time. Dark forces are at work at Highworth Grange school: the student council has been taken over by a tyrannical villain with his own agenda. But Effie Kostas isn't about to stand by and watch democracy crumble! She's leading the resistance - but politics can be a dirty game, and Effie will need to keep her wits about her as she faces down the enemy. With the help of her brilliant band of misfit friends, a bad-tempered parrot and a former nemesis, can Effie save the school she loves before it's too late?

Navigating the Mining Industry when you’re not a geologist or engineer can be intimidating. Let’s fix that. Join this trio of industry professionals as they demystify the practical, legal and procedural minefields needed for obtaining and maintaining the key assets of every exploration and mining company. Dismantling the idea that tenement management is just an administrative ‘post box’ part of the process. Their years of industry experience mean there is no shortage of stories covering many topics including native title and cultural heritage, to the challenges of working across ...