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| "Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe'So proclaims Nicholas Dyer assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity Two hundred and fifty years later London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind 'Chillingly brilliant sinister and stunningly well executed' Independent on SundayPeter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949 A novelist biographer and historian he has been the literary editor of The Spectator and chief book reviewer for the The Times as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Dickens and London The Biography He lives in London"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Warrior of Rome VI: The Amber Road by Harry Sidebottom (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Warrior of Rome The Amber Road is the sixth book in Harry Sidebottom's Warrior of Rome series AD 264 - The Roman Empire is torn in two The western provinces - Gaul Spain and Britain - have been seized by the pretender Postumus To the east on the plains of northern Italy the armies of the emperor Gallienus muster War is coming Everyone must choose a side On a mission shrouded in secrecy and suspicion Ballista must journey The Amber Road to the far north to Hyperborea back to his original home and the people of his birth A fearsome masked warlord attacks bringing fire and sword against the Angles Yet not all welcome Ballistas return Does treachery pose the greatest danger? Dr Harry Sidebottom is a leading authority on ancient warfare - he applies his knowledge with a spectacular flair for sheer explosive action and knuckle-whitening drama Fans of Bernard Cornwell will love Sidebottom's recreation of the ancient world Praise for Harry Sidebottom 'Sidebottom's prose blazes with searing scholarship' The Times 'The best sort of red-blooded historical fiction' Andrew Taylor author of The American Boy Dr Harry Sidebottom is Fellow of St Benets Hall and Lecturer at Lincoln College Oxford - where he specializes in ancient warfare and classical art"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave City cop Andy Rusch is under pressure solve the crime and captivated by the victim's beautiful girlfriend But it is difficult to catch a killer let alone get the girl in crazy streets crammed full of people The planet's population has exploded The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power riot for water loot and trample for lentil 'steaks' and are controlled by sinister barbed wire dropped from the skyWritten in 1966 and set in 1999 Make Room! Make Room! is a witty and unnerving story about stretching the earth's resources and the human spirit to breaking point"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Well of Loneliness (Paperback/softback, 2015)" |
| "New to Penguin Modern Classics the seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestsellerThe Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen who hunts wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women Charting her romantic and professional adventures during the First World War and beyond the novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its lesbian heroine and led to a notorious legal trial for obscenity Hall herself however saw the book as a pioneer work and today it is recognised as a landmark work of gay fictionThis Penguin edition includes a new introduction by Maureen Duffy&39;The archetypal lesbian novel&39; - Times Literary Supplement&39;One of the first and most influential contributions of gay and lesbian literature&39; - New StatesmanRadclyffe Hall was born in 1880 After an unhappy childhood she inherited her father&39;s estate and from then on was free to travel and live as she chose She fell in love and lived with an older woman before settling down with Una Troubridge a married sculptor Hall wrote many books but is best known for The Well of Loneliness first published in 1928 She died in 1943 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery in LondonMaureen Duffy was born in 1933 and educated at Kings College London She became a full-time writer in the 1960s and has since written numerous screenplays poetry and novels A lifelong campaigner for gay rights and animal rights Duffy is also president of the Authors&39; Licensing and Collecting Society"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Spend a season on the river bank and take a walk on the wild side Spring is in the air and Mole has found a wonderful new world There's boating with Ratty a feast with Badger and high jinx on the open road with that reckless ruffian Mr Toad of Toad Hall The four become the firmest of friends but after Toad's latest escapade can they join together and beat the wretched weasels?PLUS A behind-the-scenes journey including author profile a guide to who's who activities and more"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Tales of Ancient Egypt by Penguin Books Ltd (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "These stories include the great myths - of Amen-Ra who created all the creatures in the world; of Isis seaching the waters for her dead husband Osiris; of the Bennu Bird and the Book of Thoth But there are also tales told for pleasure about magic treasure and adventure - even the first ever Cinderella story"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Reached by Ally Condie (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "The final thrilling part of the New York Times bestselling trilogy REACHED is the sequel to MATCHED and CROSSED by Ally Condie After leaving the Society and desperately searching for each other - and the Rising - Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for but at the cost of losing each other yet again But nothing is as predicted and all too soon the veil lifts and things shift once again In the gripping conclusion to the bestselling MATCHED trilogy Cassia Ky and Xander return to the Society to save the one thing they have been denied for so long the power to choose"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Opal Deception : The Graphic Novel" |
| "The adaptation of his genre-busting award-winning Artemis Fowl series has been a labour of love for lifelong graphic novel fan Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin Art by Giovanni Rigano and colour by Paolo LamannaEvil pixie Opal Koboi is back and she's more dangerous than ever This time she doesn't just want power over the fairy People - this time she wants the humans too Captain Holly Short is the only fairy with a hope of stopping her but as Holly knows it takes one genius criminal mastermind to fight another But the 14-year-old genius that Holly is thinking of doesn't even remember that fairies exist How is she going to convince Artemis Fowl to help her stop Opal? Gold usually does the trick and this time is should be no different Or is Artemis changing?"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Peter Rabbit Animation: The Peter Rabbit Club" |
| "Peter Benjamin and Lily are starting a club - an amazing adventure club! But Mr Tod Tommy Brock and Old Brown are teaming up too to set a terrible trap for the unsuspecting bunnies Will Peter and his friends beat the beastly band?"
Price: 4.49 |
| Carbonel |
| "Carbonel is a magical fantasy story by Barbara Sleigh This is the story of a cat a broomstick and an ordinary schoolgirl called Rosemary She bought them both in the market quite cheaply Of course neither the cat nor the broomstick were just what they seemed and they turned up just when Rosemary badly needed something nice to happen to her A good cat is apt to be independent so she did not have things all her own way and as Carbonel proved to be a Royal cat in a very special sense that was understandable Between the cat and the broomstick Rosemary picked up some useful spells and magic and the adventures they brought about turned a dull-looking holiday into one long to be remembered for its unexpected excitements and rewardsCarbonel is reissued in the 'A Puffin Book' series of Puffin children's modern classics"
Price: 6.49 |
| "James and the Giant Peach (Hardback, 2016)" |
| "A splendiferous new hardback of James and the Giant Peach part of a collection of truly delumptious classic Roald Dahl titles with stylish jackets over surprise printed colour cases and exquisite endpaper designsJames Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching He&39;s very lonely until one day something peculiar happens At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects - all waiting to take James on a magical adventure But where will they go in their GIANT PEACH and what will happen to the horrible aunts if they stand in their way? There&39;s only one way to find out "A true genius Roald Dahl is my hero" - David Walliams Now you can listen to James and the Giant Peach and other Roald Dahl AUDIOBOOKS read by some very famous voices including Kate Winslet David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! Also look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! and HOUSE OF TWITS inspired by the revolting Twits"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Around the World in Eighty Days (Puffin Classics) Paperback" |
| "In Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the world in just eighty days and the very next day sets out from the port of Dover with his servant Passeportout to achieve his aim Passing through exotic lands and dangerous places they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - always racing against the clockThere are many alarms and surprises along the way - and a last minute setback that makes all the difference between winning and losing Jules Verne&39;s exciting adventure has been delighting generations of readers of all ages"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake)" |
| "A BRAND-NEW EDITION ILLUSTRATED BY QUENTIN BLAKE FOR THE FIRST TIME Pre-order now to complete your collection in time for Roald Dahl Day September 2017 Billy's mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark forest beyond So one day that's exactly what he does! There he meets the Minpins tiny tree-dwelling people whose children are the size of matchsticks They live in fear of the terrible galloping GRUNCHER Will it gobble Billy too - or can he find a way to defeat the hungry beast?From Matilda to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG the collaboration between Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake has captured millions of children's imaginations for nearly forty years Billy and the Minpins this new interpretation of Roald Dahl's very last story (originally published in 1991) is just as magical"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows" |
| "'Mind you it was a pukka respectable opium-house and not one of those stifling sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City'Kipling first became famous for his pungent harsh and shocking stories of northwest India where he grew up This is just a small selection from his inexhaustibly contentious and various early workIntroducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsRudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Kipling's works available in Penguin Classics are Captains Courageous Just So Stories Kim Plain Tales from the Hills Selected Poems The Jungle Books and The Man Who Would Be King Selected Stories"
Price: 1.99 |
| "Christendom Destroyed : Europe 1517-1648" |
| "Mark Greengrass's gripping major original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous changeSUNDAY TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES Books of the Year 2014This addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led to the collapse of Christendom and established the geographical and political frameworks of Western Europe as we know it From peasants to princes no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of this era Martin Luther's challenge to church authority forced Christians to examine their beliefs in ways that shook the foundations of their religion The subsequent divisions fed by dynastic rivalries and military changes fundamentally altered the relations between ruler and ruled Geographical and scientific discoveries challenged the unity of Christendom as a belief-community Europe with all its divisions emerged instead as a geographical projection It was reflected in the mirror of America and refracted by the eclipse of Crusade in ambiguous relationships with the Ottomans and Orthodox Christianity Chronicling these dramatic changes Thomas More Shakespeare Montaigne and Cervantes created works which continue to resonate with us Christendom Destroyed is a rich tapestry that fosters a deeper understanding of Europe's identity today'The Penguin History of Europe series is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New Statesman"
Price: 12.49 |
| "Outlandish Knight : The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman" |
| "'An extraordinary book exceptionally fascinating always readable and penetratingly intelligent' David Abulafia'As rich funny and teemingly peopled as Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time Dinshaw writes with wit and elegance and the most elegiac passages of Outlandish Knight evoke a lost society London and way of life' Ben Judah Financial Times'This dazzling young writer is a mine of fascinating memorable and totally useless information I have been riveted by this book from start to finish and leave the reader with one word of advice Watch Minoo Dinshaw He will go far' John Julius Norwich Sunday TelegraphThe biography of one of the greatest British historians - but also of a uniquely strange and various manIn his enormously long life Steven Runciman managed not just to be a great historian of the Crusades and Byzantium but Grand Orator of the Orthodox Church a member of the Order of Whirling Dervishes Greek Astronomer Royal and Laird of Eigg His friendships curiosities and intrigues entangled him in a huge array of different artistic movements civil wars Cold War betrayals and above all the rediscovery of the history of the Eastern Mediterranean He was as happy living in a remote part of the Inner Hebrides as in the heart of Istanbul He was obsessed with historical truth but also with tarot second sight ghosts and the uncannyOutlandish Knight is a dazzling debut by a writer who has prodigious gifts but who also has had the ability to spot one of the great biographical subjects This is an extremely funny book about a man who attracted the strangest experiences but also a very serious one It is about the rigours of a life spent in the distant past but also about the turbulent world of the twentieth century where so much that Runciman studied and cherished would be destroyed"
Price: 9.99 |
| Car-Jacked |
| "Jack Mattingly is a genius He has an IQ of 170 He speaks fluent Mandarin and Latin And he can calculate the square root of 1673549 in his head But when Jack's parents' car is hi-jacked with him inside it for once he's as clueless as the rest of us The car-jacker doesn't know Jack's in the car - yet But it's only a matter of time before he's discovered And then anything could happen Only one thing's for sure Jack's in for the thrill-ride of his life A high-octane adventure from the winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Misty Falls" |
| "Misty is a one-girl disaster zone Born with a Savant 'gift' that means she can never tell a lie her compulsive truth-telling gets her into trouble wherever she goes So when she meets Alex gorgeous confident and impossibly charming Misty instantly resolves to keep her distance Someone so perfect could never be hers surely? But a dark shadow has fallen across the Savant community A serial killer is stalking young people who have these special mental powers Soon one of them will be taken to the edge of death and beyond With a beautiful cover designed by illustrator Johanna Basford this is the stunning new novel from the best-selling author of the Savants series Finding Sky Stealing Phoenix and Seeking Crystal"
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| "Pippi Longstocking Gift Edition by Astrid Lindgren (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "This beautiful edition of the children's classic Pippi Longstocking is illustrated throughout with wonderful collage pictures from the award-winning Lauren Child The contemporary design imaginative layout of the text and stunning illustrations from Lauren Child all add up to a perfect gift purchase When the book published in hardback it gathered many wonderful reviews including this one from Books for Keeps 'Lauren Child is the perfect choice to illustrate this handsome large format edition of Pippi her unmistakeable illustrative style helps to bring a modern feel to the book' Pippi lives in Villa Villekulla with a horse a monkey and a big suitcase full of gold coins The grown-ups in her village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a little girl should but Pippi has other ideas She would much rather spend her days arranging wild exciting adventures to enjoy with her neighbours Tommy and Annika or entertaining everyone she meets with her outrageous stories Pippi thinks nothing of wrestling a circus strongman dancing a polka with burglars or tugging a bull's tail and her wildly unconventional lifestyle is matched by Lauren's free-spirited illustrations"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Keeping an Eye Open : Essays on Art" |
| "Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another and that great paintings required no words of explanation Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting But we are very far from reaching that state We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain things to form opinions to argue It is a rare picture which stuns or argues us into silence And if one does it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged'Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 1012 Chapters Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays chiefly about French artists which trace the story of how art made its way from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism Fully illustrated in colour throughout Keeping an Eye Open contains Barnes' essays on Gericault Delacroix Courbet Manet Fantin-Latour Cezanne Degas Redon Bonnard Vuillard Vallotton Braque Magritte Oldenburg Howard Hodgkin and Lucian Freud"
Price: 12.49 |
| "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (Hardback, 2016)" |
| "A beautiful edition of Anne Bronte's most enduring novel to accompany her sisters' greatest books in Penguin Clothbound ClassicsGilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son He is quick to offer Helen his friendship but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced It is only when she allows Gilbert to read her diary that the truth is revealed and the shocking details of the disastrous marriage she has left behind emerge Told with great immediacy combined with wit and irony The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence and creative freedom The Penguin Classics edition of Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has been designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith and is edited with an introduction and notes by the novelist Stevie Davies"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Old MacDonald Had a Farm and Other Classic Nursery Rhymes by Penguin Books Ltd (CD-Audio, 2015)" |
| "This entertaining audio CD collection from Ladybird contains twenty-nine of the best-loved nursery rhymes and songs that children know and love from home nursery and school With jaunty music and characterful singers it's perfect sing-a-long fun for adults and children alikeContent includesOld MacDonald Had a FarmThe House That Jack BuiltThe Wheels on the BusLondon Bridge is Falling DownRow Row Row Your BoatThere Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a FlyTen inthe BedIf You're Happy and You Know ItWind the Bobbin UpFive Little Speckled FrogsOne Man Went to MowThis Old ManFive Little MonkeysIncy Wincy SpiderDown in the JungleFive Little Men in a Flying SaucerTen Fat SausagesJelly on a PlateSleeping BunniesThe Farmer's in his DenOne Finger One ThumbFive Little DucksBaa Baa Black SheepHere We Go Round the Mulberry BushThe Ants Go MarchingThe Grand Old Duke of YorkHumpty DumptyHead Shoulders Knees and ToesTwinkle Twinkle Little Star"
Price: 4.49 |
| "Knights and Castles: Explore Amazing Castles!" |
| "Read about impressive castles and famous medieval knights! Investigate the defences and life in the greatest medieval castles and the chivalrous and heroic actions of best-known knightsDK&39;s innovative range of graded readers combines a highly visual approach with non-fiction narratives that children will want to read DK Reader Knights and Castles is a level 3 reader offering exciting and captivating narratives for children starting to read on their own More text and more complex sentence structures are presented to help develop confidence in readingThere&39;s a DK Reader for every child!"
Price: 4.49 |
| "The Rough Guide to Shanghai" |
| "The ultimate insider's guide covering everything from the huge new art galleries of the West Bund to the chic eating places of the renovated Cool DocksShanghai is the twenty-first-century city par excellence - the financial centre of the world's new superpower Expanding wildly in all directions it's a vibrant place making waves in everything from contemporary art to cutting-edge architecture Cutting through the hype The Rough Guide to Shanghai reveals the best places to shop from fake markets to backstreet tailors; to sleep whether you want a quirky hostel Art Deco cool or a luxury sky scraping suite; and to eat from destination restaurants to humble dumpling stallsDay-trips include quaint canal towns the new Chinese Disneyland and lovely Nanxiang made newly accessible by the expanding metro networkAn updated metro map shows all the new stops while every hotel restaurant bar club and shop is marked on our easy-to-read full-colour city maps"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The End of History and the Last Man" |
| "THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY 20th anniversary edition of The End of History and the Last Man a landmark of political philosophy by Francis Fukuyama author of The Origins of Political Order'A fascinating historical and philosophical setting for the twenty-first century' - Tom Wolfe'Was Francis Fukuyama the first man to see Trump coming?' - Paul SagarWith the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished And with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncertaintyThe End of History and the Last Man was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like Boldly outlining the challenges and problems to face modern liberal democracies Frances Fukuyama examined what had just happened and then speculated what was going to come nextTackling religious fundamentalism politics scientific progress ethical codes and war The End of History and the Last Man remains a compelling work to this day provoking argument and debate among its readers'Awesome a landmark profoundly realistic and important supremely timely and cogent the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world' - George Gilder The Washington Post'A basic rule of intellectual life is that celebrity destroys quality Francis Fukuyama is a glorious exception to this rule' - The EconomistFrancis Fukuyama was born in Chicago in 1952 His work includes America at the Crossroads Democracy Power and the Neoconservative Legacy and After the Neo Cons Where the Right went Wrong He now lives in Washington DC with his wife and children where he also works as a part time photographer"
Price: 9.99 |
| "The Stack : On Software and Sovereignty" |
| "A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack -- an accidental megastructure -- is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architectureWhat has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales -- from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and eye to users identified by self -- quantification and the arrival of legions of sensors algorithms and robots Together how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image?In The Stack Benjamin Bratton proposes that these different genres of computation -- smart grids cloud platforms mobile apps smart cities the Internet of Things automation -- can be seen not as so many species evolving on their own but as forming a coherent whole an accidental megastructure called The Stack that is both a computational apparatus and a new governing architecture We are inside The Stack and it is inside of us In an account that is both theoretical and technical drawing on political philosophy architectural theory and software studies Bratton explores six layers of The Stack Earth Cloud City Address Interface User Each is mapped on its own terms and understood as a component within the larger whole built from hard and soft systems intermingling -- not only computational forms but also social human and physical forces This model informed by the logic of the multilayered structure of protocol stacks in which network technologies operate within a modular and vertical order offers a comprehensive image of our emerging infrastructure and a platform for its ongoing reinvention The Stack is an interdisciplinary design brief for a new geopolitics that works with and for planetary-scale computation Interweaving the continental urban and perceptual scales it shows how we can better build dwell within communicate with and govern our worldsthestackorg"
Price: 26.49 |
| "SPSS Survival Manual" |
| "The SPSS Survival Manual throws a lifeline to students and researchers grappling with this powerful data analysis software In her bestselling guide Julie Pallant guides you through the entire research process helping you choose the right data analysis technique for your project From the formulation of research questions to the design of the study and analysis of data to reporting the results Julie discusses basic and advanced statistical techniques She outlines each technique clearly with step-by-step procedures for performing the analysis a detailed guide to interpreting data output and an example of how to present the results in a report For both beginners and experienced users in psychology sociology health sciences medicine education business and related disciplines the SPSS Survival Manual is an essential text Illustrated with screen grabs examples of output and tips it is supported by a website with sample data and guidelines on report writing This sixth edition is fully revised and updated to accommodate changes to IBM SPSS procedures screens and output It covers new SPSS tools for generating graphs and non-parametric statistics importing data and calculating dates"
Price: 36.99 |
| "Henderson's Boys: Secret Army : Book 3" |
| "Britain 1941The government is building a secret army of intelligence agents to work undercover gathering information and planning sabotage operations Henderson's boys are part of that network kids cut adrift by the war training for the fight of their lives They'll have to parachute into unknown territory travel cross-country and outsmart a bunch of adults in a daredevil exerciseIn wartime Britain anything goes"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Fallen Children" |
| "One cover 360 different colours Which one will you get?'A powerful and disturbing new take on an original classic' Tim Bowler author of Carnegie Medal-winner River Boy'I loved this book Pacy gripping intriguing and poignant' Alice Oseman author of Solitaire and Radio SilenceYoung people on the Midwich Estate don't have much hope for their futures Keisha has lived there her whole life and has been working hard to escape it; others have just accepted their lotBut change is coming One night everyone inside Midwich Tower falls mysteriously unconscious in one inexplicable 'Nightout' No one can explain what happened during those lost hours but soon afterwards Keisha and three other girls find they're pregnant - and the babies are growing at an alarming rateAs the news spreads around the tower its residents turns against them and the situation spirals toward violence Keisha's life unravels as she realises that the pregnancy may not have just ruined her hopes for the future she might be mother to the end of the worldThe Fallen Children is a story of violation of judgment and of young people who must fight to defy what is expected of themThe Fallen Children has one cover design but 360 different colourways Each one is numbered from 1 to 360 on the spine The colour you receive will be completely random'THE FALLEN CHILDREN is ATTACK THE BLOCK meets VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED and feels like the London I know It's very cool' - Juno Dawson'An ingenious twist on a classic Surprisingly tender and moving completely convincing and gripping' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave'Read THE FALLEN CHILDREN if you'd like less middle-class kidlit allegorical commentary on society and teens and dead good books' - Non Pratt"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Rubicon : The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic" |
| "The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall It is a story of incomparable drama This was the century of Julius Caesar the gambler whose addiction to glory led him to the banks of the Rubicon and beyond; of Cicero whose defence of freedom would make him a byword for eloquence; of Spartacus the slave who dared to challenge a superpower; of Cleopatra the queen who did the same Tom Holland brings to life this strange and unsettling civilization with its extremes of ambition and self-sacrifice bloodshed and desire Yet alien as it was the Republic still holds up a mirror to us Its citizens were obsessed by celebrity chefs all-night dancing and exotic pets; they fought elections in law courts and were addicted to spin; they toppled foreign tyrants in the name of self-defence Two thousand years may have passed but we remain the Romans' heirs"
Price: 9.99 |
