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England, England
As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of england on the isle of wight. the grotesque, visionary tycoon, sir jack pitman, takes the saying literally and constructs on the island, the project, a vast heritage centre.
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The Star Of Kazan
Eagerly-awaited new novel from the author of the bestselling journey to the river sea. in a tiny alpine church, on a june day in 1897, an abandoned baby girl is found by a middle-aged cook from vienna. so begins the unusual childhood of annika, brought up in the house of three eccentric professors by their two domestic servants. by the age of seven she can bake and ice a three-tiered cake and polish parquet floors to perfection. her life in this golden city of music, fabulous food, and the beautiful lippizana stallions who dance before the emperor franz joseph is greatly blessed-until her unknown mother tracks her down and comes to claim her…. here is another ibbotson masterpiece of wonderful adventure, packed with dozens of unforgettable characters who weave their way through a faultless, intricate plot of enthralling events-sometimes hilarious, sometimes bleak, but always marvellously entertaining. it offers every reader who loved journey to the river sea an enchanting new world of fictional riches. it is a timeless classic, for readers young and old. – one of the biggest events in the children’s publishing year, backed by a major trade and consumer promotion – journey to the river sea won the smarties gold award, was shortlisted for the carnegie medal, and was runner-up for the whitbread children’s book of the year and the guardian fiction award.
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The Fever Code
A prequel to the new york times bestselling maze runnerseries – now a series of major motion pictures starring dylan o’brien! spoiler alert: make sure you’ve read the maze runner, the scorch trialsand the death curefirst. see the films. read the books. enter the maze … the world has ended: the earth is scorched, and fever rages through the population. out of the chaos, a boy emerges with the power to change everything: thomas. this is the start of his story. an electrifying maze runnerprequel, the fever codeholds all the answers: how did wicked find the gladers? who are group b? whose side are thomas and teresa really on? lies will be exposed. secrets uncovered. loyalties proven. you’ll never see the truth coming … make sure to check out james dashner’s other prequel to the maze runnerseries, the kill order!
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Lisey’s Story
Lisey landon lost her husband scott two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of profound, sometimes frightening intimacy. scott was a celebrated, award-winning, novelist. and a complex man. lisey knew there was a dark place where her husband ventured to face his demons. boo’ya moon is what scott called it; a realm that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed to write and live. now it’s lisey’s turn to face her husband’s demons. and what begins as a widow’s effort to sort through her husband’s effects becomes a perilous journey into the heart of darkness.
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City Of Lost Souls
When jace vanishes with sebastian, clary and the shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and clary infiltrates the group planning the world’s destruction
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A Dance With Dragons: Part 2 After The Feast
Dubbed “the american tolkien” by “time” magazine, martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. now the #1 “new york times”-bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his landmark series–as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.
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Everything, Everything
Maddy whittier is allergic to the outside world. so allergic, in fact, that she has never left the house in all of her 17 years. but when olly moves in next door, and wants to talk to maddy, tiny holes start to appear in the protective bubble her mother has built around her. olly writes his im address on a piece of paper, shows it at her window, and suddenly, a door opens. but does maddy dare to step outside her comfort zone? ‘everything, everything’ is about the thrill and heartbreak that happens when we break out of our shell to do crazy, sometimes death-defying things for love.
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Mammy Banter
The sunday times bestselling novel from viral sensation, @mammybanter a hilarious warts-and-all novel about modern motherhood – and how having it all sometimes isn’t what you think it might be. previously published in hardback as mammy banter: the secret life of an uncool mum she used to want it all. now she just wants a nap. tara gallagher is knackered. she used to dream of being beyoncé but suddenly she’s thirty-six and instead of headlining glastonbury, she’s in her pyjamas on a friday night, watching gogglebox. it’s time for a mammy makeover. she’s going to show her teenage daughter she’s still cool. show her husband she’s still an absolute ride. and show her colleagues she’s still a boss bish. but most of all, she’s going to prove to herself that she can still be a mum, still work full time, and still be beyoncé… *published in hardback as mammy banter: the secret life of an uncool mum mammy banter was a sunday times no.5 bestseller for w/c 08/03/2022
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Queenie
The sunday times bestseller book of the year at the british book awards shortlisted for the costa first novel award longlisted for the women’s prize for fiction ‘brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking’ jojo moyes ‘a must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and the best friendships that get us through it all’ candace bushnell, author of sex and the city queenie is a twenty-five-year-old black woman living in south london, straddling jamaican and british culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. she works at a national newspaper where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about black lives matter. after a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places. as queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, what are you doing? why are you doing it? who do you want to be? – the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them. a darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. a disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.
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Gone
‘one minute, the teacher was there, the next, he was gone. there. gone.’ in the blink of an eye all the adults disappear in a small town in southern california and no one knows why. first a car crash; a house up in flames; then a complete communication meltdownasuddenly cut off from the outside world, those that are left are trapped, and there’s no help on the way. they must do all they can to survive. chaos rules the streets. gangs begin to form. sides are chosen – strong or weak. cruel or humane. a new world order is rising, and, even scarier, some survivors have power – power that no one has ever seen beforea
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The Thief Lord
Aimed at children aged nine to 12 years, this is a magical thriller set among the crumbling canals of venice.
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The Sense Of An Ending
Tony webster and his clique first met adrian finn at school. sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. they all swore to stay friends for life. now tony is in middle age and he is finding that memory is imperfect.
