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The Witch with an Itch: Dragon v Dinosaur
The littlest witch and the wizard, her twin, were both very stubborn and both liked to win…Who will triumph – the littlest witch or the littlest wizard? Magic transforms the twins from princess and knight to deadly dragon and dinosaur. But the littlest witch`s troublesome itch soon comes along – and teaches the twins an
Rent A Bridesmaid
Tilly can`t believe it when her best friend Matty is asked to be a bridesmaid. In Tilly`s favourite daydream, she`s kitted out in the most beautiful bridesmaid dress, walking down the aisle behind a beautiful bride. The one wedding she`d really like to attend is her own mum and dad`s. But as that`s never going
No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories
Jack `No Middle Name` Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child`s shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume. Read together, these twelve stories
Miss Benson`s Beetle: An uplifting and redemptive story of a glorious female friendship against the odds
`A beautiful portrayal of female friendship in all its frailties, contradictions and strengths` RAYNOR WINN`Funny, perceptive and life-enhancing. I urge you to read it` SARAH WINMAN`The perfect escape novel for our troubled times` PATRICK GALE It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant
Foregone
At the centre of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined
Outdoor Adventure Manual: Essential Scouting Skills for the Great Outdoors
Haynes has joined forces with the Scout Association (who better?) to create this hands-on, inspirational manual for enjoying the great outdoors, whether hiking for the day or camping in the back of beyond. Featuring step-by-step guides to a range of key `backwoods` skills such as trekking, navigating, camping, firelighting and cooking, backed by hundreds of
Royal Navy Submarine Manual: 1945 Onward (`A` Class – HMS Alliance)
Launched in 1945 and commissioned two years later, submarine HMS Alliance was built for service with the Royal Navy in the Far East. Alliance had a long and distinguished career of more than 28 years that took her all over the world. Today, Alliance is the centrepiece at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, where
The Innocents
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland`s northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family`s boat and
The Broken Shore
Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city and returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal and the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. It`s a peaceful existence –
How To Destroy The Universe
How to survive an earthquake. How to make an invisibility cloak. How to turn lead into gold. How to read someone`s mind. Physics = tedious and unfathomable, right? No longer. If you thought physics was all about measuring the temperature of an ice bucket or trying to understand complicated equations, think again. How to Destroy
The Sorrow of Angels
It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain – the poetry that did for his friend Bardur. Three weeks, but already Bardur`s ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together. As the villagers gather in
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece by one of the world`s greatest thinkers. It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving
Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better Relations.
The businessperson`s guide to saying what needs to be said and asking questions that need to be asked In the business world, the first step to great results is good communication. Talk Lean uses original research and a fresh approach to teach businesspeople how to say difficult things and ask difficult questions in a way
Speed Kings
In the 1930s, as the world hurtled towards terrible global conflict, speed was all the rage. It was described by Aldous Huxley as `the one genuinely modern pleasure`, and one of the fastest and most thrilling ways to attain it was through the new sport of bobsledding. Exotic, exciting and above all dangerous, it was
Mammon in Malmo
With a new Skane County Police commissioner wanting to make his mark in Malmoe, the Criminal Investigation Squad is under pressure when they are called in to solve the killing of a private investigator. The nature of the victim`s work throws up some obvious suspects, yet not all is what it seems. When another murder
Black Holes: The Reith Lectures
“It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers.” In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking delivered the BBC Reith Lectures on a subject that has fascinated him for decades –
The Lonely Witness
Amy was once a party girl, but now she lives a lonely life. Helping the house-bound to receive communion in the Gravesend neighbourhood of Brooklyn, she knows the community well. When a local woman goes missing, Amy senses something isn`t right. Tailing the woman`s suspicious son, she winds her way through Brooklyn`s streets. But before
The Midnight Line: (Jack Reacher 22)
Jack Reacher is having a bad day.It would be a dumb idea to make it worse. Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It`s tiny. It`s a woman cadet`s graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher was a West Pointer too, and he knows what she
