It's a windy autumn day & the forest friends are out catching falling leaves for luck Nim wants to break his all-time record of five lucky leaves before tea time 32 pages Hoskins David ...

It is 1866 & Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields On arrival he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes A wealthy man has vanished a whore has tried to end her life & an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk Moody is soon drawn into the mystery a network of fates & fortunes that is as complex & exquisitely patterned as the night sky The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction It is full of narrative linguistic & psychological pleasures & has a fiendishly clever & original structuring device Written in pitch-perfect historical register richly evoking a mid-19th century world of shipping & banking & goldrush boom & bust it is also a ghost story & a gripping mystery It is a thrilling achievement & will confirm for critics & readers that Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament ...

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Colour is a given of most people&s everyday lives but at the same time it lies at the limits of language & understanding David Batchelor&s previous book for Reaktion Chromophobia addressed the extremes of love & loathing that colour has provoked since antiquity This book charts more ambiguous terrain The Luminous & the Grey is a study of the places where colour comes into being & where it fades away an inquiry into when colour begins & when it ends both in the material world & in the imagination Batchelor draws on a wide range of material including neuroscience philosophy literature film & the writings of artists; & makes use of his own experience as an artist who has worked with colour for more than twenty years After considering the place of colour in some creation myths in industrial chemistry in recent thinking on optics & in the specific forms of luminosity that saturate the modern city the book culminates in a meditation on the unique colour that is also a non-colour a mood a feeling an existential condition & even an insult grey ...

Led by Erasmus Darwin the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters tradesmen & artisans who met & made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s Most came from humble families all lived far from the centre of things but they were young & their optimism was boundless together they would change the world Among them were the ambitious toy-maker Matthew Boulton & his partner James Watt of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin physician poet inventor & theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles Darwin) Later came Joseph Priestley discoverer of oxygen & fighting radical Led by Erasmus Darwin they joined a small band of allies formed the Lunar Society of Birmingham (so called because it met at each full moon) & kick-started the Industrial Revolution Blending science art & commerce the Lunar Men built canals launched balloons named plants gases & minerals changed the face of England & the china in its drawing rooms & plotted to revolutionise its soul Jenny Uglow's The Lunar Men is a vivid & swarming group portrait that brings to life the friendships political passions love affairs & love of knowledge (and power) that drove these extraordinary men It echoes the thud of pistons & the wheeze & snort of engines & brings to life the tradesmen artisans & tycoons who shaped & fired the modern age Winner of the PEN Hessel-Tiltman prize for history & the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography The Lunar Men captures the creation of the modern world with lucid intelligence sympathy & wisdom Jenny Uglow is also the prize-winning author of Nature's Engraver Elizabeth Gaskell A Habit of Stories & most recently In These Times ...

Telegraph letter writers that most astute body of political commentators are probably not alone in thinking that politics has taken some strange turns in recent years The first coalition government since 1945 has led the country from the subprime to the ridiculous lumbering from Leveson to Libya riots to referendums pasty-gate to pleb-gate Brooks to Bercow the Bullingdon Club to the Big Society Five years is a long time in politics Fortunately for us it has also been a most fertile period for the Telegraph's legion of witty & erudite letter writers who have their own therapeutic way of dealing with the pain An institution in their own right theirs is a welcome voice of sanity in a world in which the lunatics appear finally to have taken over the asylum ...

Grunhilda the Witch has a weakness…a tiny soft spot on her black & crusty heart She continues to hide the nice feelings she has when she gets a letter from former Salem Elementary student Madison But she can’t keep up the ruse for long because her familiars are onto her…and so are her ancestors! The familiars search her hovel & find her collection of letters from Madison Mr Williams has a solution but it involves making a meanness potion from the book that IS-NOT-TO-BE-USED-BY-ANYONE-OTHER-THAN WITCHES (ESPECIALLY-NOT-WITCHES’-PETS) But anything that can go wrong does when he accidentally mixes up a positivity potion instead…and it starts to affect everyone in town Birds are singing Flowers are growing The principal cancels school! Grunhilda hurries to mix up a potion to fix the town her familiars & her own black crusty heart before the positivity succeeds in making everything bright & cheerful ...

Are you bored of pre-packed sandwiches & soggy salads? Reclaim your lunch hour as The Lunchbox Book shows you how to liven up your lunch box With more than 90 easy healthy & varied lunch ideas from around the world such as Hot Bean Burritos Indian Vegetable Samosas & Peanut Butter & Jelly Muffins you can change the way you think about your packed lunch The clever weekly lunch planners will help you save time save money & reduce food waste

Includes:: vegetarian options plus fun ideas for communal office lunches sweet treats grab-&-go breakfasts seasonal recipes using up leftovers & more With advice on preparation storing transportation & time-saving make-ahead ideas The Lunchbox Book will ensure your lunch is truly grab-&-go

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Systemic lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease that can affect any system & organ in the body For the 14 million people in the United States who have lupus an overactive immune system senses that different parts of the body do not belong & it attacks these parts The immune system may strike the cells that line the joints or tendons for example causing pain & swelling An incredibly complex disease lupus must be properly treated for the optimal health & well-being of the person who has it The Lupus Encyclopedia is an authoritative compendium that provides detailed explanations of every body system potentially affected by the disease along with practical advice about coping People with lupus their loved ones caregivers & medical professionals-all will find here an invaluable resource Illustrated with photographs diagrams & tables The Lupus Encyclopedia explains symptoms diagnostic methods medications & their potential side effects & when to seek medical attention Dr Donald Thomas provides information for women who wish to become pregnant & advises readers about working with a disability complementary & alternative medicine infections cancer & a host of other topics ...

One of the most important political books of 2017' Guardian The best book about Brexit so far brilliantly caustic' Irish Times In 2016 two surprising explosions of popular contempt for the existing order drove Britain into Brexit & paved the way for Trump's presidency of the United States On both sides of the Atlantic proud regimes with global pretensions were levelled by justifiable revolts But in the name of self-government Brexit & Trump will intensify the authoritarian traditions of their outdated political systems The Lure of Greatness is a blistering account of how & why this happened The shadow of Iraq the great financial crash campaigns of poison & intrigue the filleting of David Cameron with the cold fury of a Remain voter these are just the start At the book's heart is the story of the institutional & constitutional implosion of the United Kingdom the farce of the sovereignty of parliament' a passionate account of English nationalism & the absurdity of the ever-increasing & insidious influence of the Daily Mail What emerges is a compelling summary of an EU in crisis the fateful absence of a viable left alternative the normality of immigration
- all of which frame the reasons for the triumph of Leave Anthony Barnett co-founder of open Democracy applies a lifetime of observing reporting & sedition in this searing analysis of the two great democratic disasters of our time
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