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Take a journey to a vanished world with the ‘Adventures in Time’ series – stories so exciting you won’t believe they’re all true Prepare to meet the most terrifying raiders the world has ever known, as historian Dominic Sandbrook plunges us back into the thrilling drama of the Viking Age. We’ll encounter gods and giants, axemen and shield-maidens, from the warlords rampaging through King Alfred’s England to the sea-captains who first glimpsed the mountains of Iceland. For even in the most glittering cities on earth, no one is safe from the Northmen’s fury.
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Spark your imagination with incredible build ideas inspired by the world around you. Explore landmarks, natural wonders, and inventions. From the Great Wall of China and the Great Barrier Reef, to steam trains and the International Space Station, get suggestions for how to build them all in Minecraft – and discover fascinating facts about them, too. ‘The Minecraft Ideas Book’ is packed with all kinds of imaginative build ideas, including a cross-section of a volcano, a fabulously fun fairground, a Mount Everest base camp, a rainforest with canopy bridge, and much, much more.
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Dr Morley is about to embark on a quest to the northernmost tip of the world, to discover a creature that everyone talks about but nobody has ever seen: the giant Arctic jellyfish. After years of research and hard graft, she gathers together a highly trained crew and a boat full of specialist equipment, and sets sail for the vast icy scapes of the Arctic. Will she find what she is searching for? Or will it find her?
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Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century – new from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography
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From the hairs in your nose to the nails on your toes – we all have a body and here’s how it grows! ‘5 minute stories’ include: Where Did I Begin?: From conception to baby; The Heartbeat Ballet: All about the heart and the blood; Your Lungs and the Air: The respiratory system; Brainy You! : The body’s control centre; Skin Holds You In: All about the skin; Hold-me-up: All about the skeleton and bones; Do I Move?: Marvellous muscles; I Spy: See, hear, smell, taste, touch; Snack Attack: All about digestion.
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The third beastly book in the deliciously gruesome and hilarious series by Jack Meggitt-Phillips, perfect for little beasts aged 8-12.
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The book that bites back is BACK! In the second beastly book from Jack Meggit-Phillips, the most distinctive new voice for readers of 8-12, revenge is a dish best served with a surprise ?
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£27.00
First-generation farmer and chef Julius Roberts shares honest tales of farming life and easy, thoughtful dishes to reconnect us to nature and the seasons. Making the most of simple ingredients, this is food to comfort and inspire. A few good things on a plate, assembled with joy and ease. Beginning in winter, recipes include: an elegant, fuss-free dinner of roast pumpkin, mozzarella, hazelnuts and sage, and a hearty sausage stew; in spring baked fish with herbs and asparagus, chicken roasted over lemon, fennel and potatoes, and a lamb stew with pearl barley; summer brings courgette pasta, a ratatouille galette, and a steamed apricot sponge; finally autumn arrives with smoked haddock and leek rarebit and pan-fried trout with mash and spinach sauce.
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After the tumult of the last few years, William Sieghart is back to prescribe the perfect poem for a variety of life’s ailments, offering hope and comfort to readers in need. Here, he draws on the emails from the public he received during multiple lockdowns, as well as tried-and-true classics from his in-person pharmacies, to create an essential anthology of poetry for our times. Through his expert curation and insightful commentary, he reminds us of the power of words to help us heal, to reconnect us with the world and to recover what has been lost. From weathering sorrow and sudden loss, to dealing with environmental despair and burnout, this new selection speaks directly to a society in greater need of comfort and compassion than ever before.
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Take to the seas with Spin to Survive: Pirate Peril, the next in the innovative choose-your-own-adventure series that pits your survival skills against the treacherous tides of chance.
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For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy – like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a more interesting and balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic perspectives. In ‘Edible Economics’, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world. Structuring the book as a series of menus, Chang uses histories behind familiar food items – where they come from, how they are cooked and consumed, what they mean to different cultures – to explore economic theory.
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Ten stunning Shakespeare retellings from the master storyteller, with an introduction by Benedict Cumberbatch
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Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world. And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows. Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift. Until it became a prison. But can a student stand against an empire?
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£35.00
This collection of three classic storybooks in a giftable slipcase with holographic foil makes the perfect gift for any Angelina Ballerina fan!
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£13.99
When ZigZag, an alligator who can taste words, accidentally swallows “tambourine” with all of its vowels, he finds disappointing “ppls” instead of tart, green apples and a. too-short “bd” instead of his comfy, cozy bed.
Spin to Survive: Pirate peril 
