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From INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING author Ashley Winstead comes a buzzy, bloody new thriller about success, sisterhood, and demanding justice... by any means necessary. Wronged women always want revenge. But how far is too far? When powerful men begin turning up dead across Los Angeles, suspicion falls on emerging pop star Scout Sage. Still haunted by her sister's mysterious death, Scout faces the collapse of her career, her reputation, and her tenuous belief in justice. Assigned to the case is Detective Grey Holloway, whose own history sharpens every judgement. As Grey digs deeper, she uncovers whispers of the so-called Hot Girl Murder Club - a covert sisterhood of ambitious women rising through Hollywood. Women who are done waiting for the men in charge to deliver what's right, bent instead on taking it for themselves. But are they correcting a broken system - or creating a far more dangerous one?

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NEW NOVEL FROM THE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE DUTCH HOUSE AND TOM LAKE'Few writers are more adept than Patchett at delineating the collisions between present and past' Observer'Whistler is top-shelf comfort food, the literary equivalent of pricey ice-cream' Guardian, Book of the Day__________When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she doesn’t expect it to be Eddie – her former stepfather. Married to her mother for a short time when Daphne was nine, she hasn’t seen Eddie for many years; not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again now, Daphne and Eddie feel that time has fallen away. Their earlier relationship was brief but had a profound impact on both of them. Together, they consider not only their past, but the joys of the present and their commitment to face the future together. A moving, luminous story about how family, memory and love endures, Whistler paints an intimate portrait of how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything. __________'This generous-hearted, clever and poignantly revealing tale feels another sure-fire hit. Spend a day on the couch in its warm, riveting company and you won’t regret it' Times'A quietly compelling story about the power of familial love to transcend time and blood' Harper's Bazaar, Best Books of 2026

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

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

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?

This fully illustrated study explains the British Pacific Fleet’s campaign against the Japanese in the Sakishima Islands, its overlooked role in the battle for Okinawa. The invasion of Okinawa was, famously, the culmination of the United States’ island-hopping campaign. Less well known is the fact that it was also the greatest campaign of the British Pacific Fleet’s war against Japan, fought by five fleet carriers over two months, with a distinct task. The Fleet Air Arm’s job at Okinawa was to suppress and destroy the Japanese airfields on the Sakashima Islands, which were used as bases for kamikazes as well as to route aircraft from Japan to Okinawa. In this book, naval expert Angus Konstam offers a newly researched account of the Fleet Air Arm’s air campaign in the Sakashimas. By 1945, the carriers and their aircrews were well worked up, and ready to tackle challenging and important targets. He explains the capabilities of the late-war Fleet Air Arm at Okinawa, and analyses their effectiveness against Japan’s still-dangerous airpower. Famously, at Okinawa the Royal Navy’s armoured carriers proved much more resilient to kamikaze strikes than the wooden-topped carriers of the Americans. Packed with spectacular original artwork, photographs, diagrams and maps, this book is a superbly illustrated history of the Royal Navy’s most extensive carrier campaign.

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.

*'It's hard to imagine any group of primary-aged children who wouldn't be inspired' BOOKSELLER**'An absolute must-have for every young person's bookshelf' HUFFINGTON POST*Created by Kate Pankhurst, relative of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, the Fantastically Great Women series has inspired a generation of readers to dream big, stand proud and speak out. How will you change the worl? e inspired by thirteen true stories of pioneering women who forever changed how women are seen in the workplace! Meet mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to conquer Everest, and mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose calculations helped send the first men into space. This inspiring illustrated collection celebrates women who dreamed big and proved that no job is too big – or too small – for a woman to conquer. Including: James Barry, Rosa May Billinghurst, Sophie Blanchard, Rosalind Franklin, Katherine Johnson, Annette Kellerman, Katia Krafft, the London Matchgirls, Elizabeth Magie, Maria Merian, Lotte Reiniger, Junko Tabei and Madam C.J. Walker. - Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards- 'Significantly more engaging and inspiring than the rival Rebel Girls' GUARDIAN- Now an award-winning hit musical from the creators of SIX!Other books in the series: Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, Fantastically Great Women Who Made History, Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet, Fantastically Great Women Scientists and their Stories, Fantastically Great Women Artists and their Stories, Fantastically Great Women Sports Stars and their Stories

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!

‘The best bike rider that ever lived’ – Chris Boardman CBEThe first in-depth biography of the modern era’s greatest cyclist, written by William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award-winning journalist.AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWTadej Pogacar is not like any other professional cyclist. The Slovenian is a sporting phenomenon. He won almost everything there is to win in bike racing, has done so with breathtaking audacity and style – and all by the age of 26.This comprehensive biography follows his meteoric rise to the top, recounts his greatest race wins and rivalries, and reveals the character, motivation and skills that have led to his domination of elite cycling. Experienced cycling journalist Andy McGrath has documented the versatile superstar’s development from his victory in the Tour de l’Avenir in 2018 to his Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Il Lombardia and Tour of Flanders successes and his historic 2024 season, when he won cycling’s prestigious triple crown of the Giro d’Italia, the Tour de France and the World Championship road race. His victories include four Tours de France (2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025).McGrath explores how this diminutive child from a small, mountainous nation of Slovenia first took up the sport, his emerging talent as a teenager and the role played by his UAE Team Emirates-XRG coaches and management. He also gets the inside story from those close to him, trusted teammates and fierce adversaries. It is not only what Pogacar has won, but the manner in which he wins that also makes him so unique and popular. McGrath gets to the very heart of the cycling phenomenon that is ‘Pogi’ – and the fascinating young man behind the runaway success story.

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.

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 irresistible festive treat from multimillion copy bestseller Amanda Prowse. ***While her free-spirited daughter travels the world, Vivienne prepares for a lonely Christmas in Bristol, with her best friend Ellen and her ancient dog Bob.Then a letter arrives that changes everything. Vivienne''s daughter is getting married in New Zealand, and she wants her mum and Ellen by her side.Out on the rugged coast of Tutukaka, the sea sparkles, romance beckons – and Vivienne falls under the spell of another life. Will she leave everything she holds dear for a chance at happiness? Or will her daughter be the only one to fall in love this Christmas?***Reviews for Amanda Prowse: ''If you love JoJo Moyes and Freya North, you''ll love this. There''s no shortage of books with Christmas in the title, but this family-focused story stands out from the rest'' Closer''Magical'' Now Magazine''A lively romance with emotional depth'' My Weekly''A heartwarming novel to read in the run-up to Christmas – hot, balmy beaches herald the festive season on one side of the world, and light dustings of snow on the other side'' Tripfiction''A sweet, humorous snapshot of a romance... Will elicit a sigh and a smile'' New York Journal of Books

''A fantastic addition to every bookshelf'' - Kathy Brodie, Host and founder of Early Years TV on The Muddy Puddle TeacherThe playful guide to creating an outdoor Key Stage 1 curriculum from the popular Muddy Puddle TeacherBased on the well-loved Muddy Puddle Teacher Approach and following the Three Muddy M''s – mother nature, mental health and getting more kids moving – this handbook is jam-packed with simple outdoor activities for every season. As in the popular Early Years guide, there are step-by-step instructions and full-colour photographs to demonstrate the activities. Whether you''re a forest school enthusiast or just getting started in taking your teaching outside, there are plenty of inspiring ideas to promote children''s engagement, effective learning and wellbeing – and save hours of preparation time!Using natural and upcycled materials, the activities in this book span key National Curriculum topics and themes, from muddy maths and literacy to muddy meditation and yoga. From using wellington boots to test materials to using clay grass heads to talk about emotions, every activity is ideal for delivering a fun and practical session while inspiring a love of nature and raising environmental awareness. Perfectly adaptable to all outdoor spaces, this book will transform your teaching practice in an affordable, sustainable way.

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.

The Reeds Looseleaf Almanac provides all the information required to navigate Atlantic coastal waters around the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands, and the western European coastline from the tip of Denmark right down to Gibraltar, including the Azores and Madeira.This is a versatile system that combines almanac and pilotage information in a convenient looseleaf form. This unique format, bound inside a durable binder which stays open on the chart table, lets the user tailor the Almanac to their needs by personalising the contents supplied with whatever information they may want to add or take out. Information is quick and easy to access, whilst allowing the navigator to refresh it with the annual update pack.Includes 700 harbour chartlets, harbour facilities, tide tables and streams, 7,500 waypoints, international codes and flags, weather, distance tables, passage advice, area planning charts, rules of the road, radio information, communications, safety, mayday and distress procedures, and documentation and customs. The 2026 edition is updated throughout, containing over 45,000 changes, and 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"There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them" Sir Chay Blyth"The big, bold, extravagantly comprehensive king of Almanacs" Yachting World