Nell & Freddie have the BEST time camping They eat ALL the marshmallows & play TRICKS on Nell's big brother & his nerdy friends But the BEAST OF BRAMBLE WOODS wants to join in the fun too! EEK! From Caryl Hart & Sarah Warburton the team behind the wildly successful ' The Princess & the' picture book series ' The Invincibles' series is perfect for children who are beginning to read alone ...

In Nell & Freddie's second adventure it's Hamish the hamster to the rescue! Freddie Spoon is having a birthday party for the FIRST TIME EVER Nell can't wait to go until she realises that she's also supposed to be going to super-popular Lucy Perkins's party on the very same afternoon! Disaster! But luckily Nell is looking after Hamish the school hamster & Hamish is a very smart hamster He makes a surprise appearance at Lucy's snooty party & saves the day then they all have LOADS OF CAKE! Hooray! ...

In this first story troublesome twosome Nell & Freddie go on a school trip to a farm where they pet the animals & learn about how they live & Freddie smuggles a piglet out in his backpack He thinks he's saving it from becoming sausages So Nell keeps it in her bedroom gives it a bath & gets it involved in bringing a local crime wave to an end (with the help of her hilariously teenaged big brother Lucas) Then they all go home for tea! ...

So Well Save You Best Of Me Life’s Dancers Different Love Me Again Memories Believe In Yourself K Town Sunset ...

Yoshi Oida is completely unique A Japanese actor & director who has worked mainly in the West as a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris he blends the oriental tradition of supreme & studied control with the Western performer's need to characterise & expose depths of emotion In this practical & captivating study of the actor's art written with Lorna Marshall Yoshi Oida explains that once the audience becomes openly aware of the actor's method & becomes too conscious of the actor's artistry the wonder of performance dies The audience must never see the actor but only his or her performance Throughout Lorna Marshall provides a running commentary on Yoshi Oida's work & methods which help you understand the achievement of this singular theatrical artist ...

If a gorilla walked out into the middle of a basketball pitch you'd notice it Wouldn't you? If a serious violent crime took place just next to you you'd remember it right? The Invisible Gorilla is a fascinating look at the unbelievable yet routine tricks that your brain plays on you In an award-winning & groundbreaking study psychologists Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons asked volunteers to watch a 60-second film of a group of students playing basketball & told them to count the number of passes made About halfway through a woman dressed head to toe in a gorilla outfit slowly moved to centre screen beat her chest at the camera & casually strolled away Unbelievably almost half of the volunteers missed the gorilla As this astonishing & utterly unique new book demonstrates exactly the same kind of mental illusion that causes people to miss the gorilla can also explain why many other things including why honest eyewitness testimony can convict innocent defendants expert money managers suddenly lose billions Homer Simpson has much to teach you about clear thinking Insightful witty & fascinating The Invisible Gorilla closely examines the false impressions that most profoundly influence our lives & gives practical advice on how we can minimize their negative impact ...

The first in a gripping adventurous series The Invisible Library is the astounding debut from Genevieve Cogman Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case
- permanently Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library which harvests fiction from different realities & along with her enigmatic assistant Kai she's posted to an alternative London Their mission
- to retrieve a dangerous book But when they arrive it's already been stolen London's underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book Adding to the jeopardy this world is chaos-infested
- the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures & unpredictable magic Irene's new assistant is also hiding secrets of his own Soon she's up to her eyebrows in a heady mix of danger clues & secret societies Yet failure is not an option
- the nature of reality itself is at stake The Invisible Library is followed by the second title in The Invisible Library series The Masked City



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Euridice is young bright & ambitious A talented musician she dreams only of fame & fortune But this is Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s & the one thing society expects of its women to be loving wives & mothers So when her rebellious sister Guida elopes breaking her parents' hearts Euridice sacrifices her own aspirations to marry conventional Antenor spending her days ironing his shirts & removing the lumps of onion from his food As his professional success grows so does her feeling of restlessness Throwing convention to the wind the irrepressible Euridice dreams up an array of creative ventures to escape her humdrum family life to the distress of her tradition-loving husband & then one day the free-spirited Guida suddenly reappears & together the two sisters set about forging their own paths in life With a cast of unforgettable characters The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao is a darkly comic novel from one of the most exciting new voices in world literature ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved essential classics I beheld unclouded by doubt a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man
- the mystery the power the freedom Griffin a stranger arrives at the local inn of an English village entirely shrouded in bandages Forbidding & unfriendly he confines himself to his room Driven away by the villagers & turning to an old friend for help Griffin reveals that he has discovered how to make himself invisible & plans to use his condition for treacherous ends But when his friend refuses to join his quest Griffin turns murderous threatening to seek revenge on all who have betrayed him H G Wells' controversial works are considered modern classics of the science fiction genre Originally serialised in 1897 The Invisible Man is a fascinating exploration of power corruption & science
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A scientist attempts to gain the secret of invisibility While doing so he becomes invisible The government procure his services & he conducts spy missions & solves crimes ...