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There were 12 little fairies in Fairyland, who wanted something to do, So they ran to the fairy queen, and asked her if she knew...A story told in verse, first published in October 1915, The Wishing Fairies is Madge A. Bigham's classic fairy tale for children young and old...and now I am going to tell to you. The wishes these fairies made, when one by one they came to the earth and each his visit paid.

A recorded visit to van Gogh and Britain considers the work of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) placed in the context of British art and literature of the 19th century and his effect on succeeding generations of artists.

Winter 1954, and in a dilapidated apartment in Brooklyn, Sam Cooper realises that she has nothing left. Her mother is dead, she has no prospects and she cannot afford the rent. But as she goes through her mother's things, Sam finds a stack of hidden letters that reveal a family and an inheritance that she never knew she had, three thousand miles away in Yorkshire. Begars Abbey is a crumbling pile, inhabited only by Sam's crippled grandmother, Lady Cooper, a housekeeper and a handful of servants. Sam cannot understand why her mother kept its very existence a secret.