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Noble Beasts
'Rich, layered, and deeply thoughtful' - LUCY STEEDS'A magnificent novel - vivid, moving and utterly convincing' - S.G. MACLEANIn the suffocating summer of 1858, Sir Edwin Landseer faces the monumental task of sculpting the Trafalgar Square lions. The nation is watching, the Royal Academy is whispering, and the Queen herself expects brilliance. The press, his doctor and Edwin's inner demons predict disaster. As the pressure mounts, beasts begin to stalk Edwin's increasingly alcohol-fuelled nightmares. His mind flees from stifling Victorian London to the freedom of the Scottish Highlands, the riotous days of the Regency and the woman who set his world alight. Georgina: older, adventurous and irreverent. Georgina: married to Edwin's most influential patron. Georgina: the love of his life. The world called it a scandal, but the world didn't know what it was talking about. The world should have called it a tragedy. Based on real events and rumours that burned like wildfire, Noble Beasts is a story of art, sacrifice, and enduring love, painting a vivid and passionate picture of the tangled relationships that helped make Edwin's career but broke his heart and his mind. 'Waverley immerses the reader in the lushly textured worlds of the sweeping Highlands and of a glittering, claustrophobic society.' - LUCY STEEDS, author of The Artist'Passionate, sensual, profoundly moving . . . one of the best works of historical fiction I ever read' - A.N. WILSON'A fascinating and immersive portrait of an artist driven by ambition, passion and addiction' JOANNA MILLER,author of The Eights'Impeccably researched and exquisitely written.' RACHEL BLACKMORE, author of Costanza
The Dog Meows, The Cat Barks
'Brash, worldly and wickedly funny, Eka Kurniawan may be Southeast Asia's most ambitious writer in a generation' EconomistOnce, Sato Reang's father tried to bully him into being a pious child. Now he's a little Devil.He stops saying his prayers. He starts to run with the wild boys: drinking, fighting, stealing. He eats his fill of life, barges in where he pleases. Maybe he'll burn down the school...If only Jamal, his strictly religious schoolmate, would join him. Sato intends to lead him astray and introduce him to worldly pleasures. Even if the consequences are darker than he could have imagined.Devilishly funny and delicately moving, The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks is a lightning strike of a coming-of-age novel.
Some Days
Celebrate life's big and small moments in this beautiful picture book by the author of Friends, Daniela Sosa.?Life is full of all kinds of days, and no two are quite the same. Some days feel rushed, some are rainy, and some are so special you’ll remember them forever. Some Days by Daniela Sosa is a heartwarming exploration of the many experiences that shape our lives, big and small. This beautifully observed follow up to Friends, is sure to become a family favourite.?
Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life
In the year following 7 October 2023, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza, asking each of them about their experiences of that day and the months of destruction and displacement that followed. From these encounters comes Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life, a selection of twenty-six testimonies from ordinary civilians aged thirteen to sixty-five, whose lives have been irrevocably altered by what may one day be remembered as one of the most savage military offensives of our time. Adapted from warning flyers dropped moments before a bombing, the book’s title captures the impossible reality of life for Gazans. That reality is laid bare in accounts marked by unimaginable loss – homes shattered, loved ones vanished, limbs obliterated – and mechanisms of cruelty that defy comprehension. In gathering these testimonies, Yazbek brings into focus the human lives behind the headlines, and the survivors’ determination, even amid devastation, to speak and to be heard.
Cute-O-Pedia
This is your ultimate encyclopedia of EVERYTHING cute! Enter a world full of the very cutest animals, including unicorns, axoltls, narwhals, sloths, puppies, kittens and many more. Other entries include plushies, candy, nail art, jewellery, cool cute characters, and sleepovers. As well as tons of cute pictures, the book is packed full of cool ideas for your own cute fashion and room makeovers. It's so cute, it's even got a shiny rainbow foil cover. In fact... it's the world's CUTEST book!
This is Also a Love Story
From the Orwell Prize-winning author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned comes a powerful account of human resilience, capturing our capacity for love and connection against all odds.
We live in an era defined by crisis - whether it be war and displacement, or climate collapse and rapidly widening inequality. Acclaimed international correspondent Sally Hayden has spent her career covering some of the darkest moments of our time, and yet even in the face of unimaginable adversity, she's witnessed the love and care of everyday people.
Hayden introduces us to a couple separated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a mother in northeast Nigeria who risks everything to save her daughter from forced marriage to Boko Haram militants. We meet a group of Syrian women searching tirelessly for their missing spouses and children, while launching a call for justice, and learn about letters from the bereaved to the dead, still being written over a decade after the tsunami that devastated Japan.
In stories that crisscross the globe, from Uganda to Lebanon, Rwanda to Iraq, Hayden asks us: what if news was recounted through the actions people take for those they love? Would it become harder to dehumanise those who seem different to us? This is Also a Love Story dares us to recognise how love can be found in even the most difficult of times, and to question what might be needed to create a better world.
Renegades: The Magic Awakens
The launch of a brand-new series from blockbuster Warriors author Erin Hunter about two orphaned cat sisters who discover a secret world of magical creatures . . . and the humans who are out to control them.
Willow and Luna have been on their own since they were kittens. After their mother's death, they settled into a scrappy life in the heart of the city. But when a mysterious fire rips through their makeshift shelter, they're left searching for a new home.
Luna is immediately drawn in by the strange, secretive animals they meet in the park - animals who unlock her ability to perform magic. Willow is less sure about these so-called 'attuned' animals and has no interest in joining their world - or their fight against the human witches who seek to 'bind' the animals to them.
As Luna and Willow come to realise their own unique magic, they find themselves at odds, separated by destiny, with the fate of the whole city in their paws...
Set against an atmospheric urban backdrop and laced with magic, this is a daring, high-stakes story where animal and human worlds collide
Ideal for fans of animal stories and magical fantasy alike, appealing to readers of Warriors, Impossible Creatures and His Dark Materials, with a hint of Wicked
Action-packed adventure with themes of freedom, loyalty, belonging, power and sisterhood
Katabasis
Prepare for one hell of a journey…
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.
But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and - inconveniently - in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him.
But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if she's going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together.
That's if they can agree on anything.
Will they triumph, or kill each other trying?
Case Closed, Vol. 98
Can Detective Conan crack the case…while trapped in a kid’s body?When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black—poof! He is physically transformed into a first grader. Until Jimmy can find a cure for his miniature malady, he takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the cases that come his way.A man is murdered in a dockside warehouse, and the suspects are his three long-lost brothers! Conan and Harley are on the case, but scheming rich girl Momiji plans to use this test of deductive talent to further her own ends. Then Conan helps Master Haneda solve a murder among his shogi students. And Rachel, Serena, and Sera attend a birthday party that turns less than happy when a man is poisoned right at their table!
The 39 Steps
One of the greatest adventure stories ever written, freshly repackaged for a new generation of readers and featuring an exclusive introduction from the author’s grandson. ‘This latest edition of the novel has been redesigned, resulting in an authentic looking cloth-bound book ... Exciting and thrilling, this should be read by all.’- The Sun‘A handsome new edition’ - The TribuneDeemed one of the most popular adventure stories ever written and a huge influence not only on spy fiction but on Hollywood as well, The 39 Steps has captured the imagination of audiences for decades. This classic book was written by acclaimed Scottish author John Buchan, who inspired the writing of other great British novelists too, including Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John le Carré. The 39 Steps remains Buchan’s most famous work, the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a steely determination and an extraordinary knack for getting himself out of sticky situations. Considered one of the most exciting ‘chase thrillers’ ever published, this is an electrifying story of an ordinary man caught up in a sinister international plot full of car crashes, code-breaking and political intrigue. The novel has never been out of print since its first publication in 1915 and has sold millions of copies. Now repackaged as a striking hardback and with an exclusive introduction from the author’s grandson, this is an edition to be cherished both by fans of the book and by anyone discovering Buchan’s work for the first time. Also available:Sense & Sensibility (9781789299908)Pride and Prejudice (9781807710262)
Before I Knew I Loved You
The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.
In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible - not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to go back in time to revisit the ones you love . . .
In Before I knew I loved you, Toshikazu Kawaguchi takes us back to the warm heart of the mysterious Funiculi Funicula Cafe, with another four guests whose luminous stories of love, lost and won again, will reaffirm your belief in its eternal potential. In this book, we meet:
- The girl who wishes to make amends with the mother she never accepted
- The man who waited for a reply from his girlfriend, and never heard from her
- The woman anxious to travel ahead to know what her future holds
- The student who travels back to meet his father again, who passed away many years before.
Yet the same rules always apply - you must return before the coffee gets cold. And while it does, memories are revisited, people are changed forever, and the enduring power of love transcends the boundaries of time.
The sixth book in the phenomenal, bestselling series, translated from Japanese, Before I knew I loved you asks the irresistible question: what would you do if you were offered the chance to go back in time?
A 100 titok kastélya
Egér-sziget egyik távoli szegletében, áthatolhatatlan rózsabokrok között különös palota rejtőzik. Trappolával és Tea húgommal felkerekedtünk, hogy megfejtsük a titkait. 100 kulcs és 100 ajtó várt ránk, és egy fantasztikus felfedezés, amire egyikünk sem számított...
A Mulatságos történetek sorozat köteteiben Geronimo Stilton meséli el kalandjait. És ő aztán tényleg soha nem unatkozik! Családjának és barátainak köszönhetően gyakran keveredik igazán bajuszborzoló, ám mindig extraegeresen mulatságos események középpontjába.
A rejtélyes levél
A Grillázsvarázs Cukrászda egy kis időre a könyvek otthona lett. Bárki behozhatta a könyvét és választhatott helyette egy másikat. Az egyik kötet különleges üzenetet rejtett. Vajon ki írhatta, és kinek? A rejtély megoldása ránk várt!
A Cinnfordi kalandok sorozat kötetei öt egérlányról szólnak: Colette, Nicky, Pamela, Paulina és Violet - ők Tea Angyalai! A Cinnford Egyetemen találkoztak, ahová a világ legkülönbözőbb tájairól érkeznek diákok. Ők öten elválaszthatatlan jó barátok lettek, együtt tanulnak, és együtt töltik a szabadidejüket. Cinnfordban az élet mindig tartogat meglepetéseket! A tanórák és sportversenyek mellett mély barátságok és szívet dobogtató szerelmek fűszerezik a hétköznapokat. Ezekről a kalandokról, Tea Angyalainak álmairól és érzéseiről mesélnek a történetek.
Neřesti lásky
Kniha otevírá intimní a často skryté světy mileneckých a partnerských vztahů v jejich nejrůznějších podobách. Prostřednictvím beletrizovaných příběhů autorka citlivě, ale bez příkras nahlíží do zákulisí vášní, tajemství, závislostí i křehkých nadějí, které tyto vztahy provázejí. Ukazuje „zákoutí“ lásky, o nichž se příliš nemluví – momenty vzrušení i viny, blízkosti i osamění, touhy i zranitelnosti.
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Dark Night
The profound, hugely influential exploration of spiritual growth and transformation, from one of the great Spanish mystics and poets
'Oh living flame of love,
how tenderly you scorch me'
The poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, St John of the Cross, has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers from James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill to T. S. Eliot. This new edition of his essential works, in a sensitive and luminous translation by Martha Sprackland, gathers John of the Cross's complete poems and a selection of his prose, including from his extended commentary on the poem 'Dark Night'. In his immediate, sensual writing, we see a soul searching for meaning and union with the divine: both meek and bold, deserving and undeserving, oscillating between light and dark, soaring and falling, desperation and salvation. Dark Night gives us a picture of faith at once confronting and inspiriting, and of the power of words as a means of spiritual transcendence.
Translated by Martha Sprackland, with an Introduction by Colin Thompson
Mega Builds
Construction is the most important industry in the world. The homes we wake up in, the schools where our children learn, the transportation networks we depend on, and the hospitals that care for us all exist because they were designed and built.
In Mega Builds, YouTube creator Fred Mills takes readers inside ten extraordinary megaprojects that are reshaping the modern world. Offering a front-row seat to some of the most ambitious engineering feats ever attempted, Mills delivers a fact-filled global tour that reveals how these vast undertakings are redefining what is possible.
Inside, you will discover:
Why the world’s largest city has been built in one of the most inhospitable locations on Earth.
How the vision of a single ruler in the desert is challenging our assumptions about the limits of design and construction.
What compels us to build ever-taller skyscrapers and ever-faster trains.
And how the scale of human imagination today is shaping the cities and infrastructure of tomorrow.
The story of our civilization is being written not only in books, but in steel, concrete, glass, and earth. Mega Builds reveals how the structures rising around us are defining the future of the man-made world.
First and Forever
An American football star and a die-hard fan make an unforgettable match in this new laugh-out-loud rom-com from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lynn Painter.
Will this fake date become their first-and forever-win?
Duffy loves three things: her dad, her cat, and Minneapolis Coyotes football. So she's devastated to become public enemy number one after shoving the team's mascot away for getting too flirty.
To clear her name, Duffy agrees to a live interview - only to discover she is sharing the screen with star player, Connor Cunningham. . .
Connor thought he was coming on TV to read a statement, not argue with a fan. But when their fiery banter leaves viewers obsessed, Connor's PR team spots an opportunity, and encourages Conor to ask Duffy out. The catch? She can't know it's not the real deal.
Different kinds of sparks soon fly between them. But Connor can't keep his secret forever. And if he drops the ball this time, he'll have lost more than just a game. . .
Raise Your Soul
An intimate portrait of Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the history of his extraordinary family
Dramatic in scope and deep in feeling, Raise Your Soul traces three generations swept up in the whirlwind of history, across a century of occupation, civil war, Cold War fracture and economic crisis, from 1924 to the present.
At its heart are Eleni, Anna, Trisevgeni, Georgia and Danaë - the women who shaped the visionary economist most, and whose resilience and courage inspire us to resist the forces of authoritarianism that still haunt our world.
The Home of the Drowned
When their summer settlement is flooded without warning, a family of Sámi women must fight for their way of life in a changing world, in this powerful, haunting novel.
'Heartachingly beautiful' Lisa Ridzén, author of WHEN THE CRANES FLY SOUTH
Every summer, Ingá, her mother Rávdná, and her Aunt ¦nne travel west to their village on the lake. But the summer Ingá is thirteen, they arrive to find their home and possessions have disappeared under water, the land flooded by a dam built to supply hydropower to a society that has continually stolen from them.
The Home of the Drowned follows these women's fortunes over forty years - from 1942 to 1982 - as the water their people have lived near for centuries is transformed into a menacing force that threatens all they hold dear.
Defying the authorities, Rávdná decides to build a house on the lake to replace what was lost, becoming an unlikely activist. Meanwhile, ¦nne's health is in decline, and a concerned Ingá merely longs to live like everyone else - an impossible wish when the Swedish state is relentlessly drowning her world.
Elin Anna Labba's debut novel brings Sámi history to the fore, revealing connections between land, water and people that hauntingly reverberate with the question: what is it that makes a home?
Translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel
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