All About Battersea

The mega-bestselling tale of fiery, spirited Victorian foundling, Hetty Feather. London, 1876. Hetty Feather is just a tiny baby when her mother leaves her at the Foundling Hospital. The Hospital cares for abandoned children - but Hetty must first live with a foster family until she is big enough to go to school. Life in the countryside is sometimes hard, but with her foster brothers, Jem and Gideon, Hetty helps in the fields and plays vivid imaginary games. Together they sneak off to visit the travelling circus, and Hetty is mesmerised by the show - especially the stunning Madame Adeline and her performing horses. But Hetty's happiness is threatened once more when she must return to the Foundling Hospital to begin her education. The new life of awful uniforms and terrible food is a struggle for her, and she desperately misses her beloved Jem. But now she has the chance to find her real mother. Could she really be the wonderful Madame Adeline? Or will Hetty find the truth is even more surprising? Jacqueline Wilson will surprise and delight old fans and new with this utterly original historical novel. The first book featuring feisty Victorian heroine, Hetty Feather, this is a compelling, moving, funny and totally fascinating tale that will thrill and captivate readers.

In an astonishing twist on the twins-separated-at-birth story, After Battersea Park narrates the lives of 27-year-old twins: Curt, a jazz musician living in Sydney, Australia, and William, a visual artist in Toronto. The brothers are drawn inexorably toward a reunion when a suicide note reveals the identity of their true parents: Jilly, an Australian teacher, and Noah, a Hawaiian bartender whose letters to his estranged sons begin to unravel the wrenching events of London's Battersea Park 23 years earlier. Over one year, three continents and two generations, William and his doppelg...nger conflate and dissolve, wrestling with the twin masters of memory and truth, nature and nurture, empire and colony, reason and passion. Here is a brilliant portrait of two men longing to be whole and wholly understood."There is a tenderness here, and a respect for the characters. This is not to say that After Battersea Park is without artifice or technique. Bennett is a skilled enough writer to vary cadence and rhythm, slipping from an almost documentary style into a convincing lyricism when the situation demands." -Quill & Quire

In this hilarious classic adventure, an innocent boy and his friends must stop a plot to topple the King of England. Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting. Instead he finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a wicked crew’s fiendish caper to overthrow the good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea. With the help of his friend Sophie and the resourceful waif Dido, Simon narrowly escapes a series of madcap close calls and dangerous run-ins. In a time and place where villains do nothing halfway, Simon is faced with wild wolves, poisoned pies, kidnapping, and a wrecked ship. This is a cleverly contrived tale of intrigue and misadventure. Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl “It’s a marvel!” —The New Yorker “A wild yarn, not to be put down once it is started.” —Washington Post “A riot of wildly improbable adventures happening to absurd and loveable characters with Dickensian names in a time that never was . . . Heartrending, hair-raising, rib-tickling, and delightful.” —New York Times

The twelfth novel in Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series reimagines Sherlock Holmes in a richly-detailed alternate 20th-century England Christmas is a very special time of year. It is special for Psychic Nan Killian and Medium Sarah Lyon-White and their ward Suki, who are determined to celebrate it properly. It is special for their friends, Doctor John Watson, and his wife Mary, both Elemental Masters, who have found great delight in the season seeing it through young Suki’s eyes. It is also special to others...for very different reasons. For Christmas Eve is also hallowed to dark forces, powers older than mankind, powers that come awake on this long, cold night. Powers best left alone. Powers that could shake the foundations of London and beyond. It begins slowly. Women disappearing in the dark of night, women only missed by those of their own kind. The whispers only begin when they start to reappear—because when they do, they are no longer sane. And when Nan and Sarah and the Watsons are called on to examine these victims, they discover that it was no ordinary horror of the streets that drove them mad. But then, the shadows reach for other victims—girls of good, even exalted families, who vanish from concerts, lectures, and evening balls. And it will take the combined forces of Magic, Psychic Powers, and the world's greatest detective to stop the darkness before it can conquer all.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... Come share the blessings of that board, Which Jesus for His Saints has spread; Eeceive the grace His ways afford, Commune with us and Christ our Head. "--G. Smith. the new baptist chapel, Chatham Eoad Bolingbroke Grove.--A suitable plot of ground was obtained at a cost of 150; cost of Chapel, about 850. Services were conducted by Charles and Thomas Spurgeon. The building will seat 258 persons. The cauRe was commenced about fourteen years ago in a very humble way by Mr. Q. Eides, a working man, who, previously to the erection of the above place of worship, held meetings in his own hired house, Swaby Street. William Higgs, Jun., Architect; Higgs and Hill, Builders. wesleyan methodist mission eoom and sunday schools, Everett Street, Nine Elms, opened 1871. Mr. John Farmer, Steward and Superintendent. Now closed. united methodist feee chuech, Church Eoad, Battersea.--The Memorial Stone was laid by James Wild, Esq., May 25th, 1858. Another stone was laid by Mrs. Bowron, Sept., 22, 1864, when the Chapel was enlarged. S. J. Stedman, Architect. the united methodist feee chuech, Battersea Park Eoad.--Tne School-room at the back of the Chapel in Landseer Street was built in 1865, at a cost of 500, and it was used as a preaching Station. In 1871-2 the present Chapel was built, at a cost of 2,200. Seats about 600. Has a Lecture-room and Schools underneath the Chapel. The freehold was purchased in 1876 and coat 400. Rev. James Whitton is