The Children's Book Dilys Award Nominee (1998) Mastering Regular Expressions is the

Mastering Regular Expressions is the definitive guide to the subject

poverty and ignorance

This book tells the story of the war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Government of Sri Lanka in the context of the wider political conflict which began in 1956

the exchange and balancing of male and female energies

What happens to the one Muslim family in town when their community is suddenly consumed with hatred and fear

The Children's Book Dilys Award Nominee (1998) Mastering Regular Expressions is theOlive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each, she writes a private book, bound in its own colour and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh the children play in a storybook world but their lives, and those of their rich cousins and friends, are already inscribed with mystery. Each family carries its own secrets. Born at the end of the Victorian era and growing up in the golden