Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She''''s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn''''t get out much - not because she''''s not pretty - she''''s a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in a social life. She really is.but Sookie''''s got a bit of a disability. ...
''People can only be free in relation to one another.'' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without politics, and no politics without freedom. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas ...
Splendid and sumptuous historical novel from the internationally bestselling author, Philippa Gregory, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon. We think of Katherine of Aragon as the barren wife of a notorious king, but behind this legacy lies a fascinating story. Katherine of Aragon is born ...
With a new introduction by Richard Bradford. Alan Sillitoe\''s classic novel of the 1950s, reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its original publication. Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting young rebel, he knows ...
A flagship publication, gloriously bringing the alphabet to life in irresistible Oliver Jeffers style! The letters of our alphabet work tirelessly to make words that in turn make stories, but what if there was a story FOR each of the letters instead? Turn the pages of this exquisite book to find out.Here ...
A graphically stunning introduction to constellations for the youngest readers, following the meteoric rise of global bestseller Seeing Stars This stylish, informative board book helps younger children identify six of the most recognizable animal constellations from The Great Bear to the The Southern ...
L.M. Montgomery''s Anne of Green Gables is a classic run of children''s books that has recently been adapted into a popular Netflix series. This collection, presented in a cute slipcase, includes the first three books in the series. In Anne of Green Gables, the scrawny, freckled girl with bright red ...
Artist's daughter, Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept them as they are. Yet, she is far too energetic and independent ...
With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and balanced good sense against ...
New York comedian Alvy Singer reflects ruefully upon a failed relationship. When he first met Annie Hall on a tennis date, she was an insecure wallflower in trousers, vest and tie. But they shared a self-deprecating sense of humour, plus certain deep-seated neuroses, and love soon blossomed. Alvy supported ...
Thomas Chaloner has forged a living as spy to the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Clarendon, since the early days of the Restoration. Now, in February 1664, he is aware of an undercurrent of restlessness on the streets of London. The coffee houses are thick with rumours. There is anger at the new laws governing ...
Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen is Scandinavia''s new bestselling crime writing sensation.At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows not to go mad. She will not give ...
Who is Lucky Saint? She\''s a fifteen year old wild child who discovered her mother\''s murdered body floating in the family swimming pool when she was only five years old. In Confessions of a Wild Child you will follow Lucky as she navigates her teen years - boys, drugs, family dramas, and many adventures ...
In these pages you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie, and see how warmly Franco greets his sister''s boyfriend and the news of their engagement. You will discover, in ",The Rosewell Incident",, how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance, and plan to install the ...
