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Hamza’s Nature Year
£8.99Hamza Yassin takes us on a fact and puzzle packed journey through the seasons in this glorious round the year activity book
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The Magic Wishes
£7.99Princess Minna lives in Castle Tall-Towers with the King and Queen, Raymond the Wizard and her best dragon friend, Lorenzo. There are often mix-ups and mishaps in the kingdom and Princess Minna loves to sort them out! When Princess Minna’s Cousin Jim comes to stay, the kingdom is soon in pandemonium, as he uses his magical teapot to summon a genie and turn everything topsy-turvy with his magical wishes. Can Minna put everything back as it should be? Oh yes, she can!
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Absence
£9.99An elusive narrator is beguiled by a poem that returns to him in mysterious ways, echoing across the years. He recounts memories and impressions as they float fleetingly to the surface of his mind: an eccentric and beloved schoolteacher leaves behind a dark secret after his death; a woman lays the table for a son she knows will never return home; a young man, the pariah of his family, finds solidarity and the distant call of freedom in the letters of an estranged Aunt; a black and white photograph tells of another family, afflicted with generations of tragedy. These are some of the people and stories that haunt the pages of ‘Absence’. This hypnotic novel is a stirring evocation of the limitless depth of the present – a symphony subtly constructed out of the murmurs, memories and phantoms that add up to an ordinary human life.
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A Past Without Pictures
£9.99Maria once experienced things no child should have to. Now an LAPD homicide detective, she’s learned to survive on her own wits – and never to trust anyone. Then, on leave after a tragic shooting, she receives a call. Her estranged ex-con father has been killed, and she must travel to coastal Alabama to settle his affairs. But when she gets to the lush southern beach town he has made home, the local police evade her questions. She knows something doesn’t add up, and that she must get to the truth alone. To do so means following the dark trajectory of her own painful, long-buried past – even if it leads her to places that may be the death of her.
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Merry Spooky Love
£9.99Melody Bittersweet’s Christmases are more haunted than holly jolly, and this year may be her most complicated yet. When the death of its owner leaves beloved department store Libertines facing closure, Melody – who inconveniently sees ghosts – is called in to help save it. Teaming up with the heir determined to protect her family’s legacy and one very persistent ghost, Melody throws herself into the case. But the job also reunites her with Fletcher Gunn: her sceptical, infuriating, still-very-tempting ex. Fletcher doesn’t believe in ghosts, but as sparks fly once again, Melody must untangle family secrets, restless spirits, and the feelings she thought she’d buried long ago. Can she save Libertines before Christmas – and risk her heart one more time?
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The Book of Lost Languages
£25.00An immersive journey into the art of decipherment and the lost past that emerges when ancient scripts are brought back to life.
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The Nature of Seeing
£20.00What does it mean to truly see the natural world? ‘The Nature of Seeing’ is a celebration of the art and practice of paying close attention. Whether it is the sight of moonlight across a bedroom floor, or an owl as it hunts, or waxcap fungi that erupt across the fields overnight – Mark Cocker encourages us to reclaim our innate gift for wonder and to see the living world in all its infinite detail and mystery. Through a series of diary entries describing his encounters with the natural world, he interrogates how we see and how it affects us at the most profound levels. In precise and lyrical prose, he shows us that seeing is a creative act that can both transform us and change the world we share. Revelatory and profound, ‘The Nature of Seeing’ is the culmination of a lifetime’s love affair with the simple act of looking and all that it reveals.
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The Third Eye
£45.00George Harrison’s own intimate, beautiful collection of more than two hundred never-before-collected photos of the Beatles at work and at play – the vast majority published for the first time. From 1963 to 1969, George Harrison travelled the world with his bandmates, Pentax in hand, chronicling their impossible path from Liverpool to Ed Sullivan, Adelaide to Rishikesh, the Eiffel Tower to the beaches of Tahiti and beyond. In this extraordinary collection of George’s personal photos and 8mm film stills – curated by Olivia Harrison, George’s widow – are singular images of Paul, John, Ringo, and George and the band’s friends and entourage as they rocketed to stardom and fostered the joyful madness that came to be known as Beatlemania.
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Ragwort
£9.99A year on from the loss of Lord Pelagius Hunt of Mirecoombe new Keeper Nancy Bligh is still struggling. She can banish the spirits and keep peace between the spriggans and piskies, but every time Nancy sleeps, she dreams of drowning. She is haunted by loss, and by whispers from all around of The Mother, and Nancy’s witchcraft. As the only witch left, Nancy is eager for any guidance she can have. When she discovers the possibility that her grandmother, the most powerful witch of her time, might still live, she seizes her chance. Desperate for answers, Nancy journeys across the Cornish wilds to find her grandmother and uncover the secrets of The Mother, before it is too late.
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Cold
£12.99A princess is born in summer. Frail from infancy, she is cosseted by all who surround her and, as she grows, is protected from the elements outside. One winter’s night, she escapes into the castle’s grounds and discovers that, far from the cold being harmful, it awakens her. She is an icewoman: she becomes her true self in the frost and snow. But when the princes arrive – as princes must – the princess awakens a second time. Falling unexpectedly for a young glassblowing royal from the hot southern lands, she is faced with a choice. Should she follow him to the desert and live a life unfulfilled? Or remain where she is and live without love?
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The Queerest of Folk
£25.00‘The Queerest of Folk’ distils Russell T. Davies’s career in television, taking us from his early days working on children’s shows and soaps through to the giddy heights of relaunching Doctor Who and bringing queer relationships onto the mainstream screen. We’re offered a glimpse into the imagination of one of Britain’s most celebrated writers – what it is to feel the spark and flood and burn of ideas popping into your head – coupled with the day-to-day business of meetings and pitches, the frustrations and the hoots, over a career that has spanned five decades.
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Pride and Prejudice
£9.99‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen is a timeless novel about love, class and the courage to challenge first impressions. The narrative centres on the reluctance of the sharp-witted Elizabeth Bennet to be forced into a ‘suitable’ marriage, and her equally strong dislike for the enigmatic Mr Darcy, a haughty and unfeeling bachelor. His pride and her prejudices are tried in equal measure until true characters are revealed.
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Peter Rabbit: Peter’s Snowy Christmas
£8.99Hoppy Christmas! Join Peter Rabbit in this Christmas touch-and feel adventure. It’s a snowy Christmas Eve, and Peter Rabbit can’t wait to explore the joys of his wintery woodland home! With a different tactile element on every page, help Peter wrap up warm in a fuzzy scarf, play in the soft snow, stroke a fluffy tail and admire the sparkly, shiny Christmas tree.
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Napoleon and His Marshals
£40.00In 1804, immediately after his coronation as Emperor, Napoleon created the Marshalate, the supreme martial rank of the empire. Over the next decade, he elevated to it some of his most outstanding generals, who played leading roles in his extraordinary campaigns – including the brave Ney, the flamboyant Murat, the vain Massena, the iron Davout and the logistics master Berthier. Some of them were son of aristocrats, others of innkeepers or coopers, but all carried the baton of a Marshal of France. Andrew Roberts masterfully captures their personalities and ambitions, capacities and rivalries. But unlike Lincoln, who forged a team of rivals, Napoleon created a nest of vipers whose lust for glory descended into destructive competitiveness and mutual recrimination. For all his inspiring qualities as a leader, he manipulated and controlled those whose loyalty he most needed to survive, and ultimately only two of them rode beside him at Waterl
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101 Space Secrets
£12.99Have you ever wondered what’s really going on in space? Are you cosmos curious? Strap in and get ready to travel on a spectacular cosmic journey to discover 101 secrets about our unbelievable universe. Did you know outer space is only an hour’s drive away? Can heavy objects curve space and time?Is there a void in the universe? Would Saturn float in the bath? This illustrated work is bursting with cosmic facts, experiments and brainteasers that help uncover some of the universe’s best kept space secrets.