A charming, hilarious account of Griffin Dunne's coming of age among a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan.At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary LA...

A Chartered Accountant by profession, Zafar Siddiqi was with KPMG for 18 years initially as a partner and later as the Managing Director of one of it's consultancy practices.Mr. Siddiqi first ventured into electronic media by launching a television production house, Telebiz, in Pakistan...

A cheerful story sure to entertain young children with its irresistible illustrations. Uses phonic repetition and simple rhyming text, specially designed to help develop essential language and early reading skills. Also includes guidance notes for parents at the back of the book.

A child coming out to their parent. A family losing someone to terminal illness. A friend noticing the first signs of someone's dementia. A careers advisor and a teenager with radically different perspectives.There are moments when we must talk, listen and be there for...

A child gets answers to their many questions about the ocean in this rhyming, fact-filled nonfiction board book perfect for curious minds.Tell me why the ocean movesin waves that splish and splash.Wind on water makes those wavesthat hit the shore and crash!A child asks...

A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behaviour later in life? Walter Mischel's now iconic 'marshmallow test,' one of...

A child psychologist who has extensively researched questions of taste explains the often complex attitudes children bring with them to the dinner table, and offers parents creative ways to get children to approach eating with the same curiosity and enthusiasm they display toward other...

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labour, and ending...

A children's retelling of The Legends of King Arthur - with a QR code for the free audiobook!When two boys save an old man from robbers, they learn of a competition in Londinium to decide the next king of Britain. The elder, Kay, is...

A chilling contemporary thriller from Robert Harris set in the competitive world of high finance. Dr Max Hoffman is a legend. A physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider, he now uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade...

A chilling geopolitical thriller and real-world cautionary tale presenting a dark yet very possible future of war between the US and China - from two former military officers and award-winning authorsTHEand NEW YORK TIMESand BESTSELLERand • A rippingly good read'and Wired______________12 March 2034.In the...

A chilling high-concept thriller from No. 1 bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland. Perfect for fans of Robert Harris. SHE CAN'T SAVE HER SISTER Journalist Madison Webb is obsessed with exposing lies and corruption. But she never thought she would be investigating her...

A chilling modern horror novel from the author of THE SILENCE OF THE SEA, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award - perfect for fans ofand Let the Right One In.The light spilling in from the corridor would have to do. Though weak, it was...

'A CHILLING new memoir by the daughter of mass murderer Fred West and his wife Rose describes the savage cruelty of her upbringing in 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester' DAILY MAIL'Mae, I mean this ... I'm not a good person and I let all you...

A chilling psychological thriller about family - the ties that bind us, and the lies that destroy us. Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train and I Let You Go.You find your neighbour dead in his bath.Your son is with you. He...

A chilling story for children growing in reading confidence and ability. When the worst nightmares of the villagers of Nether Bogey seem to be coming true, Harry suspects that something is amiss. Could Mystery Mansion and the shadowy characters who live there have something...

A chilling take on the opioid epidemic by theand New York Timesand bestselling Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.Above our world is a toxic wonderland where the party has raged for centuries.Humans know the partygoers simply as “narcotics , “opioids , “drugs . But here...

A chilling, eye-opening story of marriage and attempted murder, revealing the truth about a case that made headlines around the world. On Easter Sunday 2015, experienced skydiver Victoria Cilliers undertook a parachute jump, a gift from her husband, British army sergeant Emile Cilliers

A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled...

A chronicle of Pakistan's political history that offers concise accounts of the major political events and constitutional issues, the making and the breaking of interim and regular constitutions going back to the establishment of Pakistan in August 1947. The book focuses on Pakistan's challenges...

A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century"What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . . an economist who gained his reputation as a researcher with vaguely left-of-center sensibilities...

A chunky, distinctive object of brilliant design in and of itself,and Stylepediaand is the first handy, cross-referenced desk guide to the kaleidoscope that is modern design. In hundreds of illustrated entries, Heller and Fili, the award-winning authors ofand Euro Decoand and numerous other popular...

A 'Cinderella'-inspired slow-burn historical romance with a paranormal twist set in Meiji-era Japan] A browbeaten and mistreated daughter is cast out of her home and sent to audition as a bridal candidate for the heir to one of the most powerful families in the...

A 'Cinderella'-inspired slow-burn historical romance with a paranormal twist set in Meiji-era Japan] A browbeaten and mistreated daughter is cast out of her home and sent to audition as a bridal candidate for the heir to one of the most powerful families in the...

A Cinderella-inspired, slow-burn historical romance with a paranormal twist set in Taisho-era Japan! A browbeaten and mistreated daughter is cast out of her home and sent to audition as a bridal candidate for the heir to one of the most powerful families in the...

A Cinderella-inspired, slow-burn historical romance with a paranormal twist set in Taisho-era Japan!A browbeaten and mistreated daughter is cast out of her home and sent to audition as a bridal candidate for the heir to one of the most powerful families in the land…Miyo...

A cinematic and original page-turner for fans of Indiana Jones and Alex Rider. On a winter's day, twelve-year old Alex receives a package in the mail- an old tin robot from his grandfather. 'This one is special,' says the enclosed note, and when strange...

A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train. A poetic translation of the bestselling Korean picture book. Accompanied by the constant, rumbling ba-dum ba-dumof its passage through the city, the...

A City Cinema And A Community

A classic account of courage, integrity and most of all, belonging.In 1977, after serving as a leading activist for the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration from there, Natan Sharansky was arrested. He spent nine years...

A classic adventure collection with timeless appeal - reissued to celebrate Blyton's centenary! Six exciting Secret Seven stories - a secret store of stolen silver, a shrill scream in the night, a trap ...

A classic adventure story with timeless appeal - reissued to celebrate Blyton's centenary! Dogs are disappearing in the village where the Secret Seven live! But the Seven are too busy quarrelling to investigate. Then poor Scamper disappears ...

A classic adventure story with timeless appeal - reissued to celebrate Blyton's centenary! Jack's little sister Susie is very annoying and the Seven are furious when she forms a rival club. But is she bad enough to have stolen some money?

A classic adventure story with timeless appeal - reissued to celebrate Blyton's centenary! The Seven have a fantastic new hiding place. But someone else is using it at night - and it's Jack's little sister Susie who helps them catch the intruder ...

A classic adventure story with timeless appeal - reissued to celebrate Blyton's centenary! What would the Seven do without Scamper the spaniel? First he discovers an unwanted visitor - then he protects the Seven as they spy on a thief late at night in...

A classic Big Bright and Early Board Book by Dr. Seuss, now in a larger trim size!This super-simple, super-sturdy board book edition ofand The Eye Book--Dr. Seuss's hilarious ode to eyes--gives little ones a whole new appreciation for all the wonderful things to be...

A classic children's book from one of best-lovedand Bill's New Frockand authors, former Children's Laureate Anne Fine. Perfect for readers aged between 7 and 9 and fans ofand Awful Auntieand and Pamela Butchart's Wigglesbottom Primary series.and Until the angel came, Penny, Mark and Marigold...

A classic children's story from one of our best-loved authors, former Children's Laureate Anne Fine.Gemma doesn't believe a chicken could have written a book - chickens can't even read! But here in front of them is The True Story of Harrowing Farm, and its...

A Classic Collectible Pop-Upand One Red Dotand A Pop-Up Book for Children of All Agesby David A. CarterOne Red Dot is a stunning tour de force from David A. Carter, the creator of the bestselling Bugs in a Box books.Each of the ten magnificent...

A classic collection of tales to tell children of about four, featuring beloved characters and lively stories, by Michael Bond, Jill Barklem, Anne Fine amongst others, chosen by children's book expert, Julia Eccleshare.Paddington Bear has a magical moment, the animals of Brambly Hedge are...

A classic collection theand Art of Warand and other Chinese military texts, beautifully presented with a striking, foil-embossed cover design.Written between 500 BCE and 700 CE, these seven texts have inspired generals for millennia, both in China and the wider world. These seven texts...

A classic coming-of-age tale set in a vivid and richly-imagined world from Sunday Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie. Joe Abercrombie is doing some terrific work' GEORGE R.R. MARTINWORDS ARE WEAPONSPrincess Skara has seen all she loved turned to ashes. She is left with only...

A CLASSIC DIRK PITT ADVENTURE A desperate call for help from a stricken archaeological expedition brings Dirk Pitt to a sacred well high in the Andes. What he discovers as he attempts to rescue two divers lost in the perilous depths, leads him into...

A classic fairytale reimagined…Once upon a time there was a princess, locked in a tower, forced to bend to her father's will…But Celine is no ordinary princess, and she has no intention of being a damsel in distress.Celine has a lover, Hugo, whose cunning...

A classic he-said-she-said romantic comedy, with bonus content including a Qandamp;A with the author.All I've ever wanted is for Juli Baker to leave me alone. For her to back off - you know, just give me someand space.Juli has been making Bryce's life hell...

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon,and Love Is a Dog from Helland is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

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A classic lullaby gets a playfully spooky spin in this monstrously sweet picture book.Hush, Little Monster, don't you howl.Daddy's gonna give you a…screeching owl.If that owl won't say “whoo whoo …Granny Ghost will bring you a big, bad boo!and and and and A monster...

A classic picture book by Eric Carle and Bill Martin, Jr - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?Exuberantly coloured artwork and favourite animals make this rhythmic story the perfect introduction to looking and learning about colours. Each spread leads seamlessly into the...

A classic poem with a timeless message, presented in a small and beautiful gift book.Rose Milligan never intended to publicly share her poem 'Dust If You Must', but a series of events led her to publish it inand The Ladyand magazine in 1998. Her...