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The Strangeworlds Travel Agency: The Edge of the Ocean: Book 2
Pack your suitcase for a magical adventure! At the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, each suitcase transports you to a different world. All you have to do is step inside…Flick is now a badge-wearing member of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency so when an urgent summons arrives at Strangeworlds from Pirate Queen Nyfe, she and Strangeworlds Society guardian
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 with humour and heart.`The boy`s an absolute menace.`He`s a bully. A lost cause!`Why can`t he be more like his sister?` I`ve been getting into trouble for as long I can remember. Usually
The Golden Treasury: Of English Verse
The Golden Treasury is one of the most loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate.It is arranged chronologically in four books which each celebrate a different era in the evolution of English poetry,
Julia and the Shark
A captivating, powerful and luminous story from a bestselling, award-winning author about a mother, a daughter, and the great Greenland shark. With mesmerising black and yellow illustrations and presented as a deluxe hardback with tracing paper inserts, this is a perfect gift for 9+ fans of David Almond and Frances Hardinge.`Tom de Freston`s stunning illustrations
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
In riveting prose, In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century.Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine and Poland by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents,
A Face Like Glass
A Face Like Glass is an astonishing and imaginative novel from the Costa Award winning author of The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge.In the underground city of Caverna the world`s most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare – wines that can remove memories, cheeses that can make you hallucinate and perfumes
Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World
Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast and intermittent bonhomie they decided on the conduct of
The Lie Tree
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015. The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night.Faith`s father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. The
It`s Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter?โ€Engrossing… fascinating… courageousโ€ ObserverWhen writer Mariam Khan found herself increasingly frustrated with a national discourse that marginalized Muslim womenโ€s voices, she decided it was time for something new. Why was she only hearing about Muslim women from other people? Why
Hospital Dog
Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson and stunningly illustrated by the award-winning Sara Ogilvie, The Hospital Dog is a big-hearted tale about a very special, very brave dog.Here is a dog, a Dalmatian called Dot,Is she quite ordinary? NO, SHE`S NOT!After their breakfast and a swim in the sea, Dot and her owner Rose jump
The Dead Girls
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Colm ToibinOpening with a crime of passion after a years-long love affair has soured, The Dead Girls soon plunges into an investigation of something even darker: Serafina Baladro and her sister run a successful brothel business in a small town, so successful that they begin to expand. But when
Breath
`Exhilarating` Sunday Times`Rapturous` Sunday Telegraph`A remarkable tale of grace and danger` Financial TimesWhen paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than anyone what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him. Bruce remembers what it was like to be a
Dirt Music
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE`Compelling` Independent`Beautiful` Sunday Telegraph Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man she doesn`t love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. She spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka
Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut Children of Blood and Bone.They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zelie remembers when the soil of Orisha hummed with magic. When different clans ruled – Burners igniting flames, Tiders beckoning
The Treehouse Fun Book 2
Stuff to write! Pictures to draw! Puzzles to solve! And so much more in The Treehouse Fun Book 2 . . .Grab your Treehouse passport and jump into the crazy world of the bestselling Treehouse series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. In this activity book, join Andy, Terry and Jill for an adventure like
In the Jungle
Little ones can join in the fun In the Jungle by pulling out the sliders, pushing up the tabs and counting all the animals! How many lazy lions are yawning? How many zebras are skipping?Children will love playing with this bright and colourful board book with gentle rhyming text and beautifully illustrated by the award-winning
The Detective Dog Sticker Book
Join Detective Dog Nell, her owner Peter and all his friends in this must-have sticker book based on the bestselling picture book The Detective Dog by Julia Donaldson and Sara Oglivie. Who`s been stealing all the children`s books? Help solve the mystery as you join in with colouring pencils and stickers!Packed with games, activities and
The Last Hedgehog
To mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from `the last hedgehog left on earth` – a delightful and thought-provoking elegy to that most beloved inhabitant of the British countryside, the common hedgehog. Pam Ayres` spiky and wonderful creation reminds us that unless we take steps to prevent
Ottoline and the Purple Fox
Ottoline is back in Ottoline and the Purple Fox, a beautifully illustrated adventure from former Children`s Laureate, Chris Riddell.Ottoline and Mr Munroe love puzzles, clues and mysteries. One day, they meet an enigmatic purple fox, who offers to take them on a night-time urban safari. The fox shows them all the hidden animals of the
Harry in a Hurry
Harry in a Hurry is Timothy Knapman and Gemma Merino`s unique twist on the well-loved Aseop`s Fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. Harry the Hare is always in a hurry – he`s not even sure why! He eats fast and talks fast – and if he`s riding on his speedy scooter then you`d better watch
