Deep in the heart of East Anglia lies the sleepy village of Red Kep. A village known for its juicy greens. A village which a weary motorist could easily miss with the blink of an eye. A place where nothing out of the ordinary ever happens. At least that is what Jemima Sally thinks when she takes her first teaching post in the drowsy town. But the naive teacher couldn't be any more wrong. Before she realises it, Jemima Sally has been catapulted into the realms of the paranormal. She is forced to adapt to a world of low flying students, chlorophyll enhanced children, secret military flights and a cabbage patch war. Miss Sally begins to question her eyesight, the school curriculum and her own sanity. At the point of despair, the school teacher finds an ally in Primrose Green, a pupil with abnormal sensory abilities and an eco system living atop her head. The unlikely duo starts to uncover the truth about the bizarre goings on in Red Kep. A trail of clues leads to a mad, local inventor who has dabbled outside the boundaries of science and nature. Sleepy Red Kep looks set to imprint its name in the history books when an EXPLOSIVE situation develops. Things can only go one way. Up.

Originally published in 1982, Work, Women and the Labour Market presents through original articles a coherent overall picture of women's employment in contemporary British capitalism. For the first time it brings together concrete studies which show graphically how women's unequal position at work is shaped by the capital-labour relation and by women's place as housewives and mothers. The book illuminates the differences and similarities in women's and men's experience in the labour market and as members of the working class. It is about how and why women come to be in jobs typically regarded as semi or unskilled, about the causes of low pay, and about women workers' consciousness as workers and as women. It looks at the role of trade unions in relation to women and to sexual divisions, and at how class and gender relations are woven together in the production process. The nine closely researched contributions examine the development of women's and men's work in clothing and other manufacturing industries, clerical work in local government, microelectronics in the office, the position of Asian and West Indian women in the labour market, women's role in the family and part-time work, and women's involvement and influence in trade unions.

Violet Bellamy is surprised to find herself a ghost because, as a rational person, she doesn't believe in them. After a life of timid conformity, she now wants influence. She also wants to complicate the lives of people with empty charm and unshakeable self-belief, like her local MP and rising star minister, Maximus Biggs-Dickson. And care manager Verena Crookham, a ruthless seductress who will despatch her sweet-natured stepson to keep their big house for herself. A Back to Great Britannia campaign has been thrust upon the British, to the alarm of those on the other side of the Channel. There, in Belgium specifically, a beautiful journalist is writing an article: Integrity and Power - Impossible Bedfellows? She has Minister Biggs-Dickson in her sights as an interesting subject for research. Events align and it will take the interference of someone with nothing to lose to bring them all to a head. This fast-paced quirky mystery takes a wry swipe at characters with dangerous charisma.