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Mother Tongue - The English Language
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent--brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), t...
My Policeman
From the moment Marion first lays eyes on Tom - her best friend's big brother, broad, blond, blue-eyed - she is smitten. And, when he comes home from National Service to be a policeman, Marion, a newly qualified teacher, is determined to win him. Unable to acknowledge the signs that something is amiss, ...
Mansfield Park (Vintage Classics Austen Series)
This title comes with an introduction by Amanda Vickery. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James...
Crimson Lake
'One of the best crime thrillers of the year' LEE CHILD'A masterful novel' HARLAN COBEN'A bright new star' JAMES PATTERSON12.46- Thirteen-year-old Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop12.47- Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her12.52- The girl is missing . . .Six minutes - that?s all it took to rui...
The Overstory
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
Human beings, says Lee Smolin, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality and fantasy, confusing our representations of the world with the world itself. Nowhere is this more evident than in quantum physics, which forms the basis for our understanding of everything from elementary partic...
Shirley Barber's The Enchanted Woods (500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle)
This beautiful puzzle is based on the illustration of The Enchanted Woods, a contemporary classic, written and illustrated by author and illustrator Shirley Barber. The exquisitely detailed illustration makes this a delight for children and adults alike or as a shared activity between parent and child. ...
Phosphorescence: The inspiring bestseller and multi award-winning book from the author of Bright Shining
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bett...
Animal Farm (Graphic Novel PB)
The first ever graphic novel version of Animal Farm - a Times Book of the Year Animal Farm is the story of what happens when the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, and how their revolution goes horribly wrong. Now George Orwell's dark, timeless fable has been turned into a graphic...
The What on Earth Institute of Wonder
One elephant, one kakapo, one unlicensed teenage driver, one boy waiting for the world to end and one twelve-year-old girl with a very special gift. Sal has always had an affinity with animals – especially the lost kind. And so when a kakapo appears on her windowsill, she befriends it. And when an Afri...
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
A playful yet profound examination of what cats can teach us about life and how to live it. 'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' Montaigne There is no real evidence that humans ever 'domesticated' cats. Rather it seems that at some point cats ...
Killernova (PB)
A collection of poetry and wood carvings that burns blindingly bright.The island of Borneo was once the most heavily wooded in the world, and its people have always carved wood beautifully. In KILLERNOVA, grappling with his heritage, Omar Musa remixes this ancient art form with fiery poetry forged in th...
Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell
Tobias Madden delivers another swoonworthy YA rom com winner with his second novel.Noah is in love with his online best friend. Which is a huge problem, for the following reasons - 1. His crush has no idea. 2. Noah only knows him as his gaming avatar. 3. There's zero chance they'll ever meet in real lif...
Meet Me at the Moon Tree
A tender Australian story about searching for the impossible in the places where magic and science meet.For Carina Sugden, there is nothing more special than a moon tree - a tree grown from the seeds taken on the 1971 Apollo mission into space. Her father taught her everything she knows about them. But ...
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