Pippa seems to have everything in life. But suddenly she finds her world beginning to unravel. Amid the buzzing lawnmowers and suburban coffee mornings, she starts to wonder how she came to be in this place. The answer is a story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous ...
Fans of The Gruffalo and Giraffes Can''t Dance will love this feelgood rhyming story portraying a positive message about facing up to change, something that young children can sometimes struggle with. Sometimes change comes along whether we like it or not.but if you let it, change can be the making of ...
A History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we make today on our computers and phone cameras. Based on the bestselling book for adults, this children\''s edition of A History of Pictures is told through conversations ...
Introduction and Notes by David Blair, Rutherford College, University of Kent The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked ...
Love is Blindis William Boyd''s sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his ...
London, 2019. Life has been easy for Maxim Trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he�s never had to work and he�s rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family�s noble title, wealth, and estates, and all the responsibility ...
There are two love stories in this fast-moving comedy. Brave young Claudio and Leonato's pretty daughter Hero are in love and want to marry, but Don John has a wicked plan to stop their wedding. Will he succeed, or will the truth come out? Will Claudio and Hero marry, after all? Beatrice and Benedick ...
Based on the success of her strikingly original storybook The Fairytale Princess, Su Blackwell''s sumptuous fairytale images, cut out from the pages of classic fables, are now brought to life in three dimensions in this beautiful paper theatre. Everything a child needs to re-enact the well-loved story ...
Darkness falls.Despair abounds.Evil reigns.Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in magic and swordsmanship, the ...
Partly modelled on his own life--although in no way a direct autobiography--David Copperfield follows a young boy''s life, from his birth in Suffolk, through the trials and tribulations of childhood (including his mother''s death), to his triumphant success as a novelist. The masterful early scenes, ...
Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they\''re nervous. By definition they\''re all first-timers. Riding the subway in New York at two o\''clock in the morning, Reacher knows the twelve giveaway signs to look out for. Watching one of his fellow-passengers, ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. First published in 1898, ''Moonfleet'' is a riveting adventure story full of drama, mystery, revenge, pursuit, smuggling, pirates and romance, with a place in the literary canon alongside ''Treasure Island'' and ...
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Little Friend, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list The sunlit rails gleamed like dark mercury, arteries branching out silver from the switch points; the old telegraph poles were shaggy with kudzu and Virginia creeper and, above them, ...
