Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? 288 pages Mukherjee Neel ...

A Sunday Times bestseller Shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets & dabbling in experimental taxidermy to his groundbreaking research into the mysterious ways of the bumblebee & his mission to protect our rarest bees Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent the short-haired bumblebee is now extinct in the UK but still exists in the wilds of New Zealand descended from a few queen bees shipped over in the nineteenth century A Sting in the Tale tells the story of Goulson's passionate drive to reintroduce it to its native land & contains groundbreaking research into these curious creatures history's relationship with the bumblebee the disastrous effects intensive farming has had on our bee populations & the potential dangers if we are to continue down this path ...

The Birds & the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world As a small boy Dave Goulson was obsessed with wildlife
- from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets to his ill-fated experiments with taxidermy But it was the bumblebee that fascinated him the most Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent the short-haired bumblebee was driven to extinction in Britain by intensive farming practices With ground-breaking research into these curious creatures A Sting in the Tale tells the story of Goulson's passionate drive to reintroduce them to their native land SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
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A raw & powerful memoir of Jaycee Lee Dugard's own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old & held captive for over 18 years On 10 June 1991 eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe California It was the last her family & friends saw of her for over eighteen years On 26 August 2009 Dugard her daughters & Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard living in a tent behind Garrido's home During her time in captivity at the age of fourteen & seventeen she gave birth to two daughters both fathered by Garrido Dugard's memoir is written by the 30-year-old herself & covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present In her stark utterly honest & unflinching narrative Jaycee opens up about what she experienced including how she feels now a year after being found Garrido & his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes ...

CBBC Book of the Month June 2017 Perfect for fans of David Walliams Roald Dahl & Liz Pichon this is a hilarious & warm-hearted story about family friends & wrestling by multi-award-shortlisted author Phil Earle illustrated by award-winning artist Sara Ogilvie This is the story of Jake Biggs & his dad George George spends all week knocking down buildings & all weekend knocking down wrestlers! He's the Demolition Man & Jake couldn't be prouder But when Jake hears about a pro-wrestling competition in the USA & persuades his beloved dad to apply things don't quite turn out the way he expected Phil Earle's first novel for younger readers of 9-11 DEMOLITION DAD is DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD in Spandex a book bursting with humour & heart Perfect for Father's Day this June! ...

The third hilarious children's novel from Demolition Dad & Superhero Street author Phil Earle illustrated by Waterstones Children's Book Prize shortlisted artist Sara Ogilvie Perfect for fans of Roald Dahl Liz Pichon & David Walliams Masher is the bully of Storey Street No one ever dares stand up to him & that's the way he likes it But then Jemima & her family move into the plot of land next door Jemima isn't afraid of him at all & she's making him look like a bit of a wimp To Masher that just means one thing war (At least until teatime) ...

Red lights appear in the sky over Skane causing a cloak of fear & suspicion to fall like a blanket of snow In a desperate attempt to keep out the plague the village barricades its borders Teenager Janna won't turn her back on people seeking refuge & is banished to the swirling snow & lurking darkness beyond the village Can she survive? 400 pages Lueddecke Lisa ...

Darby loves summer on her family's strawberry farm
- but is the weather about to turn? Darby is twelve & has Down's syndrome Her
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HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE & FIRE the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age A STORM OF SWORDS is the third volume in the series A beautifully presented slipcased edition of A STORM OF SWORDSThe Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt & blood feud & winter approaches like an angry beast Beyond the Northern borders wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice & stone wasteland of the Frostfangs From there the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall The men of the Night's Watch are ready for the coming of a great cold & the walking corpses that travel with it But now they face a horde of wildlings twenty-thousand strong
- hungry savage people steeped in the dark magic of the haunted wilderness
- poised to invade the Kingdom of the North where Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown But Robb's defences are ranged against attack from the South the land of House Stark's enemies the Lannisters His sisters are trapped there dead or likely yet to die at the whim of the Lannister boy-king Joffrey or his depraved mother Cersei regent of the Iron Throne Cersei's ambition is unfettered while the dwarf Tyrion Lannister fights for his life a victim of treachery And on the other side of the ocean the last of the Targaryens rears the dragons she hatched from her husband's funeral pyre Daenerys Stormborn will return to the land of her birth to avenge the murder of her father the last Dragon King on the Iron Throne

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HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE & FIRE the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age A STORM OF SWORDS is the third volume in the series The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt & blood feud & winter approaches like an angry beast Beyond the Northern borders wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice & stone wasteland of the Frostfangs From there the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown in the Kingdom of the North but his defences are ranged against attack from the South the land of House Stark's enemies the Lannisters His sisters are trapped there dead or likely yet to die at the whim of the Lannister boy-king Joffrey or his depraved mother Cersei regent of the Iron Throne & Daenerys Stormborn will return to the land of her birth to avenge the murder of her father the last Dragon King on the Iron Throne ...