Wentworth Ohio a small friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets in the E-Z shop & writer Johnny Marinville is the only resident who minds his own business On Poplar Street apart from the impending storm it's just a normal summer's day
- with Frisbees flying lawn mowers humming & barbeques grilling As the paperboy makes his round he is unaware of the chrome red van idling up the hill Soon the residents will be caught up in a game of wills as the regulators arrive in force to face a child whose powers of expression are just awakening If you like THE REGULATORS don't miss DESPERATION written as an unidentical pair
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From best-selling author Holly Webb comes a gorgeous wintery story of a very special friendship just in time for Christmas One Christmas Lotta is visiting her great-grandmother in Norway Soon she finds herself drawn into a magical adventure
- travelling by sledge herding reindeer from the snowy mountains to the summer pastures But when a mother reindeer is lost Lotta must find her before her calf starves Fans of Holly Webb's The Snow Bear will delight in this beautiful winter's tale set in snowy Norway A beautiful tale that would make a lovely Christmas present or stocking filler for any fan of Holly Webb's Animal Stories
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Gie's yer bridies & bannocks Yer puddens & teacakes tae! For I am the Rat the Reiver Rat & whitiver I want I'll hae Caw cannie when the Reiver Rat's aboot He ll pauchle yer scranand yer hert! In this brilliant new Scots translation of Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler's classic tale find out what happens to the swashbuckling Reiver Rat who steals everyone s food at the point of a sword ...

Only one period in history is immediately indelibly & uniquely linked to the whole area of the Scottish & English Border country & that is the time of the Reivers Whenever anyone mentions ' Reiver' no-one hesitates to add ' Border' It is an inextricable association & rightly so Nowhere else in Britain in the modern era or indeed in Europe did civil order break down over such a wide area or for such a long time For more than a century the hoof-beats of countless raiding parties drummed over the border From Dumfriesshire to the high wastes of East Cumbria from Roxburghshire to Redesdale from the lonely valley of Liddesdale to the fortress city of Carlisle swords & spears spoke while the law remained silent Fierce family loyalty counted for everything while the rules of nationality counted for nothing The whole range of the Cheviot Hills its watershed ridges & the river valleys which flowed out of them became the landscape of larceny while Maxwells Grahams Fenwicks Carletons Armstrongs & Elliots rode hard & often for plunder These were the Riding Times & in modern European history they have no parallel This book tells the remarkable story of the Reivers & how they made the Borders ...

BY THE WINNER OF THE JONATHAN SWIFT PRIZE 2017A dynamic new collection from one of our most original storytellers satirical surreal & very much of the moment In these stories T C Boyle focuses hisunerring eye on humanity's relationship with nature & the unintended consequences of our efforts to control it The prize-winning Are We Not Men?' reflects on the impact of new gene-editing technologies while The Relive Box' parodies our obsession with electronic games In She's the Bomb' a young woman waits on her graduation day heart in mouth for an explosive event A burrito-seller has a killer business idea in The Five-Pound Burrito' but learns that success comes at a price An Italian couple moves south for a fresh start in The Argentine Ant' but finds that paradise holds a nasty sting & in the chilling The Designee' a lonely widower can't believe his luck when he receives a mysterious letter from England In electric prose T C Boyle explores myriad facets of society greed & excess parenthood & responsibility the digital world & the way we understand our mortality Roaming unrestrainedly throughthe present & near future he inhabits his characters' minds with a ventriloquist's flair skewering human motivations & revealing us to ourselves with empathy & wry humour ...

A classic retelling of St George & the Dragon from the author of The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame Now dragon' said the Boy imploringly You've got to fight him some time of other you know 'cos he's St George & you're the dragon Better get it over & then we can go on with the sonnets' Everyone knows St George has to do battle with the dragon but what happens when the dragon simply won't fight St George? The Reluctant Dragon is a funny story of bravery friendship & derring-do This children's classic is made even more collectable thanks to the beautiful illustrations by EH Shepard the artist behind the original illustrations for The Wind in the Willows & the man who drew Winnie-the-Pooh A classic childhood fantasy for everyone who loved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Wonderful Wizard of Oz & Peter Pan Perfect for early readers aged 8 & up Kenneth Grahame was born in 1859 He told his son stories about water rats & moles which became The Wind in the Willows the book for which he is best known He died in 1932 ...

The internationally bestselling Man Booker-shortlisted portrait of a man caught between conflicting identities & betrayed by the world he has embraced
- from the author of Exit West Adapted as a major film starring Kate Hudson & Kiefer Sutherland' Masterful A poignant love story & a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending' Metro' Excuse me sir but may I be of assistance? Ah I see I have alarmed you Do not be frightened by my beard I am a lover of America ' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles Invited to join him for tea you learn his name & what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled & better educated He knows the West better than you do & as he tells you his story of how he embraced the Western dream -- & a Western woman -- & how both betrayed him so the night darkens Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear Challenging mysterious & thrillingly tense Mohsin Hamid's masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions & ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today's globalised fractured world
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller available as a Penguin Essential for the first time Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair & starring Kate Hudson & Kiefer Sutherland' Excuse me sir but may I be of assistance? Ah I see I have alarmed you Do not be frightened by my beard I am a lover of America ' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles Invited to join him for tea you learn his name & what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled & better educated He knows the West better than you do & as he tells you his story of how he embraced the Western dream -- & a Western woman -- & how both betrayed him so the night darkens Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear Challenging mysterious & thrillingly tense Mohsin Hamid's masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions & ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today's globalised fractured world' Masterful A multi-layered & thoroughly gripping book which works as a poignant love story a powerful dissection of how US imperialist machinations have turned so many people against the world's superpower
- & as a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending' Metro' Beautifully written more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time' Philip Pullman'A brilliant book' Kiran Desai' Admirably spare & amazingly exciting' Rachel Cooke New Statesman Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist Moth Smoke & How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages received numerous awards & been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize He has contributed essays & short stories to publications such as the Guardian The New York Times Financial Times Granta & Paris Review Born & mostly raised in Lahore he spent part of his childhood in California studied at Princeton University & Harvard Law School & has since lived between Lahore London & New York
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist is the award-winning international bestseller by Mohsin Hamid NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE HUDSON & KIEFER SUTHERLANDSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2007' Excuse me sir but may I be of assistance? Ah I see I have alarmed you Do not be frightened by my beard I am a lover of America ' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles Invited to join him for tea you learn his name & what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out For her is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled & better educated He knows the West better than you do & as he tells you his story of how he embraced the Western dream -- & a Western woman -- & how both betrayed him so the night darkens Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear Praise for The Reluctant Fundamentalist ' Beautifully written more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time' Philip Pullman' Admirably spare & amazingly exciting' Rachel Cooke New Statesman' Sharp relevant impressively intelligent entertains at the same time as it makes you think' Daily Telegraph'A cleverly constructed fable of infatuation & disenchantment Intelligent & highly engaging genuinely provocative' Guardian'A brilliant book' Kiran Desai' Prods the intellect quickens the pace & captures the imagination' Sunday Times Mohsin Hamid is the author of three novels The Reluctant Fundamentalist Moth Smoke & How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages received numerous awards & been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize He has contributed essays & short stories to publications such as the Guardian The New York Times Financial Times Granta & Paris Review Born & mostly raised in Lahore he spent part of his childhood in California studied at Princeton University & Harvard Law School & has since lived between Lahore London & New York ...