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| "What's worrying you?" |
| "New from Molly Potter the best-selling author of How are you feeling today? We all have worries now and then but sometimes worries can feel like they're getting bigger and bigger like you can't control them any more What do you do then? What's worrying you? is a book all about helping children understand their worries and what to do when they feel overwhelmed by their thoughts and feelings Each page takes the child step-by-step through different worry scenarios such as falling out with a friend getting in trouble at school or feeling like no one is listening to them It talks about how they might feel what they might think and what could help them to feel better With fun and lively illustrations from Sarah Jennings gentle guidance on developing emotional literacy and simple advice for tackling problems they might face What's worrying you? is the perfect book for helping children deal with those trickier feelings and gain confidence in the world around them"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Dear CEO : 50 Personal Letters from the World's Leading Business Thinkers" |
| "This collection of specially-commissioned letters offers clear calming and concise advice from across the spectrum of current leadership thinking Written by respected business thinkers around the world these 50 letters provide guidance wisdom and personal insight into the particular challenges facing the business world today and anyone in a senior position Contributors include high-profile names such as Tom Peters who stresses the importance of focussing on the people within an organization; Liz Mellon who writes to her CEO about gender equality in the workplace; Chris Zook explaining how a change of mentality can lead to exponential growth; and Linda Brimm who discusses managing global cosmopolitans and a modern workforce Dear CEO also features a foreword by Zhang Ruimin Chairman and CEO of Haier Group"
Price: 12.49 |
| "The Business of Excellence : Building high-performance teams and organizations" |
| "The Business of Excellence offers a unique and compelling perspective on the drivers of excellence in teams and organizations The author Justin Hughes brings an unusual mix of experience and insight having worked as a management consultant to some of the world's most successful organizations in addition to having served for 12 years as a military fighter pilot where he became Executive Officer on the RAF Red Arrows The challenges of high performance and leadership are explored in depth and are illustrated with insights interviews and case studies from the military sporting and corporate worlds The material includes a proprietary performance model that can be applied to a wide spectrum of organizations focusing on People the primacy of attitude over skills Capability building alignment before setting people free Delivery a process to close the gap between desired and actual outcomes Learning how to accelerate performance in real time Leadership exhibiting a set of behaviours such that others choose to follow Risk avoiding the victory of compliance over outcomes In The Business of Excellence Justin deconstructs the drivers of high performance with a rare clarity insight and accessibility to illustrate and explain tangible tools and methods all of which can be applied by readers in their own teams and organizations"
Price: 10.49 |
| "The Little Book of Beer Tips" |
| "Packed with straight-forward advice on how to pour and store beer and how to mix and match it with food this little book contains 50 invaluable tips for beer lovers Find out what to do if your beer veers towards cloudy instead of clear; judge the perfect head; set traps for slugs; and treat your hair to a beer shampoo This book will how you to maximise your appreciation of the drink you love!"
Price: 4.49 |
| "The Epic Voyages of Maud Berridge : The seafaring diaries of a Victorian lady" |
| "Maud Berridge (1845-1907) was the wife of a Master Mariner and she travelled with him on at least five occasions (1869 1880 1882 1883 1886) sailing to Melbourne with emigrants and cargo The first occasion was 1869 just after they were married when Henry was Captain of the Walmer Castle and they returned via New Zealand instead of travelling east and around Cape Horn However most of Henry and Maud's voyages were undertaken in the three-masted clipper Superb sailing from Gravesend at the start of summer and leaving Melbourne for home at the end of the year (the southern summer best for heading east with the trade winds and rounding Cape Horn) Record times taken from London to Melbourne under Captain Henry were 79 days (1878) 76 days (1881) and a final time of 74 days (1886) In 1880 Maud and Henry took their two sons (aged six and eight) with them In 1883 they sailed on from Melbourne to Newcastle in New South Wales to take on a load of coal then on through the Windward Isles to San Francisco (51 days) Here they stayed for two months exploring SF and surrounds unloaded the coal and took on a load of wheat (in large bags) at Port Costa They then sailed down the west coast of the Americas around Cape Horn and on to Queenstown in County Cork (134 days) The whole voyage took 14 months There are also some photographs of Henry Maud and the crew taken in San Francisco and a photo from the State Library of Victoria showing the Superb at dock in Melbourne Maud wrote diaries of these voyages of which one in particular that of the 1883 voyage comprise some 50 000 words The book will tell MaudEURTMs story through her own words and through a number of relevant contemporary documents and will paint a picture of the life of a captainEURTMs wife in the Victorian era as well as aspects of society in Britain the US and Australia at the time Her enthusiasm for new experiences shines through her writing"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Mort : Discworld: The Death Collection" |
| "It is known as the Discworld It is a flat planet supported on the backs of four elephants who in turn stand on the back of the great turtle A'Tuin as it swims majestically through space And it is quite possibly the funniest place in all of creationDeath comes to us all When he came to Mort he offered him a jobAfter being assured that being dead was not compulsory Mort accepted However he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's apprenticeTerry Pratchett's hilarious fourth Discworld novel established once and for all that Death really is a laughing matter"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Guards! Guards! : Discworld: The City Watch Collection" |
| "This is where the dragons went They lie not dead not asleep but dormant And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space nevertheless they are packed in tightly They could put you in mind of a can of sardines if you thought sardines were huge and scaly And presumably somewhere there's a keyGUARDS! GUARDS! is the 8th Discworld novel - and after this dragons will never be the same again!"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Moving Pictures : Discworld: The Unseen University Collection" |
| "The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill?It's up to Victor Tugelbend ('Can't sing Can't dance Can handle a sword a little') and Theda Withel ('I come from a little town you've probably never heard of') to find outMOVING PICTURES THE TENTH DISCWORLD NOVEL IS A GLORIOUSLY FUNNY SAGA SET AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF A WORLD GONE MAD!"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Feet Of Clay : Discworld: The City Watch Collection" |
| "THERE'S A WEREWOLF WITH PRE-LUNAR TENSION IN ANKH-MORPORK AND A DWARF WITH ATTITUDE AND A GOLEM WHO'S BEGUN TO THINK FOR ITSELFBut for Commander Vimes Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch that's only the startThere's treason in the air A crime has happenedHe's not only got to find out whodunit but howdunit too He's not even sure what they dun But soon as he knows what the questions are he's going to want some answers"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Witches Abroad : Discworld: The Witches Collection" |
| "It seemed an easy job After all how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince?But for the witches Granny Weatherwax Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick travelling to the distant city of Genua things are never that simpleServant girls have to marry the prince That's what life is all about You can't fight a Happy EndingAt least - up until now"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Maskerade : Discworld: The Witches Collection" |
| "THE SHOW MUST GO ON AS MURDER MUSIC AND MAYHEM RUN RIOT IN THE NIGHTThe Opera House Ankh-Morpork A huge rambling building where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely familiar evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dressAt least he hopes so But Granny Weatherwax Discworld's most famous witch is in the audience And she doesn't hold with that sort of thingSo there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really hum)"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Good Omens Hardcover" |
| "There is a hint of Armageddon in the air According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter Witch (recorded thankfully in 1655 before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants who had gathered to watch her burn) the world will end on a Saturday Next Saturday in fact So the Armies of Good and Evil are massing the four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road and the world&39;s last two remaining witchfinders are getting ready to Fight the Good Fight Atlantis is rising Frogs are falling Tempers are flaring and everything appears to be going to Divine Plan Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture They&39;ve lived amongst Humanity for millennia and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle So if Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening they&39;ve got to find and kill the AntiChrist (which is a shame really as he&39;s a nice kid) There&39;s just one glitch someone seems to have misplaced him Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman&39;s brilliantly dark and funny take on mankind&39;s final judgment is back in a new hardcover edition which includes an introduction by the authors"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Twelve Kings : The Song of the Shattered Sands" |
| "In the cramped west end of Sharakhai the Amber Jewel of the Desert Ceda fights in the pits to scrape a living She like so many in the city pray for the downfall of the cruel immortal Kings of Sharakhai but she's never been able to do anything about it This all changes when she goes out on the night of Beht Zha'ir the holy night when all are forbidden from walking the streets It's the night that the asirim the powerful yet wretched creatures that protect the Kings from all who would stand against them wander the city and take tribute It is then that one of the asirim a pitiful creature who wears a golden crown stops Ceda and whispers long forgotten words into her ear Ceda has heard those words before in a book left to her by her mother and it is through that one peculiar link that she begins to find hidden riddles left by her motherAs Ceda begins to unlock the mysteries of that fateful night she realizes that the very origin of the asirim and the dark bargain the Kings made with the gods of the desert to secure them may be the very key she needs to throw off the iron grip the Kings have had over Sharakhai And yet the Kings are no fools-they've ruled the Shangazi for four hundred years for good reason and they have not been idle As Ceda digs into their past and the Kings come closer and closer to unmasking her Ceda must decide if she's ready to face them once and for all"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Massacre of Mankind : Authorised Sequel to The War of the Worlds" |
| "It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England The world has moved on always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs The Army is preparedSo when the signs of launches on Mars are seen there seems little reason to worry Unless you listen to one man Walter Jenkins the narrator of Wells' book He is sure that the Martians have learned adapted understood their defeatHe is rightThrust into the chaos of a new invasion a journalist - sister-in-law to Walter Jenkins - must survive escape and report on the warThe Massacre of Mankind has begun"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Colour of Magic : Discworld: The Unseen University Collection" |
| "On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown) a gleeful explosive wickedly eccentric expedition sets out There's an avaricious but inept wizard a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs dragons who only exist if you believe in them and of course THE EDGE of the planet"
Price: 9.99 |
| "The Word for World is Forest" |
| "When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens their existence is irrevocably altered Forced into servitude the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal mastersDesperation causes the Athsheans led by Selver to retaliate against their captors abandoning their strictures against violence But in defending their lives they have endangered the very foundations of their society For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans And once the killing starts there is no turning back"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Shadows of Self : A Mistborn Novel" |
| "Fans of Robert Jordan and George RR Martin alike have found a new champion of epic fantasy in Brandon Sanderson And now in the first of two sequels to The Alloy Of Law the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author returns to the world of Mistborn anda hunt for a mysterious assassin The criminal elite of Elendel were invited to an auction - which became a massacre when an unknown assailant slaughtered everyone in attendance Now Wax and Wayne both able to use magic both lawmen from the rough and ungoverned frontier territories are on the case All the clues suggest the killer is a rogue kandra - a secretive almost mythical figure who acts from the shadows - called Bleeder and that the governor is her next target Bleeder and the conspiracy behind the killings has to be stopped before the city is plunged into chaosA brilliant adventure and a gripping story Shadows of Self offers fans of The Alloy of Law everything they've been hoping for and this being a Brandon Sanderson book more much more"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Bands of Mourning : A Mistborn Novel" |
| "The Mistborn trilogy has become a firm favourite with fantasy fans the world over The imagination that Sanderson brought to the series and his skill at marshalling epic storylines and dramatic action his ability to create vivid characters made him a natural choice to complete Robert Jordan's epic wheel of time sequence But with Mistborn Sanderson has shown his bountiful talents in his own fiction Now he returns to the series that made his name with a new story building on the incredible success of THE ALLOY OF LAW The new Mistborn books move the series into a richly imagined 19th century analogue world with elements of the wild west mixed with magic and science It's a wonderful concoction from a master storytellerSanderson has the knack of giving the epic fantasy reader exactly what they want This ability has thrown him to the forefront of the genre and this novel will take him to the next level"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Slow Regard of Silent Things : A Kingkiller Chronicle Novella" |
| "The University a renowned bastion of knowledge attracts the brightest minds to unravel the mysteries of enlightened sciences like artificing and alchemy Yet deep below its bustling halls lies a complex and cavernous maze of abandoned rooms and ancient passageways - and in the heart of it all lives AuriFormerly a student at the University now Auri spends her days tending the world around her She has learned that some mysteries are best left settled and safe No longer fooled by the sharp rationality so treasured by the University Auri sees beyond the surface of things into subtle dangers and hidden namesAt once joyous and haunting THE SLOW REGARD OF SILENT THINGS is a rich atmospheric and lyrical tale featuring one of the most beloved characters from Rothfuss' acclaimed fantasy series"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Something Wicked This Way Comes" |
| "It's the week before Hallowe'en and Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town Illinois The siren song of the calliope entices all with promises of youth regained and dreams fulfilled And as two boys trembling on the brink of manhood set out to explore the mysteries of the dark carnival's smoke mazes and mirrors they will also discover the true price of innermost wishes"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Sweet Dreams" |
| "Charlie is a dreamhacker able to enter your dreams and mould their direction Forget that recurring nightmare about being naked at an exam - Charlie will step in to your dream bring you a dressing gown and give you the answers As far as she knows she's the only person who can do this Unfortunately her power comes with one drawback - Charlie also has narcolepsy and may fall asleep at the most inopportune momentBut in London 2022 her skill is in demand And when she is hired by a minor celebrity - who also happens to be the new girlfriend of Charlie's lamented ex - who dreams of a masked Creeper then sleepwalks off a tall building Charlie begins to realise that someone else might be able to invade dreams"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett Good Omens Hardcover" |
| "Following the success of our Pratchett Library edition of GOOD OMENS Gollancz now presents an edition that will sit alongside the rest of your Neil Gaiman novels! The cover will be chosen by public vote from three images selected by Neil and Terry - visit the Gollancz website to find out more There is a hint of Armageddon in the air According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter Witch (recorded thankfully in 1655 before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants who had gathered to watch her burn) the world will end on a Saturday Next Saturday in fact So the Armies of Good and Evil are massing the four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road and the world&39;s last two remaining witchfinders are getting ready to Fight the Good Fight Atlantis is rising Frogs are falling Tempers are flaring and everything appears to be going to Divine Plan Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture They&39;ve lived amongst Humanity for millennia and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle So if Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening they&39;ve got to find and kill the AntiChrist (which is a shame really as he&39;s a nice kid) There&39;s just one glitch someone seems to have misplaced him"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Three By Laumer : Worlds of the Imperium, Retief: Envoy to New Worlds, Bolo" |
| "Enter the worlds of Keith Laumer From the adventures of self-aware superheavy battle tanks to the intricacies of galactic diplomacy via the clash of parallel worlds Laumer's imagination knew few boundsIn Worlds of the Imperium an American diplomat finds himself kidnapped by agents of the British Empire which rules over a parallel worldJames Retief travels the stars resolving conflicts and avoiding cultural clashes while battling the endless bureaucracy of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne in Retief Envoy to New WorldsIn Bolo Laumer explores what happens when mankind's most advanced weapons of war become self aware These are the opening volumes to three classic series collected in one exciting thrill-a-minute omnibus"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Empires: The First Battle" |
| "Two alien invasions Two heroes One Story Collects EMPIRES EXTRACTION and EMPIRES INFILTRATION in one volume!This groundbreaking collaboration between two Gollancz authors tells of the invasion of Earth by two different alien races - at the same time Two men become aware of the threat and must work to sabotage the invasion plans and see off the aliensEach book follows one hero uncovering the threat to humanity and the world from their point of view Each book can be read on its own and will give the reader a complete kinetic fast-paced military SF story But read both books and the reader gets something else - another view of (some of) the same events and crossover points culminating in a bloody battle at Canary WharfThe two books can be read in any order but together they tell the story of humanity caught in the crossfire between two deadly alien races who have made Earth their battleground"
Price: 8.99 |
| Neuromancer |
| "The sky above the port was the colour of television tuned to a dead channelWilliam Gibson revolutionised science fiction in his 1984 debut Neuromancer The writer who gave us the matrix and coined the term 'cyberspace' produced a first novel that won the Hugo Nebula and Philip K Dick Awards and lit the fuse on the Cyberpunk movement More than three decades later Gibson's text is as stylish as ever his noir narrative still glitters like chrome in the shadows and his depictions of the rise and abuse of corporate power look more prescient every day Part thriller part warning Neuromancer is a timeless classic of modern SF and one of the 20th century's most potent and compelling visions of the future"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Count Zero" |
| "They set a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi slotted it to his pheromones and the colour of his hairWhen the Maas Biolabs and Hosaka zaibatsus fight it out for world domination computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero are just foot soldiers in the great game useful but ultimately expendable When Turner wakes up in Mexico - in a new body with a beautiful woman beside him - his corporate masters let him recuperate for a while then reactivate his memory for a mission even more dangerous than the one that nearly killed him the head designer from Maas Biolabs says he wants to defect to Hosaka and it's Turner's job to deliver him safely Count Zero is a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the designer's defection triggers war in cyberspace With voodoo gods in the Net and angels in the software he can only hope that the megacorps and the super-rich have their virtual hands too full to notice the amateur hacker with the black market kit trying desperately to stay alive"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "&39;No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man&39;s&39;So begins H G Wells&39; classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth As the Martians emerge they construct giant killing machines - armed with heatrays - that are impervious to attack Advancing upon London they destroy everything in their path Everything except the few humans they collect in metal trapsVictorian England is a place in which the steam engine is state-of-the-art technology and powered flight is just a dream Mankind is helpless against the killing machines from Mars and soon the survivors are left living in a new stone age"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Doomed City" |
| "It is a mysterious city whose sun is switched on in the morning and switched off at night bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable This is life in the ExperimentAndrei Voronin a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s is a die-hard believer in the Experiment even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector As increasinbly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city he rises through the political hierarchy with devastating effect"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Heart-Shaped Box (GOLLANCZ S.F.) Paperback" |
| "&39;Buy my stepfather&39;s ghost&39; read the e-mail So Jude did He bought it in the shape of the dead man&39;s suit delivered in a heart-shaped box because he wanted it because his fans ate up that kind of story It was perfect for his collection the genuine skulls and the bones the real honest-to-God snuff movie the occult books and all the rest of the paraphanalia that goes along with his kind of hardgoth rock But the rest of his collection doesn&39;t make the house feel cold The bones don&39;t make the dogs bark; the movie doesn&39;t make Jude feel as if he&39;s being watched And none of the artefacts bring a vengeful old ghost with black scribbles over his eyes out of the shadows to chase Jude out of his home and make him run for his life"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Name of the Wind : 10th Anniversary Hardback Edition" |
| "'I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings I burned down the town of Trebon I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day I have talked to Gods loved women and written songs that make the minstrels weep My name is KvotheYou may have heard of me'So begins the tale of Kvothe - currently known as Kote the unassuming innkeepter - from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players through his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic In these pages you will come to know Kvothe the notorious magician the accomplished thief the masterful musician the dragon-slayer the legend-hunter the lover the thief and the infamous assassinThe Name of the Wind is fantasy at its very best and an astounding must-read title"
Price: 11.99 |
