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| "How NOT to Write a Novel: 200 Mistakes to avoid at All Costs if You Ever Want to Get Published by Howard Mittelmark, Sandra..." |
| "There are many ways prospective authors routinely sabotage their own work But why leave it to guesswork? Misstep by misstep How Not to Write a Novel shows how you can ensure that your manuscript never rises above the level of unpublishable drivel; that your characters are unpleasant dimensionless versions of yourself; that your plot is digressive tedious and unconvincing; and that your style is reliant on mangled cliches and sesquipedalian malapropisms Alternatively you can use it to identify the most common mistakes avoid them and actually write a book that worksGuardian Award shortlisted novelist Sandra Newman and veteran editor Howard Mittelmark have distilled 30 years of teaching editing writing and reviewing fiction into a hilarious and liberating guide that is the perfect read for anyone who's ever laughed at a badly written piece of prose and for anyone who's ever penned one - and doesn't want to do it again"
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| "Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements by Hugh Aldersey-Williams (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller Periodic Tales by Hugh Andersey-Williams packed with fascinating stories and unexpected information about the building blocks of our universe Everything in the universe is made of them including you Like you the elements have personalities attitudes talents shortcomings stories rich with meaning Here you'll meet iron that rains from the heavens and noble gases that light the way to vice You'll learn how lead can tell your future while zinc may one day line your coffin You'll discover what connects the bones in your body with the Whitehouse in Washington the glow of a streetlamp with the salt on your dinner table Unlocking their astonishing secrets and colourful pasts Periodic Tales is a voyage of wonder and discovery showing that their stories are our stories and their lives are inextricable from our own 'Science writing at its best A fascinating and beautiful literary anthology bringing them to life as personalities If only chemistry had been like this at school A rich compilation of delicious tales'Matt Ridley Prospect 'A love letter to the chemical elements Aldersey-Williams is full of good stories and he knows how to tell them well'Sunday Telegraph 'Great fun to read and an endless fund of unlikely and improbable anecdotes'Financial Times 'The history science art literature and everyday applications of all the elements from aluminium to zinc' The Times Hugh Aldersey-Williams studied natural sciences at Cambridge He is the author of several books exploring science design and architecture and has curated exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Wellcome Collection He lives in Norfolk with his wife and son"
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| "Once & Then by Morris Gleitzman (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "That's the good thing with stories There's always a chance they can come trueFelix is lucky Unlike the other children in the orphanage he's certain his parents will come back for him one day And whatever the Nazis do and however many books they burn Felix's imagination provides him and his companions with an endless supply of stories - stories that protect them when they're on the run shield them from the violent madness all around give them hope when all seems lost and one day may even save Felix's lifeOnce & Then is a spellbinding story of hope and imagination in the most terrible circumstancesHowever my story turns out I'll never forget how lucky I am"
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| "The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Based on the author's own vivid experiences The Cruel Sea is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two Darting back and forth across the icy North Atlantic Compass Rose played a deadly cat and mouse game with packs of German U-boats lying in wait beneath the ocean wavesPacked with tension and vivid descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts this tale of the most bitter and chilling campaign of the war tells of ordinary heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep"
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| "Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction by Orlando Figes (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "What caused the Russian Revolution?Did it succeed or fail?Do we still live with its consequences?Orlando Figes teaches history at Birkbeck University of London and is the author of many acclaimed books on Russian history including A People's Tragedy which The Times Literary Supplement named as one of the '100 most influential books since the war' Natasha's Dance The Whisperers Crimea and Just Send Me Word The Financial Times called him 'the greatest storyteller of modern Russian historians'"
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| "The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J. A. Cuddon, M. A. R. Habib (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "'An indispensable work of reference' Times Literary SupplementThe Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory is firmly established as a key work of reference in the complex and varied field of literary criticism Now in its fifth edition it remains the most comprehensive and accessible work of its kind and is invaluable for students teachers and general readers alike- Gives definitions of technical terms (hamartia iamb zeugma) and critical jargon (aporia binary opposition intertextuality)- Explores literary movements (neoclassism romanticism vorticism) and schools of literary theory- Covers genres (elegy fabliau pastoral) and literary forms (haiku ottava rima sonnet)"
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| "Lucky Jim" |
| "Kingsley Amis's witty campus novel Lucky Jim is a comedy that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life This Penguin Modern Classics edition contains an introduction by David LodgeJim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand Inspired by Amis's friend the poet Philip Larkin Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character adrift in a hopelessly gauche and pretentious worldKingsley Amis (1922-1995) born in London wrote poetry criticism and short stories but is best remembered as the novelist whose works offered a comic deconstruction of post-war Britain Amis explored his disillusionment with British society in novels such as Lucky Jim (1954) and That Uncertain Feeling (1955); his other works include The Green Man (1970) Stanley and the Women (1984) and The Old Devils (1986) which won the Booker PrizeIf you enjoyed Lucky Jim you might like Amis's The King's English also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A flawless comic novel I loved it then as I do now It has always made me laugh out loud'Helen Dunmore The Times'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book'Guardian"
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| "Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard JacobsIn the years following the First World War a new generation emerges wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade - whether promiscuity dancing cocktail parties or sports cars In a quest for treasure a favourite party occupation a vivid assortment of characters among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous aristocratic Nina Blount hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the fulfilment of unconscious desiresIf you enjoyed Vile Bodies you might like Waugh's A Handful of Dust also available in Penguin Modern Classics'The high point of the experimental original Waugh'Malcolm Bradbury Sunday Times'This brilliantly funny anxious and resonant novel the difficult edgy guide to the turn of the decade'Richard Jacobs'It's Britain's Great Gatsby'Stephen Fry director of Vile Bodies film adaptation Bright Young Things"
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| "Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Professor Timofey Pnin late of Tsarist Russia is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus Battling with American life and language Pnin must face great hazards in this new world the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; and the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to masterWry intelligent and moving Pnin reveals the absurd and affecting story of one man in exile"
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| "A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Taking its title from TS Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray Davis After seven years of marriage the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband Tony She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set Brilliantly combining tragedy comedy and savage irony A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars This breakdown of the Last marriage is a painful comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce and a symbol of the disintegration of society If you enjouyed A Handful of Dust you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies also available in Penguin Modern Classics'One of the twentieth century's most chilling and bitter novels; and one of its best'Nicholas Lezard Guardian'One of the most distinguished novels of the century'Frank Kermode'This is a masterpiece of stylish satire and is funny too a marvellous book'John Banville Irish Times"
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| "A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "As Minister for Culture the Honourable M A Nanga is 'a man of the people' as cynical as he is charming and a roguish opportunist At first the contrast between Nanga and Odili a former pupil who is visiting the ministry appears huge But in the 'eat-and-let-eat' atmosphere Odili's idealism soon collides with his lusts - and the two men's personal and political tauntings threaten to send their country into chaos Published prophetically just days before Nigeria's first attempted coup in 1966 A Man of the People is an essential part of his body of work dealing with modern African history"
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| "Sunset Song by Lewis Gibbon (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHYoung Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland torn between her passion for the land duty to her family and her love of books When her mother broken by repeated childbirths takes her own life and poisons her two youngest children Chris is left with her father to run the farm on her own Soon she is alone and for the first time can choose how to spend her life But as the First World War begins everything changes and the young men leave Scotland for battle The first in Gibbon's classic trilogy A Scot's Quair Sunset Song is infused with local vernacular and innovatively blends Scots and English in an intense description of Scottish life in the early twentieth century"
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| "On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Five decades after it was first published Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control Brighton Rock) Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights) Kristen Stewart (Twilight) Kirsten Dunst Amy Adams and Viggo MortensenThis edition is transcribed from the original manuscript hundreds of typed pages taped together by Kerouac to form a 'scroll' published word for word as it was originally composedSal Paradise (Sam Riley) a young innocent joins his hero Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund) a traveller and mystic the living epitome of Beat on a breathless exuberant ride back and forth across the United States Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink sex drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom a test of the limits of the American dream A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance poignancy and autobiographical passion One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century On the Road is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement'The most beautifully executed the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as beat' The New York Times"
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| "The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert..." |
| "The Psychedelic Experience created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries In this wholly unique book the authors provide an interpretation of an ancient sacred manuscript the Tibetan Book of the Dead from a psychedelic perspective The Psychedelic Experience describes their discoveries in broadening spiritual consciousness through a combination of Tibetan mediation techniques and psychotropic substances"
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| "Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before and discovers that she is now a painter living with a younger woman as her lover Otoko has continued to love Oki and has never forgotten him but his return unsettles not only her but also her young lover This is a work of strange beauty with a tender touch of nostalgia and a heartbreaking sensitivity to those things lost forever"
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| "The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Ogata Shingo is growing old and his memory is failing him At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son his wife and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving and Shingo is caught between love and destruction Lyrical and precise The Sound of the Mountain explores in immaculately crafted prose the changing roles of love and the truth we face in ageing"
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| "Last Exit to Brooklyn" |
| "Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr's notorious masterpiece Last Exit to Brooklyn and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh author of TrainspottingDescribed by various reviewers as hellish and obscene Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives Georgette the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; and Harry the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity are unforgettable creations Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned by British courts in 1967 a decision that was reversed the following year with the help of a number of writers and critics including Anthony Burgess and Frank Kermode Hubert Selby Jr (1928-2004) was born in Brooklyn New York At the age of 15 he dropped out of school and went to sea with the merchant marines While at sea he was diagnosed with lung disease With no other way to make a living he decided to try writing 'I knew the alphabet Maybe I could be a writer' In 1964 he completed his first book Last Exit to Brooklyn which has since become a cult classic In 1966 it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK His other books include The Room The Demon Requiem for a Dream The Willow Tree and Waiting Period In 2000 Requiem for a Dream was adapted into a film starring Jared Leto and Ellen Burstyn and directed by Darren AronofskyIf you enjoyed Last Exit to Brooklyn you might like Larry McMurty's The Last Picture Show also available in Penguin Modern Classics'Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in 100 years'Allen Ginsberg'An urgent tickertape from hell'Spectator"
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| "Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense : Collected Poems" |
| "'Twas brillig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe' wrote Lewis Carroll author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse 'Jabberwocky' This beautiful clothbound new edition collects together the marvellous range of Carroll's poetry including nonsense verse parodies burlesques and more Alongside the title piece are such enduringly wonderful pieces as 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' 'The Mock Turtle's Song' 'Father William' and many more"
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| "The Russia House" |
| "Barley Blair is not a Service man he is a small-time publisher a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz But it was Barley who one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began and made a promise Nearly a year later his drunken promise returns to haunt him A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between the beautiful Katya Both are lonely and disillusioned Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to have any future all must betray their countries In his first post-glasnost spy novel le Carre captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command them"
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| "A Small Town in Germany" |
| "West Germany a simmering cauldron of radical protests has produced a new danger to Britain Karfeld menacing leader of the opposition At the same time Leo Harting a Second Secretary in the British Embassy has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them facing riots Nazi secrets and the delicate machinations of an unstable Europe in the throes of the Cold WarAs Turner gets closer to the truth of Harting's disappearance he will discover that the face of International relations - and the attentions of the British Ministry itself - is uglier that he could possibly have imagined"
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| "Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Clothbound Classics) Hardcover" |
| "Part of Penguin&39;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 Shipwrecked and cast adrift Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput an island inhabited by little people whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new bitter insights into human behaviour Swift&39;s savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished magnified and finally bestial species presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves"
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| "The Passion According to G.H" |
| "GH a well-to-do Rio sculptress enters the room of her maid which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed' There she sees a cockroach - black dusty prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and panicking slams the door on it Her irresistible fascination with the dying insect provokes a spiritual crisis in which she questions her place in the universe and her very identity propelling her towards an act of shocking transgression Clarice Lispector's spare deeply disturbing yet luminous novel transforms language into something otherworldly and is one of her most unsettling and compelling works Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown References to her literary work pervade the music and literature of Brazil and Latin America She was born in the Ukraine in 1920 but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War the family fled to Romania and eventually sailed to Brazil She published her first novel Near to the Wildheart in 1943 when she was just twenty-three and the next year was awarded the Graca Aranha Prize for the best first novel Many felt she had given Brazillian literature a unique voice in the larger context of Portuguese literature After living variously in Italy the UK Switzerland and the US in 1959 Lispector with her children returned to Brazil where she wrote her most influential novels including The Passion According to GH She died in 1977 shortly after the publication of her final novel The Hour of the Star"
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| "Return of the Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "From The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog to karate princesses and hot cross bottoms there's a Jeremy Strong story to suit every child's sense of humour Jeremy's readers range from 7 to teen perfect for fans of Roald Dahl and Andy StantonStreaker was so gobsmacked she leaped into the air as if she had a pogo stick attached to each leg KER-POING!Streaker runs like a jet-propelled hurricane which could cause problems when she enters the local dog show She has to do well or she'll get into trouble with the local policeand Trevor will get into trouble with horrible Charlie Smugg - again!Award-winning Jeremy Strong has written many wacky books for children aged 7-teen including My Dad's Got an Alligator and My Brother's Famous Bottom Most of which are illustrated by Nick Sharratt who also illustrates for Jacqueline Wilson! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog is back causing more chaos and getting into more trouble in The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Lost! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Wanted! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Christmas Chaos for the Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog and The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Goes for Gold - guaranteed to have you laughing your socks off! Join Jeremy's Krazy Klub at jeremystrongcouk"
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| "Doctor Bonkers!" |
| "Pyjamas are just pyjamas Right? Not when they're COSMIC PYJAMAS!Something STRANGE has happened to Rosie and her brothers! Rosie's new pyjamas have led them to a dangerous discovery Doctor Starkly-Bonkers has invented the DOOMBUSTER and history is all muddled up -- and now the machine has been STOLEN! Can Rosie and the boys beat the Pharaohs and dinosaurs and will rice pudding REALLY stop the Vikings?"
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| "Vampire Academy (book 1)" |
| "St Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school - hidden away it's a place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa a Moroi Vampire Princess They've been on the run but now they're being dragged back to St Vladimir's where the girls must survive a world of forbidden romances a ruthless social scene and terrifying night time rituals But most of all staying alive"
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| "Meg Goes to Bed by Helen Nicoll (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "The bestselling MEG and MOG stories have been casting a unique spell for more than thirty-five years They are perfect for sharing or reading alone and children love exploring the colours sounds and shapes Meg Goes to Bed is the latest of the iconic MEG and MOG picture books that continue to delight children up to the age of 3 with the brightly coloured and spellbinding antics of Meg the witch Mog her cat and Owl Mog and Owl are hungry so Meg makes a spell It goes wrong and they all go to bed without any supper but Mog and Owl are still hungryPraise for Meg Goes to Bed'Bold and irresistible' Guardian'Dazzling graphic artwork and simple quirky stories' Financial Times'Meg and Mog are the perfect couple' Times Literary SupplementHelen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski have worked together for over forty years first at the BBC and then on the MEG and MOG books Jan Pienkowski is a celebrated author of children's books he has won the Greenaway Medal twice for his illustration of Joan Aiken's The Kingdom Under the Sea and Haunted HouseWant more MEG and MOG? The complete series of MEG and MOG books including Meg and Mog Meg's Eggs Meg on the Moon Mog in the Fog and the pop-up book Meg and Mog Play Hide and Seek is available from Puffin"
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| "The 5th Wave: The Last Star (Book 3)" |
| "The Last Star is the heart-stopping finale to the bestselling 5th Wave series by award-winning author Rick Yancey Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games Divergent and The Maze Runner The 5th WAVE is now a major film by Sony Pictures starring Chloe Grace Moretz'Wildly entertaining I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' The New York TimesThe enemy is Other The enemy is us They're down here they're up there they're nowhere They want the Earth they want us to have it They came to wipe us out they came to save usBut beneath these riddles lies one truth Cassie has been betrayed So has Ringer Zombie Nugget And all 75 billion people who used to live on our planet Betrayed first by the Others and now by ourselvesIn these last days Earth's remaining survivors will need to decide what's more important saving themselves or saving what makes us humanwwwThe5thWaveIsComingcom wwwrickyanceycom'Remarkable not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances JUST READ IT' Entertainment Weekly'The next HIT' Daily Mail'This gut-wrenching sequel to The 5th Wave careens on a violent course of non-stop action' Publishers Weekly starred review'CHILLING' Sun'The pace is RELENTLESS' Heat'A modern sci-fi masterpiece Should do for aliens what Twilight did for vampires' USA Today'ACTION-PACKED' MTVcom'A twisty survival story that borrows elements from romance horror and dystopian fiction' Wall Street Journal'An epic sci-fi adventure about a terrifying alien invasion You'll read it in one sitting' Bookseller'Heartfelt violent paranoid epic filled with big heroics and bigger surprises a sure thing for reviewers and readers alike' Booklist (starred review)'A gripping SF trilogy about an Earth decimated by an alien invasion the question of what it means to be human is at the forefront' Publishers Weekly'Borrow this one from your teen's nightstand while they're at school' People MagazineWinner of the 2014 Red House Children's Book Award 2014 Children's Choice Book Awards Finalist for Teen Book of the YearA YALSA 2014 Best Fiction for Young AdultsA YALSA 2014 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young ReadersA Booklist 2014 Best Fiction for Young AdultsA VOYA 2013 Perfect TenAn Amazon Best Book of the YearBooks in the seriesThe 5th Wave (Book 1)The Infinite Sea (Book 2)The Last Star (Book 3)"
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| "The Bubble Wrap Boy" |
| "The new book from the award-winning Phil Earle author of Heroic and Being Billy'Have finished BUBBLE-WRAP BOY If happy tearssnot smeared across face were legal currency philearle would be rich So warm and so funny' - Katherine Rundell author of RooftoppersAll my life I've been tiny Charlie from the Chinese Chippie whose only friend is Sinus the kid who stares at walls But I believe that everyone's good at something I've just got to work out what my something isCharlie's found his secret talent skateboarding It's his one-way ticket to popularity All he's got to do is practice and nothing's going to stop him - not his clumsiness not his overprotective mum nothing Except Charlie isn't the only one in his family hiding a massive secret and his next discovery will change everything How do you stay on the board when your world is turned upside down?Phil Earle was born raised and schooled in Hull His first job was as a care worker in a children's home an experience that influenced the ideas behind Being Billy and Saving Daisy He then trained as a drama therapist and worked in a therapeutic community in south London caring for traumatized and abused adolescentsAfter a couple of years in the care sector Phil chose the more sedate lifestyle of a bookseller and now works in children's publishing Phil lives in south-east London with his wife and children but Hull will always be home"
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| "Anywhere (Nowhere Book 2)" |
| "'We're miles from anywhere and we don't have a clue where we're going'Deep in a snow-covered forest Alyn Jes Ryan and Elsa have escaped from prison Now they're being hunted They quickly realise they have a special talent - they can control the world around them Now they must use this skill to stop themselves falling into greater danger But can they master it before their deadly enemies close in - for good? This gripping sequel will leave you clamouring for the next instalmentJon Robinson was born in Middlesex in 1983 When he's not writing he works for a charity in central London"
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| "Peter Rabbit Animation: My Mum" |
| "Peter Rabbit wants to make his mum her favourite strawberry pie as a Mother's Day gift But the best strawberries grow in Mr Tod's garden Will Peter and his friends Lily and Benjamin be able to gather enough strawberries before that sneaky fox puts them in a pie of his own? With artwork from the fantastic new animation this exciting story is simply told for very young children Featuring favourite characters including the villainous Mr Tod and of course Peter Rabbit and his lovable bunny friends"
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