Justin Chadwick
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming and inspiring true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan villager and ex-Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford. It is a triumphant testimony to the transforming force of education.
2) Tulip fever
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
3) Bleak house
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The icily beautiful Esther's background also comes to light...
4) Stolen
Author
Language
English
Description
A fast-paced thriller about child trafficking in Britain today. Anthony Carter is a detective inspector battling to make a difference to the plight of exploited children smuggled into the UK. When Anthony encounters Rosemary, a terrified 10-year-old girl from West Africa, sold as a house slave, who thought she was coming to England to be educated, he vows to keep her safe from the traffickers, but in doing so, Anthony risks his own and his child's...
