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Animal Stories
A curious exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance and how we regard ourselves among the animals. ‘Few human animals have Zambreno’s baleful honesty, insight, or relish for comedy, when they look at themselves’ Daisy Hildyard, author of Hunters in the Snow and EmergencyAnimal Stories begins with Kate Zambreno’s visit to the monkey house at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where one stark tree ‘seems to be the stage design for a simian production of Waiting for Godot’. But who are the players and who is the audience, and can they recognise each othe? hat follows is a series of reports from the deep strangeness of the zoo, a space that is ‘more often than not deeply sad, an odd choice for regular pilgrimages of fun’. Amid these excursions with their young children, Zambreno turns to Garry Winogrand’s photographs and John Berger’s writings on animals, reshaping the spectator as the subject to decipher our complex ‘zoo feelings’ – what we project, and what we refuse to see. In ‘My Kafka System’, which dovetails with these zoo studies, Zambreno thinks through the notebooks and animal stories of a writer known for playing at the threshold between species, continuing their investigation into the false divide between human and animal. In writing that is inquisitive and inventive, Zambreno renders visible the enclosures we construct and those we occupy ourselves.
The Beauty Apothecary
The bestselling author of the Seasons of the Witch series brings you the ultimate guide to unlocking your full beauty potential.This sacred book will teach you how to nourish your mind, heart, and soul to radiate beauty from within. Unveil the beauty that is uniquely yours with this comprehensive beauty bible of rituals, meditations, and practices expertly crafted to help you glow from the inside out. From cultivating self-love, learning to establish self-sovereignty, embracing a holistic self-care practice, and learning the art of sacred adornment to dozens of beauty SOS protocols, you''ll find everything you need to embrace all the unique qualities, both inside and out, that make you truly beautiful.
Thursday’s Child
A thrilling, classic children’s adventure with a courageous heroine, from the beloved author of Ballet Shoes. Margaret Thursday was named after the day she was found on the church steps as a baby. But she isn’t really an orphan – each year a bag of gold coins is left at the church for her keep. However, when Margaret is eleven years old, the money suddenly stops and her guardians have no choice but to send her away to an orphanage. The orphanage is worse than they could have imagined. The children are poorly treated and barely fed, and fearless Margaret soon makes herself the enemy of the evil matron who runs it. Vowing to protect her new friends, Peter and Horatio, Margaret plans their daring escape … but she’ll have to outwit Matron at every turn. Margaret’s action-packed adventure, set in turn-of-the-century England, takes her from orphanage to canal boat to the world of the theatre. Through it all, Margaret is propelled by her unwavering sense of self and determination.
What We Left Unsaid
''Heartbreaking, beautiful and confronting'' SARAH WINMAN''A timely conversation-starter of a book'' WIZ WHARTON''Kept me enthralled until the very last page'' ROWAN COLEMAN''Truly gripping and moving . . . I was hooked'' LIBBY PAGE''Exhilarating and poignant, I devoured it in one go'' JINI REDDY''Brilliant and powerful . . . her best novel yet'' BIDISHAWhat happened on the road will change them forever...Thirty years ago, Alex, Bonnie and Kevin went on a road trip to the Grand Canyon with their parents. But something cut their journey short, and they never made it there. Something that shifted the dynamic of their family forever.Today, Alex, Bonnie and Kevin might be siblings, but they''ve grown apart, each holding heavy secrets close to their chests. When their mother''s health takes a turn for the worse, she asks them to relive that old road trip to see her, and they''re forced into close quarters once more.As the siblings retrace old steps on an epic journey along Route 66, they are led to finally share the parts of their lives they''ve tried to keep hidden. Along the way, they can learn the truth of what really happened in their fractured past - a past they now have the chance to mend.With ''powerful and beautiful writing'' (Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author), Winnie M Li weaves an emotive and eye-opening exploration of family, race, growing up, and what it means to be American.***What readers are saying about Winnie Li:''Such a compelling and convincing read''''An excellent, meaty page-turner . . . couldn''t put it down!''''A powerful book. Amazing, incredible and also heartbreaking''''A brilliantly-written timely book''''Gripping and hugely enthralling''''Engaging and intelligent . . . five easy stars!''''Completely absorbing and unputdownable''
The Greatest Cricket Stars 10 Book Collection
Follow the journeys of the best batters and bowlers in cricket!From playing with friends to competing against the biggest teams in the world. Whether they’re playing for their domestic team or for their country, these inspiring players give their all in every game to find success after success!This set includes:Virat KohliBen StokesBabar AzamTravis HeadRashid KhanSuryakumar YadavJofra ArcherNicholas PooranJasprit BumrahJoe Root
Two is a Crowd
A stunning contemporary real-life story from the brilliant author of Ella on the Outside, with beautiful illustrations by Miguel Bustos. Hattie's life is already complicated enough. She's about to start secondary school, her best friend is going off with someone else and her dad seems to have completely forgotten his promise to let her have a room of her own. So when her mum's goddaughter, Seren, arrives and gets special treatment, Hattie feels pushed out. Could it be that Hattie's family actually prefer Sere? ther excellent books by Cath Howe:Ella on the OutsideNot my FaultHow to Be MeThe InsidersMy Life on Fire
The Body
Mavis broke from her parents’ congregation years ago, but she still hasn’t recovered. Their impossible expectations and soul-shredding critiques have dug deep into her mind, and she’s taunted by the knowledge that even when she’s done nothing wrong, she’ll never be right. Now Mavis is afraid she’s about to lose the only thing she has: her husband, Jerrod. The man she’s always known was too good to be true. No one thinks she deserves him—not even after surviving the serial cheater they wanted her to stick by—and soon they’ll all find out they were right. Mavis is already unraveling when a brush with death shows her what real fear looks like. Soon, she’s under constant attack from all directions. As the assaults turn increasingly vicious and bizarre, Mavis realizes that Hell isn’t reserved for the afterlife. And sinner or not, no one is coming to save her
Focus
If you've ever stared at a to-do list, waiting for divine inspiration to strike, and then randomly found yourself cleaning the fridge instead, welcome. You're in the right place. ADHD experts and co-hosts of the popular ADHD Adults podcast, Professor James Brown and Sam Brown will show you how to disarm procrastination and overcome decision paralysis by using your ADHD brain to your advantage: harnessing hyperfocus, activating your reward system and turbo-charging productivity. Sam and James were both diagnosed with ADHD as adults - and have experienced first-hand the disappointment and sense of failure when neurotypical solutions to ADHD challenges inevitably fail. This is a productivity book with a difference, tailored to your ADHD brain. With the rights tools and a framework that plays to your strengths, you can achieve anything. This book will show you how to identify underlying motivations, redirect your dopamine-hungry reward system and break through the roadblocks; allowing you to tackle your to-dos head on, progress towards your longer-term goals and ultimately achieve your full potential. With an easy-to-navigate contents list, short chapters, and practical solutions that work with your ADHD brain, not against it; this book will give you strategies that might just change your life... Topics included:Why we procrastinateHow to identify roadblocksInternal motivation vs external demandsWorking memory hacksEffective reward systemsDealing with overwhelmRecognising and preventing burnoutDifferences in the experiences of ADHD men and womenUnderstanding how ADHD interacts with autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions
Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur
Come one, come all to the dinosaur rodeo!Tif Tamim wants nothing more than to be a dinosaur buckaroo. An orphan in search of a place to rest his head and a job to weigh down his pockets, Tif has bounced from circus to circus, yearning for a chance to ride a prehistoric beauty under the sparkling lights of a big-top. To become a buckaroo, Tif needs to learn the tools of the trade, yet few dino maestros want to take a scrawny nobody from nowhere under their wing. But when Tif frees a dino from an abusive owner and braves the roving gangs of the formerly-American west to bring the dino to safety, he catches someone’s eye. And boy, how those eyes dazzle Tif from the back of a bucking carnotaur.
The Family Quiz
**'Glorious' - Sunday Post****'Joyfully inclusive. A celebration of families of every shape and size' - The Bookseller**Who’s ready to answer the family qui? et’s try to work out what a family is! Is your family big or small? Noisy or quiet? Is it full of singing and hugs? Or dancing and dog? s it one you were born into? Or one that found yo? his joyfully inclusive picture book celebrates every kind of family - and the love that lies at the heart of each one. From Robert Tregoning, Polari Prize-shortlisted author of Out of the Blue, with stunning illustrations by the award-winning Yasmeen Ismail.
My Amazing Family: Daddy Dinosaur
This dinosaur-filled touch and feel board book celebrates Daddy Dino as the absolute #1 best, from the way he roars to his puddle-stomping skills to the fact he always lets you win a race . . . and so much more. The littlest dinosaur-lovers will enjoy touching the crinkly dino egg on the front cover and feeling all the tactile elements inside the book, while pointing out some of the best-loved dinosaurs like T. Rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and more. The sweet rhyming text and DINO-mite fun make this book a great read aloud to declare lots of love for Dad.
Mr Men Little Miss: Happy Birthday
A funny and surprising picture book with a gold foil cover – perfect for celebrating a special birthday! It’s going to Mr Tickle’s birthday, so can you guess what Little Miss Surprise suggests? A surprise party, of course! But will her friends be able to keep it a surprise? And what other surprises are in store for Mr Tickle on his birthday? A brilliantly funny new picture book with a shiny gold cover! The Mr Men and Little Miss have been delighting children for generations with their charming and funny antics. Bold illustrations and funny stories make Mr Men and Little Miss the perfect story time experience for children aged two up. Have you met them all?
The Book of Records
Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much tim? ina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Lives of Voyagers encyclopaedia series. In this mysterious and shape-shifting building, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her unusual neighbours: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth-century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany fleeing Nazi persecution; and Jupiter, a poet of Tang Dynasty China, and through their stories, she comes to understand the role of fate in history and the way that ideas can shape the world, and to face up to the cost wrought on her family and others by her father's betrayals. Profound, adventurous, and with extraordinary subtlety of thought, The Book of Records explores our search for home and the place of faith and humanity in our world. A work of huge originality and heft, it shows the great novelist Madeleine Thien at her most ambitious and enriching.
Kroniky prachu, 3. vydání
Animant nezajímá svět šatů, plesů a pozlátka. Ona miluje knihy a příběhy, takže po nabídce pracovat měsíc v univerzitní knihovně v Londýně skočí všemi deseti.
V obklopení tolika knihami se však jen těžko dokáže soustředit na své pracovní povinnosti. Její už tak rozptýlenou pozornost narušuje i vrchní knihovník – nejprotivnější muž na světě, se kterým není lehké vyjít. Přesto v ní začne probouzet city, které předtím neznala...
Borrowed Land
This is the story of a Scottish glen and its inhabitants, and of how I came to call it my glen.
From the powerful rivers that bring life and prosperity, to the Pictish cairns, undisturbed for centuries and the meadows of bluebells, from which deer emerge, god-like, in a flash, Kapka Kassabova reveals a world that has been abused, but remains achingly beautiful and alive.
In the Highlands, centuries-old connections between the land, nature and people have been, and continue to be, shaken by the forces of colonialism, industry, depopulation and private property speculation.
Borrowed Land tells the stories of those who are working against this disconnect: the last true Highlanders, fighting to preserve their home.
Girl on Girl
Cosmetic surgeries are at an all-time high, Ozempic is bringing back 'heroin chic' and the manosphere on the rise - after four waves of feminism, what went wrong?
Despite decades of progress, modern womanhood feels more challenging than ever. Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert reveals how today's misogyny emerged from another turbulent era: the late 90s and early 2000s.
Spanning the past thirty years of pop culture - from Madonna to Taylor Swift, #GirlBoss to OnlyFans, Real Housewives to trad-wives - Girl on Girl shows how every form of media, heavily influenced by the rise of porn, has warped women's relationships with themselves and others.
We cannot move forward without fully reckoning with the ways pop culture has defined us - this book shows us how.
Blush
Makeup is empowering. It’s a means of experimentation, reinvention, provocation, disguise, and protection. It can be ‘barely there’ or transform someone’s appearance entirely. And in the hands of the finest practitioners, it can traverse into a whole other fantasy land.
Blush is the very first global survey to celebrate the most exciting makeup artists working today. Nominated by a panel of industry experts, including editors, stylists, photographers, and art directors, the 75 featured artists range from famed professionals, such as Lisa Eldridge, Pati Dubroff, Sandhya Shekar, Sir John, and Charlotte Tilbury, to emerging talent, such as Bernicia Boateng, Sean Brady, Raisa Flowers, Valentina Li, and Oh Seong Seok. Each artist is profiled with a full-page spread featuring multiple images – red carpet looks, brand campaigns, beauty editorials, and more – along with an insightful short text, presented together in a vibrant, fresh-feeling layout.
Every turn of the page yields new inspiration: readers will discover a dizzyingly diverse array of styles, revealing how today’s talent utilizes tone, texture, and technique to craft distinctive looks. Many of the featured artists subvert traditional notions of beauty, using faces as their canvas for experimentation.
Beautifully designed and brilliantly curated, Blush showcases the work of a phenomenally creative field like never before.
The Sisterhood Rules
'With her renowned clever wit and masterful (mistress-ful) wordplay, Lette delights us all yet again. Read this and know you are in the hands of a wise feminist who makes you laugh out loud!' Suzie Miller, award-winning author of PRIMA FACIEThe Sisterhood Rules:1. Never let a man come between you2. Share all your secrets3. Live life to the fullest - girls just wanna have funFor twin sisters Isabel and Verity, the sisterhood rules were shattered when Verity had an affair with Izzy’s husband. Unforgivable, right? Devastated by her sister’s betrayal, Izzy casts Verity into social Siberia. But when their mother goes missing, Verity and Izzy are forced to come together again to find her. And then the estranged sisters’ problems only get bigger. Their mother has a new younger lover and where there’s a will… he’d clearly like to be in it. Can they stop their mother making a dreadful mistake? And in doing so find a way to bury the pain of the pas? ull of laugh-out-loud humour and devastating pathos, Kathy Lette’s brilliant new novel takes us on a roller-coaster ride which proves that from pain comes healing, from honesty comes forgiveness, and that nothing is more important than your sisters. PRAISE FOR KATHY LETTE:‘Deliciously rude and darkly funny’ Nicole Kidman‘Unputdownable’ Stephen Fry'Kathy’s wit and clarity feel timely and necessary' Isla Fisher ‘The thinking lady’s hornbag’ Kath and Kim'Had me laughing out loud from page one' Adam Hills'I loved every fierce, frothy line of feminist inspiration' Tina Brown'An absolute riot!' Jane Fallon
Bum Fish
This mischievous, heartwarming tale has become an international bestseller and an instant classic!Everyone tells Bum Fish that his face looks like a bum.It does, but he can't help it.Sick of being the butt of the joke, Bum Fish goes on an adventure to the bottom of the sea, where he meets a fish even more unusual than he is...Praise for Bum Fish:'A story overflowing with humour, a marvellous ode to difference, unconventional beauty and friendship' Le Parisien'A whimsical and diverting tale of self-love' Kirkus Reviews
