THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER London the week before Christmas 2007 Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work & too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk & reality TV; & a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these & countless other lives together in a daily loop With daring skill the novel pieces together the complex patterns & crossings of modern urban life & the group is forced one by one to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit Sweeping satirical Dickensian in scope A Week in December is a thrilling state of the nation novel from a master of literary fiction ...

During their university holidays in the late 1880s SK Baker & three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers & boaters spent time sailing & camping on the Norfolk Broads Baker a keen artist & diarist recorded their travels in watercolour in two small leather bound books The result is an entirely charming funny account along the lines of the legendary Three Men in a Boat with which the notebooks are entirely contemporaneous although the protagonists are younger & possibly naughtier Baker records their evenings in the pub their encounters with girls (both ashore & afloat) nude swimming & culinary disasters while recording lovingly the landscape & the boats on which they sailed The notebook is published as a facsimile with an introduction by Michael Goffe the son of one of Baker's fellow students to whom it was gifted ...

An utterly charming action-packed sequel to the marvellous & magical Finding Serendipity 400 pages Banks Angelica ...

The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt & her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York from the New York Times bestselling author of Z A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald 400 pages Fowler Therese Anne ...

Julia Win a successful Manhattan lawyer is at a crossroads in her life Despite her wealth & privilege she is exhausted & unhappy
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Holding his sons hand Geppetto calms Pinocchio's fears even in the mouth of a beast Monstro the giant whale looks absolutely terrifying in this Jim Shore figurine even when covered in ravishing rosemaling Unique variations should be expected as this product is hand painted Packed in a branded gift box Not a toy or children's product Intended for adults only ...

The third volume of the bestselling Hampstead Murders sees the team become involved with a suspicious death at a crime writers' convention Is this the result of a bitterly contested election for the Chair of the Crime Writers' Association or are even darker forces at work? Peter Collins who is attending the convention as the author of a new book on poisoning in Golden Age fiction worries that the key clue to unlock this puzzle may be buried within his own memories A character called Miss Marple offers her advice but how should the police receive this? Meanwhile an act of sudden shocking violence & a dramatic revelation threaten tragic consequences ...

'A thrilling dystopian fantasy' Telegraph Serendipity loves horses No-one in Lahn Dan has ever seen one apparently they died out before the Gases
- but there are statues of them around the city paintings & drawings too if you know where to look & there's the little lost wooden horse Mama gave Serendipity when she was little When Mama dies Seren is taken under the wing of Professor Nimbus a storyteller Nimbus is kind & knowledgable but Seren has started to question the Minister's rule & life beyond the high impenetrable Emm Twenty-Five wall Hidden among Mama's few possessions was a map which suggests there is life outside of Lahn Dahn & a place where horses live & roam freely
- out beyond the wall & the Minister's grip So with the help of a trader boy called Tab & his little dog Mouse Serendipity heads into the unknown searching for the beautiful creatures she's always dreamed of But the Minister is behind them determined to hunt her down

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' Heart-rending & heart-warming for all its gentleness a very powerful novel' Jim Crace Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family He is a man of very few words & so when he falls in love with Marie he doesn't ask for her hand in marriage but instead has some of his friends light her name at dusk across the mountain When Marie dies in an avalanche pregnant with their first child Andreas' heart is broken He leaves his valley just once more to fight in WWII
- where he is taken prisoner in the Caucasus
- & returns to find that modernity has reached his remote haven Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding dignity & beauty in solitude An exquisite novel about a simple life it has already demonstrated its power to move thousands of readers with a message of solace & truth It looks at the moments big & small that make us what we are

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Making their debut into the Enchanting Disney Collection are Princess Jasmine & Aladdin The enchanting couple soar on their magic carpet to A Whole New World in this delightful handpainted figurine This magic figurine is made from resin Unique variations are to be expected as this product is hand painted Packed in a branded gift box ...