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In a rugged northern village, there lived a brave Viking warrior named Gunnar. Deep down, Gunnar had a secret: He felt something was missing from his life.During a voyage to a southern town, Gunnar’s destiny took a turn when he smelled a delicious aroma coming from an empty cabin. Inside, he discovered a wonderful treat that completely overwhelmed him: Pizza! When he returned home, Gunnar tried to recreate the recipe. His first Viking pizza was born, and it was … a disaster.He tried again and again until he perfected his recipe. He couldn’t wait to share it with his fellow villagers. As demand for his pizza grew, Gunnar faced a tough decision. Should he continue to swing his sword and seek adventure, or should he pursue his true passion in the kitchen? Tag along to see if Gunnar follows his dreams and lives deliciously ever after.”A stylish picture book from Vaisberg about finding one’s true calling—one pie at a time.” —
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One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.
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£22.00
Go back even a quarter of a century and few people would have heard of DNA, except perhaps in a forensic case. Now genetics plays a part of our everyday culture and our interest in genetics is booming, particularly in the form of direct-to-consumer genetic testing for health, family history and ancestry testing. Professor Turi King, the UK’s preeminent scientist in DNA and genetics takes us on a journey through the key cases, legal and otherwise, which explain modern genetics and how it now informs policing, personal histories, migration, politics and health. From eugenics, to mistaken dinosaur DNA, the OJ Simpson trial to Angelina Jolie’s BRACA1 gene, we are led through the science to discover how genetics has impacted and shaped our society, and how our growing knowledge of the building blocks of life can inform our understanding of our past and how it will affect our future.
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With his eightieth birthday looming, it crossed Michael Palin’s mind that now might be the time to hang up his boots, to lounge about at home, to take things easy. Then the opportunity to visit Africa’s most populous nation arose. A few weeks later, he was at Lagos airport, camera crew in tow. The journal he kept during his trip offers a fascinatingly kaleidoscopic view of a country where some 500 languages are spoken and which contains within its borders everything from tropical rainforests to grasslands to desert plains. At one moment he is in vibrant but chaotic Lagos, the next in the seemingly deserted streets of Nigeria’s hyper-modern capital, Abuja, the next in the polluted oil fields of the Niger Delta. Brimming with wry humour and fascinating insights, this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country.
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In ‘Fires Which Burned Brightly’, Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood – ‘cold mutton and wet washing on a rack over the range’ – the booze-sodden heyday of Fleet Street and a career as one of the country’s most acclaimed novelists. There are not one, but two daring escapes from boarding school; the delirium of a jetlagged American book tour; the writing of ‘Birdsong’ in his brother’s house in 1992; and memorable trips across the channel to France. Politics, psychiatry and frustrated ventures into the world of entertainment are analysed with patience and rueful humour.
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Eliza and Florrie are sent to Iceland to atone for their sins by Florrie’s husband. Will they be able to survive in this harsh landscape? Inspired by real history, this is the fourth novel from Women’s Prize-longlisted author Kate Foster.
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From 1960s Italy to present-day Ireland, Ripeness is the story of a family secret that rips apart a teenage girl’s world, only for her to discover its meaning decades later.
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£22.00
A timely and lively guide explaining the stakes, players and rules of trade wars, and what the future will hold.
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Provence, 1920. Ettie moves through the remote farmhouse, silently creating the conditions that make her uncle’s artistic genius possible. Joseph, an aspiring journalist, has been invited to the house. He believes he’ll make his name by interviewing the reclusive painter, the great Edouard Tartuffe. But everyone has their secrets. And, under the cover of darkness, Ettie has spent years cultivating hers.
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Gail is in trouble at school. Saint Saviours, the exclusive private girls school that she attends on a scholarship, cannot contain her. Impulsive, bored and looking for someone to adore, she is at that dangerous age when you want to be picked up by men and then driven home by your mother. Ezra is rich, powerful and at the top of his game. His comfortable middle age is tainted only by the knowledge that, in his heady youth, he’d loved new wave music and had people killed – and by his crushing anxieties about his teenage daughter, Agata. When Agata starts at Saint Saviour’s, Gail and Ezra’s paths cross, and with an unstoppable momentum, their lives intertwine in ways more dangerous than either could ever predict.
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Julien Laurens, the world’s leading French football journalist, paints a vivid portrait of Mbappé’s meteoric rise to global stardom. After a decade covering Kylian’s career, Julien has had unprecedented access to the player, his inner circle, his coaches, teammates and family. Exploring Mbappé’s humble upbringing in the suburbs of Paris and schooling at the famed Clairefontaine academy, his peerless rise with AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain, as well as his dream move to Real Madrid where his career has reached new heights, this extensive biography crafts an intimate account of Kylian’s life. Julien takes us into the inner workings of Mbappé’s psyche, as we witness how becoming a world superstar at just 19 affected the young Parisian.
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£8.99
Every New Year’s Day, Lily Tripp time travels and wakes up in a new century. She’s lived in Roman times and the Victorian era and never knows where she’ll end up next. Thank goodness her bestie, family and secret crush all time travel with her too – even if they don’t know it. But how will she live in a time before chicken nuggets were invented? Why are her brother’s clothes so ridiculous in every era? And how on earth can she cope with being mean girl Georgia’s servant?
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