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Advanced Rune Magic
Accessing deeper levels of rune magic to achieve self-transformation• Comprehensively explores the meanings of the 24 Elder Futhark runes and how each serves as a distinct interface to the greater Mystery• Draws upon source texts such as the Prose and Poetic Eddas as well as the Anglo Saxon, Norwegian, and Icelandic Rune Poems• Offers methods to incorporate the runes into your daily life as powerful tools for contemplation and magical self-transformationThe runes are a system of magical symbols that can be used for divination and casting spells, both to harm and protect. While these uses of the runes are powerful, David Linder focuses on a deeper and arguably more significant level of the runic mysteries—the magic of self-transformation. The runes of the Elder Futhark are 24 facets of the great Mystery, which is translated as Runa. Each rune serves as a distinct interface that allows access to certain aspects of the great Mystery in order to heal, to reconnect, and to transform oneself. To grasp a rune is not just a matter of intellectual understanding, but a task of experiencing it physically and spiritually. Linder reveals how the lived experience of grasping a rune’s meaning is an initiatory step toward realizing one’s higher self and coming closer to the great Mystery. The author draws upon the Prose and Poetic Eddas as well as the Anglo-Saxon, Norwegian, and Icelandic Rune Poems to explain each rune. These source texts show how Nordic spirituality is more concerned with the practicalities of mundane life than dogmatic codes. Linder contextualizes the meaning of each rune for our time and reveals the concrete opportunities for growth that each rune offers when the spiritual insight is lived and embodied in the modern world. Advanced Rune Magic teaches methods to incorporate the runes into your daily life as tools for both contemplation and self-transformation, showing how simple applications can produce tangible results. While these methods can enrich one’s magical and spiritual practices, they will also lead to improved daily functioning, a stronger sense of purpose, and overall well-being.
PAW PATROL DINO MOVIE STICK PB
Get ready for action with this illustrated sticker activity book, packed with activities, colouring and more. Based on the upcoming Summer 2026 film, PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie!The PAW Patrol return to the big screen for their most thrilling adventure yet!After their ship gets caught in a mysterious storm, the team lands in an awe-inspiring new world filled with dramatic landscapes, unexpected challenges, and … dinosaurs!This sticker activity book is jam-packed with mazes, dot-to-dots, sticker scenes colouring, creative activities and more. Complete activities with Chase, Skye, Marshall, Rubble and Rex, and meet lots of new dinosaur friends along the way.Packed with over 50 STICKERS!Also look out for:PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie Picture Book (ISBN: 9780008755898)
An Inconvenience of Penguins
The problem started, as problems often do, with a penguin. From Kings and Emperors to Macaronis and Rockhoppers, penguins are one of the most immediately recognisable animals on Earth. Yet for all that familiarity, what do we really know about them? An Inconvenience of Penguins follows award-winning travel writer Jamie Lafferty as he visits all eighteen species in a bid to understand the birds and their extraordinarily varied habitats a little better. On voyages to some of the planet's most inaccessible and challenging landscapes, he recounts the history of our unique relationship with the world's most popular bird, telling not only the stories of the penguins, but also the people and places around them. From getting stranded in the Galapagos and marching through African guano fields to leading photography groups in the Antarctic and taking psychedelics on the Falklands, this is a birding quest like no other. Along the way, Lafferty relives the experiences of early polar explorers, for whom penguins were perplexing mysteries, welcome companions and even occasional meals, and meets the modern penguin lovers trying to save their fragile environments. Featuring cameos from a wide cast of characters including Ernest Shackleton, Charles Darwin and Sir Francis Drake, as well as beautiful photographs of each penguin species, An Inconvenience of Penguins is part love-letter to and part biography of these remarkable creatures.
The Intrigue
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a sizzling noir about desire, danger, and greed, in which seduction is the ultimate conHandsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. Ulises knows his looks won't last forever, and he's desperate to get his hands on a real fortune.He thinks he's found it when he captivates his newest correspondent, Perla, the owner of a small-town boardinghouse in picturesque Veracruz. But when he meets her, he finds something he didn't expect. The woman has a niece, Inés, who is as observant as she is desperate to escape her aunt's household. When Inés discovers Ulises' true intentions, she wants in on the scheme. They'll convince her aunt that Ulises is a great catch, Perla will marry him, and her money will vanish. Easy, fast and clean. But Perla is not the desperate, silly spinster Ulises imagines. She harbors secrets. And although Ulises does not believe in true romance, Inés is more alluring than he bargained on. Suddenly, a simple plan may become perilously complicated. Venture into the streets of a small town where the patina of convention and good manners conceals a cauldron of avarice and lust. PRAISE FOR THE INTRIGUE:'Lush and passionate with magnetic prose . . . The Intrigue will grab you by the throat and won't let go until its earth-shaking finale!' S. A. Crosby, author of King of Ashes'As the deception and the bodies mount, I rooted increasingly for this Bonnie & Clyde to get away clean with the loot. Do they? Read and find out; you won't be sorry!' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'Everything about Moreno-Garcia's latest exudes noir at its very best' Library Journal'Moreno-Garcia delivers a pulpy noir-telenovela mashup that would make James M. Cain jealous' Los Angeles Times'This is yet another rock-solid novel from a born storyteller. Clever, taut, and just flat-out fun' Kirkus Reviews
The Twits: The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection
Discover The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection, a stunning hardback collection of Roald Dahl's most beloved titles.'We’re going to turn those terrible Twits UPSIDE DOWN!’Mr and Mrs Twit are awful and foul and scheming and sly, always playing horrible tricks on each other.The Twits are so ghastly and evil that they even keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family captive in their garden.But not for much longer! The monkeys are planning to trick the terrible Twits so that they can escape and put a stop to the frightful pair once and for all!The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection uses the versions of Dahl's books that were published before the 2022 Puffin editions.
Matilda: The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection
Discover The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection, a stunning hardback collection of Roald Dahl's most beloved titles.‘There is some kind of magic in you somewhere.’Matilda is a brilliant child with a magical mind.But her parents have decided she's just a nuisance who wastes too much time on reading and stories.And her headmistress Miss Trunchbull is a terrible bully, who thinks children are rotten and awful and should be locked up.Now it's time for Matilda to find the power to change her story, and show them just how extraordinary children can be . . .The Roald Dahl Clothbound Collection uses the versions of Dahl's books that were published before the 2022 Puffin editions.
Forest of a Thousand Eyes
Costa Award-winning Frances Hardinge''s gripping story of a young girl''s daring mission through a natural world intent on her destruction.With stunning two-colour illustrations by superstar illustrator Emily Gravett on every page, this richly atmospheric book is perfect for fans of David Almond and Kiran Millwood Hargrave.The hungry Forest is moving forward like an army, a green and constant threat to the humans living in and on an increasingly crumbling Wall. Feather, accompanied only by her scaled ferret, Sleek, must avoid the Forest''s tentacles, and the many dangerous creatures it shelters, to return the community''s precious spyglass to its rightful place. Along the way, she develops her resilience, and meets other people living on the Wall, whose stories and experiences open her mind, and those of her community, to new horizons.From the creators of Island of Whispers, chosen as one of the Top Five YA books of 2023 by The Guardian.A compelling story filled with adventure, emotional intensity and the rawness of nature.
Bytes and Bullets
'An obligatory read for anyone who wants to understand the new forces shaping the future.' Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author of Autocracy, Inc. and Twilight of Democracy. 'Couldn't be more timely. Mixes story-telling and analysis to illuminate the new technological arms race.' Peter Pomerantsev author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible When it comes to global dominance, military technology has always been a major geopolitical driver. For decades, the West set the rules on innovation using soft power and government funding to develop its own exclusive cutting-edge defensive capabilities. But in the digital era, the breakthroughs - be it AI systems and autonomous drones, satellite internet or advanced semiconductors - are coming from private companies, not government labs. In Bytes and Bullets, Steve Feldstein explains how technology is transforming geopolitics, upending the ways that countries compete, and how they wage war. Through captivating stories and original field research, he shows how the West's dominance is being undercut at every turn by a combination of commercialization, authoritarian convergence led by China and Russia, and the emergence of new regional powers hungry for more influence. A new tech cold war is coming into focus fast and restrictions and sanctions are no longer enough to maintain international stability. Feldstein reports from its front line in this rich and at times alarming account of this pivotal moment in history, making an urgent call for the West to act now, or risk losing its international standing forever.
Family Lies
The brand new thriller in the San Diego Case Files series from Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Rose''High wire suspense that keeps you riveted'' Lisa GardnerHomicide Detective Kit McKittrick and psychologist Sam Reeves arrive at Mary Sherman''s house after she fails to turn up for an arranged meeting with Kit''s foster sister Akiko. Three weeks earlier, Akiko received a call from Mary out of the blue claiming she had information about her birth mother. Now, Kit, Sam and Akiko land on her doorstep only to come under fire from an unknown shooter and to discover Mary''s dead body inside the house.Who was Mary to Akiko? What information did she have, and why did she choose now to come forward? If her murder is not a coincidence, Akiko''s safety could be at risk.Kit is determined to find answers for her sister, but every piece of information revealed just leads to more questions, and no one connected to Akiko''s story is quite who they seem. And there''s a major stumbling block: an injured Kit has been officially taken off the investigation, and ignoring the order could have lasting consequences for her career. But how can she sit back when she, her sister and the people around them are in serious danger?____________________READERS LOVE KAREN ROSE:''Karen Rose never disappoints!''''The characters are so well described you feel as if they are real people''''I love this author''s writing. Each book is like meeting up with old friends''''Her books catch you from the first page and hold your attention until the very end''''It is just painstaking waiting for her next novel''
I Want Everything
‘A delightful literary puzzle, posed to the reader in vibrant and clear-cut prose... It's rare for a writer to be this good both at crafting a sentence and at making you want to read the next one.’ Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple ‘Composed with stylistic brilliance and structural ingenuity, I Want Everything is that rare thing, a great contemporary novel... Dominic Amerena is a fantastic writer. (Seriously.)' Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts and No Judgement You all know this, of course, but years and years ago, acclaimed Australian novelist Brenda Shales went missing. After two explosive, controversial books that would shape the literary canon of the country for decades to come — and that terrible legal scandal about plagiarism, of course — she was simply gone. That was, right up until a frustrated young writer sees an elderly woman swimming at his local pool in Melbourne. She looks familiar…very familiar in fact. No. It couldn’t be. Stunned, he returns home to confirm the impossible truth; it’s Brenda Shales, now in her old age and stranded in a retirement home. He’s determined to pursue her, to discover what happened to her all those years ago, and to possibly fulfil his dreams of literary stardom through a tell-all biography. But when he finds her, a case of mistaken identity and Brenda’s own terrible secrets begin to derail his ambitions, and ultimately, his entire life. From brilliant debut novelist Dominic Amerena, I Want Everything is a wickedly sharp story of desire and deception, authorship and authenticity, and the devastating costs of creative ambition.
The Truth of Us
'Like all great storytellers Sara pulls the reader in and doesn't let go until the utterly satisfying, heart-swelling conclusion' Graham Norton'Utterly brilliant. I inhaled it. I loved it' Claudia Winkleman'Unputdownable' The Sunday TimesFRIENDS ARE THE FAMILY YOU CHOOSE. Manchester, 1982. The houses on the street are almost identical but number 51 has always been slightly neater, a shiny penny next to number 49. The people inside have their differences too but still their lives are entwined, most especially for young girls Abi and Christy. From questionable fashion choices, illicit nights out and doomed romances, growing up together they share everything. Including the secret that eventually tears them apart. Two decades later, Abi's life is one of marriage, family and stability. Christy, always the wilder of the two, has travelled and partied and risen high in the world of TV. Until, unexpectedly, they're living next door to each other again. Is it finally time to confront the past and speak the trut? he Truth of Us showcases Sara Cox's superb storytelling skills in an unforgettable story that spans generations but always stays truthful to the strong, funny and complex women at its heart. Readers are obsessed with The Truth of Us:'I love, love, loved this! It was funny, sad, uplifting, and thought provoking!' NetGalley reviewer, ? 'All I'm going to say is there flipping well better be a follow up book to this. What a great story of friendship, love and all that life brings . . . I absolutely loved this book. Sara Cox, you are a genius.' NetGalley reviewer, ?'Sara Cox knows female friendships and "ride or die" . . . a book that draws you in and keeps you reading.' NetGalley reviewer, ?'Written with the wit and humour that you would expect from Sara Cox . . . a wonderful life-affirming story that takes you on an emotional journey, but one you are so pleased to have been a part of.' Goodreads reviewer, ?'I loved this! . . . I was gripped.' NetGalley reviewer, ?'Heart-warming in places, heart-breaking in others. A feel good book. Highly recommended.' Goodreads reviewer, ?
Air
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER NOMINATED AUTHOR OF EUROTRASH''A master of the well-formed sentence'' DANIEL KEHLMANN''Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation'' JOSHUA COHEN''Read him for the experience of reading him. Read him and wonder'' NELL ZINKTwo men venture through strange landscapes towards unknowable destinations. Paul, a feted designer, wanders the echoing corridors of a server farm in Norway - before, in a sudden blackout, he seems to vanish. In another time and space, a wounded stranger wakes in a forest, watched over by a young girl who helps him flee to an icebound settlement where perhaps he will find safety.Inventive, enigmatic and chromatically resonant, Air is the seductively disorienting new novel from one of the most significant European writers working today. Heir to the ingenious fictions of Ursula K. Le Guin or Jorge Luis Borges, resistant to single interpretation, it unfolds as a haunting journey through a layered universe that may be a dream, the afterlife or reality''s inverted twin.''Air is as enigmatic as its title'' TLS''A splendidly wrong-footing blend of sci-fi and historical fiction ... delivering a thunderbolt twist'' DAILY MAILTranslated from German by Daniel Bowles
The Rapture
NOW A MAJOR BBC SERIES STARRING RUTH MADELEY, SAM HAZELDINE, RUTH JONES, INDIA AMARTEIFIO, STEPHEN CAMPBELL MOORE AND IWAN RHEON 'Unputdownable' The Times'You'll be gripped' IRVINE WELSH'This is storytelling at its rapturous best' Daily MailPsychologist Gabrielle is recovering from a devastating car crash when she takes on a job at a maximum-security facility for juvenile patients. Here she meets Bethany, a cruel teenager who insists she can predict natural disasters. Gabrielle dismisses Bethany's visions. But when global catastrophes begin to happen as predicted, Gabrielle is forced to question everything. Liz Jensen's haunting thriller explores the extremes of mankind's self-destruction in a world on the brink of collapse.
Historic Royal Palaces: History Mysteries: The Missing Crown Conundrum
The crowns are missing. The clock is ticking. The castle holds the clues.The royal crowns are missing – and the coronation is just seven days away! Join D.I. Snoopwell and her assistant (that’s you!) on a thrilling puzzle-packed mission to crack codes, solve castle mysteries, and uncover the culprit. With a new case to tackle each day, you’ll unravel secrets from the past, meet six curious suspects, and learn fascinating facts about castles and treasure.Seven days. Six suspects. Two missing crowns. Can you crack the case?
No Room at the Morgue
'Manchette was Le Homme...rediscover him this very instant' - James EllroyMeet Eugene Tarpon: ex-cop, ex-idealist, man in free fall. Kicked off the force for killing a protestor, Tarpon is drinking too much and waiting around for something to happen. Then it does. In bursts the wild-eyed and bloodstained Memphis Charles, whose roommate has been brutally murdered. And she wants no one but Tarpon on the case. As the bodies mount, Tarpon is dragged into a Parisian underworld of politics, sleaze, and paranoia – with nothing to guide him but instinct, stubbornness, and a battered sense of justice. With No Room at the Morgue, Manchette rewrote the American hardboiled detective novel into a bleak, boozy, and brilliantly French bruising meditation on guilt, truth, and the art of going down swinging. PRAISE FOR JEAN-PATRICK MANCHETTE'A comedic genius... I read and reread him, stunned, appalled, and laughing out loud' - Rachel Kushner'Manchette is one of the greatest writers since Dashiell Hammett, his only true son and heir' - David Peace'Manchette is Camus on overdrive... He deserves much the same attention' - James Sallis
MRS GARGANTUA HB
Winner of the 2020 Michael Jacobs Prize; shortlisted for the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer''s Award''A treasure chest full of rare and exquisitely rendered stories'' JON LEE ANDERSON''The best book you are likely to read on Cuba for ages’ SPECTATORA brilliantly unconventional and riveting ride through Cuba’s history, drawing on the David and Goliath dynamic of its confrontations with the US and other superpowers. It captures realities behind the fantastical, exoticised treatment Cuba often receives.Mrs Gargantua deals with towering figures – both human and non-human – and ambitions which have left their mark on Cuba, the distorted means by which the island is often presented to the outside world. From Columbus and the conquistadores, Ptolemy to Paris Hilton, Hemingway, nuclear warheads and the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, from a nationalist sparrow ‘martyred’ during Cuba’s independence wars to Fidel Castro’s genetically modified super-cow, this non-fiction work exposes the country’s status as a social and biological testing ground and resource to be mined by larger nations.The book’s title comes from an account of Maria Hoyt, a US heiress who raised a gorilla in Cuba (one of the first to do so beyond Africa). Later her pet was sold to a circus in the United States where she became a celebrity: the famous ‘Mrs Gargantua’. Her story is directly linked to Hoyt’s predecessor in monkey and ape husbandry, the Cuban Rosalía Abreu; reputedly the richest woman in Latin America and a legendary recluse, Abreu became the first person in history – at her mansion in Havana – to breed a chimpanzee in captivity, with unexpected and far-reaching consequences.Like ''Mrs Gargantua'', Cuba has been endlessly subject to the whims of the human circus that tries to tame her.The award-winning Mrs Gargantua forms an entirely original, compelling inventory of the author’s twenty-year relationship with the island and its people, while also attempting to sketch Cuba’s wider importance to a political understanding of the Americas, both in tangible and imaginary terms.
Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns Step by Step
Provides a practical plan to break unhelpful thinking and behavioural patterns for lasting change Many people struggle with thoughts and reactions that feel overwhelming, repetitive, or out of proportion—yet don’t always understand why. Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns Step by Step offers a clear, evidence-based framework to recognise and transform these recurring emotional and behavioural patterns, known as “modes.” Drawing on schema therapy and the latest clinical research, Hannie van Genderen guides readers through a five-step process designed to identify unhelpful modes, understand their origins, and develop healthier, more balanced ways of responding to life’s challenges. Through the relatable stories of Sarah, Martin, and Nora, readers learn to see how modes influence their emotions and relationships—and how meaningful change is possible. Each step of the process includes structured guidance, real-world examples, and practical exercises that encourage self-awareness, resilience, and emotional growth. Whether used independently or alongside a therapist, this book empowers readers to create lasting transformation by strengthening their healthy adult mode and nurturing self-compassion. Showing that change is achievable—not by fighting behavioural patterns, but by understanding and reshaping them, Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns Step by Step: Introduces a clinically grounded plan for identifying and changing negative modesIntegrates the latest insights from schema therapy and psychological researchIllustrates each stage of the transformation processIncludes worksheets to support self-guided or therapist-assisted changeExplains how to maintain progress and prevent relapse through ongoing self-reflectionOffers strategies to strengthen healthy emotional patterns and balanced thinking Combining scientific insight, professional expertise, and deep empathy, Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns Step by Step is a must-have for individuals seeking to better understand and manage their emotions and behaviour. It is also a valuable resource for therapists using schema therapy or related approaches, professionals in mental health and wellbeing roles, and undergraduate and postgraduate students in clinical psychology, counselling, and psychotherapy courses.
K-Pop Academy: Tiger's Eye
The action-packed new series for fans who can’t get enough of K-Pop Demon Hunters!Moving into the trainee dorms brings new independence and new dangers for Hana and her K-pop crew. The friends soon begin to see two animal avatars: a gentle, watchful tiger and a mischievous little bird. At first, they both seem harmless, but as the group prepares for their debut music video, the bird’s true nature as a shadow spirit emerges. The group must decide if they can trust the tiger, and their instincts, to protect their music; their strongest weapon against the darkness, and save the school. Including: Heart-pumping actionCatchy K-Pop tunesForever friendsReturn to the stage and dance your way into the Huntr/x fandom with a fresh new crew of soul-searching, demon-fighting performers. The K-POP ACADEMY SERIES SO FAR: Book 1: The Stage of ShadowsBook 2: The Cursed SpotlightBook 3: The Crystal BeatBook 4: The Guardians' GlowComing soon in the K-POP ACADEMY seres: Book 6: The Song of Tomorrow
The Hollow One
Readers’ Choice Book Awards Gold Winner An emotional and chilling exploration of grief, memory, and the quiet horrors that live in broken homes. Ellie is six years old. She takes care of the baby, keeps the house quiet, and knows how to survive. Her father left months ago. She misses him. Now something is coming to her window. It looks like him. It sounds like him. It remembers things no one else should. It asks to come inside. Ellie lets it in. And now it wants to stay. From Readers’ Choice Book Awards Gold Winner Corinne Westbrook comes a chilling, slow-burn horror novel about neglect, memory, and what answers when a child needs to be loved.
