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Age range 12+ When Esmae wins a contest of skill, she sets off events that trigger an inevitable and unwinnable war that pits her against the family she would give...

Pattern is only thirteen, but is already rising through the ranks at Mrs Minchin's Academy of Domestic Servitude and seems destined for a life below stairs. But fate intervenes when...

Age range 14 to 17 Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender fluid Sal wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life...

In the future, convicted Teens have a choice. Life in prison, or taking their chance in The Caves . Two Teens are dropped onto a remote island, along with a...

In the future, convicted Teens have a choice. Life in prison, or taking their chance in The Caves . Two Teens are dropped onto a remote island, along with a...

Patrick Gale's early novel, FACING THE TANK is a witty, eccentric story of clergy, scandal and English eccentrics 'Made me laugh out loud' Sunday Times American Professor Evan Kirby, author...

When Army Ranger Quinn Colson, the new sheriff of Tebbehah County, is called out to investigate a child abuse case, what he finds is a horrifying scene of neglect, thirteen...

Shortlisted for the 2019 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year. The extraordinary account of how the secretive Koch Industries became one of the largest private companies in...

The highly anticipated sequel to My Life with the Walter Boys, the internationally bestselling novel that inspired the Netflix series! Jackie Howard returns to the boy who has her heart,...

From bestselling author Bev Aisbett comes a proven, practical and simple workbook to help people manage their depression, with a month's worth of daily strategies and exercises for work and...

Life is about more than just surviving... An unforgettable, inventive, and riveting epic saga about a mother, her daughter and their struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic flooded world, which...

'ADVERSITY MCALLISTER IS THEATRICAL, KIND, SMART AS A WHIP AND OH SO BRAVE. I WANT HER TO BE MY BEST FRIEND' -- Katrina Nannestad, author of Olive of Groves and...

On the glittering streets of New York is the city's worst kept secret: the mob. And Natasha Nicastro is at the centre of it all . . . Seventeen-year-old Tasha...

Soon to be a BBC Television series in 2026! An irresistible series about chosen family, high stakes thievery, and what it really means to do good. Perfect for fans of...

Read the book behind the upcoming NETFLIX movie launching on 3rd March 2021, directed by and starring Amy Poehler. 'I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH!' Zoella '... this is my...

Pulitzer Prize Finalist Bancroft Prize Winner ABA Silver Gavel Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book of the Year In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before...

An enjoyable read about love, courage and discovery during a time of change in post war Britain. A lovely story! KITTY NEALE When Nurse Kitty becomes the NHS's poster-girl for...

Two intrepid girls go from ladies-in-waiting to knights-in-action when they rip up the rule book and go searching for adventure! Wondermere is the luckiest kingdom in the land, all thanks...

The bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club Pick 'Jangly with secrets' Sunday Times 'Funny, inventive, surprisingly moving' Guardian ' Royal Tenenbaums -style saga of dysfunctional family' The Times When Arthur...

Discover a world of magical storytelling with Ross Montgomery. SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE MONTH HIVE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE MONTH TOPPSTA CHILDREN'S...

A rich and diverse anthology collecting the work of thirteen leading Caribbean poets. Infused with the flavours and rhythms of Trinidad, Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas, A Caribbean Dozen...

THE BEST-SELLING, GORGEOUSLY GOTHIC, WICKEDLY FUNNY SERIES FROM AUTHOR-ILLUSTRATOR LAURA ELLEN ANDERSON MEET AMELIA FANG The bravest little vampire in the kingdom It's the half-moon holiday in gloomy Nocturnia which...

The third bestselling volume of autobiography from John Simpson.News from No Man's Land is a brilliant interweaving of John's recent experiences in Afghanistan with tales from his thirty plus years...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the...

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the second book in Graci Kim's best-selling Gifted Clans trilogy, now in paperback! Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the second book in Graci Kim's best-selling...

Excerpt from The Frontier of Control: A Study in British Workshop Politics The first condition of answering these questions is an impartial survey of the actual facts as they exist...

Fresh off of heroically saving their city from nightmarish monsters, twelve-year-old reformed thieves Arthur and Wally are determined to become Novitiates of the Wardens of Weirdwood-defenders of the border between...

Back at the Winterhouse hotel for another holiday season, Elizabeth and Freddy dig deeper into the mystery surrounding Riley S. Granger, a hotel guest who left behind odd artifacts- one...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist , this sweeping novel of identity and self-discovery takes readers from 1937 Bombay to Istanbul, Prague, Florence, Paris and...

Welcome to the Isle of Smile - home of The Mubbles, where the beautiful island runs on SUN, WIND and FLOWER POWER. Like the Wibbles of Wobble mountain, the Earworms...

First there was Bridget Jones. Then there was Georgia Nicolson. Now get ready to meet Patch Simmons . . . The Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King is the hilarious...

Anna's goldfish Jaffa has just died and now her Grandma is acting really strange. What is going on? This sensitively written children's book tackles the poignant subject of a child...

This book gives a practical and uplifting explanation of how we can transform our day-to-day lives - including even the most demanding and difficult situations - into opportunities for personal...

This is primarily a photographic book based on months of virtually unrestricted travel throughout Vietnam by the publisher of American Geographic. Vietnamese conflict. It portrays a beautiful landscape and a...

In classic fairy tale style, we embark on an enchanted journey with a young blacksmith--Joran--whose only desire is to live a peaceful, uncomplicated life in his forest village, a desire...

Today, America's armed forces face massive change, a dramatically reduced force structure, and severe budget cuts. The concept of "maneuver warfare" has been put forth as one promising solution to...

Through his writing, teaching and public speaking, Charles Birch has drawn attention to the relationship between science and religion and the ways in which they shape our attitudes to the...

Rising dramatically above all other skyscrapers at the tip of Manhattan, the World Trade Center symbolized New York. From any direction the Towers were lodestars, Manhattan's local mountains. As New...

A chance meeting between two women in Zanzibar blossoms into a firm friendship. Francesca has come to restore herself after the break-up of an affair, Carla to revive memories of...

When I left La Civetta I did see myself, however grief stricken, as the heroine of the story. I was Jane Eyre fleeing the moors to keep from becoming Rochester's...

A guide and reference book for everyone who wants to write a novel or short stories. The author teaches creative writing and writes novels, short stories and magazine articles.

Paris, 1919. As the fragile negotiations of the International Peace Conference get underway, typist Stella Rutherford throws herself into her work and the mixture of glamour and devastation the City...

You are a single woman in your thirties, fed up with the singles scene. You are tired of singles dinner parties, and exhausted by phone calls, e-profiles, and forced dinner...