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Born from British and design royalty, India Hicks has forged a design empire from her family’s enclave in the Bahamas. Here, she invites readers into her world, offering never-before-seen imagery and irresistible behind-the-scenes stories.
A sensational classic: this chilling tale of Siberian espionage is ‘the best thriller I’ve ever read’ (Philip Pullman) ranking with ‘The Silence of the Lambs, Casino Royale and Smiley’s People’ (Spectator).’Hugely thrilling, brilliantly written, perfect … I didn’t want this book to end.’ (Anthony Horowitz)WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP PULLMANKolymsky Heights. A Siberian hell lost in endless night: the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It’s a place so secret it doesn’t officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist is desperate to get a message to the outside world. So desperate, he sends a plea across the wildness to the West in order to summon the one man alive capable of achieving the impossible … ‘Sensationally good … One of the great thrillers of the last century.’ (Charles Cumming)’As significant as … le Carré in bringing a gritty new realism to the thrille
‘Poems of the Decade’ brings together more than one hundred poems from the many thousands submitted to the Forward Prizes for Poetry in the first decade of the 21st century. The Forwards are among the world’s most coveted poetry honours. They have been awarded annually since 1992 for the Best Collection, Best First Collection and Best Single Poem published in Britain and Ireland.
Bond English 10 Minute Tests for 11+-12+ years have been designed by Bond, the number 1 provider of 11+ practice materials. This book provides practice questions that establish the core skills for success in English.
Pip and Posy are typical toddlers: they’re best friends and have fun but sometimes they get cross and sad, so it takes friendship, sharing and understanding to make things better. In this book, Posy snatches Pip’s scooter and tries to ride it but she falls off and hurts her knee. Though Pip is very cross, he comes running to help.
Life at Wigglesbottom Primary is often lived on the edge. A class talent show becomes a thing of great mystery and intrigue when it turns out that Jacob Barry’s stinky shoe can PREDICT THE FUTURE! Or filled with peril when the boys’ toilets become HAUNTED! And then there’s the CURSE that lives in the story-time carpet…
Alfie and Grandma are very special friends, and together they have lots of adventures! Whether it’s saving the day and finding a lost pet, or exploring indoors and out, Alfie loves being with his grandma. A special collection of stories celebrating grandmas and grandchildren from Shirley Hughes, creator of ‘Dogger.’
As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White’s tortured masterpiece, ‘The Goshawk’, which describes White’s struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. This book is a record of a spiritual journey – an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald’s struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk’s taming and her own untaming.
Izzy is always shuffling, jiggling, squirming and twitching. She just can’t keep still! So when Izzy’s school go on a trip to the zoo, her teacher warns her to behave. She must never wriggle, she must never fidget and she must certainly never tickle a tiger! But does Izzy listen? She does not – and what happens next throws the zoo into complete chaos.
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days – as he has done before – and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine’s disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives – so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before.
Izzy and her friends plunge into more primary-school craziness. This time, they decide that their new head teacher is a vampire rat, based on his being slightly scary, having the blinds drawn in his office during the day and the fact he’s banned garlic bread at lunchtimes. Now they just have to come up with a plan to vanquish him.
<p><b>Packed with simple, fun, and effective exercises, this is a great, practical activity book from Roger Priddy to help your child get ready to start school. </b> <p/>Alongside key early years topics to practice including upper and lower letters, counting, colors, and shapes, <i>Starting School</i> also introduces some of the things your child can expect…
Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother’s bright blue eyes and her father’s jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue – in Marilyn’s case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James’s case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the centre of every party. But Lydia is under pressures that have nothing to do with growing up in 1970s small town Ohio. When Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, James is consumed by guilt and sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage.
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