The Old Library of St John's College Cambridge is home to a hugely important collection of printed books manuscripts photographs maps furniture busts paintings & other artefacts the work of writers craftsmen & artists active across more than one thousand years The Library Treasures of St John's College Cambridge offers a lavishly illustrated introduction to the diversity & richness of that collection It demonstrates something particularly important about St John's College Library & about libraries in many other Cambridge Colleges that besides meeting the academic needs of present-day Fellows & students they also care for museum & archival collections of national & international importance the essential primary materials & sources sought after by scholars across the world ...

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Nominated for the Folio Prize & shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historial Fiction & the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Set during & just after the First World War The Lie is an enthralling heart-wrenching novel of love memory & devastating loss by one of the UK's most acclaimed storytellers Cornwall 1920 early spring A young man stands on a headland looking out to sea He is back from the war homeless & without family Behind him lie the mud barbed-wire entanglements & terror of the trenches Behind him is also the most intense relationship of his life Daniel has survived but the horror & passion of the past seem more real than the quiet fields around him He is about to step into the unknown But will he ever be able to escape the terrible unforeseen consequences of a lie? ...

' Terrific page-turning slyly funny' India Knight' As satisfying a novel as I have read in years' Sarah Perry' Absolutely magnificent' Marian Keyes Quentin & Lottie Bredin like many modern couples can't afford to divorce Having lost their jobs in the recession they can't afford to go on living in London; instead they must downsize & move their three children to a house in a remote part of Devon Arrogant & adulterous Quentin can't understand why Lottie is so angry; devastated & humiliated Lottie feels herself to have been intolerably wounded Mud mice & quarrels are one thing
- but why is their rent so low? What is the mystery surrounding their unappealing new home? The beauty of the landscape is ravishing yet it conceals a dark side involving poverty revenge abuse & violence which will rise up to threaten them Sally Verity happily married but unhappily childless knows a different side to country life as both a Health Visitor & a sheep farmer's wife; & when Lottie's innocent teenage son Xan gets a zero-hours contract at a local pie factory he sees yet another At the end of their year the lives of all will be changed for ever A suspenseful black comedy this is a rich compassionate & enthralling novel in its depiction of the English countryside & the potentially lethal interplay between money & marriage
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' Terrific page-turning slyly funny' India Knight' As satisfying a novel as I have read in years' Sarah Perry' Absolutely magnificent' Marian Keyes Quentin & Lottie Bredin like many modern couples can't afford to divorce Having lost their jobs in the recession they can't afford to go on living in London; instead they must downsize & move their three children to a house in a remote part of Devon Arrogant & adulterous Quentin can't understand why Lottie is so angry; devastated & humiliated Lottie feels herself to have been intolerably wounded Mud mice & quarrels are one thing
- but why is their rent so low? What is the mystery surrounding their unappealing new home? The beauty of the landscape is ravishing yet it conceals a dark side involving poverty revenge abuse & violence which will rise up to threaten them Sally Verity happily married but unhappily childless knows a different side to country life as both a Health Visitor & a sheep farmer's wife; & when Lottie's innocent teenage son Xan gets a zero-hours contract at a local pie factory he sees yet another At the end of their year the lives of all will be changed for ever A suspenseful black comedy this is a rich compassionate & enthralling novel in its depiction of the English countryside & the potentially lethal interplay between money & marriage
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Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015 The Lie Tree is a dark & powerful novel from universally acclaimed author Frances Hardinge It was not enough All knowledge- any knowledge
- called to Faith & there was a delicious poisonous pleasure in stealing it unseen Faith has a thirst for science & secrets that the rigid confines of her class cannot supress & so it is that she discovers her disgraced father's journals filled with the scribbled notes & theories of a man driven close to madness Tales of a strange tree which when told a lie will uncover a truth the greater the lie the greater the truth revealed to the liar Faith's search for the tree leads her into great danger
- for where lies seduce truths shatter ' Brilliant dark thrilling utterly original' Patrick Ness' The Lie Tree is a wonder I can't think of anyone who would not love this story' Matt Haig'I loved this book so much' Lucy Mangan' Complex & intelligent a lustrous delicious romp' Philip Womack The Telegraph

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Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015 The Lie Tree is a dark & powerful novel from universally acclaimed author Frances Hardinge & illustrated by Children's Laureate Chris Riddell It was not enough All knowledge- any knowledge
- called to Faith & there was a delicious poisonous pleasure in stealing it unseen Faith has a thirst for science & secrets that the rigid confines of her class cannot supress & so it is that she discovers her disgraced father's journals filled with the scribbled notes & theories of a man driven close to madness Tales of a strange tree which when told a lie will uncover a truth the greater the lie the greater the truth revealed to the liar Faith's search for the tree leads her into great danger
- for where lies seduce truths shatter The Lie Tree Illustrated Edition is packed full of gorgeous black & white illustrations by triple Kate Greenaway Medal winning-illustrator Chris Riddell author of the Goth Girl & Ottoline series' Brilliant dark thrilling utterly original' Patrick Ness' The Lie Tree is a wonder I can't think of anyone who would not love this story' Matt Haig'I loved this book so much' Lucy Mangan' Complex & intelligent a lustrous delicious romp' Philip Womack The Telegraph

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They say that the Thorn of Camorr can beat anyone in a fight They say he steals from the rich & gives to the poor They say he's part man part myth & mostly street-corner rumor & they are wrong on every count Only averagely tall slender & god-awful with a sword Locke Lamora is the fabled Thorn & the greatest weapons at his disposal are his wit & cunning He steals from the rich
- they're the only ones worth stealing from
- but the poor can go steal for themselves What Locke cons wheedles & tricks into his possession is strictly for him & his band of fellow con-artists & thieves the Gentleman Bastards Together their domain is the city of Camorr Built of Elderglass by a race no-one remembers it's a city of shifting revels filthy canals baroque palaces & crowded cemeteries Home to Dons merchants soldiers beggars cripples & feral children & to Capa Barsavi the criminal mastermind who runs the city But there are whispers of a challenge to the Capa's power A challenge from a man no one has ever seen a man no blade can touch The Grey King is coming A man would be well advised not to be caught between Capa Barsavi & The Grey King Even such a master of the sword as the Thorn of Camorr As for Locke Lamora

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They say that the Thorn of Camorr can beat anyone in a fight They say he steals from the rich & gives to the poor They say he's part man part myth & mostly street-corner rumor & they are wrong on every count Only averagely tall slender & god-awful with a sword Locke Lamora is the fabled Thorn & the greatest weapons at his disposal are his wit & cunning He steals from the rich
- they're the only ones worth stealing from
- but the poor can go steal for themselves What Locke cons wheedles & tricks into his possession is strictly for him & his band of fellow con-artists & thieves the Gentleman Bastards Together their domain is the city of Camorr Built of Elderglass by a race no-one remembers it's a city of shifting revels filthy canals baroque palaces & crowded cemeteries Home to Dons merchants soldiers beggars cripples & feral children & to Capa Barsavi the criminal mastermind who runs the city But there are whispers of a challenge to the Capa's power A challenge from a man no one has ever seen a man no blade can touch The Grey King is coming A man would be well advised not to be caught between Capa Barsavi & The Grey King Even such a master of the sword as the Thorn of Camorr As for Locke Lamora

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Trust in our politicians is at an all-time low We're in a "post-truth" era where feelings trump facts & where brazen rhetoric beats honesty But do politicians lie more than they used to? & do we even want them to tell the truth? In a history full of wit & political acumen Private Eye journalist Adam Macqueen dissects the gripping stories of the biggest political lies of the last half century from the Profumo affair to Blair's WMDs to Boris Johnson's GBP350 million for the NHS Covering lesser known whoppers infamous lies from foreign shores ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman") & some of the resolute untruths from Donald Trump's explosive presidential campaign this is the quintessential guide to dishonesty from our leaders
- & the often pernicious relationship between parliament & the media But this book is also so much more It explains how in the space of a lifetime we have gone from the implicit assumption that our rulers have our best interests at heart to assuming the worst even when
- in the majority of cases
- politicians are actually doing their best


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