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Sherry: Malinged*Misunderstood*Magnificent!
Made in a unique way, matured in cellars dating back to the age of the Conquistadores, and bursting with a panoply of sun-drenched flavours, Sherry has – due to a succession of scandals and bad luck in the 1970s – been maligned and misunderstood. But the Sherry scene is set for seismic change. With a
Maggie Blue and the Dark World
SUNDAY TIMES CHILDREN`S BOOK OF THE WEEK `A sophisticated magical tale, awash in sinister villains and perplexing plights … bursting with invention` – Financial Times `Dreamy and odd, yet razor sharp and terrifying all rolled into one … The Neverending Story and Spirited Away and Coraline all rolled into one amazing story. If you have
The Starlings of Bucharest
Ted moves to London to become a journalist but quickly slides into debt. Things look up when he is given the opportunity to go to Romania to interview a film director and then attend the Moscow film festival.But someone has other plans for him.Has he walked into a trap?
Come by the Hills
Come by The Hills follows Cameron McNeish`s popular 2018 memoir, There`s Always the Hills, and celebrates his life on the Scottish hills, his many friendships with hill-goers, writers, broadcasters and active people of all kinds.
Finding True North: The Healing Power of Place
Finding True North is a wise and powerful memoir about recovery and the healing power of place. An award-winning Professor of Psychiatry, Linda Gask writes with startling honesty about her struggles with depression and anxiety. In this unvarnished account as both patient and physician she describes her search for her `right` place in the world.
The Secret Life of the Otter
Among the most popular and endearing of Britain`s wild creatures, otters inhabit not only the full length of the British and Irish coasts but also many river systems and lochs. Formerly hunted almost to extinction, they are one of conservation`s great success stories.In this essential book, Andy Howard opens their lives to us with a
Cut Out
A lyrical tale of family secrets and self-discovery. Denis knows his mother kept things from him. His godmother, Clemence, knows the truth. In rich, sensuous prose, Roberts interweaves Denis`s search for answers with Clemence`s memories of the time she spent working for Matisse.
The Easternmost Sky: Adapting to Change in the 21st Century
The Easternmost Sky is part memoir, part elegy and part warning.It was written on the Suffolk coast, in a place known for its farmland, nature reserves and the fastest coastal erosion in Europe. By exploring how climate change and social change are already affecting this agriculturally important part of the world, it is possible to
Empress & Aniya
The first YA novel from the bestselling author of Queenie.When Empress starts at Aniya`s school, they`re not exactly best friends. But, when the two teenage girls accidentally cast a spell on their 16th birthday and end up switching bodies, they quickly learn that friendship is the most important magic of all. South London`s answer to
Exteriors
Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person`s lived environment. Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. Exteriors is in many ways the
By Ash, Oak and Thorn
A breathtaking tale of the rich, wild world and all its wonder from acclaimed nature writer and Costa Award-shortlisted novelist, Melissa Harrison – the perfect read for children for spring and summer! `Timely and magical, it will open the young reader`s eyes to the wonders of the natural world.` NATASHA FARRANT `Each page brims with
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone
`Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket` – a Book of the Year in the i News`A whirligig of adventure` – The Telegraph Bronte Mettlestone is ten years old when her parents are killed by pirates.This does not bother her much: her parents ran away to have adventures when she was a baby. She has been
By Rowan and Yew
The breathtaking sequel to the stunning By Ash, Oak and Thorn from acclaimed nature writer and Costa Award-shortlisted novelist Melissa Harrison. PRAISE FOR BY ASH, OAK AND THORN:`Timely and magical, it will open the young reader`s eyes to the wonders of the natural world.` NATASHA FARRANT`Each page brims with the wonder of our natural world,
Tsunami Girl
Tsunami Girl is a powerful coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Yuki Hara Jones who gets caught up in the March 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. It`s about a young person trying to work out who they are, and where they fit – and trying to do this whilst surviving the trauma of a triple
Secret Lands, Petrol Clams and a Bagful of Bolivar
Imagine Sharon`s horror as her backpack, filled to the brim with illegal banknotes, enters the x-ray machine at a Venezuelan airport! What should she do?And that`s not the only bizarre dilemma she faces. Where to hide hundreds of banknotes during a hair-raising bicycle ride in Caracas? How should she conform to dictatorship laws in North
No Drama Llama: Drop the Drama and Start Leading a No-Nonsense Lifestyle
Channel the ways of the no drama llama, the ultimate guru when it comes to leading a simplified lifestyle.Tense? Worried? Overwhelmed by the modern world? You need to meet Leroy the llama, a beast who knows a thing or two about burden. Leroy leads the alPAC(k)a when it comes to helping people quit the am-dram
Waiting For The Waters To Rise
Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his childhood in Mali. In his dreams, he receives visits from his blue-eyed mother and his ex-lover Azelia, both now gone, as are the hopes and aspirations he`s carried with him since his arrival in Guadeloupe. Until, one day, the child Anais comes into
