Category Archives: Shower Curtains
The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction
Every time we choose a route to work, decide whether to go on a second date, or set aside money for a rainy day, we are making a prediction about the future. Yet from the financial crisis to ecological disasters, we routinely fail to foresee hugely significant events, often at great cost to society. In
An Abundance of Katherines
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton`s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his
The Vanquished
`A breathtaking, magisterial panorama, telling the epic story of post-war anarchy, dying empires and rising nation states. It makes us rethink our understanding of Europe`s twentieth century` David Motadel, The Times Literary Supplement For the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always been a solemn date – the end of fighting which had destroyed a
Half Wild
This is the stunning sequel to Sally Green`s breathtaking debut novel – Half Bad. Now available for pre-order! After finally meeting his elusive father, Marcus, and receiving the three gifts that confirm him as a full adult witch, Nathan is still on the run. He needs to find his friend Gabriel and rescue Annalise, now
Danger is Everywhere: A Handbook for Avoiding Danger
Danger Is Everywhere is a brilliantly funny handbook for avoiding danger of all kinds. Does it warn you about what to do if a shark comes up out of the loo while you are sitting on it? Yes it does. And how to find out if your granny is a Robot? That too. And what
Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
This is the full script of Hold Me Closer, the musical written by and staring Tiny Cooper, from the New York Times bestselling novel Will Grayson, Will Grayson, written by David Levithan and John Green. Filled with humour, pain, and `big, lively, belty` musical numbers, readers will finally learn the full story of Tiny Cooper
Girl Online
The incredible number 1 bestselling debut novel from YouTube phenomenon Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella, now in paperback. Contains exclusive extracts from the sequel. I have this dream that, secretly, all teenage girls feel exactly like me. And maybe one day, when we realize that we all feel the same, we can all stop pretending we`re
Last Stop on Market Street
Sometimes when you`re surrounded by dirt, CJ, you`re a better witness for what`s beautiful.”CJ begins his weekly bus journey around the city with disappointment and dissatisfaction, wondering why he and his family can`t drive a car like his friends. Through energy and encouragement, CJ`s nana helps him see the beauty and fun in their routine.This
How to be a Lion
Winner of the Oscar`s Book Prize 2019 “This witty, resonant picture book is a manual for anyone`s life, young or old.” Sunday Times Children`s Book of the WeekYou don`t have to ROAR to be heard…Meet Leonard – a lion like no other. Leonard`s best friend is Marianne, a duck. But lions chomp ducks, don`t they?
Unknown Soldiers
`There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland`s chosen sacrifice to world history`. Unknown Soldiers follows the fates of a ramshackle troupe of machine-gunners in the Second World War, as they argue, joke, swear, cadge a loaf of bread or a cigarette, combat both boredom and horror in the swamps
The Saga of the Volsungs
Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Saga of the Volsungs is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien`s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. “They summoned their friends, readied their horses, and prepared their helmets, shields, swords, coats of mail”. (J.R.R). Tolkien spent much of his
The Elder Edda
Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien`s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. “I was in the East, battling giants, wicked-hearted women, who wandered the fells; great would be the giant-race, if they all lived: mankind would
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories
Five great stories from one of the most quintessentially Russian of writers, Nikolai Leskov. In the best of Leskov`s stories, as in almost no others apart from those of Gogol, we can hear the voice of nineteenth-century Russia. An outsider by birth and instinct, Leskov is one of the most undeservedly neglected figures in Russian
The Last Man in Russia: And the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation
“Wonderful…These are the chronicles of a writer who truly knows Russia”. (New York Times). Award-winning writer Oliver Bullough travels the country from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept village, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man, the dissident Orthodox priest Father Dmitry. His moving, terrifying story is the story of a nation: famine, war,
Daisy Miller: a Study
Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conventions? When she strikes up an intimate friendship with an
Consolations Of The Forest: Alone In A Cabin In The Middle Taiga
Sylvain Tesson, found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the middle taiga, on the shores of Baikal, for six months. Noting carefully his impressions of the silence, Sylvain Tesson shares with
The Reluctant Assassin (WARP Book 1)
The Matrix meets Oliver Twist, WARP: The Reluctant Assassin is the first of a major new series by Eoin Colfer, the bestselling author of Artemis Fowl. It all began with the FBI and WARP (Witness Anonymous Relocation Programme). Hiding witnesses in the past to protect the future – until now…Riley is a Victorian orphan, hurtled
Turtles All the Way Down
`Our hearts were broken in the same places. That`s something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself`Aza`s life is filled with complications. Living with anxiety and OCD is enough but when Daisy, her Best and Most Fearless Friend, brings her on a mission to find a fugitive billionaire things are about to get
The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe`s History
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 `A definitive study of the amorphous state that lasted a thousand years …The Holy Roman Empire deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus` Tom Holland, Daily Telegraph `Engrossing …staggering …a book that is relevant to our own times` The Times `Masterly …If, like most
Food Rules: An Eater`s Manual
In sixty-four bite-sized pieces of advice, Michael Pollan`s Food Rules tells you everything you need to know to eat healthily, dine happily and live well. Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven simple words as his guide, internationally-acclaimed food journalist Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and
