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By Night in Chile
During the course of a single night, Fatherr Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying and in his feverish delirium various characters, both real and imaginary, ...
Fixer : A story from Sarajevo
In his remarkable new book Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price, could arrange anything for the visiting journalist. Sacco gradually r...
Prep
This is a stunning novel in the great tradition of American coming-of-age novels from "Catcher in the Rye" to "The Secret History". Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with im...
Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union
History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. On the twentieth anniversary of the e...
Stories For Eight Year Olds
Gripping stories specially chosen for 8 year olds. Authors include Paul Jennings, Andy Griffiths, R.A. Spratt and more! A flying dog, grandparents from hell, a vegetarian giant, a magic carpet, a cat on a mission, an unusual Christmas display, an alien tortoise, the battle for a toe, cakes and more cake...
Father Christmas (PB)
Join Father Christmas on his busiest night of the year in this 50th anniversary edition of the hilariously irreverent Christmas classic! Raymond Briggs, creator of The Snowman, introduces us to a rather grumpy Father Christmas in this brilliantly tongue-in-cheek festive tale. Father Christmas has awok...
Master Track's Train
Here is an announcement! The train approaching platform two is full of stolen goods...Mr Track is the train driver, and Mrs Track is the driver's wife. Toby Track is their little boy and he is exceptionally good at jumping onto stolen trains and rescuing them from crooks! It is a hilarious Happy Familie...
Elizabeth Alone
Elizabeth Alone by William Trevor - a powerful and moving novel from one of the world's finest writers After nineteen years of marriage, three children and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go to hospital for an emergency operation. From her hospital ...
Shark
Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, including 200 killed in the largest shark attack ever ...
Mr Creep the Crook
Mr Creep the Crook is a bad man, and all his family are bad too - even Growler, his dog. But when he escapes from jail and heads to the seaside, he finds out that being bad is not such a good idea after all . . .The 'Happy Families' series is designed for use at home or at school. It is guided by the Ed...
No Mission is Impossible
Michael/Mishal, Nissim Bar-Zohar
The 30 boldest missions of the Israeli Special Forces since the inception of Israel. No Mission is Impossible is an episodic treatment of the greatest missions of the Israeli Special Forces, characterized by its lead piece, an intriguing story of the rescue of 200 hijacked airline passengers at Entebbe,...
How Food Works (The Facts Visually Explained)
How Food Works is your own friendly nutritionist, on hand to debunk common food myths and give you the answers to those pressing questions with easy-to-swallow information. Today's media is full of new discoveries about food - red wine is good for your heart, caffeine will raise your blood pressure - bu...
You Choose: Footy Fever
A series of interactive novels for the highly adventurous. Read if you dare! Mistakes will cost you dearly!You Choose . . .Aussie Rules superstar or total footy flop!You're a huge Aussie Rules fan with dreams of playing for your favourite team. But along the way to AFL stardom there are many obstacles t...
The Pocket Rumi
The cry of the soul in love with God has never been more eloquently expressed than by the great Persian Sufi master Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). Readers have thrilled to his ecstatic songs of divine union for more than eight hundred years. Now, here is the collection of the best of Rumi's poetry reissue...
Big Potential: Five Secrets of Reaching Higher by Powering Those Around You
Forget everything you thought you knew about being your best. It's not about your own skills or talents. Instead, real success in work and life comes from your connections and relationships - the teams you build around you, the friends you make - and getting the best out of them. You hugely amplify your...
The Quintessential Quintuplets (#3)
A high school romantic comedy with five times the cute girls A high school boy must work part-time to help five sisters study so they can graduate, but the only thing these quintuplets have in common is that they all hate studying Futaro Uesugi is a second-year in high school, scraping to get by an...
The Suicide House
'On the other side of that wall are the woods, and in those woods is a forgotten path that leads to the infamous boarding house.' Beyond the manicured campus of Indiana's elite Westmont Preparatory School sits an abandoned boarding house, popular among students as a late-night hangout - and recently the...
The Covent Garden Ladies
*By the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE* 'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Rubenhold's pages practically reek with smelly, pox-ridden Georgian Soho' GUARDIAN In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head...
Moonlight Mums
A heartwarming hug of a bedtime story for every Australian family with a busy mum.Mums with many things to doAll miss their little ones, like you,But every night the moon shines brightAnd guides them home to say goodnight....
Peppa Loves Easter! (Peppa Pig)
This new picture book is the perfect gift this Easter.It's Easter time and Madame Gazelle has a special Easter surprise for Peppa and her friends after playgroup - Miss Rabbit has organised an Easter Egg-stravaganza!There's Easter cakes, Easter cards to make, an egg decorating stall and Granny and Grand...
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus truthers, and others. Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus. Vaccines are bad for you. These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They...
The Fine Art of Invisible Detection
The no. 1 ebook from the Sunday Times bestseller'He's the high priest of plot ... deftly woven, but also beautifully written ... I loved it.' Mel Giedroyc'One of the finest crime writers of any generation' Daily MailUmiko Wada has recently had quite enough excitement in her life. With her husband recent...
Shackleton: How the Captain of the newly discovered Endurance saved his crew in the Antarctic
The enthralling life, endurance and incredible leadership of Sir Ernest Shackleton, told by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes.To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endu...
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