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When Tayla loses a magical compact at school, Kyra’s friend Mathilda finds it and her wishes start coming true. Mathilda suspects the existence of magic so Kyra has to enlist the Bureau to convince her otherwise. With the café in danger of closing, Peter persuades his friend Ben to play guitar and sing. Ben is a hit and Lily gets a crush on him, but her attraction causes an embarrassing reaction.

Darra rescues Kyra then explains his quest to find the legendary Temple of the Purple Lotus. Kyra agrees to help Darra find the Three Keys to the Temple, and when they return to the warehouse the Cobra Statue offers the first Key to Kyra. Meanwhile, the Bureau continues to search for the magical graffiti artist and Imogen is intrigued by Tayla, the prickly new fairy waitress at the café.

Kyra coaches the class for Magic School Sports Day in order to avoid a humiliating third defeat by their rivals, the Crowther School. Maxwell magically examines the two Temple keys which causes a chaotic magical disruption at the sports event, with Kyra at the centre. Kyra is blamed for the chaos but the disruption gives her a vision of the Temple of the Purple Lotus.

When Imogen begins to suspect that Apinya is not who she claims to be, she and Lily set out to prove it and discover Apinya has a connection to the Bangkok warehouse where Darra and Kyra found the First Key. Kyra invites Darra to lunch so he can get to know her stepfather, and while looking at some old family photos, Kyra makes an astonishing discovery about her Triling heritage.

The Bureau attempts to capture a bug whose bite causes the victim to tell the truth, but the bug bites Lily who is on her first date with Ben. Peter and Ruksy must pretend they are back together in order to prevent Lily from revealing that she is a fairy. Kyra is refused permission to testify at Maxwell’s hearing before the DMI. Maxwell is removed from teaching and Apinya is made permanent.

My name is Jack. I’m an orphan at the Founding Hospital in London, where I’ve been since I was five years old - some birthday present that was. Things are about to go from bad to worse when some boys are mean to me. What happens next is going to change my life forever, but will it be all bad, or could there be a silver lining?

Thorkell was once the most famous court jester in all the land - best friend to King Aethelstan and the man who rallied the troops before every successful battle. He loved nothing more than warming up a crowd ready to receive the king. Things were a bit more tricky these days, what with him being dead and not as handsome looking as he was before he lost his skin and bones. If only Thorkell could perform for a crowd, just once more, it would mean the world (and the underworld) to him. Is there anything that Bertram and Molly can do to make a jester laugh one more time?

While visiting Bertram's aunty, a very old and wise witch, Bertram and Molly happen upon a man hanging upside down from a tree. Can the time travelling duo help the man find the answers to the riddles he needs to solve? The Upside Down Man is the fourth audiobook in the Bertram Bile time travel adventure series, which follows the course of the River Thames from its source in Gloucestershire to the North Sea in Essex.

During a visit to the witch's tree where his aunty Hester lives, Bertram learns the origins of the real source of the River Thames and the story of an evil magician who sought revenge of the kings and his sons. The Ghostly Ship is the fifth audiobook in the Bertram Bile time travel adventure series, which follows the course of the River Thames from its source in Gloucestershire to the North Sea in Essex.

Listen to this tale of a crying child, an old ash tree, and only a witch with the ability to cure. This is a Bertram Bile time travel adventure set at Thames Head, the source of the River Thames, in Gloucestershire, England, and is based on a true story.

When a milkmaid spots two deadly shrews close to her prized cow, their death is the only thing on her mind. Little does the milkmaid know that the shrews are 11-year-old time travelers Bertram and Molly. What will the milkmaid do to Bertram and Molly if she catches them? Could this be the end of our magical time-travelling duo? Based on the actual British folklore of the "shrew ash" long believed to be a cure for a lame cow.

Bertram Bile wasn’t always like this. At primary school, he had friends, kind teachers, and great grades. But everything changed when he started his new school. His parents split up, his dad went missing, and his mum lost her job. Now, he’s bullied by his classmate, Angus, and his evil geography teacher, Miss Petrenko. His dad had been Miss Petrenko’s first love, but she never forgave him for dumping her for Bertram’s mum when they were kids themselves. Bertram feels sure that Miss Petrenko knows more about his dad’s disappearance than she’s letting on.

Some walks just stay with you forever! At least that was the case for dog lovers James and Suzi during a visit to Highthwaite Water in the English Lake District.

Mindfulness is the ability to focus solely on the here and now, by fully engaging in the moment at hand. The benefits of mindfulness and learning how to meditate are innumerable; it helps relieve stress, lower blood pressure, reduce chronic pain, treat depression and sleep deprivation, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, OCD and many more.