Give your children a head start at primary school with these essential flash cards These fun & engaging Times Tables Flash Cards will give children a head start as they get to grips with learning their times tables at school Designed to complement the National Curriculum & covering times tables from 1 to 12 these flash cards are perfect for learning & practising times tables together Educationally sound flash cards brilliantly illustrated with funny pictures that children will love The first steps to school success! Also available First Phonics Flash Cards First Phonics First Writing First Day First Numbers ...

A modern-day Sleeping Beauty story of love & hope perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes 'A rare & beautiful novel' (Daily Mail) Elsa has been in a coma for five months With all hope of reviving her gone her family must face the devastating fact that it might be time to turn off her life support What they don't know is that in the past few weeks Elsa has regained partial consciousness
- she just has no way of telling them Thibault is in the same hospital visiting his brother & seeking a retreat finds his way into Elsa's room When he begins to talk to her he doesn't realise she can hear every word
- & that he is giving her a reason to wake up And so begins a love story that might just save both their lives

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Oscar-nominated WALK THE LINE star Joaquin Phoenix announces that he's retiring from acting to launch a hip-hop career as his brother-in-law Casey Affleck captures the curious transition on camera in the film some are labeling an elaborate Andy Kaufman-style prank In the fall of 2008 Phoenix shocked his fans with the announcement that he would no longer be appearing in features but instead trying his hand in the music business In the wake of a particularly bizarre appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman everyone began to wonder if the eccentric actor had finally fallen off the deep end In this film Affleck follows Phoenix as he attempts to convince Sean Combs to produce his debut album & responds to a request by Ben Stiller to appear in director Noah Baumbach's GREENBERG with casual indifference ...

‘I didn’t want you to come here’ So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings But young Kingshaw & his mother have come to live with Hooper & his father in the ugly isolated Victorian house for good To Hooper Kingshaw is an intruder a boy to be subtly persecuted & Kingshaw finds that even the most ordinary object can be turned by Hooper into a source of terror In Hang Wood their roles are briefly reversed but Kingshaw knows Hooper will never let him be Kingshaw cannot win not in the last resort He knows it & so does Hooper & the worst is still to come… This extraordinary evocative novel boils over with the terrors of childhood & won the Somerset Maugham Award ‘ Hill’s exploration of a juvenile ghoul & his natural prey is a brilliant tour de force’ Guardian ...

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award this tale is linked in its poignancy & humour to Lord the the Flies This edition is part of a series of pre- & post-1914 works chosen especially for 14-18 year olds The series features fiction anthologies poetry plays & non-fiction ...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FOR SPRING 2017 When the body of a young girl is found hanging from a tree the only clue the police have is an airline tag around her neck It reads I'm travelling alone' In response police investigator Holger Munch is immediately charged with assembling a special homicide unit But to complete the team he must track down his former partner Mia Kruger
- a brilliant but troubled detective
- who has retreated to a solitary island with plans to kill herself Reviewing the file Mia finds something new
- a thin line carved into the dead girl's fingernail the number 1 She knows that this is only the beginning To save other children from the same fate she must find a way to cast aside her own demons & stop this murderer from becoming a serial killer PRAISE FOR I'M TRAVELLING ALONE' Terrific Intelligent & gripping May well propel Bjork to deserved international fame' The Times ' This is a simply terrific debut The characters are completely believable the plot is scalpel sharp & as the hunt escalates it will frighten the wits out of you in an utterly brilliant way' Sunday Mirror Tense thrilling & genuinely scary' Heat Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole series & Danish crime drama The Bridge' Crime Scene Magazine' Samuel Bjork's formidable I'm Travelling Alone is despatched with real elan Mia's confrontation with both her own demons & a very human one is mesmerising fare' Independent The latest Norwegian crime-writing sensation' Sunday Times


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Entertaining honest & occasionally messy I'm Wrecked This Is My Journal is packed full of lists"ations doodles & more Ideal for all frazzled new parents this is the perfect companion for all those odd thoughts bizarre expectations & the real-life experiences of being a parent during the roller-coaster first year with your baby Whether you're looking for gin in the word search or playing parenting bingo this frank witty book will make you smile as you embark on the extraordinary
- & often chaotic
- journey into parenthood

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WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHORThe definitive biography of the late Leonard Cohen
- singer-songwriter musician poet & novelist
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When I first came to this world I said I&d live a carefree laidback life Recently I&ve been thinking about trading the R&R for quality time with my new family but Argh! First Falfa gets stuck in her (admittedly adorable) slime form then a witch cons me & gets me involved in a huge mess! Why does this keep happening?! ...

When Mamrie simultaneously enters her thirties & finds herself single for the first time since college the world is suddenly full of possibilities Emboldened by a maturing cool confidence plus the newfound independence of an attachment-free lifestyle Mamrie commits herself to living life as fully as possible She seeks out once-in-a-lifetime experiences (like meeting the Dixie Chicks) bucket-list goals (like visiting the Moulin Rouge) & madcap adventures (like going anchors-away on a Backstreet Boys cruise)
- all while diving back into the dating world for the first time in a decade
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