Author: | Svetlana Alexievich |
Category: |
History |
Awards: | Svetlana Alexievich is the winner of the 2015 Noble Prize for Literature |
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together do... read more
Author: | Hervé Tullet |
Category: |
Picture Books |
PRESS HERE, MIX IT UP , LET'S PLAY and now SAY ZOOP Collect all four interactive books from Herve Tullet
It's only a yellow dot...but what a dot it is Readers won't be able to resist this jaunty, adventurous dot, nor its invitation to play along. Thus begins ... read more
Author: | Leah Kaminsky |
Category: |
Mind Body Spirit |
A joyful book about the necessity of celebrating life in the face of death. The one certainty about life is that everybody is going to die. Yet somehow as a society we have come to deny this central fact - we ignore it, hoping it will go away. Ours is an aging societ... read more
Author: | Liz Pichon |
Category: |
Middle Readers |
Series: | Tom Gates |
Look out! Tom, Delia and the whole Gates family (Fossils included) are going on holiday. How will Tom manage to keep himself busy on the most boring campsite ever? By doodling, of course! An exciting new story with pages for your own doodles from award-winning and best-selling author Liz Pichon.
Author: | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley |
Category: |
Middle Readers |
Series: | Ada |
Reading Level: | From 10 |
Awards: | Newbery Honor Book Winner of the 2016 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production |
An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaimed author of Jefferson's Sons and for fans of Number the Stars.
Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's... read more
Author: | Tristan Manco |
Category: |
No Category |
Make your Mark is divided into three: 'Draw', 'Paint', 'Make'. It celebrates and discusses the work of forty-five urban artists, extraordinarily diverse but united by one basic principle: their work is completely fresh, original and the epitome of creativity... read more
Author: | Emma Freedman |
Category: |
Childrens |
From 'Dancing with the Stars' winner Emma Freedman, a coming-of-age story that draws on Emma's childhood dance experience. Ages: 9+ April Franklin is 13 years of age and has just started high school. April has also been dancing half her life and while she loves ballet, she's not s... read more
Author: | Donna Wheeler |
Category: |
Guidebooks |
Series: | The\Precincts Ser. |
Discover where the hippest Parisians eat, drink, and shop in this insider's guide
Welcome to Paris, city of light. Hidden behind its grand boulevards and majestic buildings is a tapestry of ... read more
Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical ad... read more
Author: | Arnold Zable |
Category: |
Biography & Memoir |
So it’s come to this. Sixty-seven years old and he labours on the docks. Cropped grey-white beard, ex-boxer’s pug nose, he is wiry, rotund and short. His strength is sensed rather than seen, belied by age and excess weight. Vigour is the word. Henry Nissen... read more
Author: | Rose Tremain |
Category: |
Fiction |
Reading Level: | very good |
Awards: | Short-listed 2016 Costa Fiction Award |
'It was a game of love and death. Neither of us will ever speak about it. It's locked inside us.' Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem distant. He adores his mother but she treats him with bitter severity, disapprovin... read more
Author: | Louise Erdrich |
Category: |
Fiction |
Awards: | Long-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2017. |
Late summer in North Dakota, 1999: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence but only when he staggers closer does he realise he has killed his neighbour's son. Dusty Ravich, the deceased boy, was best friends with Landreau... read more