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Delve deeper into the magic of My Happy Marriage and feast your eyes on beautiful art wrapped in a gorgeous, delicately designed package! A gem of an art collection jam-packed with lush illustrations, exclusive short stories, and behind-the-scenes revelations that no fan of My Happy Marriage will want to miss! This luxe art book is absolutely essential to any My Happy Marriage fan's collection! More than 80 gorgeous illustrations by the My Happy Marriage manga artist Rito Kohsaka are interspersed with exclusive short stories written by the series author, Akumi Agitogi. At the end of this spectacular journey, you'll find behind-the-scenes commentary by Rito Kohsaka detailing some of the series' most iconic illustrations. This beautiful collection is an absolute must-have for fans of the series and will make the perfect companion to the My Happy Marriage novels and manga editions!

When Cecily Knight sneaks into the Heathen Club’s initiation on behalf of a rival gang, she’s confident she can slip through the night unnoticed. But the moment she steps into their den, she knows she’s made a fatal error. The devil has seen her. Jeremy Volkov may not technically be the devil, but as far as Cecily’s concerned, he’s close enough. He’s not just a member of the Heathens—he’s their ruthless leader and the heir to the Russian Bratva. And now, Jeremy wants one thing: Cecily. He claims it's to protect her, but Cecily knows better. He wants to possess her, own her, make her his. But Cecily is not about to be dragged into his blood-soaked world... or is she?This book is a dark unconventional romance and contains themes that aren't to everyone's liking. Please check the author's note for content warnings before reading.

A terrifyingly terrific colouring book is based on the hit series Wednesday!Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ time as a student at Nevermore Academy. Featuring highly-detailed and hauntingly-beautiful black and white illustrations, this colouring book is the perfect way for teens and adult fans of Wednesday to get in touch with their dark side. Based on the Characters Created by Charles Addams.

An utterly addictive and twisty thriller, full of dark family secrets and deadly stakes. Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Knives Out. Box Set Includes: The Final Gambit The Hawthorne Legacy The Inheritance Games

A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time 'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time' Arundhati Roy In this illuminating collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky shares his insights on the pressing challenges facing humanity. A Liveable Future is Possible addresses artificial intelligence and the potential for such programs to surpass humans in cognitive awareness; what lies ahead for a world engulfed in a deadly climate crisis; the rise of neo-fascism internationally, and why we should organize across borders to confront it and the striking similarities between Trump and Biden's foreign policies. Noam Chomsky has been an incomparable model of moral clarity and intellectual courage during his many decades as a scholar, political activist and social critic. A Liveable Future Is Possible is not only an urgent and informative book, it is a call-to-action for those hoping to help carry the torch of one of history's greatest minds. 'Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet' The New York Times Book Review

It is twenty years on from the nuclear war between the US and China that brought down the old world order, and the American president has held power for over a decade. Suddenly, he collapses in the middle of an address to the nation. A cover-up ensues, the administration announces his death and the country descends into civil war. Everything points to a remote assassination made possible by a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence. The trail leads to an outpost in the Amazon rainforest, the last known whereabouts of the tech visionary who predicted this world transforming breakthrough. As the world's great powers struggle to outmanoeuvre one another in this Great Game of scientific discovery, an American crisis threatens to spiral into a global one. 2054 is an explosive thriller and a real-world cautionary tale about the path we are on, from two former military officers and award-winning authors who have seen the future.

This was supposed to be the best year of Rowan Lancaster’s life. Instead his ankle is broken and his last football season at Lancaster Prep is done. Just like that. Except for the days that include Arabella Hartley Thomas. Beautiful. Stylish. Quirky. And she gets under Rowan’s skin like no other. Sure, they flirt and banter and give each other grief. But now she invades his dreams and makes his heart pound so hard he’s sure she can see it. When Arabella is able to see every part that he wishes he could hide, he realizes if he let himself, he could fall—hard.

Return to the hallowed halls of Nevermore Academy with Wednesday Addams in this delightfully dark novelisation of season one of the hit show, Wednesday! Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ time as a student at Nevermore Academy. Follow along with her as she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorised the local town and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago ? all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore Academy. Relive the excitement and intrigue in this amazing novelisation of the phenomenal first season. Based on the characters created by Charles Addams.

What Annika doesn’t realize is that behind Creighton’s quiet beauty lies a dark and violent soul... She is everything he is not: bright, lively, and the heart of every party. Creighton knows he can never outrun his past, so he unleashes his pain on others. He never expected to be drawn to the girl who is his complete opposite. But as Annika tries to break through his walls, he finds himself captivated by her, especially after he uncovers her wilder side…Now that he’s obsessed, she’ll never escape him. Can Annika bring light to Creighton’s darkness, or will he pull her into the shadows with him? This book is a dark unconventional romance and contains themes that aren't to everyone's liking.

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth ... The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common. Fascinated and exhilarated, the local people approach the mysterious object armed with nothing more than a white flag. But when gruesome alien creatures emerge armed with all-destroying heat-rays, their rashness turns rapidly to fear. As the rays blaze towards them, it soon becomes clear they have no choice but to flee - or die. The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear ...

A classic thriller from the Harlem Detective series, where love, jealousy and many-peopled mayhem abound Big Joe Pullen is dead and his wake is getting boozy. When the opium-addicted Reverend Short falls out of a window trying to see a thief fleeing the robbed store opposite, his life is saved when he lands in a bread basket, cushioned by the corpse of Valentine Haines. It’s up to detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out who stabbed Valentine – though no one at the wake is keen to say much to the police. Shot through with dry, dark humour, this is Chester Himes at his hardboiled noir best.

A FORGOTTEN PAST. Kira vividly remembers the moment Cady Bennett and one of her search and rescue dogs found her as a child, living alone in the wild, with no memories of her life before. Years later, now adopted into the Bennett family, Kira has spent most of her life training in search and rescue herself. A MISSING GIRL. So, when Cady’s estranged father appears with news of a missing child out in the wilderness, Kira vows to bring the girl home. A DARK SECRET. As the search intensifies, danger mounts and long-buried secrets begin to come to light. To find one missing child, Kira will have to question everything she thinks she knows.

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century 'The final philosopher to perform the most profound surgery on philosophy ... concise yet exceptionally clear' Ai Weiwei Widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a succinct yet wide-ranging exploration of language and logic; of science and mysticism; of what can be said, and what can only be shown. Its austere beauty - along with its famous 'picture theory' of meaning - has inspired generations of thinkers, artists, novelists and musicians. In a series of short, bold statements, Wittgenstein seeks to define the limits of meaningful expression. Originally published in the early 1920s, it is the only book-length work the renowned philosopher published in his lifetime. In this thrilling new translation, accompanied by a lively introduction by Jan Zwicky, Alexander Booth displays an extraordinary sensitivity to the subtle influence on Wittgenstein's gem-like prose - at once specialist and, often, remarkably plain-spoken - of his background in mechanical engineering, while at the same time highlighting the underlying poetry of this seminal text.

Selected and introduced by J. M. Coetzee and Alissa Valles, an essential gathering of poetry from one of the twentieth century’s pre-eminent literary voices be courageous when reason fails you be courageous in the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts Born in Poland, Zbigniew Herbert was one of the great poets of the twentieth century, moved throughout his work by a powerful sense of humanity in the darkest of times. This new selection brings together poems from across the whole of his writing life, from his first volume Chord of Light in 1956, to works published posthumously in 2024. Direct, lucid, sometimes impish in his ironic humour, and deeply informed not only by the history of his own time, but by the Classical world, here is a poet of huge imaginative range and profundity, who desires always to ‘touch the essence’: to get to the heart of life.

The final novel in the trailblazing Harlem Detective series, set in a New York City at boiling point Bawdy and tough-talking, wickedly funny and wantonly sensual, Blind Man With a Pistol is a surreal joyride through Harlem in a heatwave. Detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are side-tracked from investigating a series of organised race riots when a white man with a cut throat and no trousers falls dead at their feet. Told in a thrilling chaos of impressions over the course of one day and one night, this case will take Jones and Johnson into the pounding heart of Harlem.

Light and dark - this is the destiny placed upon Natasha and Clara, the birthright bestowed on them by their godfather, the mysterious sorcerer Drosselmeyer. Clara, the favourite, grows into beauty and ease, while Natasha is cursed to live in her sister's shadow. But one fateful Christmas Eve, Natasha gets her chance at revenge. For Drosselmeyer has returned and brought with him the Nutcracker, an enchanted present which offers entry to a deceptively beautiful world: the Kingdom of Sweets. In this land of snow and sugar, Natasha is presented with a power far greater than Drosselmeyer: the Sugar Plum Fairy, who is also a giver of gifts . . . and a maker of dread-filled bargains. As Natasha uncovers the dark destiny laid before her birth, she must reckon with powers both earthly and magical . . . and decide to which world she truly belongs.