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£6.99A funny, magical and hugely original new series from internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern.
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A funny, magical and hugely original new series from internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern.

The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are among the finest of their generation. ‘The Faber Poetry Diary 2027’ is a celebration of this remarkable list.

Learn how to talk and taste wine like a pro with this fun, and funny, illustrated guide by an award-winning writer and wine professional

In this wonderfully entertaining and bittersweet real-life Cinderella story, Ruthie Henshall reveals how she fell in love with a prince and with life in musical theatre.

Mairéad, a child-free talent agency head, has her orderly life upended when her estranged sister's daughter comes to stay after a mysterious accident. What begins as a temporary arrangement soon throws everything into question.

Play peekaboo with this interactive board book to engage and stimulate even the youngest of readers. ‘Peekaboo Party’ is stylish, sturdy and sprinkled with birthday magic and friendly faces to spot! Connecting with faces and playing peekaboo is one of the first games that babies learn to play and that’s why they will want to read this book again and again. Moving the pop-ups will help babies develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, while turning the chunky pages will build their book confidence, all while rewarding their curiosity with fun peekaboo surprises.

Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, with no one around except a pack of hungry raccoons. Now Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. Can this failed husband and father, a man with no internet and a car that barely runs, re-emerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his sweet, precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?

The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are among the finest of their generation. The Liberty Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list.Rachael AllenSimon ArmitageIsabelle BaafiGeorge BarkerEmily BerryWilliam BlakeRobert BurnsMary Jean ChanJohn ClareGillian ClarkeWendy CopeJulia CopusT.S. EliotLavinia GreenlawThomas HardyDavid HarsentSeamus HeaneyRobert HerrickA.E. HousmanTed HughesIshion HutchinsonAlia KobuszkoZaffar KunialNick LairdPhilip LarkinAnge MlinkoPaul MuldoonDaljit NagraTom PaulinRowan Ricardo PhillipsSylvia PlathKathleen RaineCamille RalphsMaurice RiordanChristopher ReidDeclan RyanRichard ScottWilliam ShakespeareWilliam WordsworthW.B. YeatsAdam Zagajewski.

A charming story about rewilding, teamwork and the importance of sharing our natural spaces.

The wild cats of the forest have lived in peace for many moons – but when Brambleclaw, a warrior of ThunderClan, receives an ominous prophecy from StarClan that speaks of a mysterious danger, he must rally the fiercest warriors from all the Clans to seek answers in the mountains. But the journey is long and hard, and tensions rise back in the forest as Firestar and Leafpaw watch ThunderClan’s world crumbling around them. As the questing cats struggle to uncover the meaning of the prophecy, turmoil threatens to overtake the Clans.

When Irène joins the International Tracing Service, she becomes consumed by a singular obsession: returning the belongings confiscated from concentration camp prisoners to their families. A faded cloth doll. A medallion. An embroidered handkerchief. Each object holds a story – and behind each one, a life waiting to be pieced back together. As Irène traces the owners through fragments of evidence, she reconstructs their final days and discovers that even in the darkest chapter of history, humanity endured.

The new novel from the number one New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places, Jennifer Niven. The Newmans are America's favourite TV family. But, when a car crash throws their series finale out the window, the cracks in their lives threaten to pull them apart . . .

From the duo behind the brilliant, bestselling You Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus, comes a riotous new book set in a school where the animals are in charge and chaos reigns!

In a world full of drooling, dead-eyed tech-zombies, you are the last line of defence and only by solving the puzzles can you save the world. The tech zombie apocalypse is here and Rock Stone, a former employee of the company that started the outbreak, has recruited you to help him stop the virus and save the world. Solve the puzzles, play the games, complete the challenges and keep on reading to defeat the tech-zombies. In this adventure story, you choose what happens next, but make sure you make the right decision as you only have ten lives to use. Can you battle the tech-zombies and save the world without losing any brain cells?

Sophie, a painter, is holidaying with friends in a stunning villa in Greece – her best friend Helena is shortly to be married, and this is the last time she and her friends will be together as single women. But life has treated them so differently since their university days, that Sophie is questioning everything about their friendship. Meanwhile her partner, Greg, is desperate for them to try for a baby, but she wants to devote herself to her art – and there are other, deeper forces, pulling the two of them in opposite directions. In the course of the holiday, Sophie paints a nude portrait of her friend Alessia, and becomes involved in an intense affair with Ky, who lives and works on the island. Both the painting, and the affair, will challenge everything Sophie thinks she knows, about art, about motherhood, about sex – and about how and with whom she wants to spend the rest of her life.

Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. Ulises knows his looks won’t last forever, and he’s desperate to get his hands on a real fortune. He thinks he’s found it when he captivates his newest correspondent, Perla, the owner of a small-town boardinghouse in picturesque Veracruz. But when he meets her, he finds something he didn’t expect. The woman has a niece, Inés, who is as observant as she is desperate to escape her aunt’s household. When Inés discovers Ulises’ true intentions, she wants in on the scheme. They’ll convince her aunt that Ulises is a great catch, Perla will marry him, and her money will vanish. Easy, fast and clean. But Perla is not the desperate, silly spinster Ulises imagines. She harbors secrets. And although Ulises does not believe in true romance, Inés is more alluring than he bargained on.