Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche tells the evocative story of 15-year old Kambili''s life growing up in Nigeria during a military coup. This set text for AQA GCSE is an ideal reader for any Key Stage 4 classroom. The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili''s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate ...
Geralt, the witcher of Rivia, is back - and this time he holds the fate of the whole land in his hands.For more than a hundred years, humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other - and ...
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their ...
A 2019 WHSmith Thumping Good Read selection. A debut YA crime thriller as addictive as Serial as compelling as Riverdale and as page-turning as One of Us Is Lying. The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he ...
Enter the Grishaverse with book one of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas. Now with a stunning new cover and exclusive bonus material: A lost letter from Mal, The Tailor (a Genya story) and a Q&A ...
Exclusive Hufflepuff House Edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! Let the magic of J.K. Rowling’s classic series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Issued to mark the 20th anniversary of first publication ...
Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian is the fifth awesome adventure in Rick Riordan''s top-ten bestselling series. Now with a thrilling new cover look. Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. Most people get presents on their sixteenth birthday. I get a prophecy that could save or destroy the world. It happens ...
Randall Munroe is. ''Nerd royalty'' Ben Goldacre ''Totally brilliant'' Tim Harford ''Laugh-out-loud funny'' Bill Gates ''Wonderful'' Neil Gaiman AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The world''s most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic ...
The House of Hades&,nbsp,is the fourth book in the bestselling Heroes of Olympus series, set in the action-packed world of Percy Jackson.The stakes have never been higher. If Percy Jackson and Annabeth fail in their quest, there''ll be hell on Earth. Literally.Wandering the deadly realm of Tartarus, ...
Donna Tartt, author of the phenomenal bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend, returns with a breathtaking new novel.Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in ...
Percy Jackson and The Battle of the Labyrinth is the fourth exciting adventure in Rick Riordan''s bestselling series. Now with a thrilling new cover look. Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. Honestly, blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do. As the son of a Greek God, I''ve had my share ...
