WINNER OF BEST NOVEL IN 2016 NEBULA AWARDSFINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL IN THE 2017 HUGO AWARDSPatricia is a witch who can communicate with animals Laurence is a mad scientist & inventor of the two-second time machine As teenagers they gravitate towards one another sharing in the horrors of growing up weird but their lives take different paths When they meet again as adults Laurence is an engineering genius trying to save the world-and live up to his reputation-in near-future San Francisco Meanwhile Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze the hidden academy for the magically gifted working very hard to prove herself to her fellow magicians & secretly repair the earth's ever growing ailments As they attempt to save our future Laurence & Patricia's shared past pulls them back together & though they come from different worlds when they collide the witch & the scientist will discover that maybe they understand each other better than anyone ...

Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island a place of ceaseless rains & battering winds It's just her her untamed companion Dog & a flock of sheep Which is how she wanted it to be But something is coming for the sheep
- every few nights it picks one off leaves it in rags It could be anything There are foxes in the woods a strange boy & a strange man rumours of an obscure formidable beast & there is Jake's unknown past perhaps breaking into the present a story hidden thousands of miles away & years ago in a landscape of different colour & sound a story held in the scars that stripe her back Winner of the Miles Franklin Award Winner of the Encore Award Winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction
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A compelling & beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who wants to die' If you're looking for the next The Fault in Our Stars this is it'
- Guardian A New York Times bestseller Soon to be a major film starring Elle Fanning Theodore Finch is fascinated by death & he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself But each time something good no matter how small stops him violet Markey lives for the future counting the days until graduation when she can escape her Indiana town & her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death When Finch & violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school it's unclear who saves whom & when they pair up on a project to discover the 'natural wonders' of their state both Finch & violet make more important discoveries It's only with violet that Finch can be himself
- a weird funny live-out-loud guy who's not such a freak after all & it's only with Finch that violet can forget to count away the days & start living them But as violet's world grows Finch's begins to shrink How far will violet go to save the boy she has come to love? An intense gripping novel perfect for fans of John Green Jay Asher Rainbow Rowell Gayle Forman & Jenny Downham Selected as the launch title for the Zoella Book Club' This book is amazing
- I couldn't put it down'
- Zoe Sugg aka Zoella'A searingly honest & heartbreakingly poignant tale about the power & beauty of love'
- Heat' Sparkling'
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A compelling & beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who wants to die & If you&re looking for the next The Fault in Our Stars this is it&
- The Guardian The New York Times bestseller is soon to be a major film starring Elle Fanning Theodore Finch is fascinated by death He&s constantly thinking of ways he could kill himself But each time something good no matter how small stops him violet Markey is waiting for the future She&s counting down the days until she graduates escapes her Indiana town & her aching grief for her sister&s recent death When Finch & violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school they don&t know who saves whom Soon they make more important discoveries It&s only with violet that Finch can be himself & it&s only with Finch that violet can start to actually live her days instead of counting them But as violet&s world grows Finch&s begins to shrink How far will violet go to save the boy she has come to love? Praise for All The Bright Places& This book is amazing
- I couldn&t put it down&
- Zoe Sugg&A searingly honest & heartbreakingly poignant tale about the power & beauty of love&
- Heat& Sparkling&
- Entertainment Weekly




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Lizzie is fast approaching 50 Her once angst ridden teenage daughters now grown & in their twenties have flown the nest Cassie to London & Maisy to Australia & although Connor Lizzie's sulky surly teenage son is now on his own tormented passage to adulthood his quest to get there for the most part is a far quieter journey than that of his sisters The hard years Lizzie believes are behind her Only things are never quite as black & white as they seem A visit to her daughter in London leaves Lizzie troubled & that is just the start Add to that an unexpected visitor a disturbing phone call a son acting suspiciously a run in with her ex husband plus a new man in her life who quite simply takes her breath away; Lizzie quickly realises life is something that happens while plans are being made Gritty but tender thought provoking but light-hearted dark but brilliantly funny this is a story of contemporary family life in all its 21st century glory A story of mothers & sons of fathers & daughters of brothers & sisters & friends A tale of love & loss of friendships & betrayals & coming of age Nobody said it would be easy & as Lizzie knows only too well life is never straightforward when you see all the colours in between ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All the illicit thrills which genre fans cherish (sex violence weirdness galore) are present woven in a Hitchcockian woman-in-perilmurder mystery plot with trippy supernatural frills Bruno Nicolai s sitar-tinged music score swirls into psychedelic overdrive Starring the undisputed Queen of Italian exploitation the impossibly beautiful sensuous Edwige Fenech whose uninhibited nudity in films is never ever vulgar Here she stars as a woman who joins a satanic sect in order to escape from a man who is trying to kill her black-robed orgy ensues replete with blood sacrifice oddball chanting & a delectable helping of nudity & sex Specail Features A brand new Shameless interview with director Sergio Martino Limited numbered collector s editiontalian & English Audio Optional English subtitles Original aspect ratio 2351 ...

Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states we've invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171 That's not far off a massive jaw-dropping 90 per cent Not too many Britons know that we invaded Iran in the Second World War with the Soviets You can be fairly sure a lot more Iranians do Or what about the time we arrived with elephants to invade Ethiopia? Every summer hordes of British tourists now occupy Corfu & the other Ionian islands Find out how we first invaded them armed with cannon instead of camera & set up the United States of the Ionian Islands Think the Philippines have always been outside our zone of influence? Think again Read the surprising story of our eighteenth-century occupation of Manila & how we demanded a ransom of millions of dollars for the city This book takes a look at some of the truly awe-inspiring ways our country has been a force for good & for bad right across the world A lot of people are vaguely aware that a quarter of the globe was once pink but that's not even half the story We're a stroppy dynamic irrepressible nation & this is how we changed the world often when it didn't ask to be changed! ...

Here is a thing everyone wants A miracle Here is a thing everyone fears What it takes to get one Any visitor to Bicho Raro Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints forbidden love scientific dreams miracle-mad owls estranged affections one or two orphans & a sky full of watchful desert stars At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles & at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future Beatriz the girl without feelings who wants only to be free to examine her thoughts; Daniel the Saint of Bicho Raro who performs miracles for everyone but himself; & Joaquin who spends his nights running a renegade radio station under the name Diablo Diablo They are all looking for a miracle But the miracles of Bicho Raro are never quite what you expect Maggie Stiefvater has been called "a master storyteller" by USA Today & "wildly imaginative" by Entertainment Weekly Now with All the Crooked Saints she gives us the extraordinary story of an extraordinary family a masterful tale of love fear darkness & redemption ...

Twenty years ago in a series of mysterious incandescent writings David Seabrook told of the places he knew best the declining resort towns of the Kent coast The pieces were no advert for the local tourist board Here the ghosts of murderers & mad artists crawl the streets Septuagenarian rent boys recall the good old days & Carry On stars go to seed Clandestine fascist networks emerge & all the time there is Seabrook himself
- desperate perhaps & in danger Dark strange & immediate this is a classic work of sui generis British literature There are devils here & the reader will remember them
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