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The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems is the side-splitting anthology of all the funniest poems in the world for children chosen by one of the nations favourite children's poets, Brian Moses.
Three of George Bernard Shaw's most famous plays with a preface by Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench.
A lyrical and dramatic collection of poems centered around Shetland from the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Bound in gorgeous blue cloth, Wedding Readings and Poems is full of wonderful poems and prose to read at wedding ceremonies and it is a beautiful little gift for engaged couples, bridesmaids and wedding guests.
Return to the world of Saffy's Angel with the hilarious and heart-warming third book in the Casson Family series.
Return to the world of Saffy's Angel with the fifth book in the laugh-out-loud Casson Family series.
Return to the world of Saffy's Angel in this second hilarious title in the beloved Casson Family series.
Return to the world of Saffy's Angel in Caddy's World, the prequel in the hilarious and heartwarming Casson Family series.
&i>All That Glitters&/i> is a page-turning novel about love, loss and betrayal, by the worlds favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel.
A funny board book for toddlers, with hide-and-seek mechanisms by bestselling illustrator Jo Lodge.
Three cases of overnight kidnapping baffle the Vigatan police force in Andrea Camilleri's twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery.
For readers of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Book Thief, Jean-Claude Grumberg's haunting fable, an enormous bestseller in his native France, tells a story of the Holocaust and the remarkable acts of kindness of which people are capable.
For fans of T. M. Logan, The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, the author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series.
Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.
Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari is an incredibly insightful, honest novel exploring the delicate balance, and often injustice, of life and death - but at its heart is a celebration of friendship, culture, and life.Twelve-year-old Mira comes from a chaotic, artistic and outspoken family where it's not always easy to be heard. As her beloved Nana Josie's health declines, Mira begins to discover the secrets of those around her, and also starts to keep some of her own. She is drawn to mysterious Jide, a boy who is clearly hiding a troubled past and has grown hardened layers - like those of an artichoke - around his heart. As Mira is experiencing grief for the first time, she is also discovering the wondrous and often mystical world around her.
A moving novel about the strong bonds of female friendship from Elaine Everest, the author of the Woolworth Girls series.
The Lonely Ones follows the mystery of two couples who die thirty-five years apart in the exact same spot.
An Amazon adventure set in the wilderness of Brazil, Journey to the River Sea is filled with mystery and memorable characters.It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at thirteen, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new experiences in Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson's highly colourful, joyous adventure.Winner of the Smarties Gold Medal.Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.
A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories is a delightful collection of eighteen of the best of Eva Ibbotson's short stories. They range from nineteenth-century Vienna to the north of England at the end of the last century, from pre-revolutionary Russia to the devastated Brazilian Amazon. Each setting is magically recreated and peopled with the remarkable, memorable characters that are Ibbotson's trademark.In 'A Glove Shop in Vienna', the title story, Great-Uncle Max is torn between his grand and secret passion for Susie, the enchanting glove shop assistant, and the devotion of his large, opera singer wife. Here is Miss Bennett, drama mistress at the fading Markham Street Primary School, whose search for a baby Jesus for the nativity play yields unexpected and miraculous results. Nina, the beautiful chanteuse, never fails to wear a white rose for Paul, the lover who years ago disappeared to allow her success. Kira, a dancer in Russia's Imperial Ballet school, is thrown out onto the streets of St. Petersburg, and found by Edwin, a lonely dreamer. These and many more are the characters whose experience, bittersweet and incurably romantic, is the foundation for Ibbotson's vivid and unforgettable stories.
A gorgeous collection of classic poetry all about the sea and the rivers and lakes that feed them. Introduced by author Adam Nicolson.
An intoxicating collection of classic poetry all about celebrating with friends, savouring good wine and much more.
Renowned critic, bestselling author and award-winning poet Clive James offers an exploration and celebration of one of his favourite writers, Philip Larkin.
A peep-through preschool bedtime story from picture book creator Carly Gledhill, with cut-through holes and shaped pages to delight the most curious little ones.
Old friends become the kings of gangland London until betrayal brings danger to their door, in this gritty urban thriller from top five bestseller Jessie Keane.
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