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The Bells of Nagasaki
‘A book that everyone should read’ The Times
A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki – and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.
On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them.
Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once the city’s university hospital, Takashi bundles together a tattered group of survivors. Doctors, nurses, students, each with their own losses, their own fears for the future: they work tirelessly at the impossible task of aiding the countless wounded and easing the deaths of those they cannot save. They remain determined to heal their fallen city, to find solace and hope among the rubble, even as a strange and growing sickness begins to claim them.
Eyewitness to one of the most fatal events in human history, this is Takashi’s record, written from his sickbed – a chilling historical document, and undeniable evidence of the capacity for human kindness.
Published now in the UK to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM RICHARD LLOYD PARRY
The Eleventh Hour
Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities
If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.
‘Salman Rushdie is a genius’ A.M. Homes
Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy during national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight's Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English university college, an undead academic asks a lonely student to avenge his former tormentor.
These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home – India, England and America – and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life.
Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
The Memory Police
On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . .
Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those who remember live in fear of the Memory Police.
To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river, or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed.
When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?
Nuts About Nuts
A laugh-out-loud counting adventure with a squirrel who just can’t get enough nuts! Nuts About Nuts is a hilarious book about a determined squirrel who is on a mission to collect as many nuts as possible . . . because one is never enough. Squirrel LOVES nuts – many, many nuts. Follow Squirrel on a hilarious adventure as they gather more and more nuts for their secret stash, determined to keep every last one to themselves. Watch the chaos unfold as Squirrel struggles to haul ALL the nuts up the hill to their hiding place. But what happens when a passing bird feels peckish? Can Squirrel learn that sharing might be even better than hoarding? Children will love counting along as Squirrel’s nut collection grows from one to one hundred . . . and then tumbles back down again. Open the stunning gatefold spread to reveal just how ‘nuts about nuts’ Squirrel really is! This clever design invites kids to engage with the story and practice their counting skills in a playful, hands-on way. Packed with humour, energy and adorable illustrations by Bia Melo, Nuts About Nuts is the perfect picture book for young children learning to count – and learning to share.
Dylan, Daisy and the Disco Ball: A sparkling tale about self-confidence and finding your groove!
Discover how two best friends get into the groove at their first school disco . . . with just a little help from a sparkling diva! As soon as Dylan walks into his first school disco with his friend Daisy, his feet start to tap and he feels incredible. Soon he''s shimmying and shaking on the dance floor. He''s having a fantastic time until he realises that everyone has stopped to look at him. Dylan is embarrassed and his toe-tapping boogie suddenly stops. High above, the disco ball is watching. Not wanting Dylan''s confidence to be dampened, the disco ball shines and sparkles especially brightly. Someone else''s feet start tapping too-it''s Daisy! With a little encouragement from her, Dylan returns to the dance floor. Their boogieing is contagious-soon all their classmates are on the dance floor too in this empowering story about dance, over-coming self-consciousness and letting it all go from the author of The Dress in the Window!
Comic Destiny
Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.In The Comic Destiny, Ben Okri brings together poetry and story in a fascinating new form, the ‘stoku’, which offers a key to the true spirit of our times. Refined over many years, these stokus are deceptively simple. They are to be slowly savoured: a new kind of music is being played. They point towards a deeper truth, a more transcendent way of looking at our existence.Each tale is a tiny epic, a delicate world in itself. They flow easily, but burn slowly. When strung together they form a necklace of enigmas, and offer unusual glimpses of freedom.
Age of Magic
Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious mountain village. Eight film-makers arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain.Over the course of three days and two nights, the travellers will find themselves drawn into the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake. One by one, they will be disturbed, enlightened, and transformed, each in a different way.The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.
Salutation Road
* An Esquire Best Book of the Summer *‘Beautiful, thought-provoking and meaningful’ - Nussaibah Younis, Women''s Prize 2025 shortlisted author of Fundamentally''A bold, intriguing act of imagination'' - Aube Rey Lescure, Women''s Prize shortlisted author of River East, River West‘We may look the same, but I am not you . . . We share nothing but a reflection in the mirror’Twenty-three-year-old Sirad Ali is a woman adrift. Abandoned by her father in childhood, doing her best to support her mother and younger brother in their small flat in South London, she can’t help but wonder if this is the life she really wants.One morning, Sirad boards her bus to work and finds herself transported to an alternate timeline in present-day Mogadishu. Over the course of a single day, under the sweltering East African sun, Sirad must contend with a lost reality. There she encounters an almost unrecognizable version of her family and comes face to face with her double, Ubah – the woman she could have been, had her parents never fled to London during the Somali Civil War.Back home in Greenwich, Sirad must go on with life, consumed by all she now knows. But then Ubah mysteriously appears in London, and Sirad begins to understand that nothing will ever be the same again . . .Salutation Road by Salma Ibrahim is a beautifully told literary debut for fans of Nadifa Mohamed and Mohsin Hamid.
Some People
Unfortunately, some people are family...Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughter''s soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan Whitlock, playing nurse in her home while she recuperates. And yet her doctor insists on in-home supervision for seven days, and with her daughter, Kavya, studying in India, Nathan proves too much of a do-gooder to let Malti rehabilitate alone. They want nothing to do with one another. But over the course of the week, as Malti grapples with the shadows of her past and Nathan ponders the wreckage of his marriage, they learn that they are the two people who know Kavya best - and the ones who have hurt her so deeply that she''s left them both entirely.Rich with emotional depth, Some People paints a nuanced portrait of love, forgiveness and our timeless quest for understanding and acceptance.
Let Sleeping Cats Lie - Pet Poems
A hilarious collection of pet poems by wordplay wizard Brian Bilston. When you''ve got a bad case of the ''mews'' and are in desperate need of a ''pup''-lifting read, this book is the ''ulti-mutt'' remedy!Please don’t think me lazy,I’m not trying to slack –it’s just that I’m stuck, you see,under this cat.This collection of poems focuses on the hilarious happenings in the lives of our furry - and not so furry - friends. Stars include Wilf, the hypnotist Labracadabrador, a philosophically inclined goldfish penning a profound haiku, a hen named Barbara receiving an adoring tribute, and an ''octopussy'' cat that seems to have all its paws in plenty of odd little pies.The perfect gift for a dog person, cat person and every pet lover in between.
Churchill’s Pirates
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PATHFINDERS'SUPERB... RICH IN HUMAN DRAMA' James Holland | 'EXCITING AND IMPORTANT'Dan Snow | 'REVELATORY AND THRILLING'Saul David | 'HIS FINEST ACHIEVEMENT YET... THIS IS HISTORY AT FULL THROTTLE'Guy Walters | 'RIGOROUSLY RESEARCHED AND HIGHLY READABLE'Kate Jamieson Just after midnight on Saturday, 2 September 1939, under overcast skies at Wilhelmshaven naval base in north-west Germany, a German U-boat quietly slipped out of its berth and into the North Sea. This was the first of a concentrated onslaught of submarines and airplanes determined to win WW2 by transforming the peaceful shipping lanes and fishing spots around Britain into treacherous mine-studded waters.As those first mines found their marks, capsizing innocent shipping vessels just off the coast, the nation called its men and women to join in its defence. The result was a rag-tag group of sailors and volunteers that came to form a ‘navy within a navy’ – the Royal Naval Patrol Service.These motley crews grew into a force of 70,000 men and women manning and supporting a fleet of 6,000 ships. Using converted fishing vessels, pleasure yachts and trawlers, they cleared sea mines, escorted merchant vessels across frozen northern waters, hunted submarines off the coast of America, undertook secret missions in the Mediterranean and heroically rescued soldiers at Dunkirk, working day and night to keep Britain safe in her darkest hour.Drawing on fascinating first-hand accounts with surviving veterans, exclusive interviews, original papers and new archive material, Will Iredale brings us onto the decks of these small brave ships, onto the beaches where boffins worked to crack German engineering and into clandestine war room meetings where Winston Churchill worked to coordinate the pivotal moments that transformed the war and helped secure victory for the allies to tell the defining story of an overlooked unit of ordinary people that played a pivotal role in saving the country and winning the war.
Newes of Witches
From the bestselling author of Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month The Specimens comes a new historic novel set during the Scottish witch trials filled with confessions and betrayal.Rural Scotland, 1629. Amidst the bogs and corn fields, children are going missing, and others seem to have fallen under a malevolent spell. When a young serving girl is imprisoned on suspicion of witchcraft, it falls on healer and midwife Catrona to uncover the truth behind the matter.However, investigation only raises more questions, and soon a violent truth comes to light which threatens to upend local life. As tensions in the community reach a fever pitch, allegiances shift, lives unravel, and Catrona struggles to save the life of an innocent girl. But in a village gripped by fear and paranoia, this may demand the greatest sacrifice of all.
Book of Lost Hours
A sweeping, cinematic historical fantasy about memory and community for fans of The Ministry of Time, The Midnight Library and The Book Thief._________________''If you loved The Ministry of Time, you''ll adore this!'' SUN ON SUNDAY''Cold-war spy thriller, soaring fantasy and heart-rending romance. Captivating'' IRISH INDEPENDENT''A love story that defies the boundaries of time, memory and reality'' Patti Callahan Henry_________________Nuremberg, 1938. Lisavet Levy''s watchmaker father saves her from the Nazis by pushing her through a mysterious doorway. There, she discovers the Time Space - a vast, magical library where the memories of everyone who has ever lived are stored in books. Her father promises to follow, but he never comes.Trapped in the library, she encounters timekeepers, who decide whose memories survive and whose are destroyed.Lisavet tries to save as many memories as she can, but when she falls in love with a timekeeper, the whole course of history could be at stake...___________________Readers are loving The Book of Lost Hours''Truly such an incredible book''''It soars because of the characters''''Hard to put down''''Clever, beautiful, genre-bending''''A fabulous debut''
Time Travel Sleepover: Ancient Rome
Pack your bag for a fun sleepover in ancient Rome! Join two friends and their cheeky ginger cat as they travel back in time. There, they meet Roman brother and sister, Marcus and Flavia. Together, they: Explore their home and the ancient city of Rome Dress up in togas Visit a Roman doctor Watch a gladiator fight Feast with the family And they end their day with a fun sleepover! What are the parts of a Roman house called? What were the toilets like? Why did Romans cover themselves in olive oil? What happened in the Temple of Vesta? Which emperor declared himself a god? And why was it polite to burp after dinner? Discover how Roman kids lived with this book full of colourful and flashy speech bubbles, fact files, maps and pull-out gatefold spread. Make history fun in this playful introduction to life in Ancient Rome!
Šepot kolibříka
Po tragické smrti rodičů Alexandra přijde o domov i o pocit bezpečí. Ve snaze postavit se znovu na nohy pracuje po nocích v supermarketu, kde pozná Dalibora – staršího muže, který jí nabídne útěchu, jistotu a možnost na chvíli zapomenout. Jenže bezpečný přístav, který u něj nalezla, se postupně začne rozpadat. Alex se propadá do vztahu plného manipulace, alkoholu a násilí, ze kterého není snadné uniknout. Když zjistí, že je těhotná, rozhodne se alespoň tentokrát bojovat za každou cenu. Někdy ale stačí jediný okamžik, aby se celý život obrátil naruby. Kolik bolesti člověk vydrží, než přestane věřit, že si zaslouží něco lepšího? A jak dlouho zvládne kolibřík tlouct křídly, než vyčerpáním spadne k zemi?
Krásné zelené oči, 3. vydání
Hance Kaudersové, patnáctileté plaché zrzce se zelenýma očima, nikdo v polním nevěstinci neřekne jinak než Kůstka. Jako jediná z celé rodiny přežila vyhlazovací tábor Auschwitz-Birkenau a nyní se snaží za každou cenu zůstat na živu. Výrazný, napínavý příběh vypovídá o bezbřehé lidské krutosti, jak fyzické, tak duchovní.
Tento román vyšel poprvé v roce 2000 v USA a ve Velké Británii, kde byl velice kladně hodnocen kritikou i čtenáři. Pro české vydání autor knihu zrevidoval a doplnil o pasáže, které v zahraničí publikované dílo neobsahovalo. Roku 2003 byl román navržen na Pulitzerovu cenu.
Český lékopis 2023 – Doplněk 2026
Český lékopis 2023 – Doplněk 2026 (ČL 2023 – Dopl. 2026) je třetím doplňkem Českého lékopisu 2023. Je závaznou právní normou stanovující požadavky na jakost, postup při přípravě, zkoušení, skladování a dávkování léčiv, podle které se závazně postupuje od 1. 9. 2026. V tištěné podobě se jedná o jediný svazek, k dispozici je také v elektronické formě.
Elektronická verze ČL 2023 – Dopl. 2026 zahrnuje kompletní vydání, tedy všechny platné lékopisné texty ČL 2023 a tří doplňků (2024, 2025 a 2026). Byly vypuštěny neplatné texty a doplněny texty nové, počet stran elektronické verze tedy neodpovídá počtu stran tištěné podoby.
ČL 2023 – Dopl. 2026 obsahuje v Evropské části lékopisu překlady vybraných textů aktualizovaných ke třem vydáním dvanácté edice Evropského lékopisu [Issue 12.1 (01/2026), Issue 12.2 (04/2026), Issue 12.3 (07/2026)]. Národní část lékopisu obsahuje česká specifika.
ČL 2023 – Dopl. 2026 je závaznou právní normou zejména pro farmaceuty, lékaře, veterinární lékaře, chemiky, biochemiky, biology, laboranty a osoby podílející se na přípravě, výrobě, kontrole, hodnocení a skladování léčiv. Je nezbytnou pomůckou ve všech lékárnách a laboratořích pro zkoušení léčivých a pomocných látek u všech výrobců a distributorů léčiv.
Měl by být k dispozici zejména u krajských a městských veterinárních správ, farmaceutických fakult, Ministerstva zdravotnictví, Ministerstva zemědělství, Ministerstva průmyslu a obchodu, Státního ústavu pro kontrolu léčiv, Ústavu pro státní kontrolu veterinárních biopreparátů a léčiv a dalších podobných institucí.
The Midnight Shift
Love is the most despicable excuse.On the lonely outskirts of Seoul, reports come in of a series of suicides at a hospital. The strange and bloodless nature of the elderly victims is dismissed by most, but not Detective Suyeon. As Suyeon begins her investigation, a mysterious woman named Violette appears at the crime scene and gives Suyeon the answer: a vampire did it. The two women begin the hunt for an ancient, supernatural culprit which, in turn, reveals a landscape of modern isolation in a dark, nocturnal Seoul. But as the investigation unfurls, past and present romance and loneliness intertwine it becomes increasingly clear that they, too, are being hunted.Sometimes the monsters we seek are less frightening than being alone. The Midnight Shift is a gripping mystery, overflowing with commentary about societal isolation and loneliness, the sharp knife of grief, and the effects of marginalization, perfect for readers of Cursed Bunny; Woman, Eating; and A Certain Hunger.
All the Way to the River
'No one who reads this book will ever forget it' Meg Mason'An absolute masterclass and truth-bomb . I think many people will be shaken awake by this book' Emma Gannon'This book has changed my life' Fearne CottonEat Pray Love encouraged us to live authentically. Big Magic taught us how to trust our creative instincts. All the Way to the River shows us how creativity can remake a life.Elizabeth Gilbert's journey has inspired millions. Let it inspire you. In her most intimate memoir yet, Gilbert shows how the love that shatters you can also awaken you - and lead you to the most peaceful, creative and spiritually rich season of life yet. 'With Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert started a movement ... this new memoir is just as powerful. She bares her soul, sharing her truth so openly, she offers readers the courage to face their own' Oprah Winfrey
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