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Mao: The Unknown Story
"Jung Chang's Wild Swanswas an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of Mao Tse-tung. Based on a decade of research, ...
Phineas Redux
In the fourth of the 'Palliser' stories, Trollope follows Phineas Finn's return to the dangerous world of Westminster politics. When his political rival is murdered, Phineas is thrown under suspicion and eventually finds himself standing trial at the Old Bailey. The situation is complicated by the prese...
Saint Joan
With Saint Joan, Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. Fascinated by the story of Joan of Arc (canonized in 1920), but unhappy with "the whitewash which disfigures her beyond recognition," he presents a realistic Joan: proud, intolerant, na ve, foolhardy, always brave-a rebel who challenge...
Flappers and Philosophers
Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings together his most famous stories, including "The Diamond as ...
Peppa Pig Theatre Show Sticker Book
It's Showtime! Peppa and George are putting on a theatre show, and they need your help. Let your imagination take off with 24 pages of amazing sticker scenes, including a ballet show, dinosaur hunt and a fairy tale. Based on the hit pre-school animation, "Peppa Pig", shown daily on Five's "Milkshake" an...
The 2-Day Diet Cookbook
"The 2-Day Diet is the clinically proven 5-2 diet developed by acclaimed scientists Dr Michelle Harvie and Prof Tony Howell at Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention (all author proceeds go to this charity). Their intermittent diet has taken the nation by storm as more and more people discover the diet that r...
Dear Life
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in this collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in 'Dear Life' build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life ca...
Hangsaman
Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, poisonous college cliques and the manipulations of the intellectua...
Moominvalley for the Curious Explorer: A Pull Out Pop Up Book
Hidden in the furthest northern corner of the forest is the Magical land of Moominvalley. Come and explore its Beautiful surroundings, and meet its extraordinary inhabitants....
Seven Wonders
Whilst exploring the ruins of a Greek temple, Professor Jack Grady receives an urgent phone call: his brother, a renowned mathematician, has been murdered. His sudden death, that comes just as he was about to crack the code of a centuries-old mystery, sets in motion a global domino effect. Jack must rac...
Transit Maps of the World - Every Urban Train Map on Earth
Transit Maps of the World is the first, comprehensive collection of every rapid-transit system on earth. Using glorious, colourful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the history of urban transport systems, including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs. Transit Maps could not be more relevant to...
The Clue in the Diary (Nancy Drew #7)
A special treat for Nancy Drew fans, and any reader who's new to the series! We're releasing a stunning new edition of an old favourite: The Clue in the Diary, the seventh book in the incredibly popular, long-running series. It's the same exciting mystery that readers have fallen in love with more than ...
Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe
"Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northe...
The Good Liar
This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman. He will swiftly move in with her and together they will live the seemingly calm life of a retired co...
Pema Chodron's Compassion Card Deck
59 beautifully designed cards on the classic Buddhist practice of "lojong" for everyday inspiration and contemplation--with instructive commentaries by Pema Chodron to make the teachings accessible and applicable to contemporary life. Originally appearing in "The Compassion Box," the "lojong" cards feat...
On Tour (Ball Stars #4)
A fun-filled junior fiction series written in partnership with Basketball Australia Due to Robdale Primary's awesome success on the basketball court, the school is sponsoring their team to go and play against other schools around the country. Of course, Miss Take, the school's spotlight hungry princ...
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she...
LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: Build Your Own Adventure
Combines more than 50 inspirational LEGO ideas for building with enthralling LEGO DC Super Heroes story starters. Get inspired to build, then play out your own adventures using your LEGO bricks. Comes with a minifigure and bricks to build an exclusive spaceship model that features in the book.From Parad...
In Shock
'I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.' Sunday Times'Tense, powerful and gripping... her writing style is often nothing short of beautiful - evocative and emotional.' Adam Kay, ObserverAt seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered ...
Picturehouse Poems - Poems about the Movies
Harold Schechter (Editor); Michael Waters (Editor)
The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston Hughes and John Updike on the theaters of their youth, Jack Kerouac and Robert Lowell on Harpo Marx, Sharon...
Class Trip
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARY Little Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination - the child of an overbearing father. So, two weeks away on the class trip is already enough to fill him with dread. But when a child goes missing, Nicolas' mind turns to...
Stranger Things Into the Fire (Graphic Novel)
Beyond Hawkins Lab, Starcourt Mall, Dungeons and Dragons, Monsters, and Mindflayers, the powerful children that have escaped from Hawkins Lab are out in the world, trying to live normal lives, but it comes at a steep cost. Nine was left behind in Hawkins Lab, comatose and alone. Now she lives in a fract...
After the Death of Don Juan
'She has a talent amounting to genius' John Updike Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Doña Ana, the woman he tried to seduce, will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Set in a rural eighteenth-century Spain...
The Bolivian Diary
The last diary of revolutionary Che Guevara with entries up until two days before his murder."Here is Ernesto Che Guevara's account of the 1966-67 guerrilla struggle in Bolivia. A day-by-day chronicle of the campaign led by one of the central leaders of the Cuban revolution to forge a revolutionary move...
Maths -- No Problem! Multiplication, Division and Fractions, Ages 4-6 (Key Stage 1)
Each book in this unique Maths Mastery series developed by experts covers all the essential skills for children in the first stages of their maths journey. Every topic is supported by clear examples and helpful hints to encourage proficiency. Aimed at children aged 4-6, this full-colour book will help ...
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell
From the bestselling author of A Very English Scandal, the jaw-dropping life story of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell.In February 1991, the media mogul and former MP Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour aboard his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to complete his purcha...
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Now in paperback, an enduring work of criticism from one of the most important writers of our time. So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to autonomy, j...
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