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Jane Austen: A Life
Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for her subjects to bear on one of our greatest, and most elusive, novelists. Widely acclaimed as the finest of Austen biographies, the book offers us "a brave, sharp-tongued character who fairly bounces off the pag...
A Farewell to Arms: The Special Edition
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the ba...
Guide to Troubled Birds
From irate hummingbirds to judgmental parrots, this handy and lavishly illustrated volume depicts the most disturbed birds of North America in gorgeous colour portraits, with accompanying testimonials and confessions of murder, mental illness and assorted mayhem. There are bird-attack statistics from th...
The Concise Untold History of the United States
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth century right up to the Obama administration. Looking at American intervention in foreign conflicts in Latin American, Asia and the Middle East, including taking ...
Nothing but the Night
Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long estranged father. Arthur's fear and aversion to the man is powerful, yet his compulsion to see his father is irresistible. After their meeting, Arthur is propelled into a night of drinking and spontaneous intimac...
Friendship: Vintage Minis
Selected from the novels of Rose Tremain. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human...
Works and Days
Hesiod; A. E. Stallings (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator)
The ancient Greeks revered Hesiod, believing he had beaten Homer in a singing contest and that after his dead body was thrown to sea, it was brought back by dolphins. His Works and Days is one of the most important early works of Greek poetry. Ostensibly written by the poet to chide his lazy brother, it...
The Lost Christmas
A Christmas confection from the brilliant creator of The Lost House and The Lost Picnic It's time to decorate the tree for Christmas--but Grandad can't find any of his ornaments The hunt for the missing decorations takes the children up and down in Grandad's bric-a-brac-filled house and out into a winte...
Arifureta: from Commonplace to World's Strongest (Manga) Vol. 1
Ryou Hakumai; RoGa (Illustrator); Ryo Shirakome
The manga adaptation of the bestselling light novel series--with an anime coming in 2019 Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, i...
Behind the Mask: Winner of the Telegraph Sports Book of the Year
** 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR **DOUBLE WINNER: BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF 2020 & BEST OVERALL SPORTS BOOK OF 2020________________________________'Incredible stories... you don't have to be a boxing fan to enjoy it' SCOTT MILLS, BBC RADIO 1'One of sport's most heart-warming stories' SUNDAY TIM...
The Gratitude Journal
Practice gratitude every day with The Gratitude Journal, a place to keep track of life's daily joys, successes, and moments of beauty.Research shows that engaging in a regular gratitude practice counterbalances the negativity we inevitably experience in our lives; gratitude begets more gratitude. Journa...
The Perfect Escape: The twisty psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the end
When her husband Harry walks out after just six months, Sam has never been in more need of a getaway. So when her friends suggest a girls' weekend away, Sam can't accept soon enough. But then things start to go wrong. Car trouble on the road leaves them stranded. And what's more, it's in the town where...
Big Mouth
A rock n roll memoir of death, guns and the occasional scandal. For a man who has been in the public eye for a decade or more, Matt Preston has been very quiet about his past and private life. Now, in Big Mouth, he opens up for the first time in a story that, like Matt himself, is joyous, funny and lar...
Saha: The new novel from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ''Cho’s complex, humane, and by its end utterly transfixing novel shows that it is in community that we find resilience.' i newspaper 'Like Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning film Parasite and the popular Netflix series Squid Games, Sa...
The Race Is On (#10 Wolf Girl)
Wolf Girl and her pack are back in the tenth instalment of this smash-hit series. Can they win the race? Or will someone else catch up with them first......
Shockingly Good Stories
"From R.A. Spratt, bestselling author of Friday Barnes, comes this collection of twenty short stories perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Paul Jennings. Featuring fractured fairytales told by none other than Nanny Piggins, previously unpublished Friday Barnes mysteries and a bunch of othe...
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