Winter Garden
£9.99From the author of acclaimed national bestseller The Four Winds comes a haunting, heartbreakingly beautiful novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between past and present.
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From the author of acclaimed national bestseller The Four Winds comes a haunting, heartbreakingly beautiful novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between past and present.

The stars and their movements are closely linked to life on Earth. We come from the stars, and since ancient times, observing the movement of the planets and the heavens has revealed a better understanding of human nature. Stars, planets, plants, animals and humans are connected and in communication: this RWS Zodiac Tarot 78-card deck brings us the world of astrology according to many cultures’ ancient traditions. With it we discover stories, divinities and characters that give incredible sources of images for divination.

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux’s Simple Passion documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.

Sarah is new to the world of Minecraft, and without much knowledge on the world or how to play, she finds herself looking to veteran player Hector for help. Hector isn’t used to exploring the Minecraft world with anyone other than his parents, so he’s reluctant at first. However, Sarah’s enthusiasm and all-around energy bring Hector around, and the two become partners – but more importantly, friends!

She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved and mildly neurotic London socialite. He is Britain’s most photographed bad-boy who broke her heart. Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are meant to be, and everyone knows it. She dates other people to keep him at bay; he sleeps with other girls to get back at her for it. But at the end of their every sad endeavour to get over one another, it’s still each other they crawl back to. But now their dysfunction is catching up with them, pulling at their seams and fraying the world they’ve built; a world where neither has ever let the other go completely. As the cracks start to show and secrets begin to surface, Magnolia and BJ are finally forced to face the formidable question they’ve been avoiding all their lives: How many loves do you really get in a lifetime?

The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls. But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all!

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him – and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.

Matthew Syed helps readers to find their voice, flex their social superpowers, and speak up with kindness and confidence. What if you could disagree with someone without it turning into the argument of the century? He’s here to tell you that it can be done. If you’re the kind of person who: avoids disagreements because you don’t want to fall out; gets too embarrassed to say that you’ve changed your mind; feels so overwhelmed that you don’t know what to think – then this book is for you.

In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was imaginative, radical and entirely against the rules: a small, undercover unit that would wreak havoc behind enemy lines. Despite intense opposition, Winston Churchill personally gave Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he could find. So began the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS. The history of the SAS is an exhilarating tale of fearlessness and heroism, recklessness and tragedy; of extraordinary men who were willing to take monumental risks.

UNICORNIA, AVENTURAS CON BRILLI-BRILLI ãHola! Me llamo Claudia y acabo de mudarme a Unicornia. ãEs el lugar más mágico del universo! Aquí los unicornios vuelan y en la escuela hay clase de Pociones… ãnada de Matemáticas! Vale, Unicornia es genial, pero no es perfecta: en el colegio de Magia Superior también hay exámenes, ãy justo mañana tengo la prueba de Vuelo de unicornio! +Podrá aprender a montar en tiempo récord? Escuela, amistad y unicornios en una serie de primeras lecturas llena de magia: -Preciosas y divertidas ilustraciones que acompañan la historia en cada página. -Texto sencillo y entretenido, fácil de leer y entender. -Con purpurina (ãsí, brilli-brilli!) en la cubierta. -Para jóvenes lectores a quienes gusten los unicornios o quieran flotar entre nubes de azúcar. -De la autora bestseller Ana Punset, que también sueña con volar con unicornios. ãBienvenidos a Unicornia! ENGLISH DESCRIPTION U

Listen to the Music is a narrative non fiction trip through the history of music, complete with 10, 10-second sound clips of the world’s best loved, era defining pieces from baroque to bebop.ÂÂ


Aesop’s Fables belong to every one of us. They were once simply the words of a slave; a man who lived 600 years before Christ. They were written down by a Greek, and then a Roman, and they spread, like the armies of Rome, across the known world. They were told around heathen campfires, and noble hearths; whispered in sacred monasteries and churches; lectured in Victorian school rooms and acted out by children at play. Each little fable is bound up with 2000 years of wisdom and truth.

The classic bestselling picture book Angelina on Stage is back in a beautiful, refreshed hardcover edition! Perfect for ballet-themed and classic book promotions at any time of year, this is the 7th classic Angelina picture book from Little Simon.

It’s not the journey that changes his life, but those he meets along the way. Albie is on a mission! The king has commanded him to deliver an important message to the neighboring castle. Dutifully he dashes away. But once on his way, something comes up – and then another thing, and then another! What is one to do when a squirrel, a tired mother and her many children, and an old animal need Albie’s help, just has much as his king? Told with clever parallel storytelling, Hans Christian Andersen Award winner Jutta Bauer, relays a charming tale about the importance of kindness and being true to oneself – even when you are on an important errand for the king.

Does the Loch Ness monster really exist? What ever happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste? And where exactly are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Get ready to be amazed as you uncover the world’s greatest mysteries, from Bigfoot to the Bermuda Triangle. Including alien abductions, haunted houses, mind-blowing natural phenomena and much more, this book will explain the extraordinary – unless the extraordinary can’t be explained, of course. Then you’ll just have to make up your own mind.