Extensive reading improves fluency & there is a real need in the ELT classroom for h&-picked classics of English literature that are simplified & adapted for students in an accessible & engaging way What happens when a cargo ship sinks in the Pacific Ocean leaving only one lifeboat of survivors? & what happens if those survivors are a hyena a zebra (with a broken leg) a female orang-utan & a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker? Sixteen-year-old Pi ' Piscine' Patel is about to find out Adapted from the international best-seller by Yann Martel ...

What happens when a cargo ship sinks in the Pacific Ocean leaving only one lifeboat of survivors? & what happens if those survivors are a hyena a zebra a female orang-utan & a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker? Sixteen-year-old Pi ' Piscine' Patel is about to find out 64 pages Martel Yann ...

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Roald Dahl&s birth this book traces his life from his childhood to his time in Africa & as a fighter pilot & his early writing
- leading to Roald becoming one of the funniest most famous & best-loved children&s authors of all time The book also

Includes:: information about his legacy A fun quiz & brief summaries of four of Roald Dahl&s best-loved books (James & the Giant Peach Matilda Charlie & the Chocolate Factory The BFG) are included to inspire children to read them Every page features easy-to-follow text & a black-&-white line drawing to help bring Roald Dahl&s adventures to life Accessible to readers aged 6 & up


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Documents the author's story year by year from his humble beginnings growing up in the East End of London becoming one of the nation's most talked-about people overnight to finally moving up the spectrum from guilty pleasure & getting nearer to national treasure 336 pages Clark-Neal Rylan ...

This is a call to mindfulness dedicated to easing suffering The story of Shakyamuni Buddha's epic journey to enlightenment is perhaps the most important narrative in the Buddhist tradition Tenzin Choegyel's The Life of the Buddha composed in the mid-eighteenth century & now with a new translation is a masterly storyteller's rendition of the twelve acts of the Buddha Choegyel's classical tale seamlessly weaves together the vast & the minute the earthly & the celestial reflecting the near-omnipresent aid of the gods alongside the Buddha's moving final reunion with his devoted son Rahula ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE' Eye-opening extraordinary insights into ordinary lives' Financial Times ' Superb' Literary Review The remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain today In March 1946 scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world growing to encompass five generations of children Today they are some of the best-studied people on the planet & the simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born schooled parent & die This is the tale of these studies & the remarkable discoveries that have come from them Touching almost every person in Britain today they are one of our best-kept secrets' If you ever wondered whether the circumstances of your early life steered you along a particular path look no further than this book highly readable a goldmine of social history' Eric Kaufmann Literary Review' Hugely engaging the scientists are an irresistibly eccentric passionate bunch' Nick Curtis Evening Standard ...

As a young widow with futures to secure for her two daughters Glenda Mc Kinley is torn between remaining at her beloved estate Pinmuir in the Scottish Highlands or following the plans her deceased husband made to join his brother in America Though her inclination is to stay among all that is dear & familiar she is forced to reconsider when her daughter Caitlin's health takes a turn for the worse & the family doctor suggests a change of scenery would do her good The family's imminent departure for Colorado comes as a blow to Ros the eldest girl who has fallen in love with Clive son of their estate manager For her sister's sake however she agrees to try life on her uncle's cattle ranch & the family travel half the world away to start anew America is a whole new world to the Mc Kinley family & in spite of the hospitable welcome they receive from Gordon Mc Kinley the scale of the country & hard realities of ranch life come as a shock to the family who pine for the things & people they left behind in Scotland When a gentle unassuming cowboy falls for Glenda she has a strong incentive to stay & make a new life But with Ros yearning for the man waiting for her back in Scotland can the family ever find true happiness when each must pursue a different dream? ...

Michelle de Kretser's fifth novel is both a delicious satire on the way we live now & a deeply moving examination of the true nature of friendship Pippa is a writer who longs for success Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time Driven by riveting stories & unforgettable characters here is a dazzling meditation on intimacy loneliness & our flawed perception of other people Profoundly moving as well as bitingly funny The Life to Come reveals how the shadows cast by both the past & the future can transform distort & undo the present Travelling from Sydney to Paris & Sri Lanka this mesmerising novel feels at once firmly classic & exhilaratingly contemporary ...

Michelle de Kretser's fifth novel is both a delicious satire on the way we live now & a deeply moving examination of the true nature of friendship 384 pages Kretser Michelle de ...

The bestselling book everyone is talking about revealing the surprising art of caring less & getting more ' Genius' Cosmopolitan' The best book I have read recently Absolutely blinding Read it Do it' Mail on Sunday' The anti-guru' Observer Are you stressed out overbooked & underwhelmed by life? Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? Then it's time to stop giving a fk This irreverent & practical book explains how to rid yourself of unwanted obligations shame & guilt
- & give your fks instead to people & things that make you happy With a bonus section on how to save your sanity over the holiday season the simple ' Not Sorry Method' for mental decluttering will help you unleash the power of not giving a fk & will free you to spend your time energy & money on the things that really matter'I love Knight's book before I even start reading it' Sunday Times Magazine' Life-affirming The key practice she advocates is devising for yourself a fuck budget It's a beautiful way of streamlining your psyche' Guardian Also available from Sarah Knight YOU DO YOU how to be who you are & use what you've got to get what you want Get Your Sht Together
- helping you organise the fks you want & need to give

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