When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time,.
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE. Jon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good man in a bad world. Meg is a bankrupt accountant - two words you don''t want in the same sentence, or anywhere near your CV. Living on ...
",Many years have now gone by, and jealousy compels me to keep her name a secret, even from my readers. But I must provide a full and truthful account of what happened.",It is mid-1980s Istanbul and Master Mahmut and his apprentice use ancient methods to dig wells - they are desperate to find ...
Inspired by myth, fairy tale, and folklore, no. 1 New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo has crafted a deliciously atmospheric collection of short stories filled with betrayals, revenge, sacrifice, and love.Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.Travel to a world of dark bargains struck ...
How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world ...
A fun and interactive way for children to learn and listen to over 100 school words spoken by a native speaker. Children will love selecting a card with illustrations of a topic, slotting it into the books special frame and pressing an illustration to hear the word read aloud. Each of the four double-sided ...
When a merchant steals a rose from the garden of a terrifying beast, his daughter, Beauty, agrees to go to the beast''s palace to save her father''s life. The classic tale of Beauty and the Beast is retold here in a magnificent ''pop-in'' format. Each page has three layers of paper, cut to give the impression ...
Discover mystery and wonder in Tales from the Arabian Nights. The next elegant edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, Tales from the Arabian Nights is comprised of twenty-one of the most popular tales that were told by Scheherazade to her husband, King Shahryar, in the course of 1,001 nights in ...
A whimsical read-aloud of delicious answers to ridiculous questions about what can - and cannot - be done in the kitchen!Food critic and author Joshua David Stein tackles the world of cookery with his signature quirk and charm. From the practical ("Can I fry a scoop of gelato?") to the playful ("Do frozen ...
It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer - tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk - but Stella really, really didn''t want that to happen, just the same.Join Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands ...
With this beautifully illustrated board book, learn your first words with William Morris and his lovely designs. Starting with a for apple and ending with z for zebra, this is the perfect introduction to first words for very young children.
Lara Jeans Liebesleben verlief bisher eher unauffällig. Genau genommen fand es gar nicht statt. Nicht, dass es ihr an Herz oder Fantasie mangelte.Im Gegenteil, unsterblich verliebt war sie schon öfter. Einmal sogar in den Freund ihrer großen Schwester. Klar, dass sie das niemandem anvertrauen kann. Außer ...
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children''s Fiction Prize and the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017. Perfect for fans of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. This is a beautiful, vivid and deeply moving story about a refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre. This novel reminds us all of ...
The powerful new novel from Matthew Quick, author of Oscar-nominated THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, is an honest and authentic exploration of love, rebellion and belonging, for readers who loved THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER.
The brilliant follow-up to David Walliams� bestseller The World�s Worst Children! Ten more stories about a brand new gang of hilariously horrible kids from everyone�s favourite children�s author, illustrated in glorious full colour by Tony Ross. If you thought you had read about the World�s ...
Not any more. Not Since Mr Orange. Sixteen-year-old Marlon has made his mum a promise - he''ll never follow his big brother, Andre, down the wrong path. So far, it''s been easy, but when a date ends in tragedy, Marlon finds himself hunted. They''re after the mysterious Mr Orange, and they''re going to ...
Mark Twain''s great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Mark Twain''s tale of a boy''s picaresque ...
The first collection of poetry by Instagram sensation Atticus. Love Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, the young writer who has captured the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of avid followers on his Instagram account @atticuspoetry, including superstars like Karlie ...
''Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going'' Gillian Flynn Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in her latest incendiary novel. Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that ...
The astonishing international bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist''s own stroke led to enlightenment. On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left ...
