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Rainbow Wales
Who are the Queer figures, past and present, who have made, and continue to make, Welsh history? Discover the diverse array of LGBTQ+ figures influencing Wales – and the world – in an exploration of the household names and hidden icons who have shaped their fields and driven forward Queer representation. From Jan Morris to Ivor Novello, Kenneth Williams to Callum Scott Howells, Jess Fishlock to Lauren Price, via Terrence Higgins, The Vivienne and Owain Wyn Evans, Welsh people have marked the breadth and variety of Queer achievement. Rainbow Wales is an exciting, inspiring tour of figures from culture and sport to politics and activism, and a jubilant exploration of the rich tapestry of Queer identity in Wales.
The Wisdom of Charlotte Bronte
‘Cheerfulness is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.’From Jane Eyre to Lucy Snowe, Charlotte Brontë’s heroines think deeply on how to live a fulfilling life, often expressing passionate beliefs, heartfelt advice and pragmatic philosophy. This inspirational selection of short quotations, revealing their – and their author’s – innermost thoughts on early Victorian times, remains surprisingly relevant to us today. Drawn from Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley and The Professor, the quotations cover a wide range of themes including happiness, love, feminism, work, truth, feelings and prejudice. This thought-provoking book, first published in 1912, is a delightful gift for anyone who loves to read Brontë’s novels.
Berlin
Written by one of the world's leading experts on the Eastern Front, this captivating history explores the final battle for Berlin and the heart of Germany. This sweeping saga takes us from the banks of the River Oder as the Red Army begins it relentless drive towards the still beating heart of the Third Reich: Berlin. Only the Seelow Heights stood between the Soviet forces and the capital. Over the course of three days in May 1945 almost one million Soviet troops would attack these final entrenched positions. Once these defences were breached it was guaranteed that a bitter street-by-street battle would take place in the city itself between a vengeful Red Army and desperate, fanatical Nazis until final capitulation. Using vivid first-hand accounts, Prit Buttar reveals the brutal combat that defined the final death throes of the Third Reich. Not only was the outcome of the war at stake. As the Red Army rolled into Berlin this was already a foregone conclusion even if it would take its toll in blood. Already battle lines for the forthcoming Cold War were being drawn. Stalin, fearful that the Western Powers would not honour their agreements, was determined to have boots on the ground to ensure his control of what would become the Soviet occupation zone. Berlin: Endgame 1945 is the brilliant account of the ferocious climax to World War II and a chilling prologue to the Cold War.
Win, Lose or Die
*From the acclaimed author of Ragged Edge*Road racers don't race for money; they race for the sheer rush of it. Skimming stone walls at speeds of over 200mph on bumpy, treacherous public roads with no room for errors offers a buzz like nothing else on earth. This is sport at its rawest, fastest, and most lethal. The Isle of Man TT and motorcycle road racing events like the North West 200, the Ulster Grand Prix, the Macau Grand Prix, and the Cookstown 100 are known for their uncompromising brutality and provide some of the greatest highs and the most tragic of lows seen in any sporting field. There are only three possible outcomes for riders: win, lose, or die. It's that basic; it's that savage. Over the years, some of the biggest names in motorcycle racing have tackled 'pure roads' events, including Geoff Duke, Mike Hailwood, Giacomo Agostini, Joey Dunlop, Carl Fogarty, and even the great Barry Sheene. Their modern counterparts, like John McGuinness and Michael Dunlop, continue to push speeds higher and higher, the risks increasing with every mph gained, year on year. Faster, faster, faster. Through a host of exclusive interviews with riders, mechanics, team bosses, and race organisers, Win, Lose or Die takes readers behind the scenes of one of the world's most dangerous sports, revealing the triumphs and tragedies, the blood, the guts, the sweat, and the tears that are involved in winning a road race. This is extreme sport at its most extreme and the definitive look at the biggest, most lethal, motorcycle road races from around the world.
Fairy Door Diaries: Eliza and the Hobgoblins
Eliza's second adventure on the other side of the fairy door is packed with tricks, pranks and mischievous hobgoblins – an enchanting tale by the award-winning author of the Judy Moody series. What’s that? Eliza hears faint music coming from behind the teeny-tiny fairy door in her room. So she presses her ear to the door and – shwoosh! –is whisked into the red, rocky land of hobgoblins, leaving behind her messy room and her mother's orders to clean up! Luckily, Eliza discovers that the pointy-hatted hobs love to play, love a mess and can grant wishes. But when she wishes that Hobby, Nobby and Tobby would help clean her room, she learns that what hobgoblins actually love is playing tricks. Maybe Eliza needs to play a trick of her own to put an end to their mischief-making...
Good Girl, Bad Blood
The New York Times and Sunday Times best-selling, brilliantly crafted crime-thriller sequel to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES. 🎧 Pip Fitz-Amobi is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared but the police won’t do anything about it. And if they won’t look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town’s dark secrets along the way. But will she find him before it’s too late? The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series is perfect for fans of The Inheritance Games and One of Us Is Lying 🎧 All the books in the AGGGTM series: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Good Girl, Bad Blood As Good as Dead Kill Joy Stand alone YA thrillers from Holly Jackson: Five Survive The Reappearance of Rachel Price Good Girl, Bad Blood was a YA Sunday Times list on 5th May 2020
The Night of the Scourge
A riveting and epic family drama set in WWII-era Norway, award-winning author Lars Mytting's The Night of the Scourge is the final novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogyButangen, Norway, the years before WWII: Astrid Hekne has inherited the fighting spirit and hypersensitivity of her grandmother, who was a protector of the mythic Sister Bells that had once hung in the village's centuries-old stave church. The once-traitorous priest Kai Schweigaard, now in his eighties, is wondering how his death, prophesied in a centuries-old tapestry, will come to pass. He delves into the myths about the Night of the Scourge, which, according to old village beliefs, is when the known world will fall and the Earth will be scraped down to bare rock. Then Norway is occupied by the Nazis. Astrid joins the Resistance, and Kai is thrown out of his own church. Betrayal within Astrid's own family unites the Sister Bells in Dresden. Special effort and sacrifice, not only from the Hekne family, will be needed to combat the postwar rumours and mistrust. This family drama, set in the tumultuous times of WWII, beautifully completes the Sister Bells trilogy. But while it connects to the previous books in surprising and thrilling ways, it can also be read as a standalone, a grand and epic novel that intertwines Norwegian folklore and myths with a rich story of hardship and passion. Translated from the Norwegian by Deborah DawkinPraise for The Bell in the Lake - a Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month"A beautiful example of modern Norwegian folklore" Guardian "Lyrical, melancholy and with beautifully drawn characters" Daily Mail"Mytting's cleverly crafted story heads inexorably to a moving conclusion" Sunday Times
How to Fly
A unique and all-encompassing exploration of the wonders of flight and the way different species have evolved different solutions to the problem of defying gravity – including humans. Flight fascinates us. We thrill to birds, we adore butterflies, we’re baffled by bats and we can hardly believe in pterodactyls. We worship angels and we compare love, religious ecstasy and artistic achievement to flight. We love the idea of flight so much we invented machines that at last allowed us to fly. Many died to make human flight possible. In How to Fly, bestselling writer Simon Barnes brings together all aspects of aerial life – evolution, technology, mythology, religion, nature and imagination – in a celebration of the wonders of flight. Barnes looks at the physics of flying and how flight has evolved quite separately four times over (or five, if we count humans). He examines how these creatures do it: from the nocturnal agility of bats and the bees that beat their wings 230 times per second, to the extinct reptile quetzalcoatlus with its 10-metre wingspan and the Arctic terns that travel 75,000km every year. He also explores how the great poets, mystics, saints, musicians and athletes have all, in their different ways, succeeded in getting high and getting us high. Sweeping in scope and packed with fresh insights, How to Fly is a book that sets free the eagle within us all. PRAISE FOR SIMON BARNES:'Barnes makes you look and listen with new eyes and ears' STEPHEN FRY'Quite simply, a writer in a class of his own' CLARE BALDING'Barnes describes the wonders of nature with infectious enthusiasm' GUARDIAN'Barnes is a passionate writer on wildlife' DAILY MAIL
Cairo Gambit
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2026'An enthralling thriller ... hypnotically readable' ANDREW TAYLOR'A compelling tale of a world on the brink of war' THE TIMES'Ceaselessly entertaining' OBSERVERIn the heat of the desert, will the trail go col? airo, 1938Archie Nevenden is many things: amateur archaeologist; theatre impresario; absent father; potential defector. And now, he's a missing person. His daughter, Prim, hasn't seen him for nearly fifteen years. But she's never given up on him, and now she's on her way to Cairo to assist in the search. Harry Taverner claims to work for the British Council, but Prim knows there's more to it. He clearly has a theory about what happened to Archie, one she's not going to like. As Prim and Harry uncover the layers of Archie's existence in Cairo, they find themselves drawn in to more than one conspiracy. And soon they'll discover that Archie may not be the only one in danger... Praise for S W Perry:'Powerful, panoramic' Sunday Times'Beautifully written, entirely convincing' Leonora Nattrass'Gripping and heartfelt' Elisabeth Gifford'Sweeping' Daily Mail
First 100 Play Book
Make early learning fun with this jumbo wipe-clean play book, full of engaging activities young children will love!This essential wipe-clean activity book combines first words and core concepts with activities for preschoolers. From word searches and mazes, to pairs, spot the difference and many more!Specially designed to help develop first skills for school, this activity book is filled with vibrant photos that help to develop picture word recognition, while the stimulating activities promote problem solving skills and pen control. There's even a bespoke Priddy Books wipe-clean pen included!Part of the bestselling First 100 Words series, which also includes: First 100 Words; First 100 Animals, First 100 Trucks and many more.
The Silent Island
The second book in the sensational, swashbuckling middle-grade fantasy series full of action, adventure and ancient legends from bestselling author Amelia Mellor. Perfect for fans of Pirates of the Darksea and the Dragon Realm series.?Cori and her friends Jem and Tarn travel to the island of Mutemount to find the next piece of armour that Cori needs to step into her power as Champion of Aquinta. There they meet the island’s people, who have been trapped inside Mutemount’s enormous extinct volcano by monsters called leviathans. However, the leviathans consider themselves caretakers of their ecosystem and believe that they must stop humans from destroying the land.?Cori must convince the humans and the leviathans to understand and forgive one another. With this new-found harmony on the island, will Cori find the piece of armour she desperately needs?
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The Mobius Book
The sudden, devastating breakup of a relationship in the winter of 2021 left Catherine Lacey depressed and adrift. She began cataloguing the wreckage of her life and the beauty of her friendships, a process that led to the writing of fiction that was both entirely imagined and strangely, utterly true. She soon realised that she was writing about her relationship with faith. Betrayed by the mercurial partner she had trusted and suddenly catapulted into the unknown, Lacey's appetite vanished completely, a visceral reminder of the teenage emaciation that followed the ending of her belief in God. Bending form, both she and her fictional characters recall gnostic experiences with animals, close encounters with male anger, grief-driven lust and the redemptive power of platonic love and narrative itself. A hybrid work that is both non-fiction and fiction with no beginning and no ending, The Möbius Book troubles the line between memory and imagination with an open-hearted defence of faith's inherent danger.
Ghosts of Iron Mountain
A Times History Book of the YearHow did America end up trapped in a nightmare of conspiracy theories, in which millions see the government as an evil ‘deep state’?In 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, a group of New York writers concocted what appeared to be a top-secret government report into what would happen to the USA if permanent global peace broke out. Report from Iron Mountain claimed that winding down America’s vast war-making machinery would wreck the economy and tear society apart, necessitating draconian controls over the population. It was published as non-fiction – and was frighteningly convincing. Journalists tried to find out who had written it. Worried memos reached right up to the president. It became a bestselling cause celebre. Even when the hoax was revealed, many refused to believe it wasn’t real. The Report was seized on by eager figures on the far right and in the militia movement, who insisted that it revealed terrifying government conspiracies to pollute the environment, enslave Americans and even instigate eugenics. And its legacy lives on today. Ghosts of Iron Mountain traces this story through a gallery of vivid characters, from the radical academic C. Wright Mills and the writers E.L. Doctorow, Victor Navasky and Leonard Lewin in 1960s New York, to the far-right impresario Willis Carto, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, conspiracy theorist Milton William Cooper,L. Fletcher Prouty (the inspiration for ‘Mr X’ in the film JFK), and ranting broadcaster Alex Jones. This is one of the great stories of our time and reveals how nightmares about its own government drove America crazy.
BEANO Betty and the Yeti: Disasters of Disguise
Come on a series of wild adventures with Betty and Yeti! Are Yeti’s disguises enough to make them blend in, or will the disasters they cause be too much of a giveaway? Yeti has become a slob – a very STINKY slob that just so happens to be messing up Betty's bedroom and disrupting her peace. So when Dad suggests she goes outside more, Betty decides to make it her mission to get Yeti out of her room and experiencing everything Beanotown has to offer … But can Beanotown survive everything Yeti has to offer in return? Join Betty and Yeti for another year of disasters of disguise! "Betty and the Yeti is funny, furry and fantastic! Hilarious and wonderfully silly, Betty and her Yeti are comic heroes in the making. A brilliant book, and Hugh is a certified comic genius!” – Jamie Smart, author of Bunny vs Monkey and Looshkin
Skin
From acting as the body’s first line of defence to regulating body temperature, your skin plays a crucial role in your overall healthJoin consultant dermatologist Dr Emma Craythorne MBChB FRCP as she reveals the science behind your largest vital organ, showing you how to look after your skin through different lifestages, manage common skin-related concerns and conditions, and achieve radiant, resilient skin throughout your life. Packed with research-backed answers to topics including how stress affects acne, what makes up the skin microbiome, and what causes skin to age the quickest, this book will empower you to make informed choices that will benefit your skin and wider wellbeing. Within this comprehensive handbook, you will find:Essential know-how: how the skin works, its functions, and its structureEasy-to-follow advice: how to adapt your diet, sleep, exercise, and skincare regime to keep your skin healthier for longerExpert guidance: how to manage conditions including eczema, acne, and allergiesScience-based insight: how treatments such as botox and chemical peels work and how effective they actually areWhether you’re seeking reassurance on how to manage a skin concern, searching for answers to combat misinformation, or you simply want to uncover the science beneath the surface, this pocket-sized owner’s guide is perfect for anyone looking to understand and protect their skin for decades to come. _________The Body Literacy Library has sold tens of thousands of copies globally. Complete your collection with:Breasts: An Owner’s GuideGut: An Owner’s GuideHeart: An Owner’s GuideBrain: An Owner’s Guide_________Dr Emma Craythorne MBChB FRCP is a consultant dermatologist, laser surgeon, and trustee for the Cosmetic Practice Standards Authority. She is the host of the hugely popular television show Bad Skin Clinic (known as Save My Skin in the USA), now in its eighth series.
Lest We Forget
A moving account of how war is remembered – and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David Olusoga 'Brilliant' Piers Morgan Bestselling historian Tessa Dunlop travels the length and breadth of the United Kingdom on a quest to uncover a story of national warring and national mourning, of fighting each other and of fighting together. Along the way, she summons a stellar cast of veterans, military experts and families of the fallen to reveal what our monuments and war heroes say about us, both then and now. Why did Scotland take nearly 600 years to commemorate its most famous freedom fighter? When did Wellington become anti-Establishment? Who are the Glorious Dead? Can the Cenotaph stay above politics? And how do you commemorate contested, asymmetrical wars? Through powerful veteran testimony from individuals such as Falklands hero Simon Weston and HRH The Duke of Kent, Tessa brings to life the pride and the pain of commemoration across these isles. Lest We Forget, freedom is not free. 'In this wonderfully incisive, moving and timely book about commemoration, Dunlop breathes life into 100 British monuments – some famous, others less so – that together reveal our island story. A stunning achievement.' Saul David
Jaguarman
A moving family and mystical journey into the Amazon rainforest. Born to a Dutch mother and Surinamese father he doesn't know, Raoul is barely thirty when he receives an email: **I AM LOOKING FOR MY SON RAOUL DE JONG ?. ** From this late meeting with his father about his Surinamese ancestry, a mention of a mysterious ancestor who transformed himself into a jaguar, catches the writers attention. Raoul sets out in search of this enigmatic ancestor through the Surinamese jungle. In this quest for the jaguar, the young writer searches for his own humanity in this true optimistic manifesto.
All the Dogs of My Life
From the beloved author of The Enchanted April, this is Elizabeth von Arnim's brilliantly written account of the fourteen pet dogs she owned and loved throughout the years. All the Dogs of My Life has an introduction by Nina Stibbe, bestselling writer and author of Went to London, Took the Dog. From a beloved dachshund to a trouble-seeking Great Dane, via all manner of dogs large and small, obedient and defiant, von Arnim brilliantly captures the bond between dogs and their owners. This witty and often poignant book is the closest the author came to writing a memoir. Despite her frequent exhortations that it wasn’t an autobiography, much is revealed about her fascinating life: her marriages, life in Germany, England and Switzerland, her children and her lovers. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.
Sweet Heartbreak
A swoon-worthy and angst-filled forbidden romance about star-crossed lovers at an elite boarding school, perfect for fans of Maxton Hall and Eden Falls. From the author of YA sports romance sensation Rival Darling Popular. Powerful. Filthy Rich. Noah Hastings is everything I'm not. Our worlds never should have collided, but when my long-lost father reappears my life is flipped upside down. It turns out, he's ridiculously wealthy, and without warning he plucks me from my simple life and throws me into a world of excess. He's sending me to the most elite boarding school in the country, where money and status mean everything. He gives me only one rule while I'm there – stay away from Noah Hastings. It should be a simple request. Noah is the king of Weybridge Academy, the heir to an empire and a serial heartbreaker. I'm just the new girl who grew up waiting tables. I don't fit into Noah's world, and he could never be a part of mine. There's more to this boy than I expected though, and he seems just as drawn to me as I am to him. But it's not only our differences that stand between us – it's the secrets we keep. Sweet Heartbreak is the first part of a three-book series following Isobel and Noah's story in the elite world of Weybridge Academy. The Weybridge Academy series is perfect for readers looking for: Passionate kisses and swoon-worthy romanceRelatable characters and fun friendshipsTeen angst and emotionBillionaire teensDrama, secrets and twists Don’t miss Alexandra Moody’s heartstopping sports romance series, Darling Devils Rival Darling Grumpy Darling Wild Darling
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