Velvet Volume 3: Man Who Stole The World
The strands of the mystery finally bring Velvet back home to...
Velvet Volume 3: Man Who Stole The World
The strands of the mystery finally bring Velvet back home to...
The Woman Who Fooled the World - Belle Gibson's Cancer ...
A jaw-dropping story of extraordinary deceit that left many ...
Lords of Finance - The Bankers Who Broke the World
As another financial crisis makes headlines today, the year ...
Great Quotes from Great Leaders - Words from the Leader...
The greatest wisdom from our greatest leaders, right at your...
Martin Luther - The Man Who Rediscovered God and Change...
On All Hallows Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luth...
The Trump Prophecies - The Astonishing True Story of th...
In November of 2016, the world witnessed the impossible. Nea...
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the st...
The Man Who Cycled The World
The Story Of The Orchestra - Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Mus...
Eye-catching illustrations, an engaging text and delightful musical selections on an accompanying 70-minute CD lead children aged 8 to 12 (and parents too!) on an exciting and educational listen-while-you-learn tour through the instruments and music of the orchestra. The Composers, name by name Baroque Classical Romantic Modern - The Orchestra, instrument by instrument String ...
The Only Girl in the World
The Only Girl in the World is a gripping romance set during the First World War. Dennis is an English soldier fighting in the trenches of the Western Front. When he is on leave he meets H�l�ne, and its love at first sight. But the shadow of the trenches hangs over him. His leave is over in a mere two weeks. When this battle is won; when this war is over,...
The Ugliest Dog in the World
Everyone thinks the Ugliest Dog in the World is ugly, but in different ways. Mum thinks shes ugly in a cute sort of way, the lady next door thinks shes pretty, but you havent seen the lady next door. My best friend even screams when she sees her
But I think shes beautiful, in a sloppy kind of way! Ages 3+ Everyone thinks the Ugliest Dog in the World is ugly, but in different ways...
The Other Side of the World
profoundly moving
a literary tour de force Australian Womens Weekly the precision and flair of the writing is breathtaking Weekend Australian an insightful, exquisitely observed novel The Guardian CAMBRIDGE, 1963 Charlotte is struggling. With motherhood, with the changes marriage and parenthood bring, with losing the time and the energy to paint. Her husband, Henry, wants ...
The Man Who Climbs Trees
A book of heart-stopping bravery and endurance Helen Macdonald A great read incredible adventures and a dramatic new perspective Chris Packham (A) delightful, endlessly fascinating book Daily Mail BOOK OF THE WEEK This is the story of a professional British tree climber, cameraman and adventurer, who has made a career out of travelling the world, filming wildlife for the ...
Something in the Blood - The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
An essential examination (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth. In this sumptuous (Publishers Weekly) portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire (Time). A fascinating character whose own anxieties and ...
Outsiders - Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf and their famous novels.We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the genius they share. Outsider, outlaw, outcast: a womans reputation was her security a...
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton A mans brain is a bomb, he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A mans brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Sym...
The New Rulers of the World
John Pilger is one of the worlds renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how General Suhartos bloody seizure of power in the 1960s was part of a western design to impose a global economy on Asia. A million Indonesians died...
The Girl Who Rode the Wind
An epic, emotional story of two girls and their bond with beloved horses, the action sweeping between Italy during the Second World War and present day. When Lolas grandmother Loretta takes her to Siena, Italy, for the summer, Lola learns of her familys history of heartbreak and adventure, stretching back to the Second World War. In 1945, Lorettas nickname was `The Daredevil due to her fe...
The Girl Who Rode the Wind
An epic, emotional story of two girls and their bond with beloved horses, the action sweeping between Italy during the Second World War and present day.When Lolas grandmother Loretta takes her to Siena, Italy, for the summer, Lola learns of her familys history of heartbreak and adventure, stretching back to the Second World War. In 1945, Lorettas nickname was `The Daredevil due to her fear...
The Greatest Magician in the World
Elliot is mad about magic. Completely and utterly mad. Its all he talks about, all he thinks about, and even all he dreams about! And its not surprising, because magic is in Elliots blood. His great grandfather had once been known as The Greatest Magician in the World and Elliot is desperate to follow in his footsteps. But its tricky when the only magic book in the library is missing half ...
The Man Who Was Thursday - Green Popular Penguins
G.K. Chestertons 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes Thursday, one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council. He soon learns, ho...
The Boy with the Biggest Head in the World
Meet classic comic-strip character Big Nate The Boy with the Biggest Head in the World as he stars in his own super-funny series. Big Nate is created by Lincoln Peirce, who inspired Jeff Kinney, author of `Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Big-head Nate Wright truly believes he is destined for greatness! Hes a table tennis champ, a genius comic book artist and the self-proclaimed king of his class....
The Man Who Listens to Horses
Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer-an American original whose gentle Join-Up® training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been handled and persuade that horse to accept a bridle, saddle, and rider in thirty minutes. His powers may seem like magic, but his amazing horse sense is based o...
200 Women - Who Will Change The Way You See The World
Two hundred women from a variety of backgrounds are asked the same five questions. Their answers are inspiring human stories of success and courage, love and pain, redemption and generosity. From well-known activists, artists, and innovators to everyday women whose lives are no less exceptional for that, each woman shares her unique replies to questions like What really matters to you? and W...
The Map That Changed the World - A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption
In the summer of 1815 an extraordinary hand-painted map was published in London. Some eight feet tall and six feet wide, brightly coloured in sea-blue, green, bright yellow, orange, umber it presented England and Wales in a beguiling and unfamiliar mixture of lines and patches and stippled shapes. It was the product of one mans obsession with rocks, a passion that sustained him whilst the ...
The Little Book of Lykke - The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
From the author of the international bestseller The Little Book of Hygge Lykke (Luu-kah) (n): Happiness Its easy to see why Denmark is often called the worlds happiest country. Not only do they have equal parental leave for men and women, free higher education and trains that run on time, but they burn more candles per household than anywhere else. So nobody knows more about happiness ...
The Dirt - Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
The most influential, enduring, and iconic metal band of the 1980s reveals everything a tell-all of epic proportions.This unbelievable autobiography explores the rebellious lives of four of the most influential icons in American rock history.Moetley Crue was the voice of a barely pubescent Generation X, the anointed high priests of backward-masking pentagram rock, pioneers of Hollywood glam, and...
Sons and Soldiers - The Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned for Retribution
The story of young German Jews who escaped the Nazis, most often without their families, only to return a few years later to war-torn Europe as members of an elite secret U.S. Army unit. The young men who would become known as The Ritchie Boys arrived in America as enemy aliens, and although they were allowed to enlist in the U.S. military, they were distrusted by everyone. So, in effect,...
An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams - The Americans Who Revived the Country House in Britain
To a modern visitor nothing will seem more British than a classic country house like Cliveden or Leeds Castle. But the truth is actually very different. That such fabulous places exist in their present form or in the case of, say, Blenheim, survive in the ownership of the family is as much as anything down to American money and taste. Now, for the first time, Clive Aslets magnificent book ...