Inheriting unimaginable power rules! Learning you&re the 38th person to host that power in the last decade & that there&s an equally powerful intergalactic baddie whose sole purpose in life is to kill you? Not so cool Collects THE MANTLE 1-5 ...

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Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 Observer Best Fiction of 2016 Den of Geek Top Books of 2016 Timothy Buchannan buys an abandoned house on the edge of an isolated village on the coast sight unseen When he sees the state of it he questions the wisdom of his move but starts to renovate the house for his wife Lauren to join him there When the villagers see smoke rising from the chimney of the neglected house they are disturbed & intrigued by the presence of the incomer intrigue that begins to verge on obsession & the longer Timothy stays the more deeply he becomes entangled in the unsettling experience of life in the small village Ethan a fisherman is particularly perturbed by Timothy's arrival but accedes to Timothy's request to take him out to sea They set out along the polluted coastline hauling in weird fish from the contaminated sea catches that are bought in whole & removed from the village Timothy starts to ask questions about the previous resident of his house Perran questions to which he receives only oblique answers & increasing hostility As Timothy forges on despite the villagers' animosity & the code of silence around Perran he starts to question what has brought him to this place & is forced to confront a painful truth The Many is an unsettling tale that explores the impact of loss & the devastation that hits when the foundations on which we rely are swept away ...

In its pure form carbon can be the soft graphite in a pencil or an immensely hard diamond It is the basic building block of most of the cells in our bodies Carbon attracts & one of the most crucial relationships it forms is with oxygen producing carbon dioxide the gas vital to life on earth This is the story of a chemical element C its myriad properties & its life cycle It is the story of a balance between photosynthesis & cell respiration between building & burning life & death Dag Olav Hessen navigates us through an exploration of the existence of carbon in minerals & rocks wood & rainforests & of carbon's role in processes such as the greenhouse effect & the carbon cycles on both small & large scales He explores the burning issues of climate change how will ecosystems respond to global change? How bad could things get? Will the world's ecosystems recover? & what are our moral obligations? Neither alarmist nor moralistic Hessen takes the reader on a journey from the atom to our planet in informative compelling prose ...

' In this exhilarating metaphysical white-knuckle ride Geen takes us into the other worlds that crouch slink & bark around us It will leave you reeling' Charles Foster author of Being a Beast Kit has been projecting into other species for seven years Longer than anyone else at Shen Corp Longer than any of the scientists thought possible But lately she has the feeling that when she jumps she isn't alone ...

The Map & the Clock is a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed on our islands Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy & by Gillian Clarke National Poet of Wales this anthology gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse
- beginning with the first writings from the old languages of England & Ireland Scotland & Wales & culminating in some of our most recent poets speaking in our present-day tongues Many of our founding myths & legends are told here
- King Arthur & Gawain Beowulf & Mad Sweeney the Mabinogion
- as are the nursery-tales & songs we still sing today Through these pages we witness the tragedy of European wars & world conflict; we court romance & friendship; we explore nationhood & belonging identity & belief; & we are welcomed to a celebration of the cultural diversity of the poetries of our twenty-first century The Map & the Clock is a stunning & essential treasury of the poems that have moulded our languages examined our worlds & shaped our islands through time


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Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news It has nothing to do with his broken boiler the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga It is that for his new exhibition he has secured the involvement of none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq The exhibition brings Jed new levels of global fame But his boiler is still broken his ailing father flirts with oblivion & worst of all he is contacted by an inspector requiring his help in solving an unspeakable atrocious & gruesome crime involving none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013 ...

A vibrant & evocative account of how the great scientific ideas of the ancient world were lost & found 336 pages 16pp colour plates & integrated bw Moller violet ...

For fans of The Kite Runner a magical yet very moving story of one young Syrian girl's journey to find her way home LONGLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2019 368 pages Maccani Jennifer Zeynab ...

Three brilliant stories that will captivate young readers by War Horse author & former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo The Marble Crusher Does Mr Manners the headmaster really have a machine that crushes marbles? Albert thinks so Colly's Barn Colly the owl & Screecher the swallow band together to save the barn Conker Nick beats the bully Stevie Rooster & becomes Conker king But can he rescue a mistreated dog while searching for the best conker? Michael Morpurgo demonstrates why he is considered to be the master storyteller in these animal tales that are wonderful for engaging early readers aged seven years & up Michael has written more than one hundred books for children including An Eagle in the Snow Listen to the Moon Private Peaceful & An Elephant in the Garden & won the Whitbread Award the Smarties Award the Circle of Gold Award the Children's Book Award & has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times ...