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<p>Happiness For Beginners</p>

<p>Sometimes to find your way, you have to get really, really lost...</p>

<p>Helen Carpenter has always lived her life as far from the edge as possible. Finding herself newly divorced and a little lost, Helen decides she needs a reset. So when her annoying younger brother convinces her to sign up for a hardcore wilderness survival course, she hopes the adventure will be exactly what she needs.</p>

<p>Instead, it's a disaster. It's nothing like she expected. She doesn't expect the surprise summer blizzard, for example-or the blisters, or the mean pack of sorority girls. And she especially doesn't expect that her annoying brother's even-more-annoying best friend, Jake, would show up for the exact same course-and distract her, derail her, and... kiss her.</p>

<p>But it turns out sometimes disaster can teach you exactly the things you need to learn. Like how to keep going, even when you think you can't. How being scared can make you brave. And how sometimes getting really, really lost is your only hope of getting found.</p>

<p>________</p>

<p>"The things we remember are what we hold on to, and what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives. We only get one story. And I am determined to make mine a good one."</p>

<p>STEAM Tales - The Secret Garden</p>

<p>The classic children's story with added science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics activities after every chapter.</p>

<p>Fire up young readers' imagination and creativity with this classic story featuring added STEAM activities.</p>

<p>Frances Hodgson Burnett's enchanting tale is retold with vivid and engaging new illustrations - and at the end of every chapter, there are exciting new science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics activities, themed around the events in the book. The activities range from simple puzzles to fun, dynamic experiments, so there's something for every enquiring mind. It's the ideal combination of wonderful story and stimulating science fun.</p>

<p>Lady Joker: Volume 1</p>

<p>*THE JAPANESE CRIME CLASSIC - ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*</p>

<p>'One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction and one of the must-read books of this or any year' David Peace</p>

<p>Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives, but together they represent the social struggles and griefs of post-War Japan: a poorly socialized genius stuck working as a welder; a demoted detective with a chip on his shoulder; a Zainichi Korean banker sick of being ostracized for his ethnicity; a struggling single dad of a teenage girl with Down syndrome. The fifth man bringing them all together is an elderly drugstore owner grieving his grandson, who died in suspicious circumstances.</p>

<p>Intent on revenge against a society that values corporate behemoths more than human life, the five conspirators decide to carry out a heist: kidnap the CEO of Japan's largest beer conglomerate and extract blood money from the company's corrupt financiers.</p>

<p>Inspired by the unsolved true-crime kidnapping case perpetrated by "the Monster with 21 Faces," Lady Joker has become a cultural touchstone since its 1997 publication, acknowledged as the magnum opus by one of Japan's literary masters.</p>

<p>'A novel that portrays with devastating immensity how those on the dark fringes of society can be consumed by the darkness of their own hearts' Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police</p>

<p>Every Summer After</p>

<p>'A radiant debut' EMILY HENRY</p>

<p>THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!</p>

<p>Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.</p>

<p>They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser that has felt too true for the last decade, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.</p>

<p>Until the day she gets a call that sends her racing back to Barry's Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek - the man she never thought she'd have to live without.</p>

<p>For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family restaurant and curling up together with books, Percy and Sam had been inseparable. And slowly that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.</p>

<p>When Percy returns to the lake, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. Percy must confront the decisions she's made and the years she's spent punishing herself for them, in order to determine, once and for all, whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.</p>

<p>Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever.</p>

<p>'The magic and romance of summer is palpable' Popsugar</p>

<p>'Your next must-read beach-read' Ashley Audrain</p>

<p>'A sweet story about second chances, and how the future we imagine for ourselves is never quite what it turns out to be' Jodi Picoult</p>

<p>'Perfect for those who covet steamy summer dock days and second-chance love stories. I devoured it!' Karma Brown</p>

<p>'A quintessential summer novel, full of longing and lost love, and hits on so many beloved tropes' BuzzFeed</p>

<p>All My Lies Are True</p>

<p>'This is devastatingly good' Heat</p>

<p>From the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls comes a gripping emotional thriller of love and obsession and the nature of coercive control. 'The author plays a blinder' says the Sun.</p>

<p>Verity is telling lies...

And that's why she's about to be arrested for attempted murder.</p>

<p>Serena has been lying for years. . .

And that may have driven her daughter, Verity, to do something unthinkable...</p>

<p>Poppy's lies have come back to haunt her . . .

So will her quest for the truth hurt everyone she loves?</p>

<p>Everyone lies.

But whose lies are going to end in tragedy?</p>

<p>Praise for Dorothy Koomson:</p>

<p>'If you only do one thing this weekend, read this book. . . utterly brilliant' Sun</p>

<p>'Immediately gripping and relentlessly intense' Heat</p>

<p>'An instantly involving pschological thriller' Telegraph</p>

<p>'Koomson just gets better and better' Woman &amp; Home</p>

<p>Hope On The Horizon: A Children's Handbook On Empathy, Kindness And Making A Better World</p>

<p>Growing up, there is so much out of our control and so much we can feel helpless about. But together, we can make a difference. In this inspiring and practical handbook, bestselling children's author and Human Rights campaigner, Onjali Raúf, shares her top ten ways for creating change.</p>

<p>With the help of her favourite fictional characters and some of the most inspiring people she has ever met, Onjali invites readers to dive in and discover everything there is to know about kindness, empathy, friendship and fighting for the things that matter. (Plus cool stuff like X-ray vision and deflecting negative forces.)</p>

<p>Because with a bit of compassion, a big dollop of hope and even the smallest act of kindness, we can all make the world a better place. Hope is on the horizon; you just have to find it.</p>

<p>Bridgerton 4: Romancing Mister Bridgerton</p>

<p>A New York Times Bestseller</p>

<p>From 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington, in the fourth of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix.</p>

<p>COLIN AND PENELOPE’S STORY</p>

<p>Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend’s brother for . . . well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret . . . and fears she doesn’t know him at all.</p>

<p>Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can’t seem to publish an edition without mentioning him. But when Colin returns to London from a trip abroad, he discovers nothing in his life is quite the same—especially Penelope Featherington! The girl who was always simply there is suddenly the girl haunting his dreams. When he discovers that Penelope has secrets of her own, this elusive bachelor must decide . . . is she his biggest threat— or his promise of a happy ending?</p>

<p>What You Need To Know About AI</p>

<p>The only book you need on AI&nbsp;-&nbsp;full of facts for curious kids and easy explanations for confused adults!</p>

<p>What actually is Artificial Intelligence? Will it take over the world? And one day, will it tidy our bedrooms . . .?</p>

<p>In this beginner's guide, discover everything you need to know about AI, from how it helps us discover epic stuff up in space or under the sea to whether it might help you build your own dinosaur.</p>

<p>With&nbsp;AI expert&nbsp;and&nbsp;futurist Brian David Johnson, understand what AI is, where it came from, the incredible ways it's being used today and how it might shape and reimagine our future. With amazing facts, myth busters and insight from experts around the world, this is the perfect beginner's guide to navigating the new world of AI.</p>

<p>This book offers a balanced, expert and accessible insight into the biggest topic of our time. Designed with fun illustrations throughout.</p>

<p>Girlcrush</p>

<p>'Dark, funny and wild.' - Chloe Ashby, author of WET PAINT</p>

<p>'As ballsy as you'd hope' - Grazia</p>

<p>'The words just sizzle off the page' - Glamour</p>

<p>'Another triumph for feminism' - Red</p>

<p>'Set to be one of the best books of 2022' - Red</p>

<p>'A thrilling, bisexual romcom that doubles as a smart skewering of social media' - Evening Standard</p>

<p>'... enjoyable first novel...' '...easy-to-read story...' - Independent</p>

<p>'... the voice of her generation' '... the face of the future' - The Times Magazine</p>

<p>'It's Carrie Bradshaw's columns in Sex and the City on steroids.' - The Times</p>

<p>'Everything is IMMEDIATE. Emphasised.' - The Times</p>

<p>'It's a kind of rags-to-unexpected-riches-to-devastating-realisation-back-to-older-wiser-rags type tale, almost 18th century in progression, except set in a thoroughly modern, even slightly futuristic world where life online is even more all consuming than we know it now.' - Sunday Independent</p>

<p>'A hot debut novel with a dash of relatable existential dread' - Cosmopolitan</p>

<p>'Seriously hot' - Cosmopolitan</p>

<p>'Girlcrush is a funny, filthy and furious exploration of sexuality, identity and the expectations on us all. It's a rare combination - a page turner with a message.'

- Daisy Buchanan</p>

<p>'It feels like a ball of energy coming right for you. I loved this debut.' - Emma Gannon</p>

<p>GIRLCRUSH is a dark feminist retelling of Jekyll &amp; Hyde by bestselling author Florence Given.</p>

<p>In Given's debut novel, we follow Eartha on a wild, weird and seductive modern-day exploration as she commences life as an openly bisexual woman whilst also becoming a viral sensation on Wonderland, a social media app where people project their dream selves online.</p>

<p>The distance between her online and offline self grows further and further apart until something dark happens that leads her into total self-destruction, forcing Eartha to make a choice; which version of herself should she kill off?</p>

<p>Warning this book does include storylines that some readers may find triggering.</p>

<p>*Also by Florence Given*

Women Don't Owe You Pretty</p>

<p>Power, For All</p>

<p>A remarkably insightful read on what power is, how it's gained and lost, and how it can be used for good. The masterful analysis by two leading experts will make you rethink some of your most basic assumptions about influence' Adam Grant Power isn't just for the few at the top; it is potentially for everyone. You have power - and the power to use it. Power is one of the most misunderstood - and therefore vilified - concepts in our society. Most people assume power is predetermined by personality or wealth, or that it's gained by strong-arming others. Many write it off as inherently corrupt or 'dirty' and want nothing to do with it. But as pioneering researchers Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro deftly show in Power, for All, power is the ability to influence someone else's behaviour. This influence is derived from having access to valued resources, which anyone can have, regardless of their income or status in life. Everyone has a resource to offer, so everyone has access to power. Battilana and Casciaro offer a timely, democratised vision of power. While hierarchies tend to stay in place because power is often sticky, by agitating, innovating and orchestrating change, they show how those with less power can challenge established structures to make them more balanced. They teach readers how to power-map their workplace to find who can create real change at work, plan for and cause sustaining power shifts, and understand the five motivations for seeking power - money and status, but also autonomy, achievement, affiliation and morality. They explore how these dynamics play out through vivid storytelling: as Donatella Versace successfully leads her brother's company after his death - despite having a title, but little influence; what social movements can learn from youth climate activists and how they can go farther; and how a manager can gain the trust of sceptical employees and improve the workplace. Ultimately, Power, for All demystifies the essential mechanisms for acquiring and using power for all people. Concentrated, accessible, and life-changing, Power, for All is the definitive guide to understanding and navigating power in our relationships, organisations and society.</p>

<p>Final Offer - Dreamland Billionaires</p>

<p>THE INSTANT&nbsp;SUNDAY TIMES&nbsp;BESTSELLER</p>

<p>From TikTok sensation Lauren Asher comes the final spicy romance in the Dreamland Billionaires series.</p>

<p>Meet the new Dreamland Billionaire . . .</p>

<p>CALLAHAN</p>

<p>I’m the Kane brother everyone gossips about behind closed doors.</p>

<p>Trust fund brat. Washed-up athlete. High-functioning alcoholic.</p>

<p>No one know the real me but her. Lana Castillo – my childhood best friend and the only woman I ever loved.</p>

<p>When I broke her heart six years ago, I promised to never return to Lake Wisteria.</p>

<p>I kept my word until my grandfather’s will changed everything.</p>

<p>To receive my inheritance, I was tasked with spending a summer at the family lake house before selling it.</p>

<p>The request was simple in theory, until my entire my plan blew up on the very first day.</p>

<p>Turns out Lana doesn’t just live at the house, but she claims to own it too.</p>

<p>ALANA</p>

<p>Falling in love with Callahan Kane was a mistake.</p>

<p>He told me so before destroying my heart and our friendship six summers ago.</p>

<p>When he promised never to come back, I foolishly believed him.</p>

<p>But then Cal showed up again, intending to sell his grandfather’s lake house.</p>

<p>The biggest flaw in his plan?</p>

<p>My name is on the deed.</p>

<p>Final Offer is the final book in a series of spicy standalone novels featuring three billionaire brothers.</p>

<p>Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 14: The Locked Room</p>

<p>**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**</p>

<p>Forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson are on the hunt for a murderer when Covid rears its ugly head. But can they find the killer despite lockdown?</p>

<p>'GALLOWAY NOW SEEMS AS REAL AS MARPLE AND MORSE' The Times</p>

<p>'INTENSELY ATMOSPHERIC AND GREAT' India Knight</p>

<p>Forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth is in London clearing out her mother's belongings when she makes a surprising discovery: a photograph of her Norfolk cottage taken before Ruth lived there. Her mother always hated the cottage, so why does she have a picture of the place? The only clue is written on the back of the photo: Dawn, 1963.</p>

<p>Ruth returns to Norfolk determined to solve the mystery, but then Covid rears its ugly head. Ruth and her daughter are locked down in their cottage, attempting to continue with work and home-schooling. Happily, the house next door is rented by a nice woman called Zoe, who they become friendly with while standing on their doorsteps clapping for carers.</p>

<p>Nelson, meanwhile, is investigating a series of deaths of women that may or may not be suicide. When he links the deaths to an archaeological discovery, he breaks curfew to visit the cottage where he finds Ruth chatting to her neighbour whom he remembers as a carer who was once tried for murdering her employer.</p>

<p>Only then her name wasn't Zoe. It was Dawn.</p>

<p>********************************</p>

<p>PRAISE FOR THE LOCKED ROOM</p>

<p>'Intelligent and gripping' Daily Express</p>

<p>'A terrific story' The Times</p>

<p>'This is Griffiths on top form' Mail on Sunday</p>

<p>'Charming from start to finish' Irish Independent</p>

<p>Linchpin</p>

<p>This life-changing manifesto shows how you have the potential to make a huge difference wherever you are.</p>

<p>Few authors have had the kind of lasting impact and global reach that Seth Godin has had. In a series of now-classic books, he has taught generations of readers how to make remarkable products and spread powerful ideas. In Linchpin , he turns his attention to the individual, and explains how anyone can make a significant impact within their organisation.</p>

<p>There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labour. Now there's a third team, the linchpins. These people figure out what to do when there's no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They love their work, pour their best selves into it and turn each day into a kind of art.</p>

<p>Have you ever found a shortcut that others missed? Seen a new way to resolve a conflict? Made a connection with someone others couldn't reach? Even once? Then you have what it takes to become indispensable, by overcoming the resistance that holds people back. Linchpin will show you how to join the likes of...</p>

<p>- Keith Johnson, who scours flea markets across the country to fill Anthropologie stores with unique pieces.</p>

<p>Jason Zimdars, a graphic designer who got his dream job at 37signals without a résumé.</p>

<p>- David, who works at Dean and Deluca coffee shop in New York. He sees every customer interaction as a chance to give a gift and is cherished in return.</p>

<p>As Godin writes, 'Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.'</p>

<p>50 Economics Classics: Revised Edition</p>

<p>Revised and updated edition</p>

<p>Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time to engage with the breadth of ideas in the subject.</p>

<p>50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism and the global economy.</p>

<p>'Something of a modern classic in its own right.'</p>

<p>E&amp;T magazine</p>

<p>'50 Economics Classics is a celebration of the large imaginative canvasses of the great economists. Butler-Bowdon's choices are broad, interdisciplinary and compellingly idiosyncratic. His chapters are not simply straight summaries of the chosen works, but thoughtful reflections on why we should care about this or that book and what its relevance is for us today. Butler-Bowdon's renderings are done so well that one might never bother going back to the original! Professional economists, students and general readers alike will find much here to delight in and many new byways to explore.'

Niall Kishtainy, Fellow in Economic History, London School of Economics</p>

<p>American Dirt: The Heartstopping Read That Will Live With You For Ever</p>

<p>'Heartstopping... doesn't let up... you will urge them on, fists clenched' The Times</p>

<p>An extraordinary story of the lengths a mother will go to to save her son, AMERICAN DIRT has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. It's time to read what you've been missing.</p>

<p>Lydia Perez owns a bookshop in Acapulco, Mexico, and is married to a fearless journalist. Luca, their eight-year-old son, completes the picture. But it only takes a bullet to rip them apart.</p>

<p>In a city in the grip of a drug cartel, friends become enemies overnight, and Lydia has no choice but to flee with Luca at her side. North for the border... whatever it takes to stay alive. The journey is dangerous - not only for them, but for those they encounter along the way. Who can be trusted? And what sacrifices is Lydia prepared to make?</p>

<p>*An Instant New York Times 1 Bestseller 2020*

*An Instant Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 2020*

*Over 2 million copies sold globally*

*A Richard and Judy Bookclub Pick*

*An Oprah's Book Club Pick*

*A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime*</p>

<p>A Cat's Guide to the Night Sky</p>

<p>If you look up at the sky on a dark night, what do you see? There's a whole universe staring back at you. In the company of Felicity the cat discover the phases of the moon, the constellations and how to spot the Northern Lights and the Milky Way.&nbsp;</p>

<p>This beautiful, fun book will introduce you to the beauty of the night sky and show you the stars like you've never seen them before.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The World : A Family History</p>

<p>THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR</p>

<p>ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR</p>

<p>From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family.</p>

<p>We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on an exhilarating epic journey through the families that have shaped our world: the Caesars, Medicis and Incas, Ottomans and Mughals, Bonapartes, Habsburgs and Zulus, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Krupps, Churchills, Kennedys, Castros, Nehrus, Pahlavis and Kenyattas, Saudis, Kims and Assads.</p>

<p>A rich cast of complex characters form the beating heart of the story. Some are well-known leaders, from Alexander the Great, Attila, Ivan the Terrible and Genghis Khan to Hitler, Thatcher, Obama, Putin and Zelensky. Some are creative, from Socrates, Michelangelo and Shakespeare to Newton, Mozart, Balzac, Freud, Bowie and Tim Berners-Lee.</p>

<p>Others are lesser-known: Hongwu, who began life as a beggar and founded the Ming dynasty; Kamehameha, conqueror of Hawaii; Zenobia, Arab empress who defied Rome; King Henry of Haiti; Lady Murasaki, first female novelist; Sayyida al-Hurra, Moroccan pirate-queen. Here are not just conquerors and queens but prophets, charlatans, actors, gangsters, artists, scientists, doctors, tycoons, lovers, wives, husbands and children.

This is world history on the most grand and intimate scale - spanning centuries, continents and cultures, and linking grand themes of war, migration, plague, religion, medicine and technology to the people at the centre of the human drama. As spellbinding as fiction, The World captures the story of humankind in all its joy, sorrow, romance, ingenuity and cruelty in a ground-breaking, single narrative that will forever shift the boundaries of what history can achieve.</p>

<p>Heartstopper Volume 1 (TV Tie-in Cover)</p>

<p>*Now a live-action Netflix series!* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Heartstopper is the bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel: this new edition - with a cover including Alice Oseman's artwork and photographs showing characters from the Netflix show - also contains exclusive pages from Alice's original TV scripts.</p>

<p>'Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind. Beautifully paced. I loved this book.' RAINBOW ROWELL, author of Carry On</p>

<p>Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance.</p>

<p>But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.</p>

<p>By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small moments of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.</p>

<p>'The queer graphic novel we wished we had at high school.' Gay Times</p>

<p>This is the TV tie-in edition of the first volume of Heartstopper.</p>

<p>The Magic Pet Shop: Pugicorn And The Christmas Wish</p>

<p>Everything is set for a perfect Christmas in Twinkleton-under-Beanstalk. There's just one thing missing . . . snow!</p>

<p>Princess Ava dreams of playing in the snow with her pet, Pugicorn. But as Christmas draws near, not a single flake falls from the sky! Can Pugicorn find the courage to make Ava's wish come true?</p>

<p>A sparkling tale of friendship, bravery and Christmas magic... with a super-sparkly glitter cover!</p>

<p>The Night Bus Hero</p>

<p>What does it take to turn a bully into a hero? Empathy and the power of forgiveness take center stage in this poignant novel—now in paperback!—by the award-winning author of&nbsp;The Boy at the Back of the Class.</p>

<p>Getting in trouble is what Hector does best. He knows that not much is expected of him. In fact, he gets some of his most brilliant prank ideas while sitting in detention. But how far is too far? When Hector plays a prank on a homeless man and is seen and shamed by a schoolmate, he reaches a turning point. He wants to be viewed differently and decides to do something that will change his fate for the better. But will anyone take him seriously?</p>

<p>This moving story told with humor and heart presents readers with some recognizable characters, like a bully and a teacher’s pet, and introduces them to some they may not be so familiar with—like those who are homeless, who live on the street, and whose stories are equally meaningful and important. Readers will feel motivated to see the best in others and hopeful that bad things can be overcome with effort.</p>

<p>Lore</p>

<p>From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of THE DARKEST MINDS comes a high-octane story of power, destiny and redemption. A lifetime ago, Lore Perseous left behind the brutal, opulent world of the Agon families - ancient Greek bloodlines that participate in a merciless game every seven years. A game that is about to begin again ...</p>

<p>For centuries, Zeus has punished the gods with a game called the Agon, which turns them mortal for one week, and at the mercy of being hunted by those with godly ambitions. Only a handful of the original Greek gods remain, the rest replaced by the mortals who killed them and ascended.</p>

<p>After her family's sadistic murder by a rival bloodline, Lore escapes and vows to repay her parents' sacrifice by doing one thing - surviving. For seven years, she has pushed back dark thoughts of revenge against the man responsible for their murder, a man by the name of Wrath who has attained unimaginable power. Except for one week, every seven years. A week that is fast approaching ...</p>

<p>When Lore comes home on the first night of the Agon to find Athena gravely wounded on her doorstep, the goddess offers her an alliance; they have a mutual enemy, after all. But as the world trembles under the force of Wrath - a god with the power to destroy all of humanity - will Lore's decision to bind her fate with Athena's come back to haunt her?</p>

<p>Rule Britannia (Virago Modern Classics)</p>

<p>In this prescient novel, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of leaving Europe for a political, economic and military alliance with the United States.&nbsp;'It is rather awful, Emma thought as she walked across the fields down to the farm, how this business is leading us all into subterfuge and deception, and we can't really tell who is friend and who is enemy . . . ' Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cosy existence she shares with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, has been shattered: there's no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbour. England has withdrawn from the European Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy, has decided that salvation lies in a union - political, military and economic - with the United States. Theoretically it is to be an equal partnership, but it soon begins to look like a takeover bid. As the two women piece together clues about the 'friendly' military occupation on their doorstep, family, friends and neighbours come together to resist the interlopers.</p>

<p>Stories Of Spells And Enchantments</p>

<p>A dazzling collection of magical tales by the world's best-loved storyteller. Perfect for children aged 5 and up!</p>

<p>There are tales of the most powerful enchanters and conjurers in Fairyland in this bumper collection of short stories by Enid Blyton. But their spells don't always go smoothly! From witches who will cast an enchantment at the drop of a pointy hat to cheeky imps in search of spells to make some mischief, there's bound to be trouble!</p>

<p>These traditional tales are ideal for younger children being read to and for newly confident readers to read alone. Each story stands alone and is the perfect length for reading at bedtime or in the classroom.</p>

<p>Enid Blyton remains one of Britain's favourite children's authors and her bumper short story collections are perfect for introducing her to the latest generation of readers.</p>

<p>Read all of Enid Blyton's bumper short story collections. New in 2021:

Rainy Day Stories

Pet Stories

Stories of Spells and Enchantments

Christmas Tales</p>

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<p>Enid Blyton® and Enid Blyton's signature are registered trade marks of Hodder &amp; Stoughton Limited. No trade mark or copyrighted material may be reproduced without the express written permission of the trade mark and copyright owner.</p>

<p>STEAM Tales - Around The World In 80 Days</p>

<p>The classic children's story with added science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics activities after every chapter.</p>

<p>Fire up young readers' imagination and creativity with this classic story featuring added STEAM activities.</p>

<p>This beloved children's adventure is retold with vivid and engaging new illustrations - and at the end of every chapter, there are exciting new science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics activities, themed around the events in the book. The activities range from simple puzzles to fun, dynamic experiments, so there's something for every enquiring mind. It's the ideal combination of enchanting story and stimulating science fun.</p>

<p>Renewable Energy (Putting the Planet First)</p>

<p>Discover how people all around the world are putting the planet first and helping the environment in new and exciting ways! All sorts of natural power can be harnessed to make energy, from the sun and the tide to wind and waves. In PUTTING THE PLANET FIRST: RENEWABLE ENERGY, discover how people around the world are working all the time to find new ways to create energy without harming the environment or using fossil fuels. Learn too, what you can do to help the environment, and about small changes you can make that will have a real impact. This book is a fascinating introduction to the positive changes people are making to try and live more sustainably, and will inspire children aged 7+ to think creatively about how they can put the planet first!</p>

<p>The Little Guide To Taylor Swift</p>

<p>‘Just be yourself, there is no one better.’</p>

<p>From her girl squad to the Swifties to the world at large, Taylor’s the BFF of the pop music world. As the go-to shoulder to cry on and chronicler of heartbreak, she relates her personal life and experiences in a ‘dear diary’ style in her music, but the artist is even more popular than her hit songs. One of the most followed on social media, she is a defender of the underdog, open about her feminist and pro-choice views and frequently speaks up against sexism and LGBTQ discrimination.</p>

<p>This collection of Taylor’s relatable, inspiring and hugely optimistic quotes and lyrics reveals a caring, generous personality who is all about ‘the feels’ and following your dreams. Sparkling with positivity and feel-good vibes, Taylor is always there to give you the best advice and lift you up when you’re down – she’s your own personal cheerleader.</p>

<p>'They float...and when you're down here with me, you'll float, too.'</p>

<p>Derry, Maine is just an ordinary town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part, a good place to live.</p>

<p>It is a group of children who see - and feel - what makes Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes is appears as an evil clown named Pennywise and sometimes IT reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing . . .</p>

<p>Time passes and the children grow up, move away and forget. Until they are called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirs and coils in the sullen depths of their memories, emerging again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.</p>

<p>My Life In Red And White</p>

<p>There is only one Arsène Wenger - and for the very first time, in his own words, this is his story.</p>

<p>In this definitive autobiography, the world-renowned, revolutionary football manager discusses his life and career, sharing his leadership principles for success on and off the field. At Arsenal, Wenger won multiple Premier League titles, a record number of FA Cups, and masterminded the historic 'Invincibles' season of 2003-2004. He changed the game in England forever, popularising an attacking approach and changing attitudes towards nutrition, fitness and coaching methods - and towards foreign managers. The book charts his extraordinary career, from his rise in France and Japan where he managed Nancy, Monaco and Nagoya Grampus Eight - clubs that also play in red-and-white - to his twenty-two years at the helm in north London.</p>

<p>A must-read not only for Arsenal supporters but football fans everywhere, MY LIFE IN RED AND WHITE illuminates the mystique surrounding one of the most respected managers in the world's most popular sport.</p>

<p>The Heartstopper Colouring Book</p>

<p>Packed with stunning artwork from the bestselling Heartstopper series, this unique colouring book allows you to relax with Nick, Charlie and friends - and also includes several exclusive never-before-seen images.</p>

<p>Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love.</p>

<p>This beautiful colouring book contains all the fan favourite characters and scenes such as Nick and Charlie's first kiss and their trip to Paris, plus guest appearances from Nellie, Tao and Ellie, Tara and Darcy and many more! Featuring some empty speech bubbles to fill in with your own creative thoughts, and the entire Tara/Darcy mini-comic to colour at the end, this book has something for everyone.</p>

<p>Celebrate the power of love and friendship, while becoming involved in the Heartstopper world in a truly interactive way.</p>

<p>Praise for Heartstopper:</p>

<p>'Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind. Beautifully paced. I loved this book.' RAINBOW ROWELL, author of Carry On</p>

<p>'The queer graphic novel we wished we had at high school.' Gay Times</p>

<p>Moscow, Midnight</p>

<p>Government minister Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat. The coroner rules it an accident, a sex game gone wrong.</p>

<p>Jon Swift is from the old stock of journos - cynical, cantankerous and overweight - and something about his friend's death doesn't seem right. Then days after Macready's flat is apparently burgled, Swift discovers that his friend had been researching a string of Russian government figures who had met similarly 'accidental' fates.</p>

<p>When the police refuse to investigate further, Swift gets in touch with his contacts in Moscow, determined to find out if his hunch is correct. Following the lead, he is soon drawn into a violent underworld, where whispers of conspiracies, assassinations and double-agents start blurring the line between friend and foe.</p>

<p>But the truth will come at a price, and it may cost him everything.</p>

<p>How to Make Work Not Suck</p>

<p>Google doesn't have the answer</p>

<p>Dream big, plan small</p>

<p>When in doubt, Helvetica</p>

<p>Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups</p>

<p>Stay curious</p>

<p>How to deal with assholes</p>

<p>No one knows what they're doing, neither should you</p>

<p>In this straight-talking guide to the real world of work, discover genuinely useful advice that will help you find the confidence to go for that promotion, quit your job, break into that industry, nail that pitch or climb over a creative brick wall. With 120 irreverent, unusual but always useful insights, this book will help you reach your career goals.</p>

<p>Kind Words For Unkind Days</p>

<p>'This book is like a mug of hot chocolate on a cold day, a loving reminder that we are brave, capable and more than enough' Chloe Brotheridge, author of THE ANXIETY SOLUTION</p>

<p>'This book feels like a hug and pep talk from a friend' Sarah Turner, bestselling author of THE UNMUMSY MUM</p>

<p>A practical pick-me-up for life's tough days, this book is the perfect guide to help you feel happier, healthier and calmer.</p>

<p>We all have days where we feel like the world is getting us down. But here's the thing - you're not alone. From helping us see what strong really looks like, to what to do when you have no energy for self-care; Jayne Hardy shows us that even on our most difficult days, a little kindness can go a very long way.</p>

<p>With easily digestible advice and soothing messages to help you find brightness on even the darkest days, this is the book we all need. Perfect for yourself or as a gift to a family member or friend, this book is the message we all need to hear: Be kind.</p>

<p>Greenlights: Raucous Stories And Outlaw Wisdom From The Academy Award-winning Actor</p>

<p>From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.</p>

<p>I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.</p>

<p>Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call 'catching greenlights.'</p>

<p>So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.</p>

<p>Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.</p>

<p>It's a love letter. To life.</p>

<p>It's also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

<p>A Discovery Of Witches</p>

<p>Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestsellling ALL SOULS trilogy.</p>

<p>A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it.</p>

<p>When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she's kept at bay for years; one of powerful witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires. Sensing the significance of Diana's discovery, the creatures gather in Oxford, among them the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, a vampire genticist. Diana is inexplicably drawn to Matthew and, in a shadowy world of half-truths and old enmities, ties herself to him without fully understanding the ancient line they are crossing. As they begin to unlock the secrets of the manuscript and their feelings for each other deepen, so the fragile balance of peace unravels...</p>

<p>How To Make The World Add Up: Ten Rules For Thinking Differently About Numbers</p>

<p>The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller</p>

<p>'Tim Harford could well be Britain's Malcolm Gladwell'

Alex Bellos, author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland</p>

<p>'If you aren't in love with stats before reading this book, you will be by the time you're done. Powerful, persuasive, and in these truth-defying times, indispensable'

Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women</p>

<p>In How to Make the World Add Up, Tim Harford draws on his experience as both an economist and presenter of the BBC's radio show 'More or Less' to take us deep into the world of disinformation and obfuscation, bad research and misplaced motivation to find those priceless jewels of data and analysis that make communicating with numbers so rewarding. Through vivid storytelling he reveals how we can evaluate the claims that surround us with confidence, curiosity and a healthy level of scepticism. It is a must-read for anyone who cares about understanding the world around them.</p>

<p>'Tim Harford is our most likeable champion of reason and rigour . . . clear, clever and always highly readable'

The Times, Books of the Year</p>

<p>'Fascinating and enjoyable'

Bill Bryson</p>

<p>'Now more than ever we need a book like this'

Stephen Fry</p>

<p>'Wise, humane and, above all, illuminating. Nobody is better on statistics and numbers - and how to make sense of them'

Matthew Syed</p>

<p>'One of the most wonderful collections of stories that I have read in a long time . . . fascinating.'

Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics

'Wise and useful . . . such a delight'

Financial Times</p>

<p>'What should we do when someone makes a claim that they say is based on data? This wise book, distilled from years of experience, gives us the ten commandments, from first examining our feelings, to finally having the humility to admit we may be wrong. Priceless'

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter</p>