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The Between-Worlds B&B
Have you ever wanted to experience magic? Have you ever wanted to get away from everyone and everything? Do you enjoy baked goods?
Margo is bored. It’s the summer before she graduates and she has no idea where her life is going. When she gets locked out, and checks into a lovely B&B, Margo is greeted by surprisingly handsome receptionist, Finn. The rooms are cosy, there’s a grand library and a huge swimming pool, and the breakfast smells amazing.
But Margo soon suspects that it’s all too perfect, and that magic is in the air. She’s fairly sure that one of the other guests is a fairy princess, for one thing. Is this a B&B for magical beings? But Margo doesn’t have a magical bone in her body, so what is she doing there?
Jezdkyně světla 5: Zmizení v Pandorii
Jezdkyně světla se podařilo rozdělit. Lisa, Alex a Linda se vydávají na zoufalou misi, aby našly ztracenou Anne. Zachrání ji ale dřív, než bude příliš pozdě? Vše totiž hraje proti nim. Nevědí, komu mohou věřit a tajemství z minulosti, která vyplouvají na povrch, je děsí. Kdo po nich jde? A proč? Místo odpovědí na ně čeká rozhodnutí – nelehká volba, která může stát životy.
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Nemilovaná
Formou deníkových záznamů dívky, která čeká v Terezíně na transport do vyhlazovacího tábora, líčí autor zápas pudové a nezničitelné naděje mladého člověka s hrůznou skutečností. Dívka využívá své krásy a mládí, aby oddálila odchod do transportu, ale zároveň si je vědoma toho, že kontakt s muži je zdrojem poučení o světě a lidech, které již nikdy nepozná. Snaží se pochopit hranice dobra a zla, má potřebu alespoň jednou v životě svobodně jednat, i když ví, že za to zaplatí tu nejvyšší cenu.
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Povídky sběratele
Dvacet krátkých povídek. V knize se můžete začíst do příběhu sošky madony nalezené ve vypleněném hřbitovním kostelíku nebo do peripetií, které může prožít biedermeierovský skleník s dlouhým rodokmenem. Jiné historie sám o sobě vypráví starý rezavý připínáček nebo secesní cínová váza. Příběhy prochází krásné ženy, pije se v nich lahodné víno, jídá dobré jídlo. Soubor povídek Karla Žižkovského provází deset krásných ilustrací Borise Jirků, jedenáctou kresbou je portrét autora, který sám sebe představuje slovy: „Jsem geolog se zájmem o všechno krásné, a k tomu sběratel.“
Trix's Tree House
Join the Woodland Explorers Club to solve mysteries and protect the animals and trees of Willow Wish Wood. Six magical stories for 6+ inspiring learning through nature. Trix loves building dens! She is very excited to show the rest of the Woodland Explorers how to build THE BEST tree house, but when they arrive at her favourite building spot, Trix’s notices there are fewer flowers than there were last summer. Time for mission save the bees!From tree houses to bee houses, Trix's den-building skills are put to the test, and the Woodland Explorers discover the importance of bees as pollinators. Join the Explorers on their next adventure Eric's Pine Tree Concert publishing in November 2026!
Best Friends
June cleans houses. Ray is a janitor at the public tennis courts in Dun Laoghaire. He s not romantic material, and she s not even friend material. When it comes to learning how to be with other people at the age of 70 plus, they are unlikely companions, even more unlikely friends. Ray looks a bit like Willie Nelson, June looks a bit like Chrissie Hynde. They ve never fitted in before and they don t fit in now. They are just regular folk for whom the path towards love has been closed off. Yet, as understanding blossoms into friendship, June and Ray find themselves slowly rediscovering the joy that s been missing from their lives for so long.
The Demonic Inventions of Aurelie Blake
In Wisteria, the very act of innovation is forbidden. Any creation—art, music, engineering—conjures a demon from the other side. The greater the innovation, the more dangerous the demon. This has never stopped Aurelie from inventing—but it has made it more difficult. Her inventions are small by necessity, producing demons that she is capable of dispatching alone. But she knows she’s meant for something greater, and each day has her chafing more at the boundaries of her society. Destrier lost his parents to demons as a child, and has devoted his life to preventing more senseless murder at the hands of demons. He was young when he joined the hunters, and each year he’s grown stronger. But it’s never enough. When a mysterious figure offers Aurelie a job she can’t refuse—an impossible, magnificent invention—her decision to accept sets off a chain of events that will alter every aspect of their world… and sparks the connection that will change both Aurelie and Des irrevocably. With the fierce enemies-to-lovers romance of Heartless Hunter and the high-concept worldbuilding of Arcane, The Demonic Inventions of Aurelie Blake will thrill readers looking for their new cross-genre favorite.
Notorious
History loves a villain. Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible for the ills of the world, and have remained hated for it. In his continuing desire to separate out the facts from the fiction of history, Otto English looks at how these legacies were constructed and who told us that they were evil. From how Bloody Mary became the figurehead of uppity women and how Judas's betrayal became a template for religious tensions for centuries to what the Peasants Revolt and the Illuminati shows us about power struggles throughout the ages, English exposes the agendas behind the 'truths' we've been told to believe. And in looking at how xenophobia was weaponised during the 'Spanish' Flu, he reveals how our past sometimes bleeds into the present day. Fascinating and fearless, Notorious will re-examine some of the history's biggest villains and change the way you see the world forever.
Offseason
A blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood and George Saunders'Obscenely good and very funny' CATHERINE LACEY'A startling fever dream of a novel' LUCY ROSE'So smart, weird and eerie . . . I recommend everyone buy it when it comes out' MADELINE CASHIn Offseason, our fiercely observant but self-deluded narrator finds herself teaching at an all-girls boarding school in a remote coastal town. In between manic lectures that veer from Charles Dickens's Bleak House to the childhood maltreatment of her beloved Iosif Stalin and the generational legacy of the Holocaust, she implicates everyone she meets in her quest to pin down where exactly her own life went wrong. Blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged, Offseason marks the arrival of a wild new literary talent. 'Indescribably brilliant . . . You've never read anything like it' ELIZABETH McCRACKEN'A bonkers and beautifully written novel . . . Absorbing and original' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS'Yes, Offseason is hilarious, eccentric and gleefully mean-spirited, but just when you think you know what Sharp is doing, she will shatter your heart. I haven't read something so incisive, so slyly tender in years' LISA McINERNEY'A narrator who makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar' MICHAEL CHABON
Love Scene
HATE AT FIRST SIGHT. THEN COMES THE REWRITE. 'Utterly delicious - I couldn't stop reading this' MARIAN KEYES'Warm, sexy, and full of whip-smart humour that had me cackling through each page, Love Scene is everything I crave in a rom-com. I adored it!' CATHERINE WALSH'A balm for the soul, this is a gorgeously sweet and sexy novel with characters you'll want to befriend and a soap you'll wish was real!' VICKI NOTAROTV writer Annie McDermott has finally landed her dream job. The nightmare part: she has to share an office with her nemesis. Arrogant (and distractingly handsome) Art Sullivan - who Annie hasn't seen since their college days - was supposed to be Hollywood's Next Big Thing. So what's he doing in a soap opera writers' room, apart from pushing Annie's button? oon though Annie's got a bigger distraction: someone's trying to sabotage the show. But she's not going to let her dream go without a fight. Even if it means asking for Art's help to stop them. After Annie and Art find themselves sharing a very hot kiss at the office (which they swear will never happen again), things get even more complicated. But if they can quit arguing long enough to finally admit they make a good team, there might just be another plot twist ahead ... Here's what readers are saying about Love Scene:'Forced proximity, workplace romance, a super camp villain and SO much banter with genuine chemistry ... Absolutely one to put on your TBR!' Netgalley reader'With a style of writing similar to Mhairi McFarlane this author is fast becoming one of my auto-reads. Funny, romantic ... 5 stars all round, no notes' Netgalley reader'Absolutely sensational ... The chemistry between the two is off the charts; in my opinion, an enemies-to-lovers romance is the best kind, and this is one of the best I've read' Netgalley reader'I was hooked. Perfect for fans of Emily Henry & Marian Keyes' Netgalley reader'Love Scene has completely stolen my heart ... If you are a fan of fresh, clever and modern romance novels, you'll love this' Netgalley reader'Their chemistry? FIRE! ... I absolutely loved this unputdownable modern screwball comedy' Netgalley reader'It's 1am. I couldn't stop reading Love Scene today, Anna Carey writes the BEST dialogue. Oh my days, this story is absolutely perfect' Netgalley reader
Sing-along Children's Songs
This delightfully illustrated sound book features five songs for little children to join in with. It includes some of the best-loved nursery rhymes and songs, such as "If You're Happy and You Know it", "Mary Had a Little Lamb", and "Hey Diddle Diddle", all sung in a beautiful, gentle voice - perfect for children to sing along with.
Girl, 1983
A heart-rending work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers
Paris, a winter’s night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Almost four decades later, as her life and the world around her begins to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before and looks for ways to disclose a long-guarded secret.
Set in Oslo, New York and Paris, Girl, 1983 is a genre-defying and bravura quest through layers of memory and oblivion – a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness.
Kitty and the Moonflower Mystery: The purrrfect series for newly confident readers, from bestselling author Paula Harrison and Waterstones Children's Book Prize winner Jenny Lovlie!
The purrrfect series for newly confident readers, beautifully illustrated by Waterstones Children's Book Prize winner, Jenny Lovlie, and written by bestselling author, Paula Harrison. Kitty is a superhero-in-training with feline superpowers. She dreams of being just like her superhero mum one day, but she's still got a lot to learn. Join her for a series of enchanting adventures by the light of the moon. It's night-time at the Botanical Gardens. Kitty and her cat crew are there to catch a glimpse of the new rare flowers exhibition. But someone has stolen the prize exhibit: the exotic moonflower, with its beautiful glowing petals that shine like the moon! If it isn't found soon it might not survive, so Kitty must use her cat-like powers to find the thief and save the moonflower just in the nick of time. Kitty and the Moonflower Mystery is the seventeenth book in the Kitty series, featuring a charming main character, cat-packed exploits, and striking two-colour art on every page. As part of the bestselling Kitty series by Paula Harrison and Jenny Lovlie:• Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue (ISBN: 9780192771650) • Kitty and the Tiger Treasure (ISBN: 9780192771667) • Kitty and the Sky Garden Adventure (ISBN: 9780192771674) • Kitty and the Treetop Chase (ISBN: 9780192771681) • Kitty and the Great Lantern Race (ISBN: 9780192771698) • Kitty and the Twilight Mystery (ISBN: 9780192771704) • Kitty and the Kidnap Trap (ISBN: 9780192777843) • Kitty and the Starlight Song (ISBN: 9780192777850) • Kitty and the Woodland Wildcat (ISBN: 9780192777867) • Kitty and the Star Stone Robber (ISBN: 9780192777874) • Kitty and the Vanishing Act (ISBN: 9780192784131) • Kitty and the Runaway Train (ISBN: 9780192784155) • Kitty and the Snowball Bandit (ISBN: 9780192787613) • Kitty and the Stolen Storybook (ISBN: 9780192787637) • Kitty and the Clifftop Peril (ISBN: 9780192787651) • Kitty and the Missing Pumpkins (ISBN: 9780192787682) • Kitty and the Moonflower Mystery (ISBN: 9781382069885)
THE SHOW WOMAN
'Compulsive, heartbreaking' Clare Leslie Hall'Gorgeously written' Jennie Godfrey'A tale of dazzle and determination' Daily MailFOUR WOMEN. A MILLION DREAMS. Scotland, 1910. Born into the world of the circus, Lena now stands at a crossroads. With the sudden death of her father, she faces a stark choice: get married or get a job. The fairgrounds are no place for a woman to go it alone. Until flame-haired Violet, known to all as 'the greatest trapeze artist that ever lived', suggests they do exactly that. With her outspoken ways and her refusal to marry, Violet is as much an outcast as Lena. What do they have to los? ecruiting new performers including bareback horse-rider Rosie and acrobat Carmen, the four women take charge of their own show, their own finances and their own destinies. But the fairgrounds are a dangerous place: misogyny is rife, violence a continual threat, and buried secrets are beginning to threaten all they hold dear. Together, they must forge their own path to freedom. FOR THEY ARE THE SHOW WOMEN. AND THE SHOW MUST GO ON. READERS LOVE THE SHOW WOMAN? 'Held my interest to the very last page'? 'Complete sensory immersion, such is the depth and breadth of the descriptive narrative'? 'Beautifully written, lovable characters, gripping narrative'? 'This extraordinary debut is bursting with energy and imagination'? 'A terrific read'
When I Became Your Daddy
A heart-warming board book celebrating the special bond between father and child, featuring flurries of silver foil on the cover!When I became your daddy,you made my world complete. I didn't know the little thingsin life could be so sweet. Whether exploring rockpools, playing in the sand, or floating snug together in the sea, there's nothing this little otter loves more than spending time with their daddy. With a lyrical rhyming text by Susannah Shane and stunning artwork by award-winning and internationally bestselling artist Britta Teckentrup, this picture book makes the perfect gift for Father's Day or following the arrival of a new baby. Collect more titles in this series: When I Became Your MummyWhen I Became Your GrannyWhen I Became Your Grandad ... and many more!Includes a FREE Nosy Crow Stories Aloud® audiobook! Scan the code, hear the story.
Daddy Is Cleaning
Baby is helping . . . so Daddy is cleaning! A funny and heart-warming day in the life of a loving father and child. This fun-loving baby loves helping with all Daddy's jobs. But the more chaos Baby causes with the laundry, the cooking and the gardening, the more cleaning there is for daddy! Luckily, there's a bubbly bath time and a snuggly story to look forward to at the end of a very long day. Witty concept that subverts gender stereotypes. Simple text with repeated refrain, just right for toddlers learning to talk. The perfect story to share on Father's Day. Every Nosy Crow picture book comes with a free 'Stories Aloud' audio recording - just scan the QR code and listen along!
A River Red With Blood
'[An] absolute corker from Ireland's best mystery writer ... utterly gripping' ExpressThe players call it The Game. There are just two rules:No killing close to home. No Killing outside the gameBut what happens when those rules get broke? hen the drowned body of a troubled teenager is recovered from a river in Maine's Kennebec Valley, and a young woman disappears from a small rural town, they draw the attention of the private investigator named Charlie Parker. Now Parker will be forced to confront a band of men without morality and without loyalty, not even to one another, in a place where the very darkness is alive. Because something has emerged from the shadows, something very bad. And it wants revenge.
Buck & Ears Pirate Detectives
Two terrible pirates ... two brilliant detectives! The first book in a hilarious illustrated pirate mystery series for readers 6-9, crammed with puzzles and clues for the reader to solve. Young fans of funny books like Invesitgators and Grimwood and puzzle books like Cluedle and Murdle Junior will love this series!Buck and his loyal rabbit, Ears, are officially the WORSE PIRATES on the Seventy Seas! When they bump into the terrifying CAPTAIN BLOODFANG, she gives them an ultimatum: follow CLUES to find her missing chef, or else be turned into pirate stew!Along with their MISFIT CREW, can Buck and Ears SOLVE THE CASE and save themselves from a horrible fat? augh out loud as you spot the clues and try to solve the mystery before pirate detectives Buck and Ears!Praise for Buck & Ears Pirate Detectives:"Buck & Ears is the funniest book of 2026! Hilariously bonkers and full of brilliantly twisty puzzles to solve, this is as fun and as fab as a book can be!" Elle McNicoll, author of A Kind of Spark"Five stars on the seven seas for this brilliant new series." Andy Shepherd, author of The Boy who Grew Dragons"A funny mystery story with perfectly plotted clues and stunning illustrations. The perfect reading for pleasure series.” Mel Taylor-Bessent, author of Race to Imagination Island"Buck & Ears Pirate Detectives invites you to enter a colourful and distinctly smelly world. You just want to pinch your nose and dive right in!" Alasdair Beckett-King, author of Montgomery BonBon: Murder at the Museum"A rollicking read packed with humour and heart. I can’t wait to read Buck & Ears' next adventure!" Rachel Chivers-Khoo, author of The Wishkeeper's Apprentice
RSPB Nature Spotter: Seashore
From noisy gulls to marvellous minke whales, discover over 60 from the British Isles in this pocket-sized nature guide filled with facts, tips and nature-spotting tricks!Published in collaboration with the RSPB, the largest wildlife conservation charity in Europe, this stylish and handy mini guide includes activities for rock pooling and making seashores safe for wildlife, as well as a special checklist with over 60 stickers for budding birdwatchers to tick off every animal and plant they spot by the sea. The perfect gift for any nature explorer to slip into their pocket, get outside and get spotting!























