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The Woman of the Wolf and Other Stories
Renée Vivien
A radically feminist reworking of adventure stories, biblical tales, and Greek and Roman fables from the late sapphic poet.
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The Swallowed Man [Hardback]
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A haunting reimagining of the damp, dismal years endured by Pinocchio’s father, Geppetto, when trapped within the belly of the shark.
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The Swallowed Man [Trade Paperback]
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The Shortest History of England
In his bestselling, internationally-acclaimed The Shortest History of Germany, James Hawes told the story of a nation in 240 invigorating pa…
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In post-soviet Georgia, on the outskirts of Tbilisi, on the corner of Kerch St., is an orphanage. Its teachers offer pupils lessons in viole…
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A compelling portrait of one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the bestselling writers of the twentieth. In…
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Kasebier Takes Berlin
In Berlin, 1930, the name Kasebier is on everyone’s lips. A literal combination of the German words for “cheese” and “beer,” it’s an unglamo…
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Annie Ernaux’s father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childh…
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Great Sites of the Ancient World
From deserts to hidden corners of busy cities, quiet mountain tops to caves submerged deep underground, this book is a spectacular tour of h…
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Private Eye Annual: 2020
The Private Eye Annual 2020 present the year’s best cartoons, jokes, parodies and topical sketches from the UK’s bestselling news and curren…
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Silver Sparrow
A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the international bestselling author of An American Marriage ‘My father, James Witherspoon, is a…
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The House
In their remarkable debut political thriller, Tom Watson, former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, and Imogen Robertson open the doors to T…
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White Tears Brown Scars
For readers of Layla F. Saad’s Me and White Supremacy and Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, White Tear…
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The Age of Static: How TV Explains Modern Britain
You can tell a lot about British society by its television. More than any other country, Britain still gets a sense of itself from the outpu…
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O, the Brave Music
A female narrator looks back on her childhood in a coming-of-age novel set before the First World War. Ruan is an intelligent and imaginativ…
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Rankin: Play: Images of Music
Play draws exclusively on Rankin s archive of photographs of the biggest names in contemporary music from the rock gods who shaped our music…
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: MinaLima Edition
An irresistible new edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone created with ultra-talented designers MinaLima, the design magicians…
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The 130-Storey Treehouse
There are lots of laughs at every level in The 130-Storey Treehouse, the tenth book in the number one bestselling Treehouse series from Andy…
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The Book of Two Ways
Who would you be, if you hadn’t turned out to be the person you are now? Dawn is a death doula, and spends her life helping people make the…
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Billion Dollar Loser
The inside story of the rise and fall of WeWork, showing how the excesses of its founder shaped a corporate culture unlike any other. In its…
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The Everyday Workings of Machines
How does a train stay on the tracks? What’s going on inside a pogo stick? How do cranes work? And what happens when you flush a toilet? Thes…
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Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo’s Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling adult debut is a mesmerising tale of power, privilege and dark magic set among t…
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Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season
The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed – but the ghosts are still hungry. The ghosts are at the door….
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Kay’s Anatomy
The hilarious first children’s book from the UK’s bestselling non-fiction author. Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? Li…
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A Single Thread
Violet is 38. The First World War took everything from her. Her brother, her fiance – and her future. She is now considered a ‘surplus woman…
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Red Comet
The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehen…
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One summer’s evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken se…
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Jeeves and the Leap of Faith
The Drones club’s in peril. Gussie’s in love. Spode’s on the war-path. Oh, and His Majesty’s Government needs a favour. I say – it’s a good…
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Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse
Rediscover the classic magical adventure of the Little Wooden Horse, brought to life with the original inside illustrations from the author…
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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
Chris Riddell’s brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuous hardback and jacketed edition. A perfe…
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Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill
A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising…
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I Wanna Be Yours
This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a…
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Let’s Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood
‘I was born with a warped sense of humour and when I was carried home from being born it was Coronation Day and so I was called Victoria but…
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The Winter Agent
February, 1944. A bitter winter grips occupied France, where Marc Reece leads a circuit of British agents risking their lives in order to sa…
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Ghosts
Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. W…
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War Lord
IN THE FINAL RECKONING, CHOOSE YOUR SIDE CAREFULLY… The epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series, coming October 2020…
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Serpentine
A brand new short story set in the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust by master storyteller, Philip Pullman. Serpentine is a p…
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The Official History of Britain
A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we’ve changed as a n…
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The Princess and the Prick
The Princess and the Prick is a feminist humour and gift book for adults. May I kiss you, he said. She didn’t answer. She was asleep. So he…
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Wake Up
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Boris Johnson: The Gambler
As divisive as he is beguiling, as misunderstood as he is scrutinised, Boris Johnson is a singular figure. Many of us think we know his stor…
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The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing 2020
The collection brings together the five stories on the 2020 shortlist. The authors shortlisted for the 2020 AKO Caine Prize are: Jowhor Ile…
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Big Ideas for Little Philosophers: Happiness with Aristotle
Answering life’s big questions for little children, this board book explains Aristotle’s beliefs about happiness and friendship in a simple,…
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The Daylight Gate
The Forest of Pendle used to be a hunting ground, but some say that the hill is the hunter – alive in its black-and-green coat cropped like…
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There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of sisters Grimm on Earth. You may well be one of them, though you might never know it. This is the…
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Big Ideas for Little Philosophers: Imagination with Descartes
Answering life’s big questions for little children, this board book explains Descartes’ beliefs about imagination and empathy in a simple, a…
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The Bear in the Stars
A stunning, lyrical picture book – a timely fable about climate change and the transformative power of kindness. There was once a bear, a gr…
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Bosie
WITH A NEW FOREWORD AND REVISED INTRODUCTION Lord Alfred Douglas, known as ‘Bosie’, son of the Marquess of Queensberry, was known as one of…
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That Old Country Music
Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and his award-winning second book, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has bee…
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Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads
Alan Bennett’s twelve Talking Heads are acknowledged masterworks by one of our most highly acclaimed writers. Some thirty years after the or…
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The QI Elves are the brains behind the enduringly popular BBC TV panel show QI. Every Wednesday the Elves appear on The Zoe Ball Breakfast S…
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Sudden Traveller
In Turkish forests or rain-drenched Cumbrian villages, characters walk, drive, dream and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their jour…
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Horror: A Literary History
Horror: A Literary History is the book horror readers and students need. It will hold you in its grip, leaving you replete with invaluable i…
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Post Wall, Post Square
This landmark global study makes us rethink what happened when the Cold War ended and our present era was born. The world changed dramatical…
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The Snowflake
An enchanting and timeless winter tale from one of today’s most celebrated picture book stars. From award-winning and bestselling picture bo…
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The Magic Hour
100 Poems from the Tuesday Afternoon Poetry Club “Reading a poem gives us a glimpse of past and future possibilities, other worlds and other…
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Wildeana
Oscar Wilde’s early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated – or mocked…
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Freetown
“He was a Fula. I say ‘was’, because I haven’t seen him for a long time. I don’t know if he’s still alive or where he might be. He just disa…
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Doing Time
A long time ago in the future, the secret of time travel became known to all. Unsurprisingly, the world nearly ended. There will always be i…
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Once Upon a Penguin
On a cold, remote iceberg, a penguin named Paco stumbles into a strange object. It’s big, red and flippy flappy in the middle – and inside i…
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In the Crypt with a Candlestick
Sir Ecgbert Tode of Tode Hall has survived to a grand old age – much to the despair of his younger wife, Emma. But at ninety-three he has, a…
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A Human Algorithm
A Human Algorithm examines the immense impact intelligent technology will have on humanity. These machines, while challenging our personal b…
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Italy: The World Vegetarian
Fresh, colourful and incredibly delicious, Italian food is arguably one of the most popular cuisines around the globe: who can resist a mout…
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A World Beneath the Sands
What could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands of Egypt in the hope of discovering golden treasures fro…
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The Fragrance of Tears
A memoir of Victoria Schofield’s thirty-year friendship with her Oxford contemporary, Benazir Bhutto. Born to a wealthy and influential Paki…
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British Designers At Home
For anyone interested in interiors, there is so much inspiration available online and in magazines these days of carefully curated spaces an…
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The Sicilian Method
In The Sicilian Method, Andrea Camilleri’s twenty-sixth novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a…
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Adventures in Moominvalley
Join Moomintroll, his family and their friends in beautiful Moominvalley, where everyone is welcome. Surprising things happen every day in M…
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Why Dante Matters
The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it, ‘divides the world with Shakes…
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The International Brigades
The first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism. The Spanish Civil W…
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Climbing the Seven Volcanoes
Everything changed for Sophie Cairns when she was thirty and a party-loving journalist in China. Her father died so suddenly that she arrive…
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A Time for Mercy
Jake Brigance, lawyer hero of A Time to Kill and Sycamore Row, is back, in his toughest case ever. CAN A KILLER EVER BE ABOVE THE LAW? Deput…
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Hugless Douglas and the Nature Walk
Douglas is very excited – he’s off on a nature walk with all his friends from Little School. Miss Moo-Hoo has given everyone a worksheet wit…
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In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life. Me is the the joyously f…
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The Night Bus Hero
From Onjali Q. Rauf, the award-winning and best-selling author of The Boy at the Back of the Class, comes another incredible story, told wit…
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Worlds of Exile and Illusion
From the multi-award-winning author of The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea sequence comes this single-volume omnibus of the first thr…
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Claude at the Palace
Meet Claude, the ordinary dog with an extraordinary life. Now the star of his very own TV show on Disney Junior and ITVBe. Claude and Sir Bo…
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The Wizard of Oz
The unforgettable story of Dorothy’s journey to the magical Land of Oz is retold in this beautiful gift book from renowned illustrator Julia…
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My Life in Red and White
There is only one Arsene Wenger – and for the very first time, in his own words, this is his story. In this definitive autobiography, the wo…
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Friends and Enemies
Barbara Amiel’s long-awaited memoir is shockingly honest, richly detailed and pulls few punches. An instinctive feminist and now a foe of fe…
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
A new collection of the renowned Russian writer’s best short work, including a masterful translation of the famous title story. Nikolai Lesk…
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The Undoing
Get ready for The Undoing, soon to be the most talked about TV of 2020. From the creators of Big Little Lies, The Undoing premieres this aut…
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Great Pilgrimage Sites of Europe
An unsurpassable, visual tour of the greatest pilgrimage sites of Europe, from North to South; East to West. Pilgrimage in Europe is current…
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This is Cricket: In The Spirit of the Game
Cricket has been around for over three hundred years and in some ways remains largely unchanged. It is this timelessness, and the style and…
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Elf
When Elf was first released in 2003 it was an instant hit, and has become one of the few films of the new millennium to earn its place in th…
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Stuff Every Cheese Lover Should Know
It s hard to think of a more universally beloved food than cheese. But cheese lovers know there s more to the world of cheese than grilled c…
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A Surprise for Christmas: And Other Seasonal Mysteries
Two dead bodies and a Christmas stocking weaponised. A Postman murdered delivering cards on Christmas morning. A Christmas tree growing over…
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The Port of London Murders
When the San Angelo drifts into port in the Thames Estuary, telephones begin to ring across the capital and an intricate series of events is…
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Grand Union
Interleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith pr…
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Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library
From the publication in 1595 of the first ‘atlas’ by the Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally adopted ti…
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Trio
A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are…
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My Carousel Book of Fairytales
A truly magical book that presents well-loved fairy tales in a fresh and original way. The delicate paper-cuts will capture the imagination…
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Talking Heads
Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC…
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Blitz Spirit: Voices of Britain Living Through Crisis, 1939-1945
Throughout the Second World War hundreds of people kept diaries of their private daily lives as part of a groundbreaking national experiment…
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Voices From the Past
In a treasure trove for history buffs, W.B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day of the year, sen…
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War: How Conflict Shaped Us
A Sunday Times best book for Autumn 2020 A Guardian critics’ pick for Autumn 2020 The time since the Second World War has been seen by some…
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Politically Homeless
‘Rarely is such an important book this funny. And rarely is such a funny book this important’ – RICHARD OSMAN ‘Funny, fierce and genuinely m…
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The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney
How do you begin to find yourself when you only know half of who you are? As Nnenna Maloney approaches womanhood she longs to connect with h…
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Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold
DARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID. Here are sisters…
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To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde
They say that sometimes ghosts don’t realise they’re dead and wander around screaming because no one is paying them any attention. Well, in…
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Coming to England
A picture book edition of Coming to England, the inspiring true story of Baroness Floella Benjamin: from Trinidad, to London as part of the…
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5-Minute Really True Stories for Bedtime
30 Amazing Stories: Featuring frozen frogs, King Tut’s beds, the world’s biggest sleepover, the phases of the moon, and more. Why do we slee…
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Scandinavian Green
Scandinavian Green is a beautifully inspiring exposition of eating plants. In this timely book, Trine has created naturally inspiring recipe…
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I is Another: Septology III-V
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a tradit…
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Classical Mythology A to Z
An encyclopedic A-to-Z guide, this beautifully designed and illustrated volume offers hundreds of rich and fascinating definitions of 700 ma…
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12 Days of Christmas
” On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree.” Celebrate the magic of Christmas time with this well-lo…
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Quidditch Through the Ages – Illustrated Edition
An essential companion to the Harry Potter series, this spectacular new full-colour edition of J.K. Rowling’s Quidditch Through the Ages bri…
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What We’ll Build
A spectacular new title from world-renowned artist Oliver Jeffers, creator of the million-copy selling, global phenomenon Here We Are! What…
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The League of Superfeminists
The League of Superfeminists is an energetic, fierce, and disruptive comic wherein cartoonist Mirion Malle guides young readers through some…
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The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi
A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse, full of trial and sacrifice, The Perfect Nine is a glorious epic about the founding of Kenya’s Gik…
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The Tower of Nero
It’s time to face the final trial . . . The battle for Camp Jupiter is over. New Rome is safe. Tarquin and his army of the undead have been…
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Atlas of Record-Breaking Adventures
Atlas of Record-Breaking Adventures brings together some of the world’s most spectacular sights and extraordinary events in a stunningly ill…
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The Barnabus Project
In a world built for Perfect Pets, Barnabus is a Failed Project, half mouse, half elephant, kept out of sight until his dreams of freedom le…
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Let Love Rule
‘I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was the…
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In Bibi’s Kitchen
Grandmothers from eight eastern African countries welcome you into their kitchens to share flavorful recipes and stories of family, love, an…
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In The Kitchen
Food can embody our personal histories as well as wider cultural histories. But what are the stories we tell ourselves about the kitchen, an…
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The ABCs of Christmas
This year celebrate Christmas with the entire family as the traditional story of Jesus Christ’s birth is told from A to Z!- A is for Angel…..
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The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914
The quarter century or so before the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short storie…
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A Guinea Pig Night Before Christmas
The latest heart-warming book in the Guinea Pig Classics series. ”Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creatu…
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The Story of the Nativity
A captivating retelling of the story of the very first Christmas from multi-award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean. In the still heart o…
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Midwinter Murder
An all-new collection of winter-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the festive period. There’s a chill in the a…
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Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie’s most exotic murder mystery in a sumptuous hardback Special Edition. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shatter…
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Mr Cadmus
Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss S…
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The Secret Lives of Mermaids
Dive in to discover all there is to know about mermaids in this beautifully illustrated book. But wait – if you thought mermaids were fantas…
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One of a Kind: A Story About Sorting and Classifying
From the bestselling illustrator Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads comes a witty, magnificently-produced book, playing with the idea of “sort…
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Mog the Forgetful Cat Slipcase Gift Edition
Share in fifty years of a really remarkable cat… Everyone’s favourite family cat first appeared fifty years ago and is loved by children e…
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Timeline Science and Technology
A visual introduction to our planet and society told through the history of our greatest inventions and the technology that has changed the…
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The Wanderer
A little boat sets out to sea and begins its voyage toward home. To get there it must travel across many strange, beautiful oceanscapes, ful…
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Range
How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World A powerful argument for how to succeed in any field: develop broad interests and skills while…
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The Krull House
It’s not because you’re foreigners. It’s because you aren’t foreign enough … or else that you are too foreign Just as the Krull house sits…
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling…
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A House in the Mountains
The extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World War In the late summer of 194…
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This Is Not Propaganda
Staff Pick A world tour of informatiom politics that may not quite tell us something we had not already suspected, but does sketch out the s…
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Portrait Of Britain Volume 3
The Black Lives Matter movement and Covid-19 have brought a tidal wave of change to Britain. In turbulent times, these portraits and accompa…
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An Englishman’s Commonplace Book
‘Variety, the unexpected, a bit of vulgarity and the ridiculous mixed in with the elevated,’ has been Roger Hudson’s recipe in compiling thi…
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People of Abandoned Character
He is my husband. To honour and obey. Until murder do us part. London, 1888: Susannah rushes into marriage to a young and wealthy surgeon. A…
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Haiku Illustrated: Classic Japanese Short Poems
Haiku – seventeen-syllable poems that evoke worlds despite their brevity – have captivated Japanese readers since the seventeenth century. T…
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Staying Human
New poems for Staying Alive Staying Human is the sequel to the Staying Alive trilogy of anthologies which have introduced many thousands of…
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The Little Prince
‘The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.’ A special edition of The Little Prince fro…
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Pirate Stew
Meet LONG JOHN McRON, SHIP’S COOK . . . and the most unusual babysitter you’ve ever seen. Long John has a whole crew of wild pirates in tow,…
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The Hospital Dog
Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson and stunningly illustrated by the award-winning Sara Ogilvie, The Hospital Dog is a big-hearted tal…
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Snow
‘An outstanding novel and an absolute page-turner.’ Irish Independent ‘A typically elegant country house mystery.’ Guardian, Biggest books o…
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Reality, and Other Stories
Household gizmos with a mind of their own. Constant cold calls from unknown numbers. And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real. R…
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A Song for the Dark Times
‘He’s gone…’ When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not good news. Her husband has been missing for…
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The Devil and the Dark Water
An impossible murder A remarkable detective duo A demon who may or may not exist The extraordinary new novel from Stuart Turton, author of t…
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Box 88
An organisation that doesn’t exist. A spy that can’t be caught. Years ago, a spy was born… 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for B…
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Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself
The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third Reich One of the least understood stories of the Third Reich is that of t…
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The Daughters of Yalta
The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating y…
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Mantel Pieces
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror a…
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Unlocking the World
From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new worl…
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Gamayun Tales II
Enter a world of magic and adventure in this stunning series based on traditional Russian folklore. Alexander Utkin’s Gamayun Tales are fres…
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In the Half Room
From the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Home and Du Iz Tak? comes a gorgeous and quirky tale of an extraordinary room where everything i…
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When Rupert and Kate tell their parents they’re going to make a snowman, both Mum and Dad correct them, “You mean a snowperson.” Originally…
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Mother Goose of Pudding Lane
From celebrated picture book creators Chris Raschka and Vladimir Radunsky comes one possible answer to the age-old question: Who was Mother…
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Monster Clothes
Monstrously funny clothes combinations to delight little monsters everywhere! When monsters get up in the morning, they have to find somethi…
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Monster Food
Monstrously funny food choices to delight little monsters everywhere! Some monsters eat peaches, some monsters eat pears, and then there are…
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Carmilla
In a lonely castle deep in the Styrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her elderly father for company – until a moonlit night…
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Loud Black Girls
An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay…
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In Vegan With Bite, Australia’s number one vegan chef, Shannon Martinez, presents more than 80 thoughtful but easy meals (complete with shop…
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The Art of War
For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and planning, providing leaders with enduring i…
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Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, ‘very, very complex’. Her biographies and novels, her journalism, and the v…
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Face to face with the mightiest and most majestic predator in the jungle, Elsie is in awe of the tiger’s beauty. She’s on a mission to have…
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