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A cute dinosaur book with felt flaps to lift and a surprise mirror ending

A powerful and affirming guide to familial estrangement that encourages readers to set boundaries, heal from trauma and find freedom from abusive family members.

A time-twisting adventure full of fun and friendship from Leah Williamson, captain of the Euros-winning women's England team.

In A Dry Season is the tenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Dead Right.During a blistering summer, drought has depleted Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End - hidden from view for over forty years. For a curious young boy this resurfaced hamlet is a magical playground . . . until he unearths a human skeleton. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is given the impossible task of identifying the victim - a woman who lived in a place that no longer exists, whose former residents are scattered to the winds. Anyone else might throw in the towel but DCI Banks is determined to uncover the murky past buried beneath a flood of time . . .In A Dry Season is followed by the eleventh book in this Yorkshire-based crime series, Cold is the Grave.

'Some bright kid's got a gun and 2000 rounds of live ammo. And that gun's no pea-shooter. It'll go through a brick wall at a quarter of a mile.' Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth, and he desperately wants it to be the best. When he stumbles across the remains of a German bomber crashed in the woods - its shiny, black machine-gun still intact - he grabs his chance. Soon he's masterminding his own war effort with dangerous and unexpected results . . . The Machine Gunners is Robert Westall's gripping first novel for children set during World War Two and winner of the Carnegie Medal. Now with a brilliant cover look celebrating its fortieth anniversary. Includes a bonus short story - 'The Haunting of Chas McGill' - and an extended biography of the author.

She made her way down the cliff, and on to the beach. At the edge of the waves, she stopped, shaking her wet paws. She knew that somewhere ahead was her person, but far, far away. She miaowed plaintively; stood staring at the moving blur of uncrossable sea. She led the way to safety, out of the blazing hell of blitzed Coventry. People touched her for luck; feared her as an omen of disaster. Wherever she went, she changed lives . . . From her beginning to her end she never wavered. She was the Blitzcat. Blitzcat by Robert Westall is the Smarties Prize-winning book about one brave cat's experiences during World War Two. Now with a brilliant new cover look and including an extended author biography.

A career retrospective from one of Britain's finest poets of the natural world.

'As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals.' - Times Literary Supplement One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and on the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes of modern war on them. Somehow the Germans found the strength to halt the Allied advance in its tracks and to prolong the war to 1945. Armageddon by Max Hastings is the epic story of those last eight months of the war in northern Europe.

From the bestselling author of The Ravenhood Trilogy comes a steamy romance journey filled with love, loss and self-discovery. In order to find their happy ending, they had to go back to their beginning . . . Natalie Butler is confronted with hard truths when she uncovers her father's decades-hidden secret in the local newspaper archives: thirty years ago, he was the other half of a scandalous love affair. Reading through the series of buried emails, Natalie searches for answers and, along the journey, stumbles into a fateful love story of her own. Easton Crowne slowly becomes the centre of Natalie's world, their mutual love of music forging an unbreakable bond and setting the stage for their passionate romance. However, it soon becomes clear that Easton and Natalie's relationship was doomed from the start, and their star-crossed romance is the key to revealing the secrets behind their parents' messy history. But the truth will cost them. In order to find their ending, they have first to go back to their beginning . . .

Enjoy this beautiful interpretation of the classic Christmas poem The Night Before Christmas.

Discover wisdom from our greatest writers and philosophers, wisdom to help change the way you perceive and live your life.

Discover wisdom from our greatest writers and philosophers to help you tackle life's big questions.

Discover the wisdom of our greatest writers and philosophers to help you tackle life's big questions.

Discover wisdom from our greatest writers and philosophers to help you tackle life's big questions.

Welcome to Acorn Wood. Join Hare and her friends at a party in this preschool lift-the-flap book from the creators of The Gruffalo.

In Julia Chapman's final instalment of the Dales Detective series, Delilah and Samson have a wedding on the horizon, while a criminal with nothing to lose is stalking a local celebrity. A must-read for enthusiasts of Richard Osman and Robert Thorogood, this is cosy crime fiction at its very best.