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Walking Home
One summer, simon armitage decided to walk the pennine way – a challenging 256-mile route usually approached from south to north, with the sun, wind and rain at your back. however, he resolved to tackle it back to front, walking home towards the yorkshire village where he was born, travelling as a ‘modern troubadour’, without a penny in his pockets and singing for his supper with poetry readings in village halls, churches, pubs and living rooms. walking home describes his extraordinary, yet ordinary, journey of human endeavour, unexpected kindnesses and terrible blisters. the companion volume, walking away, is published in june 2015.
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The Mortal Instruments
Haunted by her past, clary is dragged deeper into new york city’s terrifying underworld of demons and shadowhunters – but can she control her feelings for a boy who can never be hers?
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The Monsters We Defy
‘rich and immersive. . . full of mesmerizing magic!’ p. djèlí clark, author of a master of djinn clara johnson can talk to spirits – a gift that saved her during her darkest moments, now a curse that’s left her indebted to the cunning spirit world. so when a powerful spirit offers her an opportunity to gain her freedom, clara seizes the chance. the task: steal a magical ring from the wealthiest woman in the district. clara can’t pull off this daring heist alone. she’ll need the help of an unlikely team: from a handsome jazz musician able to hypnotize with a melody, to an aging actor who can change his face. but as conflict in the spirit world begins to leak into the human one – an insidious mystery is unfolding, one that could cost clara her life. praise for the monsters we defy: ‘leslye penelope blends magic, mystery and mayhem in this deliciously complex historical fantasy’ veronica g. henry ‘penelope’s blend of fantasy and history is pitch perfect. . . readers will be wowed’ publishers weekly ‘a high-stakes, delightful read’ buzzfeed ‘an enchanting adventure that weaves a spell’ justina ireland ‘a fresh and engaging take on historical fantasy’ marie brennan ‘masterfully crafted. this smart and entertaining magical heist novel hits all the right notes’ t. l. huchu ‘clara is a heroine for the ages’ alaya dawn johnson
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The Honey Queen
Frankie’s boundless energy help her to take everything in her stride, including a husband who has lost his job and the unwelcome arrival of the menopause. but when things at work take a nosedive, frankie wonders how much more she has left to give.
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The Light Fantastic
‘incredibly funny, compulsively readable’ the times the discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . ‘what shall we do?’ said twoflower. ‘panic?’ said rincewind hopefully. he always held that panic was the best means of survival. as it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the discworld could do with a hero. what it doesn’t need is a singularly inept and cowardly wizard, still recovering from the trauma of falling off the edge of the world, or a well-meaning tourist and his luggage which has a mind (and legs) of its own. which is a shame, because that’s all there is . . . ____________________ the discworld novels can be read in any order but the light fantastic is the second book in the wizards series.
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A God In Every Stone
Summer, 1914. young englishwoman vivian rose spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the temple of zeus, the call of adventure, and love. thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old pathan, qayyum gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the british indian army. summer, 1915. viv has been separated from the man she loves; qayyum has lost an eye at ypres. they meet on a train to peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives – one that will reveal itself fifteen years later when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will bring them together again.
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The Night Ship
A sunday times best historical fiction book of the yeara bbc two between the covers book club pick1628. embarking on a journey in search of her father, a young girl called mayken boards the batavia, the most impressive sea vessel of the age. during the long voyage, this curious and resourceful child must find her place in the ship’s busy world, and she soon uncovers shadowy secrets above and below deck. as tensions spiral, the fate of the ship and all on board becomes increasingly uncertain.1989. gil, a boy mourning the death of his mother, is placed in the care of his irritable and reclusive grandfather. their home is a shack on a tiny fishing island off the australian coast, notable only for its reefs and wrecked boats. this is no place for a child struggling with a dark past and gil’s actions soon get him noticed by the wrong people. the night ship is an enthralling tale of human brutality, providence and friendship, and of two children, hundreds of years apart, whose fates are inextricably bound together.
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Scoop
Lord copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the daily beast, has always prided himself on his flair for spotting ace reporters. acting on a dinner party tip he feels convinced he has found a chap to cover a little war in ishmaelia. originally published: london: chapman & hall, 1938.
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The Mammoth Football Quiz Book
A truly mammoth football quiz book covering over twenty years of the premier league and the entire history of the beautiful (and sometimes not so beautiful) game. all the major international tournaments are covered, as well as the full history of the domestic game, both recent and historical – even grandad can show off! nick holt has compiled a satisfyingly hefty and wonderfully challenging collection of 3,000 questions, arranged in quizzes of varying difficulty and subject matter covering the games that mattered, the personalities, the controversies, the goals and the glory. sample questions it wasn’t until 2007 that a south american player scored a premier league hat-trick; who scored three in a 5-3 derby win over wigan athletic in december that year? there have been some noticeably bad-tempered merseyside derbies in the premier league era; which everton player saw red at goodison park in december 2005, and again in october, 2007? which two uncapped overseas players were the captains of manchester city and portsmouth respectively for the 2004-05 season? germany 1, england 5: who let in five goals for the only time in his international career? italia 90: who was the unlikely scorer of the game’s only goal when england beat egypt 1-0 in a group match of bewildering tedium? italia 90: defeat by which country in their opening match cost scotland a chance of progressing past the group stage for the first time?
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Ss-gb
In february 1941 british command surrendered to the nazis. churchill has been executed, the king is in the tower and the ss are in whitehallâe¦ for nine months britain has been occupied – a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. however, itâe(tm)s âe~business as usualâe(tm) at scotland yard run by the ss when detective inspector archer is assigned to a routine murder case. life must go on. but when ss standartenfuhrer huth arrives from berlin with orders from the great himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful archer finds himself caught up in a high level, all action, espionage battle. this is a spy story quite different from any other. only deighton, with his flair for historical research and his narrative genius, could have written it.
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Snow
**the drowned – the chilling new strafford & quirke murder mystery – available for pre-order now** the sunday times bestseller ‘outstanding.’ irish independent ‘exquisite.’ daily mail ‘hypnotic.’ financial times ‘this is crime fiction for the connoisseur.’ the times ‘the body is in the library,’ colonel osborne said. ‘come this way.’ detective inspector st john strafford is called in from dublin to investigate a murder at ballyglass house – the co. wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive osborne family. facing obstruction from all angles, strafford carries on determinedly in his pursuit of the murderer. however, as the snow continues to fall over this ever-expanding mystery, the people of ballyglass are equally determined to keep their secrets. ‘a typically elegant country house mystery.’ guardian ‘a well-crafted story, peopled by superbly well-drawn characters, and put together in the finest prose . . . masterly.’ irish independent
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Into The Fire
He runs into the flames a hero. he emerges from the ashes a suspect.[bokinfo].
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Wilder Girls
An instant new york times bestseller, wilder girls is rory power’s chilling and unputdownable ya debut. the power meets we were liars in this compelling story of survival and the power of female friendships, perfect for fans of a good girl’s guide to murder. ‘body horror meets boarding school in a moving, terrifying thriller’ – guardian everyone loses something to the tox; hetty lost her eye, reese’s hand has changed, and byatt just disappeared completely. it’s been eighteen months since the raxter school for girls was put in quarantine. the tox turned the students strange and savage, the teachers died off one by one. cut off from the mainland, the girls don’t dare wander past the school’s fence where the tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. they wait for the cure as the tox takes; their bodies becoming sick and foreign, things bursting out of them, bits missing. but when byatt goes missing, hetty will do anything to find her best friend, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie in the wilderness past the fence. as she digs deeper, she learns disturbing truths about her school and what else is living on raxter island. and that the cure might not be a cure at all . . . ‘your new favourite book’ – cosmopolitan ‘wholly original and compelling’ – observer ‘a staggering gut punch of a book’ – kirkus
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Physics Of The Future
‘a whirlwind tour of technological possibility’ new scientist welcome to the future, where you’ll be able to take an elevator hundreds of miles into space, the internet will be in your contact lens, nanobots will scan your dna for signs of disease and you’ll be able to control computers with your brain – and even rearrange the physical world itself. it may sound like science fiction but, as physics guru michio kaku shows, this is the shape of things to come. based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists who are already inventing this future in their labs, physics of the future is a time-travelling tour through the revolutionary advances in medicine, computers, quantum physics and space travel that will forever change our way of life – and alter the course of civilization itself. internationally acclaimed physicist dr michio kaku holds the henry semat chair in theoretical physics at the city university of new york. he is also an international bestselling author, his books including hyperspace and parallel worlds, and a distinguished writer, having featured in time, the wall street journal, the sunday times and the new scientist to name but a few. dr kaku also hosts his own radio show, ‘science fantastic’, and recently presented the bbc’s popular series ‘time’.
