HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be hurled along, the playthings of the fierce elements of the deep.'' In Verne''s science-fiction ...
Book Summary of Baudolino Eco returns to the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, provocative, beguiling tale of history, myth, and invention. It is April, 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the fourth Crusade. Amid ...
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Discover how to transform your home and your life with Mrs Hinch ''Doing for household chores what Marie Kondo did for tidying. A step-by-step guide to achieving a spotless and immaculately tidy home'' Daily Mirror ''My new cleaning goddess'' Allison Pearson, Daily ...
Riding as fast as you could for as long as you could was the main tactic in the early days of road racing when Grand Tours could be won by hours. Now a minute''s delay thanks to a puncture could ruin a rider''s chances over a three-week race and the sport is described as nothing less than chess on wheels. ...
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the ...
From 2015 to 2017, Peter Sagan achieved the seemingly impossible: he won three road race World Championships in a row, ensuring his entry into the history books as one of the greatest riders of all time. But to look at Peter''s record in isolation is to tell only a fraction of his story, because Peter ...
The next book in the no 1 Sunday Times bestselling Camino Island series!When Hurricane Leo threatens Florida''s Camino Island, the Governor is quick to issue an evacuation order. Most residents flee but a small group of diehards decide to ride it out. Amongst them is Bruce Cable, proprietor of Bay Books ...
When I grow up, what shall I be?In this exuberant book, a little boy contemplates all the interesting and exciting things he could be when he grows up: everythi….
This is Joseph Heller''''s first book after CATCH-22, and in it he explores the wartime generation''''s new predicament.as husband, progenitor, provider and survivalist. What happened to all the youthful dreams and those who peopled them? Gone to ruin. Because Heller is an architect of his age, his comments ...
Illus. in color. A baby bird is hatched while his mother is away. Fallen from his nest, he sets out to look for her and asks everyone he meets -- including a dog, a cow, and a plane -- "Are you my mother?" "From the Hardcover edition.
Flavour-forward, vegetable-based recipes are at the heart of Yotam Ottolenghi’s food. In this stunning new cookbook Yotam and co-writer Ixta Belfrage break down the three factors that create flavour and offer innovative vegetable dishes that deliver brand-new ingredient combinations to excite and inspire. ...
From the author of We Were Liars, which John Green called "utterly unforgettable," comes a unique novel that showcases E. Lockhart''s unmatched ability to play with style and deliver a perfectly plotted, well-written novel with a surprise twist. Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. ...
FROM THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS''Wonderfully refreshing...A must read'' Thomas Piketty In this revolutionary book, prize-winning economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of ...
