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The Big Sleep and Other Novels
Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel "The Big Sleep" in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colorful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the t...
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake off a blackmailer, Marlowe also has to deal with the general's two rebellious daughters, the gamb...
Eleanor of Aquitaine By the Wrath of God, Queen of England
Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power i...
Red Dwarf Omnibus
Dave Lister is celebrating his twenty-fourth birthday on a Monopoly board pub crawl round London, and somehow ends up three million years from Earth, marooned in the wrong dimension of the wrong reality, and down to his last two cigarettes....
Tales of the Greek Heroes (Puffin Clothbound Classics)
These are the mysterious and exciting legends of the gods and heroes in Ancient Greece, from the adventures of Perseus, the labours of Heracles, the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts, to Odysseus and the Trojan wars....
The Idea of India
This is one of the key books on modern India, acclaimed as the definitive account, and now republished with a new introduction. "The Idea of India" was originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of India's independence and has since established itself as a uniquely valuable and authoritative book...
French Children Don't Throw Food: The hilarious NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER changing parents' lives
"The book everyone is talking about- how the French manage to raise well-behaved children, and have a life! ho hasn t noticed how well-behaved French children are, compared to our own? How come French babies sleep through the night? Why do French children happily eat what is put in front of them? How ca...
The Asylum
Harwood has a gift for creating suspense, apparently effortlessly. Ruth Rendell. A gothic suspense novel that will keep you in its grip until the final page. Georgina Ferrars, a young woman living quietly with her uncle in London, wakes to find herself in a private asylum 200 miles away on Bodmin Moor i...
Cut
A stunning hardback cookbook with great meat recipes for the home cook from MasterChef NZ judge Josh Emett. This beautifully photographed and designed book is divided into sections: duck; chicken; lamb; beef; quail; rabbit; pork; veal; and venison. Also includes a section on pies because Josh is a huge ...
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
Nothing seems more real than time passing. We experience life as a succession of moments. But just as some of us see God as eternal, so physicists understand the truths of mathematics and the laws of nature as constant, transcending time. These laws dictate how the future will evolve: there is no freedo...
The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form. This book comes with an introduction by Natalie Haynes. When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir's belief that 'On...
My Life in Houses
'I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.' So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses she's lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today. ...
Who Was Andy Warhol?
Best known for his screen prints of soup cans and movie stars, this shy young boy from Pittsburgh shot to fame with his radical ideas of what “art” could be. Working in the aptly named “Factory,” Warhol’s paintings, movies, and eccentric lifestyle blurred the lines between pop culture and art, ushering ...
George's Marvellous Medicine
A brand new phizz-whizzing edition of Roald Dahl's George's Marvellous Medicine. George Kranky's Grandma is a miserable grouch. George really hates that horrid old witchy woman.One Saturday morning, George is in charge of giving Grandma her medicine.So-ho! Ah-ha! Ho-hum! George knows exactly what to d...
The House in Norham Gardens
No.40 Norham Gardens, Oxford, is the home of Clare Mayfield, her two aged aunts and two lodgers. The house is a huge Victorian monstrosity, with rooms all full of old furniture, old papers, old clothes, memorabilia - it is like a living museum. Clare discovers in a junk room the vividly painted shield w...
The New Yorker Book of the 60s: Story of a Decade
The next instalment in the acclaimed New Yorker 'decades' series featuring an all-star line-up of historical pieces from the 1960s alongside new pieces by current New Yorker staffers. The 1960s is known as one of the most tumultuous decades of the 20th century. From the peak of the Civil Rights Movement...
The Severed Land
This gripping, page-turning fantasy adventure follows a dangerous quest through a divided world. From the high reaches of a tree, Fliss watches the soldiers attempting yet again to break through the invisible wall. Amid the explosions, a drummer boy tries to escape. As he is about to be shot, Fliss reac...
No Turning Back
NO TURNING BACK by Carnegie-medal winning author Beverley Naidoo is the powerful and moving story of Sipho and his struggle to survive on the city streets of Johannesburg in the 1990s. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. South African society is on the brink of a huge cha...
Chasing the Stars
"Olivia and her twin brother, Aidan, are heading alone back to Earth following the virus that completely wiped out the rest of their crew, and their family. Nathan is part of a community heading in the opposite direction. But on their journey Nathan's ship is attacked and most of the community killed. O...
The Caldera (#7 Brotherband)
Stig is contesting the annual Maktig competition to decide Skandia?s greatest warrior. But an unexpected visitor arrives with a request Stig, Hal and the brotherband can?t refuse- a rescue mission of epic proportions. Pirates have kidnapped the son of the Empress of Byzantos, a city-state far to the sou...
Wisdom of the Buddha
Here is the core of the Buddha's teaching in his own words, as it was memorized word-for-word by his disciples and written down two hundred years after his death. These selections from the Buddhist scriptures deal with the search for truth, the way of contemplation, life and death, living in community, ...
Leaders Who Changed History
Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential leaders, with this innovative and boldly graphic book.Comprehensive in its scope and depth, and fully illustrated, Leadersprofiles leaders from all walks of life - kings, queens, and political leaders; m...
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Sabrina is a teen witch who's struggling with balancing the double life of high school and her burgeoning powers. Newly relocated to Greendale with her aunts Hilda and Zelda (also witches), Sabrina is trying to make the best of being the new girl in town which so far includes two intriguing love interes...
Hello Jimmy!
One day, a parrot appears on the doorstep. His name isJimmy. Dad thinks Jimmy is amazing. He's loud, he's funny and he's full of surprises! But Jack doesn't like surprises. Not at all... ...
How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)
"Where there's a will, I intend to be in it," wives half-joke to each other.Marriage, it would appear, is a fun-packed frivolous hobby, only occasionally resulting in death. But when Jazz Jardine is arrested for her husband's murder, the joke falls flat.Life should begin at 40 - not with life imprisonme...
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (2nd edition)
Sonya Renee Taylor; Ijeoma Oluo (Foreword by)
"To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves. . . . 'The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace."--Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum Humans are a v...
The Weekend
The brilliant new novel from Charlotte Wood, acclaimed author of The Natural Way of Things. Shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize People went on about death bringing friends together, but it wasn't true. The graveyard, the stony dirt - that's what it was like now . . . Despite the three women knowing ea...
Death in Her Hands
'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery' The TimesWhile on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her...
Eight Detectives
All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. Grant McAllister, a mystery writer and mathematics professor, once sat down and worked them all out.But that was thirty years ago. Now he's living in seclusion on a quiet Mediterranean island - until Julia Hart, an ambitious young editor, knocks on his ...
The Hidden Base
She wants to escape the past. Is she doomed to repeat it? In the spectacular sequel to Subject Twenty-One, Elise and her friends have unearthed the truth that has been kept from them their whole lives and escaped the Museum of Evolution - but at what cost? After a perilous escape, Elise and her companio...
When You Greet Me I Bow - Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen
Norman Fischer; Cynthia Schrager (Editor)
From beloved Zen teacher Norman Fischer, a collection of essays spanning a life of inquiry into Zen practice, relationship, social engagement, and spiritual creativity. Looking backwards at a life lived, walking forward into more life to live built on all that, trying not to be too much influenced ...
The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories
Andreas Karkavitsas; Johanna Hanink (Translator, Introduction by)
Translated into English for the first time, The Archeologist is a landmark of Greek national literature, and an important document in the history of archeology and classicism. Published for the bicentennial year of the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence. A Penguin Classic The year 2021 marks th...
Feel Good: Quick and easy recipes for comfort and joy
Simple, healthy cooking from bestselling author and Telegraph columnist Melissa Hemsley. For fans of Melissa's Good + Simple (53k), Deliciously Ella Quick and Easy (53k), Diana Henry's A Change of Appetite (23k) and Anna Jones' One. 100 satisfying recipes for effortless everyday cooking, packed with ve...
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World - and Us
'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins_________________________Jungle tells the remarka...
Dear Father Christmas
But what would happen if Father Christmas wrote a letter? Surely, he couldn't . . . could he?Working hard to deliver presents to children all around the world, Father Christmas realises that he has never received his own Christmas gift.Feeling fed up and underappreciated, Father Christmas decides to wri...
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