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  • How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

    £16.99

    When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against the Turks. The British supported the Arabs’ fight for an independent state and sent an intelligence officer, T.E. Lawrence, to join Prince Faisal, leader of the Arab army and a descendant of the Prophet. In October 1918, Faisal, Lawrence and the Arabs victoriously entered Damascus, where they declared a constitutional government in an independent Greater Syria. At the Paris Peace Conference, Faisal won the support of President Woodrow Wilson, who sent an American commission to Syria to survey the political aspirations of its people. However, other Entente leaders at Paris – and later San Remo – schemed against the Arab democracy, which they saw as a threat to their colonial rule.

  • Factopia!

    £11.99

    Welcome to FACTopia! A wonderland of crazily connected facts.

  • Small Pleasures

    £10.99

    1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and – on the brink of 40 – living a limited existence with her truculent mother: a small life from which there is no likelihood of escape. When a young Swiss woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, it is down to Jean to discover whether she is a miracle or a fraud. But the more Jean investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys.

  • Little First Stickers Building Site

    £5.99

    Help a team of animal workers tackle some big projects, whether it’s building a school, making an adventure playground, or laying a road. Discover over 170 detailed stickers to bring each busy scene to life with bulldozers, diggers, dump trucks and more.

  • The Mirror & the Light

    £10.99

    Soon to be a major TV series

    The Sunday Times bestseller

    Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction

    Longlisted for the Booker Prize

    ‘It is a book not read, but lived’ Telegraph

    ‘Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century’ Observer

  • Shy Willow

    £12.99

    Willow is shy. VERY shy. Her home is in an abandoned mailbox, and she’d rather stay put. Outside kids scream and soccer balls collide, trees look like monsters, and rain is noisy in a scary kind of way. It’s much nicer to stay inside, drawing. But then a young boy drops a letter in Willow’s mailbox: it’s a note to the moon asking for a special favor. Willow knows that if she doesn’t brave the world outside, the letter will never be delivered, and the boy will be heartbroken. Should she try? Can she?

  • All Adults Here

    £10.99

    Astrid Strick has always tried to do her best for her three children. Now, they’re finally grown up – but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Elliot doesn’t have any idea who he really is, or how to communicate with his own sons. Porter is, at last, pregnant – but feels incapable of rising to the challenge. Nicky has fled to distant New Mexico, where he’s living the bohemian dream. And Astrid herself is up to things that would make her children’s hair curl. Until now, the family have managed to hide their true selves from each other. But when Nicky’s incorrigibly curious daughter Cecelia comes to stay, her arrival threatens to upturn everything.

  • If I Had an Octopus

    £10.99

    The latest instalment in the bestselling If I had… series imagines life with an octopus as a pet.

  • Hamnet

    £10.99

    On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that one of the children will not survive the week.

  • Wedding Readings and Poems

    £10.99

    Bound in gorgeous blue cloth, Wedding Readings and Poems is full of wonderful poetry and prose to read at wedding ceremonies. It is a beautiful little gift for engaged couples, bridesmaids and wedding guests.

  • Solar System Kaleidoscope

    £7.00

    Look through the eyepiece and experience the magic of the kaleidoscope. The Solar System Kaleidoscope from Mudpuppy reveals colorful jewels when you turn the viewing tube. The colorful artwork features planets, comets and spaceships!• 6.5″ tall x 2.25″ diameter, 6 cm diameter, 16.5 cm tall• Sturdy matte-finish board material• Ages 3+• All Mudpuppy products adhere to CPSIA, ASTM, and CE Safety Regulations• Classic toy format.

  • Blue Thunder

    £8.99

    Gordon D’Arcy is an ordinary boy, but he’s not so ordinary once he gets a rugby ball in his hands. He’s the star player for Wexford Wanderers and dreams of one day wearing the Ireland jersey. A dream like that means hard work, raw talent and never losing sight of your goals. But Gordon has a wild streak that often lands him in trouble. Mum and Dad think that if he can just channel his energy, all will be well. Then something utterly mad happens and he gets a chance to live his biggest dream. Can he stay on his game and do everyone proud? Or will trouble follow him – like it usually does?

  • Black Skin, White Masks

    £9.99

    Frantz Fanon’s seminal text was immediately acclaimed as a classic of black liberationalist writing. Fanon’s descriptions of the feelings of inadequacy and dependence experienced by people of colour in a white world, ‘the crippled colonial mentalities of the oppressed’, are as salient and as compelling as ever.

  • In the Garden

    £9.99

    Outdoor space is something everyone should have access to. But you don’t need a garden to become a gardener. Growing plants and vegetables forces us to pause, pay attention and look more closely. From the vantage point of even the smallest windowsill garden we can observe the passing of time through the shifting of the seasons, as well as the environmental changes the planet is undergoing. In this collection of essays, fourteen writers go beyond simply considering a plot of soil to explore how gardening is a shared language, an opportunity for connection, something that is always evolving.