Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning & the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible. The author's father, Kingsley Amis, was 'a Comintern dogsbody' (as he would come to put it) from 1941 to 1956. His second-closest, & later in life his closest friend, was Robert Conquest, whose book The Great Terror was second only to Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago in undermining the USSR. Amis's remarkable memoir explores these connections. Stalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere 'statistic'. Koba the Dread, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin's aphorism. ...

Kolymsky Heights. A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless night, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. One so secret it doesn't officially exist. Once there, scientists cannot leave. But someone has got a message out to the West
- a message summoning the only man alive capable of achieving the impossible.' One of the most powerful thrillers I have ever read' Michael James, The Times'A breathless story of fear & courage' Daily Telegraph'A tremendous thriller' Observer
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When an alien lands in Carl's garden, he tries to talk to it in every language he can think of. But Carl can't understand a word the unusual visitor says! When at last Carl's mum & dad come out to say hello, it suddenly becomes clear just how closely Carl is related to the new arrival. Luckily the alien has a present that can help Carl crack the language code...

The perfect book for kids who wonder how they could possibly be related to their mum & dad!

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree

Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination


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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree

Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination


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When an evil peacock plans to take over the whole of China using a weapon that can defeat everything, even kung fu, Po & the Furious Five realise they may have met their match. With the forces of evil against them & time running out can the Kung Fu masters battle together to beat Shen & save the day? Use your 3D glasses to see this amazing Kung Fu extravaganza like you have never seen before.


Includes: a pair of 3D glasses, 3D graphics on every page & an awesome 3D fold-out poster!


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