Brief Lives of the Ancient World
£20.00A fascinating window into the history of the ancient world, told through thirty-five fascinating figures
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The White Lady
£11.99A major new history of the two most important British secret service networks in the First and Second World Wars. Drawing on recently declassified information, Fry examines who the agents were, how they were recruited, and how the intelligence they gathered directly impacted the outcome of both wars. Operators in the field sent over 800 radio messages to London and delivered more than 1000 reports, including groundbreaking information on Hitler’s secret weapon the V-1. This is a compelling account of the agents who risked their lives and found ingenious ways to smuggle intelligence out of occupied Belgium.
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Assassins and Templars
£11.99The story of the medieval world’s most extraordinary organisations, the Assassins and the Templars. In this engaging account, Steve Tibble traces the history of these two groups from their origins to their ultimate destruction. He shows how, outnumbered and surrounded, they survived only by perfecting ‘the promise of death’, either in the form of a Templar charge or an Assassin’s dagger. Death, for themselves or their enemies, was at the core of these extraordinary organisations. Their fanaticism changed the medieval world – and, even up to the present day, in video games and countless conspiracy theories, they have become endlessly conjoined in myth and memory.
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If the Moon
£14.99With minimal text, a child drifts through the quiet space at bedtime between waking and sleep, discovering the endless. possibilities of dreams to come.
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106 Baby Faces
£7.99“Giggles, grins, and silly faces-this is baby fun at its best! 106 Baby Faces is a joyful celebration of the many moods and moments of babyhood. With expressive illustrations featuring babies laughing, playing, splashing, and being delightfully silly, it’s the perfect book for little ones who love looking at other babies. Along the way, readers can spot 10 playful dogs, a few curious cats, and even a cheerful bear hiding in the pages. And at the very end, a special peek-a-boo mirror invites babies to find the most important face of all-their own! Ideal for ages 0-2, this board book supports emotional development, visual engagement, and early bonding-all while making babies smile”–. Provided by publisher.
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Flickerstate
£11.99Norah Sullivan has just discovered she’s a navigator: a person who can manipulate probability. The same day Norah’s navigation manifests, she and her father are swarmed by possibility beasts. When a possibility beast bites you, your risk of death skyrockets. And pretty soon, her father gets sick. Desperate to find a cure, Norah applies to the Academy of Navigation, where there are rumours of restricted information on beast bites hidden in research archives. Once on campus, Norah learns that only senior research assistants are allowed in the archives – and you can only become one by winning a team trial designed to push your navigation abilities to the brink She’ll need to rely on her roommates, as well as her peer mentor, the handsome Vik Souza, to win the competition. As Norah gets deeper into the competition, she realises not everything is as it seems, and the stakes are much higher than she ever could have imagined.
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Cherry Blossoms Origami Paper and Book
£14.99The perfect origami book for beginners-with instructions for 20 elegant models and 96 folding sheets!
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Japanese Washi Origami Paper and Book
£14.99The perfect origami book for beginners-with instructions for 20 elegant models and 96 folding sheets!
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Kitty and the Nightfall Festival
£6.99Meet Kitty. A superhero-in-training, with cat-like superpowers. In Kitty and the Nightfall Festival, Kitty must help her favourite band, the Glitter Girls, find their lucky drumsticks in time for the big show. But things aren't quite what they seem . . .
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The New Dark Ages
£14.99Books are dying. Across the world the number of people reading is in free fall. Literacy is declining or stagnating in most developed countries. At universities, students are unable to read the books assigned to them by their teachers. Addictive digital entertainment technologies have colonised our free time with infantilising ‘slop’. The golden chain of knowledge linking reader to reader through the centuries is breaking for the first time since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire ushered in the Dark Ages. This book is an impassioned attack on the trivial and meaningless culture of the screen and a defence of the written word.
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The Speckled Band
£6.99A thrilling set of stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. One of ten pocket-sized paperbacks from Macmillan Collector’s Library celebrating the art of the short story.
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Cinderella
£20.00Join Cinderella, her Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming in this gorgeous retelling of Cinderella, based on Perrault's original fairy tale.
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SIGNED COPIES: The Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen
£16.99From the limitless imaginations of Guy Bass and David Roberts comes this dark and deliciously entertaining collection of tales from the World Behind the World. Take a trip through the sideways door and let supernatural secrets come alive in these chilling tales of terror. But be warned – your world may never be the same again…
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Human Body
£12.99Have you ever wondered why your heart goes ba-dum ba-dum? Or what exactly is a primate? Here are 101 answers to questions you might have about amazing animals or your incredible body. Go from little learner to big brainiac in no time!
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Animals
£12.99Have you ever wondered why your heart goes ba-dum ba-dum? Or what exactly is a primate? Here are 101 answers to questions you might have about amazing animals or your incredible body. Go from little learner to big brainiac in no time!
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A Dangerous Game
£30.00Cochrane’s life was even more remarkable than the fiction it inspired. A hero of the Napoleonic Wars, known for destroying the French Atlantic fleet in one explosive attack, he was an equally aggressive force in British politics as the Radical MP for Westminster. Cochrane’s fortunes turned in 1814 when he was convicted of a fraud on the Stock Exchange. Escaping from prison, he later reinvented himself as a revolutionary admiral, helping the Chileans, Peruvians, Brazilians and Greeks in their struggles for independence. In ‘A Dangerous Game’, historian Peter Moore draws on newly uncovered materials to bring Cochrane vividly to life. Bold, rebellious and uncompromising, he saw the world as a contest to be won – at sea, in politics, even in scandal – and played it more dangerously than any man of his age.