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Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread
INTRODUCING ROSE BURNHAM: DESIGNER, DRESSMAKER . . . DETECTIVE?''A joy of a read. A superbly researched story of post-WW1 female friendship chock-a-block with characters you’ll cheer on to the very last page, I read it cover to cover in a day''--AJ Pearce, Sunday Times bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird*South-east London, 1925.Talented, ambitious designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham knows well both the strains of her profession and the secrets it can yield. Newly established in her own business, she and her sisters are privy to the hushed conversations that unspool behind the fitting room’s closed doors.So when a major client finds herself the victim of a deception, it is Rose she tells. Driven by the shortage of men following the Great War, Miss Holmes had engaged the services of a matrimonial agency, only to be cheated out of her inheritance by a fake suitor.Rose is determined to bring the swindler to justice. To begin with, playing the detective is a grand adventure, but as pressures mount and an old friend receives a troubling string of poison-pen letters, Rose discovers there is more to investigating – and these investigations – than she’d bargained for.Rose had the sense of a thread being pulled. One tug and everything could unravel . . .*Praise for Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread‘As well as being an exquisite mystery, Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread is an ode to the pioneering women who embraced new opportunities in the aftermath of The Great War. I loved it!’--Jessica Bull, author of Miss Austen Investigates‘A hat box of delights, full of period detail and thoroughly enjoyable.’--Claire Wilcox, author of Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes and Professor in Fashion Curation at the London College of Fashion''One of those books that transports you, making you forget about real life and full of delightful characters that spring to life. I actually felt like I was there in the story with them. For all fans of historical fiction!'' Reader review''Lynn Knight writes beautifully about fabrics, design, fashion and a new generation of women supporting each other'' Reader review''What great fun this book was! A delightful story [...] with lots of excellent period detail'' Reader review
Asadora!, Vol. 9
A deadly typhoon, a mysterious creature and a girl who won?t quit.In 2020, a large creature rampages through Tokyo, destroying everything in its path. In 1959, Asa Asada, a spunky young girl from a huge family in Nagoya, is kidnapped for ransom?and not a soul notices. When a typhoon hits Nagoya, Asa and her kidnapper must work together to survive. But there?s more to her kidnapper and this storm than meets the eye.After stealing Yone?s film, Asa finds herself face-to-face with River Etheridge, the author of the song that she?s been singing since childhood. Meanwhile, Jissoji?s operatives aren?t pleased with Asa?s disappearance. Kasuga heads to Shibuya to search for her, but ?that thing? could strike at any moment!
RHS Watercolour Botanical Art
Unlike botanical art books that only focus only on painting techniques, and botany books that do not take account of the artist's method, Watercolour Botanical Art balances both botany information and the painting practice used to depict it.
The intended reader is any artist who wishes to be more informed about botany; who needs to tackle the challenges of painting complex and particular botanical structures; who wants to learn what to look out for; and discover variations and morphological parts that are not obvious.
Part One focuses on botanical forms and considerations. Each entry in the directory of morphological terms will include:
Diagrams and text describing the plant morphology
Artists' Considerations: a checklist to follow when examining a plant
Paintings from celebrated botanical artists
Part Two focuses on practical considerations for artists describing painting techniques in step-by-step detail. This section also includes practical tips for working outdoors, visiting plant collections, and collecting or photographing plant specimens for study.
Westward Women
It starts with an itch.
In 1970s America, in homes across the country, women ages eighteen to thirty-five begin to slow down.
Tired. Blank. Restless.
Drawn to the Pacific Ocean like it's calling them home, they abandon their lives -- jobs, families, their very selves. And once they reach the West, they vanish forever.
At the center of the story are three young women caught in the pull of something unstoppable.
Aimee follows the trail of her missing best friend to a man called the Piper -- known for leading infected women West.
Teenie, afflicted and unraveling, clings to a single memory as she looks out the window of the Piper's van.
And Eve, a former journalist, is chasing the story that might just consume her . . .
Evil Always Finds A Way
When terror reigns, only one team can save the nation from the brink of chaos.In a heart-pounding thriller that spans forty harrowing days, The Grid''s merciless campaign of terror grips the United Kingdom.As the nation teeters on the edge of collapse, the Olympus team races against time to unravel the sinister plot.With each twist and turn, the stakes grow higher, propelling the story toward an explosive finale that hints at an even more thrilling and unpredictable future.Perfect for fans of gritty, hard-hitting noir crime and terrorism thrillers, this latest installment in The Phoenix Series will keep you guessing until the very last page.For fans of Mark Greaney, J C Ryan, and Jack Slater._____________________________________________________________________________Praise for The Phoenix Thriller Series:? Intense Action in a Well Written & Believable Thriller? Page-turning suspense... I was hooked from the first page!? Getting better and better? Phoenix continues to impress? Fantastic gripping story? Good Fast Paced Read
Clever Jokes for Funny Kids
<p><b>A new title in the ‘Buster Laugh-a-Lot’ series, this hilarious collection has hundreds of clever jokes for funny kids to enjoy and share.</b><br><br><b>What are the ten things you can always count on?</b><br><i>Your fingers!</i><br><br><b>I hate puns about insects.</b><br><i>They really bug me.</i><br><br><b>Help! </b><br><b>My fear of moving stairs</b> <b>is escalating!</b><br><br><b>Six sticky skeletons</b><br><b>sketched silly</b><br><b>sketches of skeletons</b><br><b>getting sticky.</b><br><br>Filled with over 300 laugh-out-loud clever jokes, from ridiculous riddles and teasing tongue twisters to witty one-liners and clever puns. Designed to be easy to read and with wonderfully silly illustrations for extra fun, this comical collection will keep jokers entertained for hours.<br><br><b>Also available in the 'Buster Laugh-a-lot' series:</b><br>9781780559636 <i>Jokes for Funny Kids: 5 Year Olds</i><br>9781780556260 <i>Jokes for Funny Kids: 6 Year Olds</i><br>9781780556246 <i>Jokes for Funny Kids: 7 Year Olds</i><br>9781780556253 <i>Jokes for Funny Kids: 8 Year Olds</i><br>9781780559643 <i>Jokes for Funny Kids: 9 Year Olds</i><br>9781780559650 <i>Jokes for Funny Kids: 10 Year Olds</i><br>9781780557168 <i>The Jumbo Joke Book for Funny Kids</i><br>9781780557083 <i>The Christmas Joke Book for Funny Kids</i><br>9781780557847 <i>Animal Jokes for Funny Kids</i><br>9781780557854 <i>Knock Knock Jokes for Funny Kids</i><br>9781780559070 <i>Dinosaur Jokes for Funny Kids</i><br>9781780559087<i> Silly Jokes for Funny Kids</i><br>9781780559438 <i>Gross Jokes for Funny Kids</i></p>
The Perfect Pet
Join Penguin and Pup in this laugh-out-loud caper from rising star Hazel Gardner and bestselling You're Called What? illustrator, Nikki Dyson. Choosing a pet has never been so hilarious - and complicated!Like lots of friends, Penguin and Pup like VERY different things. Especially when it comes to finding the perfect new addition to their family. All Penguin wants is something small and fluffy. Pup, in typical Pup fashion, thinks the BIGGER the better. A blue whale in a dress! A giant sloth! A unicorn! It's a recipe for disaster, and LOTS of laughter, but in The Perfect Pet, will they ever agree on on? hether you are more Penguin, or more Pup, come along and let the giggling begin!Other books in the Penguin and Pup series include:The Perfect ChristmasThe Perfect Egg
Six Strikes
'This book has bestseller written all over it. I had to remind myself to breathe' NetGalley reviewer ? ––––––––––––––––––––––– There's no smoke without fire… As someone who has suffered abuse at the hands of men, Maddie protects women by murdering those who attack them – men she calls ‘fleas’. Fleas are men who follow women home. Abusive husbands who refuse to walk away. And then there’s the Manchester Maniac: a serial killer stalking the streets, determined to murder people like her. But Maddie can’t get away with it forever. Years later, in the interview room of her prison, she comes face-to-face with a very important visitor. Someone she’s going to tell all to, about how she caught one of the UK’s most prolific serial killers, and how she got caught as one herself… This emotional and chilling thriller in the vein of Promising Young Woman is perfect for fans of Alice Feeney, Helen Fields and Jo Callaghan. 'Raw, dark and utterly gripping. It’s hard to believe that this is a debut novel' NetGalley reviewer ? 'One of the best books I've read in quite some time' NetGalley reviewer ? Authors love Antonia Grave! ‘A nuanced tragedy as well as an exciting crime fiction’ – MARIE TIERNEY, author of Deadly Animals 'Thrilling and moving. A must read!’ – JANE RENSHAW, author of The Stepson 'Utterly enthralling' – FRANCES CRAWFORD, author of A Bad, Bad Place 'Remarkable' – ALISON BELSHAM, author of The Girls on Chalk Hill 'Exceptionally gripping and suspenseful’ – JULIE LANCASTER, author of Remember Where You’ve Buried the Bodies 'A firecracker of a novel. Compelling, twisted and deliciously dark' – HANNAH BRENNAN, author of No Safe Place 'A dark, twisted journey of serial killers that exposes the pink underbelly of today’s gender battles' – N V PEACOCK, author of Little Bones
Metal Slinger
She was forged for war. He was born from it. Could their love be the deadliest weapon?
Raised among the seafaring Alaha - exiles of a war the world forgot - Brynn has trained her entire life to protect her people and uphold a fragile peace. She knows her place, her purpose, and the stories she's been told. But everything begins to fracture the moment she meets him.
A Kenta soldier. An enemy. And the first person to really see her. He claims Brynn was never meant to live at sea, that her blood holds magic the Alaha swore to forget, that a rebellion is coming - and she's at the heart of it.
He's the threat she was trained to kill. She's the secret he was sent to find.
And together, they might just break the world . . .
the witch doesn't drown in this one
In this one, the witch doesn’t burn or die or drown. In this one, she rages.In the witch doesn’t drown in this one, celebrated poetess amanda lovelace revisits the titular voice behind her 2018 bestselling collection the witch doesn’t burn in this one. With candor, honesty, and well-earned wisdom, lovelace expounds on the roller coaster of feelings brought on by simply trying to exist as a woman in the sociopolitical climate of 2025’s America. Through poetry that encompasses a myriad of fem-centric themes, including queer love, trans rights, patriarchal oppression, and intersectional feminism, she demands that women of all backgrounds and lived experiences be seen, heard, defended, and loved. the witch doesn’t drown in this one is a deeply felt and hard-won reminder that though some stories that start with bitch-fire end with tear stains, women are powerful, resilient beings who have always contained the strength to rise again, especially when we swim back to the surface together.
The Stolen Heart
Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to "reinforce" the Lybid police station, Samson does his diligent - if diffident - best. Yet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fiancée Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she's carrying out. And when you factor in a mysterious thief in the police station itself, a deadly tram accident that may have been pre-meditated, and the potential reappearance of the culprit in the case of the silver bone, it's no wonder the "meat case" takes a back seat. But it is in the pursuit of that petty-fogging, seemingly mundane matter that Samson's fate lies - and Nadezhda's too, for the two are inextricably entwined. Translated from the Russian by Boris DraylukReviews for The Silver Bone - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize"Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he writes in this genre" New York Times"Wildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished The Silver Bone wishing to read more" Guardian
The Edinburgh Murders
🔎 'A delight! A plot at once playful and disturbing, and a wonderfully satisfying surprise ending. McPherson is a terrific storyteller' ANN CLEEVES 🔎Edinburgh, 1948. Welfare Officer Helen Crowther has enough on her plate between her hectic job, her complicated love life, and her growing reputation as a troublemaker. Last year's scandal did nothing to help with the disapproval she already gets as a woman in her line of work. All she wants now is to focus on doing what she loves: helping the poor of the Fountainbridge ward in the city of Edinburgh. The last thing she needs is another string of murders to distract her . . . But when a gentleman dressed in working-man's clothing winds up dead right under Helen's nose, and she catches her own father in a very risky lie, Helen is propelled back into the dark world where class rules, justice is hard to come by and gruesome death is everywhere. Helen has already learned some hard truths about her city, but this investigation is about to reveal just how deep corruption can go . . . 'An intricately plotted mystery with wonderfully original (nasty, but not gory) murders. The rich period detail and use of local dialect immediately whisk you away to post-war Edinburgh. Hugely enjoyable!' FIONA LEITCH
Renoir - An Intimate Biography
'A magnificent success ... it will remain a point of reference for years to come' Sophie Renoir
The joy that permeates Renoir's paintings emerged from the heart of a deeply complex man. Even his close friends and family members were baffled by the contradictions that defined him. In Renoir: An Intimate Biography, Barbara Ehrlich White, the world's leading authority on the artist's life and work, brings a lifetime of research to bear - challenging misconceptions around Renoir's reputation to provide an unparalleled account of this great Impressionist artist, in both his own words and those of his friends.
Uniquely intimate, this biography is interspersed with over one thousand excerpts of letters by, to, and about Renoir - 452 of which come from previously unpublished letters. These firsthand accounts offer an extraordinary window into Renoir's world, bringing us into direct contact with Renoir not only as a groundbreaking artist but as a devoted friend and father, too.
The William Shakespeare Children's Collection (Series 2)
All the world’s a stage…For over four centuries, the works of William Shakespeare have delighted theatre-goers all over the globe. In this NEW boxset, we present another ten of Shakespeare’s classic plays, specially adapted into an easy-to-follow story format, fully illustrated and with FREE audiobooks. Including some of Shakespeare’s most famous works, such as The Tragedy of Macbeth, Othello and The Tempest, this set is the perfect introduction to the genius of ‘the Bard’. Readers of all ages can find joy in his comedies and learn from his tragedies as we follow the lives and loves of some of literature’s best-known characters. To read, or not to read … well, that’s an easy one to start with!Titles included in this set:The Tragedy of MacbethThe Winter’s TaleThe Taming of the ShrewThe TempestTwelfth NightRichard IIITimon of AthensThe Two Gentleman of VeronaOthelloThe Comedy of Errors
Pocket Bible Concordance
An Essential Bible Resource in a Portable Size. Designed for today's on-the-go lifestyle, this streamlined concordance packs powerful insight into a compact format--perfect for students, group leaders, and anyone diving deeper into Scripture. Written with the NKJV in mind, but can be used with any Bible translation. What's Included:Over 5,000 references from the Old and New TestamentsFan-Tab™ Thumb Index for fast, intuitive navigationEntries that work with any Bible translationCompact, travel-friendly design for study anytime, anywhereWhether you're using a digital or print Bible in any translation, this updated classic from the Nelson Pocket Reference Series is your no-fuss, go-anywhere tool for smarter, more meaningful study.
21 Day Abundance Challenge
21 Day Abundance Challenge combines the empowering concepts of abundance and the law of attraction with with a clear, three week program of reflective exercises, meditations and facts. With this deeply practical book, you'll learn how to stop being satisfied with less, focus on what really mattered to you, and learn how to use positive thinking, mental alertness and good energy to attract abundance to your life. Every day you'll learn (at least!) three new approaches, and will discover: - How abundance is a state of mind that you can tune in to. - How improving your self-esteem will help you attract happiness and success. - How to move towards a life of effortless prosperity. - Why three weeks is enough to change your attitude and begin creating an abundant life.
Hey Duggee: The Bath Time Badge
Norrie doesn''t like bath time! Can Duggee and the Squirrels find the perfect routine for her?Join Duggee and the Squirrels as they explore all of the fun ways to enjoy bath time. Don''t forget the bubbles!SCRUB-A-DUB-DUB! Earn your Bath Time Badge with Duggee and the Squirrels.Don’t miss these other amazing Duggee books:Hey Duggee: The Opposites BadgeHey Duggee: The Rainbow BadgeHey Duggee: The Shape BadgeHey Duggee is a BAFTA and Emmy award-winning animation about an adorable dog and his band of Squirrels. It airs in the UK daily on CBeebies and is available on iPlayer. Featuring the voice of comedian and presenter Alexander Armstrong, this warm and hilarious preschool CBeebies show encourages children to get out and about and be active. Join the Squirrel Club in this collection of story, activity and novelty books and earn your badges with the friendliest, funniest dog around!
It's Behind You!
Nana and Gramps don't know what they're missing out on, if only they'd look behind them! A walk in the park with Nana and Gramps is always a lot of fun, but they’re terribly slow and their grandchild isn’t allowed to race ahead. Walking dutifully behind them, the child is soon joined by a long line of fantastical characters: a bear, a monster from the sewers, a pirate and his crew . . . Those grandparents would never believe who else is on their walk, if only they’d look behind them!
Hell's Heart
Hell''s Heart is a queer speculative fiction retelling of Melville''s classic story.Here, a small party go hunting for a giant space creature – and experience grand adventure, love and loss along the way.Earth is a ruin, and the scattered remnants of humanity scavenge what they can from the stars. This under the watchful auspices of a grab-bag of collectives, corporations, and churches. These are all that remains of what we once called society. Having long exhausted any conventional sources of energy, life in the solar system is now sustained by a volatile, hallucinogenic substance – this harvested from the brains of vast cetacean-like Leviathans that swim the atmospheric currents of Jupiter.Finding herself with no money and little to occupy her groundside, the narrator (“I”) takes a commission aboard the hunter-barque Pequod as it sets out in pursuit of these Leviathans. However, once aboard, she finds herself pulled inexorably into the orbit of the barque’s captain, a charismatic but fanatically driven woman who the narrator names only as ''A''. As the Pequod plunges ever deeper into the turbulent, monster-haunted atmosphere of the gas giant, the narrator begins to lose herself in the eerie world of Leviathan-hunting and the captain’s increasingly insistent delusions. The only thing that might keep her grounded is the bond she develops with Q, a woman from the wreck of Old Earth, whose skin is marked with holographic light and who remembers things others have lost.
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