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Mr Bliss, a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden, takes the whimsical decision to buy a motor car. But his first drive to visit friends quickly becomes a catalogue of disasters… J.R.R. Tolkien invented and illustrated the book of Mr Bliss’s adventures for his own children when they were very young. The book was handwritten with lots of detailed and uproarious colour pictures. This is a complete and highly imaginative tale of eccentricity. Some of the disasters that befall Mr Bliss could be blamed on his style of driving, but even he could not anticipate being hijacked by three bears. As for what happened next – the readers, whether young or old, will want to discover for themselves. Republished in hardback to match his Letters from Father Christmas and other illustrated Tolkien editions, Mr Bliss is presented as a conventional illustrated storybook, and also with Tolkien's handwritten pages in facsimile at the back, and is sure to delight Tolkien fans of all ages.

It’s 19 December 1931 and Hercule Poirot and Inspector Catchpool are called to investigate a brutal murder in a Norfolk hospital. Catchpool’s mother, the irrepressible Cynthia, insists that they stay with her nearby so that they can all be together for the festive period while Poirot finds the killer. Cynthia’s friend is being admitted to the same hospital and she is convinced he will be the next victim. Poirot has less than a week to solve the crime and prevent more murders, if he is to escape from this nightmare scenario and get home in time for Christmas. Meanwhile, someone else – someone utterly ruthless – has other ideas about what ought to happen to Hercule Poirot…

It's been years since Anna has seen Leo Knight. And of all the apartments in all the cities in all the world, he just happens to walk in to her cosy new attic home - as her new housemate. As the two walk the cobbled streets of Prague, taking in the sights and sounds from Wenceslas Square, frosted with snow, to the soft glow of candlelit Charles Bridge, the enchantment of the City of a Hundred Spires soon starts to work its magic on them...

Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming Britain’s prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as London’s mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as foreign secretary. He won the largest Tory majority since 1987 when he went to the polls in December 2019 for a mandate to ‘Get Brexit Done’ – only to have his administration hit by the global Covid pandemic and toppled in a Tory putsch. Unleashed is his account of his time in politics, and a book that shatters the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir. Written in his inimitable style, it is honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing about the politician who has dominated our times. This is his story of the fifteen years since he trounced Ken Livingstone at the polls to become mayor of London. Riots, tackling knife crime, bikes, buses, the London Olympics, and so much more. He writes about his role in Brexit, takes readers through all the big decisions and his reasons for taking them, and describes how he nearly died from Covid. Underlying everything in the book is his view that the UK is an extraordinary country and should have an exceptional future. These are the reflections of a political leader who believes fundamentally in levelling up – that there are millions of people in Britain who do not have the present they need or the future they deserve, and that it is the first job of politicians to put this right. It is all here. From soup to nuts, warts and all. As a journalist he was famed as a blurter of unsayable truths, and he has drawn again on this quality for the book. About people, policies, mistakes and triumphs. This is it – the reality as he saw it: unvarnished, unlocked, unleashed.

Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media. But all these share the trait for which she is most famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself. This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain. Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents’ volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist”; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn’t just capture her evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience?it’s all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail. More than a year before the book's publication, Fox's description of it as "a masterpiece" in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. Down the Drain is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.

Little Fox has gone missing in the park. The family search high and low, but the teddy can't be found. Then, one night, a beautiful fox calls at the window, and the young boy decides to follow her. They go on a magical winter adventure: moving through the city, past snowy meadows and icy rivers, until the boy realises the fox has led him to something special, and that she needs his help. Can the fox help him find his own beloved Little Fox?

A festive plot throws Molly off-kilter. Why does her beau, Juan Manuel, keep disappearing? And why are the hotel corridors filled with whispers? Someone is keeping a secret. And, as Molly discovers, the answers to the mystery lie in a most unexpected gift…

Brynhild is a Valkyrie: shieldmaiden of the Allfather, chooser of the slain. But now she too has fallen, flightless in her exile. Gudrun is a princess of Burgundy, a daughter of the Rhine, a prize for an invading king - a king whose brother Attila has other plans, and a dragon to call upon. And in the songs to be sung, there is another hero: Sigurd, a warrior with a sword sharper than the new moon. As the legends tell, these names are destined to be lovers, fated as enemies. But here on Midgard, legends can be lies… For not all heroes are heroic, nor all monsters monstrous. And a shieldmaiden may yet find that love is the greatest weapon of all.

Taylen Ellesmere, vévoda z Alderworthu, je neblaze proslulý svým zhýralým a nemravným způsobem života. Nikdy si od nikoho nenechá do ničeho mluvit. Jaké je tedy jeho překvapení, když je přinucen ke sňatku! Sotva však zaschne inkoust na svatební smlouvě, opouští vévoda Anglii i svoji novomanželku. Když se lady Lucinda po třech letech vzpamatuje ze strašlivého skandálu a začne se pomalu vracet do společnosti, její manžel se nečekaně vrátí. A má pro ni nabídku, kterou nelze odmítnout. Co za to? Musí mu porodit dědice!

Dva roky chodila Amelie do kanceláře nenáviděné firmy bratranců Rossiů a chovala se jako vzorná zaměstnankyně. Jejím cílem bylo ale něco jiného – zničit je! Tomu zasvětila svůj život ona i její sestra. A teď mají cíl na dosah ruky! Ale co má Amelie udělat s tou nocí? S tou, kdy podlehla vášni… a Alessandrovi, muži, po němž nesměla toužit. Muži, kterého měla chtít zadupat do prachu! Alessandro Amelii bezmezně věřil. A nejenom proto, že nezapomněl na něhu, již spolu sdíleli. O to větším šokem pro něj byla její zrada.

Když se společnice vysoce postavené dámy Sára Standishová poprvé setká s Cameronem Fitzallenem, má tento pozoruhodný muž svlečený kabát, a právě opravuje stroj ve své továrně. Je mužný, přitažlivý, schopný – i když je nanejvýš nevhodné, aby Sáře pohled na něj rozbušil srdce! On je přece pouhý majitel přádelny, továrník. Sdílejí sice stejný cíl pomáhat chudým dětem a oba obdivují nový svět technického pokroku a netušených možností, v očích smetánky se s ním však Sára jako dívka z vyšší společnosti nesmí stýkat. To jí však nezabrání, aby netoužila po jeho blízkosti či po jeho dotecích… (Závěrečná část minisérie Pokrokové mladé dámy)

Lysias pomstu plánoval už dlouho a pomoci mu v ní měl jakýsi Al. Kluk žijící na aténské ulici, schopný vyčmuchat – samozřejmě za odměnu – cokoliv! Al si nevzpomínala na nic, co bylo před tím, než se ocitla na ulici. A za ty roky, které na ní strávila, se naučila jednu věc dokonale – přežít. A bylo to třeba, protože ji hodně lidí chtělo vidět mrtvou. Setkání s Al – která rozhodně nebyla „Alem“, jehož očekával – bylo pro Lysiase šokem. A ještě větším, když odložila masku a kráska, která se pod ní skrývala, se vyloupla ven!

Sex s bratrovou bývalou snoubenkou asi nebyl ten nejlepší nápad! Ale pro Jacka to byl ten nejúžasnější sexuální zážitek. Po té noci se rozešli s tím, že se už neuvidí a že je naprostý konec. Náhodné setkání po dvou letech ale přineslo do Jackova života hned několik šokujících novinek: zjistil, že po Peyton stále zoufale touží… a pak se dozvěděl, že je otcem. Věděl, že před otcovskou zodpovědností neuteče, co si ale má počít, když on v lásku nevěří a Payton vášeň nestačí…

Divné manželství před třemi a půl rokem Franco a Lexi uzavřeli… Založené na nedůvěře, podezírání a nenávisti. Nevydrželo dlouho… Když Lexi od svého bohatého italského manžela utekla, byla to pro oba úleva! Pod tím vším špatným zůstalo jako mince na dně studny i něco dobrého. Něco, na čem by se dal vystavět nový hrad manželství; tentokrát pevný a hrdě střežící důvěru, oddanost, lásku… Budou k tomu ale mít ještě Lexi a Franco po tom všem špatném, co prožili, dost sil?

Nastal ten den jako stvořený pro rozvod. Lao přece nemohl mít jiný důvod, proč by Chloe na svůj hrad zval! Za ty roky se s ním setkala jenom několikrát, a přestože se k ní choval spíše jako otec než jako manžel, vždy ji to rozrušilo… Lao potřebuje dědice. A má manželku – byť si ji bral jenom z povinnosti. To, že ji přitahuje, je výhoda. To, že Chloe přitahuje jeho, dělá plán – učinit ji matkou a manželkou nejen na papíře – dokonalým!