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'Boudicca’s Daughter is Elodie Harper’s masterpiece.' Costanza Casati, author of Babylonia'One of the best books I have ever read.' Bea Fitzgerald, author of Girl, Goddess, Queen'Certainly my book of the year.' Caroline Lea, author of The Glass Woman'One of my favourite reads of the year.' Rosie Hewlett, author of Medea'Beautiful, breathtaking – I loved this novel.' Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne'One of the most important writers of historical fiction today.' Nikita Gill, author of HekateBoudicca. The ferocious warrior queen whose rebellion against Rome still echoes through the ages. But what of the daughter who grew up in her shado? efeated by her enemy but unbroken, Solina’s bid for survival takes her from Britain’s sacred marshlands to the glittering façades of Nero’s court. But in an Empire built on violence and lies, Boudicca’s daughter will find both revenge and redemption have their price... Born to a legend. Forced to fight. Determined to succeed. Meet Solina. Boudicca’s Daughter. **Praise for BOUDICCA'S DAUGHTER**‘Historical fiction of the highest quality’ Elizabeth Fremantle‘Beautiful, poignant and gripping’ Hannah Kaner‘Loved, loved this’ Buki Papillon‘Precious and rare’ Harriet Constable‘An absolute must-read’ Emily Hauser‘Devastating, powerful and haunting’ Sue Lynn Tan‘Expertly crafted’ Helen Carr‘I devoured this’ Francesca de Tores‘Wonderful… an author fully stepping into their power’ Venetia Constantine ‘Sophisticated’ The Times ‘Masterful . . . I was absolutely transported.’ Red ‘I throughly recommend this novel’ Historical Novels Review‘Dazzl[ing] . . . there’s a raw energy to Harper’s storytelling’ Daily Mail ‘A masterful storyteller… rich and accomplished’ Press Association ‘Absolutely thrilling . . . incredibly powerful . . . fascinating’ BBC 4 Front Row Elodie Harper’s book ‘Boudicca’s Daughter was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-09-01.

Book Band: Orange (Ideal for ages 5+)A warm and inclusive rhyming story about the start of the school year, ideal for children practising their reading at home or in school. From the creators of the picture book, All Are Welcome. It's the start of the school year and everyone is ready to go... though with a touch of nervousness too. Join the class as they navigate the first day back and celebrate the year ahead. This joyful book from New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Penfold is perfect for Key Stage 1 (KS1) children who are learning to read by themselves. Covering book bands orange to lime, and with heart-warming illustrations from Suzanne Kaufman, it explores themes of school and diversity. 'A celebration of a school community... Really uplifting, with bright simple drawings, and plenty to look at and talk about on every page'. - Independent_______________Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, Ben Bailey Smith, Chitra Soundar, Saviour Pirotta and Tony Bradman. The series is ideal for both home and school, with gorgeous colour illustrations, tips for parents, and fun activity ideas. Online guided reading and teaching notes, written by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), are available at bloomsburyreaders.com. 'Every child needs a Bloomsbury Young Reader. Fun, stretching, just the right length, full of adventurous vocabulary and punctuation.' - Julie-Ann McCulloch, Teacher

Book Band: Orange (Ideal for ages 5+)A bright rhyming story about helping out, ideal for children practising their reading at home or in school. From the creators of the picture book, All Are Welcome. This community are doing what they can to lend each other a hand. From planting seeds to picking up litter, there’s something for everyone. Join the children to celebrate the acts of kindness that go a long way. This joyful book from New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Penfold is perfect for Key Stage 1 (KS1) children who are learning to read by themselves. Covering book bands orange to lime, with heart-warming illustrations from Suzanne Kaufman, it explores themes of kindness, community and inclusivity. 'A celebration of a school community... Really uplifting, with bright simple drawings, and plenty to look at and talk about on every page'. - Independent_______________Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, Ben Bailey Smith, Chitra Soundar, Saviour Pirotta and Tony Bradman. The series is ideal for both home and school, with gorgeous colour illustrations, tips for parents, and fun activity ideas. Online guided reading and teaching notes, written by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), are available at bloomsburyreaders.com. 'Every child needs a Bloomsbury Young Reader. Fun, stretching, just the right length, full of adventurous vocabulary and punctuation.' - Julie-Ann McCulloch, Teacher

Book Band: Orange (Ideal for ages 5+) A rhyming story celebrating learning and moving up a school year, ideal for children practising their reading at home or in school. From the creators of the picture book, All Are Welcome. Join these joyful children as they look back on the school year, celebrating what they've learned. Are they ready to step up to the next year group? This uplifting book from New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Penfold is perfect for Key Stage 1 (KS1) children who are learning to read by themselves. Covering book bands orange to lime, and with heart-warming illustrations from Suzanne Kaufman, it explores themes of learning, growing up and inclusivity. 'A celebration of a school community... Really uplifting, with bright simple drawings, and plenty to look at and talk about on every page'. - Independent_______________ Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson, Ben Bailey Smith, Chitra Soundar, Saviour Pirotta and Tony Bradman. The series is ideal for both home and school, with gorgeous colour illustrations, tips for parents, and fun activity ideas. Online guided reading and teaching notes, written by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), are available at bloomsburyreaders.com. 'Every child needs a Bloomsbury Young Reader. Fun, stretching, just the right length, full of adventurous vocabulary and punctuation.' - Julie-Ann McCulloch, Teacher

A stompingly funny story with hidden dinosaurs on every page – can you find them al? here are hidden clues everywhere in this funny, lively picture book about a little boy who suspects his sweet, elderly neighbour is secretly keeping an amazing array of dinosaurs in her house. The boy tries to tell his parents about the claws, jaws and prehistoric roars coming from next door, but they just won't believe him. Mrs Shaw from Number 84 does NOT have any dinosaurs, of that they’re sure . . . But are they right? Or does Mrs Shaw actually have a T-rex putting up fairy lights in her garden?

Unlock the secrets to developing an expert English department with Leading Secondary English. Written in an accessible, conversational tone, and providing real-life experience through a variety of case studies, Leading Secondary English is the ultimate playbook to help you create and nurture an outstanding secondary school English team. Covering key areas that range from building a culture of excellence, the nuts and bolts of leadership and navigating pedagogy and assessment, Donal Hale shares his invaluable blue-print for successful English teaching and leading an education department. Topics include:- implementing routines and habits that maximise everyday learning- mapping a diverse and knowledge-rich curriculum- leading department meetings that minimise admin- enhancing subject knowledge and professional development across staff members. A comprehensive manual that covers everything a current or aspiring secondary English lead needs to know. Leading Secondary English will help you inspire a love of literature among students and a passion for teaching across staff. It will help you increase your classroom confidence and thrive as you establish an excellent English department.

The essential guide to strength and conditioning training for anyone delivering targeted exercise programmesThis comprehensive manual offers practical tips for planning, delivering and reviewing a range of strength and conditioning exercise programmes for all ages and abilities. Learn what exercises and testing methods are required to develop your client’s performance in areas such as strength, speed, endurance, flexibility, movement competency and more. It includes the latest advice on:- The fundamentals of strength and conditioning- Client consultations- Training methods and sample programmes- Testing the components of fitness- Nutrition for strength and conditioning- Strategies for fatigue, recovery and motivation. With access to video demonstrations of progressive exercises, this is the ultimate reference book for strength and conditioning practitioners as well as for current and prospective coaches from all sporting backgrounds (from grass roots level to elite). It’s also ideal reading for anyone studying sports and health-related exercise courses in schools, colleges and universities.

A roleplaying game of teamwork and treachery where the need to cooperate is second only to achieving your own ulterior motives.Think you know roleplaying? Think again! Welcome to Two Sides to the Coin, a cooperative roleplaying game with only one winner.Designed for one-shot games or short, linked stories, Two Sides to the Coin throws players into tense situations, from high-stakes heists and murder investigations to deep-space rescue missions and peace negotiations between warring nations. Players will have to work together to achieve a shared objective… but must also strive to achieve their own personal goals – individual gain, revenge, perhaps even outright sabotage! While teamwork and cooperation will be vital in achieving the overall goal, manipulation, misdirection, and deceit will be needed in order to come out ahead.With a variety of scenarios that can be run straight away, as well as advice for Narrators looking to create new scenarios in varied settings, Two Sides to the Coin offers a novel roleplaying experience, focused on roleplaying rather than dice-rolling.Work together to achieve your common goal, but don’t forget to achieve your own ulterior motives along the way… by any means necessary!

Don''t waste a second of your valuable holiday time on another boring Christmas movie. In this merry and informative guide, film critic Alonso Duralde takes us on a tinsel-bedecked tour of the best—and worst—films of the Yuletide season. Whether you''re looking for the classics, family favorites, holiday horror, seasonally themed crime epics, or the most wonderfully awful cinematic lumps of coal, Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas serves up delightful recommendations in prose as brisk as a winter sleighride. From White Christmas to Bad Santa, Eyes Wide Shut to Gremlins, you''ll find a marvelously electic selection of holiday fare and a thorough breakdown of the many screen Scrooges, including Alistair Sim, Jim Carrey, and ...Tori Spelling? And get ready to encounter movies you may never have heard of, from the gritty noir Blast of SIlence (filmed in New York City over Christmas 1959 without a single permit), to the loony Santa Claus, a Mexican kiddie movie in which St. Nick teams up with Merlin to fight the devil! Fun facts abound—did you know the actor cast as Uncle Billy in It''s a Wonderful Life was also in the running to play mean old Mr. Potter?—making this a stocking stuffed with goodies you''ll turn to every Christmas season. This fully revised and updated edition includes all Christmas movies of note to have been released in the fifteen years since the first edition was published, as well as gems omitted from the first edition.

LAURA PURCELL''S HOUSE OF SPLINTERS IS AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOWAs featured on the Radio 2 Book ClubSome doors are locked for a reason...Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband’s crumbling country estate, The Bridge.With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband’s awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. For inside her new home lies a locked room, and beyond that door lies a two-hundred-year-old diary and a deeply unsettling painted wooden figure – a Silent Companion – that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself...‘[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book’ Jojo Moyes‘[It] shone, for originality for the sheer quality of the writing, the characters and some masterly chills’ Peter JamesREADERS LOVE THE SILENT COMPANIONS:''Phenomenal'' ''Will stay with you long after you have finished reading''''Spooky, imaginative, original'' ''Couldn''t put it down'' ''Truly creepy'' ''Deserves a place on every bookshelf''

This illustrated study tells the story of the Russian mercenary force led by business tycoon Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the mutiny it launched against Putin''s government in 2023. Conceived by the Kremlin in 2013 as an instrument of ‘deniable’ power projection, the Wagner private military company (PMC) – or mercenary force – was a fixture of Russian foreign deployments for nine years. Led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, it was first deployed in the Donbas region of Ukraine during the undeclared war of 2014, went on to play a key role in Russia’s intervention in the Syrian civil war from 2015, and then extended its activities to six African countries and even Venezuela. It would, however, become most infamous as one of the key fighting forces in President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, before shocking the world by launching an armed mutiny in June 2023.In this compelling new account, leading expert on modern Russia Mark Galeotti examines the decade-long career of the Wagner Group, considering how it came to be, its actions across the globe and the events and motivations involved in its rebellion and eventual dissolution. Interspersed with orders of battle, units and actions, as well as profiles of all the key figures, this vital analysis is complemented by rare photographs and eight newly commissioned artwork plates.

An exciting photocopiable reading comprehension resource from Andrew Jennings (@VocabularyNinja), the creator of the hugely popular Write Like a Ninja, Vocabulary Ninja and Comprehension Ninja: Non-Fiction series.Comprehension Ninja: Inference and Beyond for Lower KS2 presents 24 high-quality non-fiction, fiction and poetry texts and photocopiable activities to help embed comprehension skills across the curriculum. With accompanying question sets that challenge pupils to effectively summarise, predict, and infer from the text, this practical resource will save teachers time and supercharge pupils’ reading comprehension skills. Difficulty increases through the book to enable teachers to meet pupils where they’re at.As well as improving their comprehension skills, this book provides excellent SATs practice for every child. Inference makes up 30% to 50% of the marks available in the Reading SATs paper, closely following retrieval as the main domain in which children can acquire marks.For more must-have Ninja books by Andrew Jennings (@VocabularyNinja), check out Vocabulary Ninja, Arithmetic Ninja, Write Like a Ninja and Times Tables Ninja.

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers.100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Greener School is the guide that schools need to implement and achieve their Climate Action Plans. Linking with the DfE Sustainability Climate Change Strategy, as well as the Eco-Schools'' top ten topics and the Let''s Go Zero Objectives, this is the essential book for creative activities that schools can use throughout the year to empower children and support teaching and learning of sustainability topics.This book will equip primary teachers with practical ideas and knowledge of resources across a range of environmental topics, including litter, marine life, biodiversity, energy, school grounds and transport. It will cover how schools can reduce their waste, save money and even make money through practical campaigns!With a foreword from Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE.

The upwardly mobile Kim family employs a young woman to help manage their new house. Mr. Kim begins an affair with the nameless ‘housemaid’, who soon drags the entire family into a terrible tragedy… The director Kim Ko-young played a formative part in South Korean cinema’s “Golden Age” of the 1960s and 1970s; his 1960 masterpiece, Hanyo (The Housemaid), rescued and restored after almost being lost, is today widely regarded as one of the greatest South Korean films of all time. Directors such as Park Chan-wook, Im Sang-soo, Kim Ki-duk, Ryu Seung-wan and Kim Jee-woon have all praised the film, and Bong Joon-ho has referred to Hanyo as “the Citizen Kane of Korean cinema,” citing it as an inspiration for his film, Parasite (2019). In this book, Youngmin Choe argues that Hanyo encapsulates the mood of social change in postwar South Korea during the period of tremendous upheaval and rapid transformation that followed the devastating war, which divided families across the newly formed Cold War boundaries. The housemaid – a figure that Kim Ki-young would explore repeatedly throughout his career – was a young woman driven by greed and envy, a femme-fatale set loose on the middle-class home. A monstrous embodiment of the destructive desires of capitalism, which recklessly eroded the foundations of tradition, this housemaid served as the conscience of a period that otherwise leaned heavily into economic transformation, pointing to the anxiety that undergirded what might be otherwise regarded as a time of ‘progress’. Going beyond the traditionalist approaches that resist feminist readings of Hanyo, Youngmin Choe insists that the enduring legacy of Hanyo is both due to its uncanny aesthetics and - though it certainly was not intended to be an explicitly feminist film - in the questions it raises about class mobility, gender oppression and women’s work.

A page-turning, laugh-out-loud historical adventure by comedian and broadcaster Iszi Lawrence (as seen on Netflix and Sky History), perfect for fans of Horrible Histories. Sunil and his inventor friend Alex have a problem. Alex''s time machine wants to go time-travelling all by itself! When it turns up in a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, Sunil and Alex must go on a quest through time to collect all the pictures, tiles and tapestries of the machine and bring them back to the present. Join their journey to meet Da Vinci, the architect of Taj Mahal Ahmad Lohri, the women who embroidered the Bayeux Tapestry and Imhotep and the artists working on the Pyramid of Giza. This is art history like you’ve never seen it before!_______________ The Time Machine Next Door is an exciting new series of quirky historical chapter books for readers aged 7-9, to be enjoyed as a series or as standalone stories. The series brings lesser-known parts of history to life with hilarious plots, real-life characters, fascinating facts and fantastic illustrations.

Reeds Nautical Almanac is the indispensable trusted annual compendium of navigational data for yachtsmen and motorboaters. Known as the Yachtsman''s Bible, Reeds provides all the information required to navigate Atlantic coastal waters around the whole of the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands and the entire European coastline from the tip of Denmark right down to Gibraltar, Northern Morocco, the Azores and Madeira.The 2026 Almanac continues the tradition of year-on-year improvement and meticulous presentation of all the data required for safe navigation. Now with an improved layout for easier reference and with over 45,000 annual changes, it is regarded as the bible of almanacs for anyone going to sea.The 2026 edition is updated throughout and includes: 700 harbour chartlets; tide tables and tidal streams; buoyage and lights; 7,500 waypoints; invaluable passage notes; distance tables; radio, weather and safety information; first aid section. Also includes a free Reeds Marina Guide.Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk