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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

A rare, intimate account of a world-renowned Buddhist monk's near-death experience and the life-changing wisdom he gained from it.'Generous, beautiful, and essential' - George Saunders, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the BardoIn In Love With the World, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, one of the world's most respected leaders of Tibetan meditation, shares his personal story ...

Rainbow Rowell

Wayward Son is the stunning YA novel by the bestselling author of Fangirl and Carry On, Rainbow Rowell. With all of her signature wit and heart, this is Rainbow at her absolute best. This edition includes two beautiful illustrations.The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now c...

Judith Flanders

u003cpu003e'Marvellous...I read it with astonished delight..It is equally scholarly and entertaining.' Jan Morrisu003c/pu003e u003cpu003e'Delightfully quirky and compelling' The Sunday Timesu003c/pu003e u003cbru003e u003cpu003eOne we've learned it as children few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. And yet the order if the alphabet, that simple kn...

Natalie Haynes

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the Year"Gorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War."--Madeline Miller, author of CirceShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes an...

Follett Ken

As World War II begins, a luxury airliner - the Pan American Clipper - departs for New York with a group of passengers including an aristocratic family with a fortune in jewels, a handsome thief, and a murderer under FBI escort. Tension mounts, but inside the flying palace there is no escape. ...

Julia Donaldson / Scheffler, Axel

A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good. Walk further into the deep dark wood, and discover what happens when a quick-witted mouse comes face to face with an owl, a snake . . . and a hungry Gruffalo! Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's The Gruffalo is an undisputed modern classic and has become a best-selling phenomenon...

Seethaler, Robert

'Heart-rending and heart-warming ... for all its gentleness, a very powerful novel.' Jim Crace Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her hand in marriage, but instead has some of his friends light her name at dusk ...

Varios Autores

Unpick the complexities of our digital world and discover how to live well within it Over the last decade, through digital media, we have crossed a number of significant thresholds: the interconnection of over half of the world's adult population through mobile telephony and the internet and the devotion of more than half the waking hours of a western generation to mediated exp...

Judith Flanders

A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet champion Denis Diderot. But though even George Washington was a proponent, many ot...

Elton John

Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three, he was performing his first gig in America, facing an astonished audience in his bright yellow dungarees, a star-spangled T-shirt and boots with wings. Elton John had arrived and the music world would ne...

Alice Robb

We all dream, and 98 per cent of us can recall our dreams the next morning. Even in today's modern age, it is human nature to wonder what they mean. Now, groundbreaking science is putting dreams at the forefront of new research into sleep, memory, the concept of self and human socialization. Once a subject of the New Age and spiritualism, the science of dreams is revealed to ha...

Follett Ken

"It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages, and England faces attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Life is hard, and those with power wield it harshly, bending justice according to their will - often in conflict with the monarchy. With the king's grip on the country fragile and with no clear rule of law, chaos and bloodshed reign. Into this uncertain wor...

Wendy Wood

u003cpu003e'Wendy Wood is the world's foremost expert in the field, and this book is essential' - Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of u003ciu003eGritu003c/iu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003eu003cbu003eWhat if you could harness the extraordinary power of your unconscious mind, which already determines so much of what you do, to achieve your goals?u003c/bu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu0...

Robert Service

Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012.Putin's rule, whether as president or prime minister, has been marked by a steady in...

Jeffrey Archer

Be Careful What You Wish For, the fourth instalment in Jeffrey Archer's The Clifton Chronicles, opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Comp...

Follett Ken

Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance try to destroy a telephone exchange vital to Nazi communications. Heavily defended, the mission fails disastrously. With invasion looming, Flick Clairet, a British secret agent, proposes a daring but perilous new plan. She, along with an all-female team the Jackdaws will infiltrate and neutralise the exchange before Allied Forces la...

Kate Morton

u003cpu003eu003cbu003eFrom the bestselling author of u003ciu003eThe House at Rivertonu003c/iu003e and u003ciu003eThe Secret Keeperu003c/iu003e, Kate Morton brings us her trademark mix of secrets, lies, and intricately layered mysteries in her sixth novel, u003ciu003eThe Clockmaker's Daughter.u003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003ciu003eMy real name, no one remem...

Rod Campbell

Farm 123 is a first numbers book with a difference - young children will love lifting the flaps to discover their favourite farm animals, all the way from one cat to ten naughty rabbits!By Rod Campbell, the creator of the preschool lift-the-flap classic Dear Zoo, who has been a trusted name in early learning for over thirty-five years.With bright, bold artwork, a simple, engagi...

Mo Gawdat

Solve for Happy is a startlingly original book about creating and maintaining happiness, written by a top Google executive with an engineer's training and fondness for thoroughly analyzing a problem. In 2004, Mo Gawdat, a remarkable thinker whose gifts had landed him top positions in half a dozen companies and who - in his spare time - had created significant wealth, realized t...

Ellis, Bret Easton

Clay comes home to L.A. for Christmas vacation and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and moral entropy, where everyone drives porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. 'Less Than Zero' is a shocking coming-of-age novel about the casual nihilism that comes with youth and money. ...

Follett Ken

1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger. Billy's family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherberts, the aristocratic owners of the coal mine where he works. And when Maud Fitzherbert falls in love w...

Follett Ken

De levens van een prior, een verbeten aartsdeken en een steenhouwer raken met elkaar verweven, waarbij de te bouwen kathedraal van Kingsbridge de inzet van jaloezie en kruiperijen vormt. ...

Ag Jatkowska

Meet lots of cute new arrivals in Busy Baby Animals, from lambs and piglets to ducklings and kittens. Young children can join in by pushing, pulling and turning the tabs to really bring the baby animals to life!Children will love playing with this bright and colourful board book with gentle rhyming text and wonderful illustrations by Ag Jatkowska, which is part of the popular B...

Follett Ken

The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End now continues with Ken Follett's magnificent, gripping A Column of Fire. Christmas 1558, and young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to find his world has changed. The ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn by religious hatred. Europe is in turm...

Michael Greger / Gene Stone

Simple nutritional advice for beating the most common diseases and living longer."The primary determinant of our health and well-being is what we eat and how we live. In this extraordinary and empowering book, Dr. Michael Greger explains why. Highly recommended." Dean Ornish, M.D., author of The SpectrumWhy rely on drugs and surgery to cure you of life-threatening disease when ...

Allie Esiri

u003cpu003eu003ciu003eA Poem For Every Day of the Yearu003c/iu003e is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year. Reflecting the changing seasons and linking to events on key dates - funny for April Fool's Day, festive for Christmas - these poems are thoughtful, inspiring, humbling, informative, quiet, loud, small, epic,...

Austen, Jane

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.Whether in the electrically charged chemistry of Elizabeth B...

Douglas Adams / Adams, Douglas

In Life, the Universe and Everything, the third title in Douglas Adams' blockbusting sci-fi comedy series, Arthur Dent finds himself enlisted to prevent a galactic war."Wild satire . . . the feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes." Chicago Tribune"Adams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has re...

Douglas Adams

Berlin, Lucia

"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions." --Paul Metcalf A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melanch...