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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
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.
The Pizza Shape Book
The world is full of shapes. Big ones. Small ones. And pizza ones. When cats and dogs aren’t asleep or chasing sticks, they’re thinking about the big questions. In this fun, first graphic novel style series about friendship and discovery, we meet Mog and Morris, two furry friends who love to ponder about the world around them. They think about all kinds of interesting stuff and how it works. In The Pizza Shape Book, Mog and Morris are thinking all about shapes; like, what is a shape? How many shapes are there? Is ham a shape? They discover that everything has a shape, including pizza.
Happy Dog, Sad Dog
From a hairy dog to a bald dog, or a big dog to a little dog, discover the delightful doggy pairs on each page!Little ones will have so much fun learning first words and opposites in this paw-some board book by Sam Lloyd, illustrator of the classic Calm Down, Boris!. Bright, adorable illustrations accompany the opposite pairs on each page to create the perfect learning experience for toddlers. Includes a handy guide for parents to explore how to read with their child, created by BookTrust, the UK''s largest reading charity - perfect for introducing fun, interactive ways to elevate a child''s reading experience.
The Secret History of Gold
Gold (noun): A precious, yellow metal, prized for its beauty. Inert, immune to corrosion, highly malleable though with little utility. Seen as pure wealth.
The definitive biography of the metal that has shaped our world - and may yet determine its fate.
The Secret History of Gold tells the epic tale of the world's oldest, and most treasured, currency. From its origins in the formation of the solar system to its pivotal role in both ancient myth and modern finance, Dominic Frisby explores, with wit and brevity, how gold has defined the entire course of human civilisation.
Gold has inspired men to do the most brilliant - and terrible - things. The most stolen metal in history, it has lured explorers, conquerors and thieves. It has sparked wars, it has built empires, it has empowered leaders - from Alexander the Great to Adolf Hitler - good and bad. As nations today such as China and Russia mine and hoard gold at record rates, Frisby examines its enduring significance in the digital age and its potential to influence global peace and power.
This is the untold story of gold: its past, its present and its future.
Norwegian Wood
A beautiful special edition of the haunting, enigmatic love story which is Murakami's bestselling title throughout the world.
Autumn 1969, and soon I would be 20.
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire – to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - nine masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.
TRANSLATED BY JAY RUBIN
The Book of Beasts
A modern bestiary with an ancient heart: meet twelve emblematic animals and restore your relationship with the natural world, from the editor of Cunning Folk.
The bear deities, Artio and Artaius, who’ll rise from sleep; the salmon of wisdom who gifts understanding of the universe’s past, present and future; the Lion Man carved 40,000 years ago. Join Elizabeth Sulis Kim as she travels across the globe and through time, from our deep past into the future, bringing together the animals which have captivated us for millennia.
Steeped in folklore, mythology, magic and religion, The Book of Beasts tells the story of our shapeshifting relationships with animals, from reverence to persecution, friendship to fear, awe to indifference. It asks us what we actually know about the creatures we share this world with – and offers us a different way of living together.
Botanical Watercolour Art Pad
This beautiful and inspiring book gives you everything you need to create your own stunning watercolour paintings.
Discover 15 original compositions by artist Harriet de Winton outlined on high-quality art paper, which you can paint directly onto to create your own watercolour artworks of plants, insects and animals.
First, learn about the watercolour basics and work through four guided projects to master all the techniques needed. Then find inspiration in the gallery of Harriet's finished artworks before creating your own beautiful botanical paintings.
Homo Criminalis
Crime doesn't just pay, it tells. What we choose to ban, penalise or prosecute says something about us; and how far the mobsters and mafias are still able to ply their trades says something about us, too.
Homo Criminalis tells a thrilling tale of the world's changing values, the rise of the state and the emergence of modern society, through the evolution of the underworld and its crimes. From Chinese banditry and eighteenth-century English tea smuggling to today's cocaine submarines and the high-tech crimes of tomorrow, this book aims to shows just how far society has changed - and how crime has changed with us.
Often considered marginal or an aberration, we'll see how the power structures and power struggles of the criminal world have actually worked to drive progress, forming the necessary dark underbelly of humanity's evolution.
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.
Moderní učebnice hry na elektrickou kytaru
Knihai pro vaše snadné začátky s elektrickou kytarou. Nezáleží na vašem věku či vzdělání, záleží pouze na touze naučit se hrát tak, abyste dokázali zahrát vaše oblíbené sólo či doprovodit známou písničku. Elektrická kytara je geniální nástroj právě v tom, že je potřeba především vaše odhodlání vzít ji do ruky, přemluvit vlastní zpočátku neohrabané prstíky, aby se správně poskládaly na struny, a začít hrát. Potěšení ze hry se dostaví velmi brzy.
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Terka v nemocnici
Terka si zlomila nohu a musí ísť do nemocnice. Našťastie je pri nej mama. Dievčatko čoskoro zistí, že doktorov sa báť netreba. Injekcia je len drobné štipnutie, röntgen odhalí dôležité veci a operáciu človek ani nevníma, pretože ju prespí. Keď sa zobudí, je síce omámený, no ak potrebuje pomoc, stlačí gombík, a o chvíľu sa ukáže sestrička. Až nastane vhodná chvíľa, malá pacientka dostane sadru a barle. A keďže sa naučí aj správne cvičiť, pretože len tak môže noha opäť zosilnieť, všetko je na dobrej ceste k uzdraveniu. Dokonca sa prihodí čosi neočakávané - Terka si tu nájde novú kamarátku.
Aktivity a hry s vnoučaty - Kniha pro babičku a dědečka
Společný čas s vnoučaty nemusí být složitý ani drahý. Tato kniha přináší jednoduché aktivity, tvoření, hry a pokusy, pohybové aktivity i nápady na klidné společné chvíle, které zabaví děti i prarodiče — doma i venku, bez obrazovek a dlouhých příprav, pro různé věkové skupiny. Najdete v ní inspiraci na společné chvíle plné radosti, fantazie a vzpomínek, na které se nezapomíná. Kniha je vytvořená tak, aby podporovala dětskou fantazii, radost ze společně stráveného času a posilovala vztah mezi generacemi.
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Catalina
‘Sparkling’ NEW YORK TIMES‘Magnetic’ IRA GLASS‘Fierce’ TIMEWhen Catalina, a witty, vulnerable and beautiful Ecuadorian student, arrives at Harvard, she feels like one of the chosen. She is a miracle child who has escaped death in Latin America to be raised by undocumented grandparents and now studies at the most prestigious university in the world. She knows she has to play the part, but she also wants to have a good time in the process. And so begins her era of opulent parties, secret societies, desirable internships, flings with rich men and plenty of vodka sodas.But in her final year, undocumented immigrants become the target of political turmoil and Catalina’s life back in New York begins to unravel. As the clock ticks on the precarious future of her family, what will she sacrifice to save the people she loves the most?Catalina is a daring, glamorous and sharply observed campus novel about coming into your own and the endless possibilities of freedom, love and power.'She is a worthy student of Gabriel García Márquez' The Atlantic'[A] fresh and unflinching take on the campus novel' PEOPLE'Destined to be a contemporary American classic' FRANCISCO GOLDMAN, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Monkey Boy
Authority
'A rigorous thinker armed with a killer turn of phrase'Observer'Her writing is razor-sharp, personal, and vociferous in its proclamations, but it’s also fun – it’s got bite'New Statesman'A galaxy-brain-level thinker' Torrey PetersA bold, provocative collection of essays by a Pulitzer winner on one of the most urgent questions of our time: what is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?This book brings together sharp, illuminating essays on everything from musical theatre to sci-fi novels, as well as an acclaimed tetralogy of personal essays. Throughout, Andrea Long Chu defies the imperative to leave politics out of art, charging fellow critics with complacent humanism and modelling how the left might brave the culture wars with both its faculty of judgment and its sense of justice intact.'A pure joy to read'Claire Dederer'Provocative, beautiful and addictive… I couldn't stop reading'Angela Saini'Thrilling... Authority reminds us we haven't yet felt all there is to feel'Kaveh Akbar
Freyja
'A thrilling mystery under a cold Icelandic sun. This beauty is an absolute page-turner.' - Satu Rämö, author of The Clues in the Fjord'An Icelandic tale, a haunting mystery, and a paean to the messy bonds of family.' - Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women'A spectacularly eerie crime novel . . . had me turning pages late into the night!' - Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites__________________________________________________________Years ago, a child went missing. Now it might happen again.Unnur is a single mother to her beloved daughter, Lilja, and lives a deliberately quiet life in Reykjavík, working at a bakery under a fake name and trying to forget the last summer of her childhood. But when her ex-husband returns to Iceland with his new girlfriend, Unnur's carefully crafted reality begins to fray.Because years ago, Unnur's childhood best friend, Freyja, disappeared and maybe this new woman had something to do with it. Maybe she might do the same thing to Unnur's daughter.Faced with the risk of losing her daughter, Unnur must look to her past and remember what happened all those years ago. Where did Freyja go? And what did Unnur do?Steeped in Icelandic folklore and myth, Freyja is at once a gripping story of a child's disappearance, a testament to the power of a mother's love, and an enthralling tale of redemption and forgiveness from a gifted new voice.__________________________________________________________ 'An eerie novel that will keep you up late into the night.' - Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child'Mythic and atmospheric . . . A twisty, compelling read.' - Janelle Brown, author of What Kind of Paradise'A haunting, hypnotic novel . . .' - Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman'A dark, glittering jewel of a debut.' - Crystal Hana Kim, author of The Stone Home'There's plenty of terror-and even more love-in these pages.' - Gin Phillips, author of Ruby Falls'Original, stunning, and unforgettable.' - Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Counting Backwards'Freyja will chill you to the bone. . .' - Melissa Larsen, author of The Lost House
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