Unruly A History of England's Kings and Queens

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Mitchell David
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Joseph Michael

Discover who we are and how we got here in comedian, star of Peep Show and student of history David Mitchells UNRULY: A History of Englands Kings and Queens - a thoughtful, funny exploration of the founding fathers and mothers of England, and subsequently Britain. JUST FANTASTIC. DELIGHTFULLY CONTRARY AND HILARIOUSLY CANTANKEROUS. VERY, VERY FUNNY JESSE ARMSTRONG, CREATOR OF SUCCESSION AND PEEP SHOWCLEVER, AMUSING, GLORIOUSLY BIZARRE AND RAZOR SHARP. MITCHELL - A FUNNY MAN AND A SKILLED HISTORIAN - TELLS STORIES THAT ARE INTERESTING AND FUN. HERE IS HORRIBLE HISTORIES FOR GROWNUPS GERARD DEGROOT, THE TIMESCLEVER, FUNNY, MAKES YOU THINK QUITE DIFFERENTLY ABOUT HISTORY DAN SNOW, HISTORIAN AND BROADCASTERThink you know your kings and queens? Think again. In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how Englands monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in...

The Bluest Eye

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Morrison Toni
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Penguin Books

Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. At once intimate and expansive, unsparing in its truth-telling, The Bluest Eye shows how the past savagely defines the present. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterised her writing. 'She revealed the sins of her nation, while profoundly elevating its canon. She suffused the telling of blackness with beauty, whilst steering us away from the perils of the white gaze. That's why she told her stories. And why we will never, ever stop reading them' Afua Hirsch 'Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is rarest of pleasures' Washington Post 'When...

One of Us Is Back

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M.Mc Manus Karen
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Penguin Books

From international bestseller, Karen McManus, comes the explosive third and final thrilling instalment in the acclaimed Bayview series. Life hasnt been easy for the Bayview Crew. First they had to prove they werent killers. Then a new generation had to outwit a vengeful copycat. Now, its beginning again. At first the mysterious billboard seems like a bad joke: Time for a new game, Bayview. But when a member of the crew disappears, its clear this game just got serious - and no-one understands the rules. Everyones a target. And now that someone unexpected has returned to Bayview, things are starting to get deadly. Simon was right about secrets - they all come out in the end. Praise for One of Us is Next:Given that her high-school-based murder mysteries read like bingeworthy Netflix dramas, its easy to see why queen of teen crime Karen McManus is a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic. - THE OBSERVERMcManus keeps the juicy subplots ticking over and drip-feeds reveals as clinically as ...

The It Girl

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Ware Ruth
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Simon & Schuster

'Deliciously dark and utterly addictive - my favourite Ruth Ware yet' Lucy Foley Everyone wanted her life Someone wanted her dead It was Hannah who found April's body ten years ago. It was Hannah who didn't question what she saw that day. Did her testimony put an innocent man in prison? She needs to know the truth. Even if it means questioning her own friends. Even if it means putting her own life at risk. Because if the killer wasn't a stranger, it's someone she knows... **A new page-turning thriller from the international number one bestselling author Ruth Ware. Coming Summer 2022! Pre-order your copy now** Praise for The It Girl: 'A cracking read - and that ending!' Shari Lapena 'Every Ruth Ware novel is a unique and unexpected gem and this one is no exception. A heady, tense, slowburn dream of a book, multi-layered and steeped in atmosphere and peril. I loved every page' Lisa Jewell 'Impeccably crafted and totally compulsive - you'll be sad to reach the final page and realise you h...

The American Roomate Experience

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Armas Elena
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Simon & Schuster

From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martin, who are forced to share a New York apartment. Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn't told her family and now has terrible writer's block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina's spare key while she's out of town. But Rosie doesn't know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking-for lack of a better word-on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armour. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks. Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affor...

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

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Katouh Zoulfa
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Bloomsbury

An epic, emotional, breathtaking story of love and loss set amid the Syrian revolution. Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will sweep you up and never let you go. This brand new paperback edition contains exclusive bonus short story Joy. Set in the world of Lemon Trees, it features never-before-seen moments between Salama and Kenan. _______________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DISCOVER BOOK OF THE YEAR This is an important book. Everyone should read it - Elizabeth Laird, award-winning author of Welcome to Nowhere Wrenching and lyrical - Samira Ahmed, New York Times bestselling author of Internment Hauntingly beautiful ... a must read - Huda Fahmy, author of Huda F Are You A year ago, before the revolution, Salama watched her brother marry her best friend, Layla, and wondered when her own love story might begin. Now she works at the hospital - helping those she can, closing the eyes of those she cant. Layla and her unborn baby are ...

Letters From Father Christmas

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Τόλκιν Τζ.Ρ.Ρ.- Tolkien J.R.R.
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Tolkien

This edition of Tolkiens famous illustrated letters from Father Christmas to his children is presented in a new hardback edition. The perfect Christmas gift for Tolkien lovers of all ages. This classic festive book of Tolkiens amazing Father Christmas letters written to his children between the 1920s and the 1940s has been reworked into a new hardback edition to match other beloved Tolkien titles. It contains high-quality digital reproductions of his beautiful letters and pictures. My dear children, I am more shaky than usual this year. The North Polar Bears fault. It was the biggest bang in the world, and the most monstrous firework there has ever been. It turned the North Pole black! Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkiens children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful coloured drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father Christmas. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole:...

The Woman in Cabin 10

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Ware Ruth
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Penguin Books

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** A PASSENGER IS MISSING. BUT WAS SHE EVER ON BOARD AT ALL? 'Prepare to read it in one sitting!' Shari Lapena, bestselling author of Someone We Know This was meant to be the perfect trip. The Northern Lights. A luxury press launch on a boutique cruise ship. A chance for travel journalist Lo Blacklock to recover from a traumatic break-in that has left her on the verge of collapse. Except things don't go as planned. Woken in the night by screams, Lo rushes to her window to see a body thrown overboard from the next door cabin. But the records show that no-one ever checked into that cabin, and no passengers are missing from the boat. Exhausted and emotional, Lo has to face the fact that she may have made a mistake - either that, or she is now trapped on a boat with a murderer... 'Agatha Christie meets The Girl on the Train' The Sun 'A rollicking page-turner that reads like Agatha Christie got together with Paula Hawkins to crowdsource a really fun thriller' Stylis...

Only for the Holidays

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Bello Abiola
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Simon & Schuster

The Spanish Love Deception meets The Holiday in this fake dating romance about a city girl and country boys lives colliding at Christmas. City girl Tia Solanke is dreading the festive period. Shes on a break with her boyfriend and the last thing she wants to do is spend Christmas away from London. Arriving at Saiyan Hedge Farm, Tia takes an instant disliking to it. She falls in horse manure, is chased by sheep and the Wi-Fi sucks. How is she meant to stalk her ex now and concoct a foolproof plan to win him back? Country boy Quincy Parker and his family run the farm, and this year theyve been selected to host the biggest event in the towns calendar - the Winter Ball. Preparations are underway, and Quincy is working around the clock to make it a success. The only problem is, hes told everyone he has a date to the ball, when in reality that couldnt be further from the truth. At first, Tia and Quincy dont see eye to eye, until they realise they both have something to gain by pretending to ...

All my Sons

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Miller Arthur I.
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Penguin Books

Based on a true story, Arthur Miller's play All My Sons was his first major success, a moving exploration of denial, guilt, social responsibility and the falsehood of the American Dream. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Christopher Bigsby. In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's past they can't put behind them. Not everybody's forgotten the court case that put Joe's partner in jail, or the cracked engine heads his factory produced which caused it and dropped twenty-one pilots out of the sky. All My Sons is a moving, powerful drama of the ethics of profiteering and family, and the first great play from one of the finest playwrights of the twentieth century.

A Curse for True Love

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Garber Stephanie
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Hodder & Stoughton

Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after. Evangeline Fox ventured to the Magnificent North in search of her happy ending, and it seems as if she has it. Shes married to a handsome prince and lives in a legendary castle. But Evangeline has no idea of the devastating price shes paid for this fairytale. She doesnt know what she has lost, and her husband is determined to make sure she never finds out . . . but first he must kill Jacks, the Prince of Hearts. Blood will be shed, hearts will be stolen, and true love will be put to the test in A Curse for True Love, the breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Once Upon A Broken Heart trilogy.

Regreting You

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Hoover Coleen
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Montlake

The #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller that People Magazine calls "a poignant, addictive read." From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us comes a novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and daughters. Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike. Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn't want to follow in her mother's footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn't have a spontaneous bone in her body. With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris--Morgan's husband, Clara's father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbr...

Your Fault

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Mercedes Ron
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Bloom Books

Play With Me

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Mack Becka
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Simon & Schuster

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Carle Eric
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Penguin Books

A much-loved classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar has won over millions of readers with its vivid and colourful collage illustrations and its deceptively simple, hopeful story. With its die-cut pages and finger-sized holes to explore, this is a richly satisfying book for children.

Professor Puffendorf's Secret Potions (+Activity Book)

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Tzannes Robin-Paul Korky
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Oxford

When Professor Puffendorf leaves Enzo to look after her little guinea-pig and her top-secret potions, he hatches a wicked plan. But there's an unexpectef ending for Enzo!

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