' One of her funniest novels Spark at her sharpest her purest & her most merciful' ALI SMITHIn The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting satirical best On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland a struggling would-be novelist & his wife run a finishing school of questionable reputation to keep the funds flowing When a seventeen-year-old student's writing career begins to show great promise tensions run high A keen portrait of devouring regret psychological unravelling & the glittering promise of youth The Finishing School is the perfect natural partner to Muriel Spark's most famous novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ...

The Finishing School Muriel Spark's twenty-second & final novel was published in 2004 128 pages Spark Muriel ...

Clarice Bean meets Finding Dory in this laugh-out-loud diary set under the sea! Join Darcy Dolphin & friends for some underwater adventures! In the first book of the series Darcy gets a pet auditions for the role of Finderella in the school play & solves a mystery on the reef The first in a brilliantly funny new illustrated series for boys & girls aged 6 Perfect for fans of The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig Pamela Butchart's Baby Aliens Got My Teacher & the Barry Loser series Sam Watkins is the author of the Creature Teacher series with OUP as well as Nick Knight Super Sub! & Puss in Football Boots both published by Franklin Watts Creature Teacher was shortlisted for the Heart of Hawick Children's Book Award in 2016 Vicky Barker is a freelance illustrator & designer based in Liverpool She has illustrated the Fish Fingers series & The Catsup High Detective Agency for Catnip Books & a series of activity books for b Small ...

A front-line industry insider's look at the financial technology explosion The FINTECH Book is your primary guide to the financial technology revolution & the disruption innovation & opportunity therein 312 pages Chishti Susanne ...

The chilling new psychological thriller by S K Tremayne author of the Sunday Times No 1 bestseller THE ICE TWINSWhen Rachel marries dark handsome David everything seems to fall into place Swept from single life in London to the beautiful Carnhallow House in Cornwall she gains wealth love & an affectionate stepson Jamie But then Jamie's behaviour changes & Rachel's perfect life begins to unravel He makes disturbing predictions claiming to be haunted by the spectre of his late mother
- David's previous wife Is this Jamie's way of punishing Rachel or is he far more traumatized than she thought? As Rachel starts digging into the past she begins to grow suspicious of her husband Why is he so reluctant to discuss Jamie's outbursts? & what exactly happened to cause his ex-wife's untimely death less than two years ago? As summer slips away & December looms Rachel begins to fear there might be truth in Jamie's words' You will be dead by Christmas'
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It's been six months since Kate Michael & Emma confronted the Dire Magnus but the trail to their long-lost family remains cold Then Michael & Emma find the man who was the last person to see them He knows about a secret map of a distant mysterious land
- maybe this is the clue that will lead them to their parents Meanwhile Kate's connection to the Book of Time grows ever stronger & when a dangerous trick traps her in the past she must find new friends to help her return home Once more the children must embark on a daring & perilous quest to find the second Book of Beginning & harness its power But will it be enough to save them all?
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The landmark work on race in America from James Baldwin whose life & words are immortalized in the Oscar-nominated film I Am Not Your Negro' We the black & the white deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation' James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963 galvanising a nation & giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters' The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem & an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice ' Sermon ultimatum confession deposition testament & chronicle all presented in searing brilliant prose' The New York Times Book Review' Baldwin writes with great passion it reeks of truth as the ghettoes of New York & London Chicago & Manchester reek of our hypocrisy' Sunday Times' The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement his seminal work' Guardian ...

Wake up to true evil The third gripping thriller in Lars Kepler's bestselling series featuring Joona Linna Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson & Jo Nesbo ONE GIRL IS DEADAt a home for troubled girls a young girl has been brutally murdered during the night Her body is found arranged in bed with her hands covering her eyes ONE GIRL IS MISSINGVicky Bennet is the only girl unaccounted for When a bloody hammer is discovered under her pillow it appears that she was more than just a witness to the killing ONE GIRL CLAIMS TO HAVE SEEN IT ALLDetective Inspector Joona Linna is called in to piece the evidence together But the case quickly descends into darker more violent territory leading him finally to a shocking confrontation with the past ...

There he was below the bridge half-naked eyes blazing He had a pair of burning torches He ran them back & forth across his skin He sipped from a bottle breathed across a torch & fire & fumes leapt from his lips The air was filled with the scent of paraffin He breathed again a great high spreading flag of fire He glared He roared like an animal That summer life had seemed perfect for Bobby Burns But now it's autumn & the winds of change are blowing hard Bobby's dad is mysteriously ill His new school is a cold & cruel place & worse nuclear war may be about to start But Bobby has a wonder-working friend called Ailsa Spink & he's found the fire-eater a devil called Mc Nulty What can they do together on Bobby's beach? Is it possible to work miracles? Will they be able to transform the world?A stunning novel from the author of the modern children's classic Skellig
- winner of the Carnegie Medal & the Whitbread Children's Book Award David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award
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Nicola Marter was born with a gift When she touches an object she sometimes sees images; glimpses into its past & of those who have owned it before Born with this rare ability Nicola sees it as something to keep hidden But when a young woman arrives at the London gallery Nicola works at offering a wooden carving for sale & claiming it belonged to Russia's Empress Catherine Nicola faces a dilemma With no proof of its past Nicola's boss believes the carving
- known as 'the Firebird'
- is worthless But Nicola has held it & she knows that the woman who is in desperate need of money is telling the truth Compelled to help Nicola turns to a man she once left & still loves Rob Mc Morran whose own psychic gifts are far greater than her own With Rob to help delve into the past Nicola travels from Scotland to Belgium & on into Russia There in St Petersburg the once-glittering capital Nicola & Rob unearth a tale of love & sacrifice of courage & redemption
- a story which will change their lives for ever


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