Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer ...

The classic respected series in a stunning new design This edition of The Merchant's Prologue & Tale from the highly-respected ...

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Picked as a MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018& by Vogue Sunday Times Observer The Times Sunday Mirror Daily Express BBC Arts Red Magazine Stylist The Pool Emerald Street Independent The Herald Irish Times Irish Tatler The Journal & Irish Independent A brilliantly plotted story of mermaids madams & intrigue in 1780s London & I wouldn&t be surprised to see it become the Essex Serpent of 2018&
- The Pool& Imogen Hermes Gowar is a soon-to-be literary star&
- Sunday Times THIS VOYAGE IS SPECIAL IT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHINGOne September evening in 1785 the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door One of his captains is waiting eagerly on the step He has sold Jonah&s ship for what appears to be a mermaid As gossip spreads through the docks coffee shops parlours & brothels everyone wants to see Mr Hancock&s marvel Its arrival spins him out of his ordinary existence & through the doors of high society At an opulent party he makes the acquaintance of Angelica Neal the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes on & a courtesan of great accomplishment This meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new course on which they will learn that priceless things come at the greatest cost Where will their ambitions lead? & will they be able to escape the destructive power mermaids are said to possess? In this spell-binding story of curiosity & obsession Imogen Hermes Gowar has created an unforgettable jewel of a novel filled to the brim with intelligence heart & wit

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THE MERMAID CHAIR is a No 1 New York Times bestseller from Sue Monk Kidd ' Highly charged full of sexual & spiritual desire Every bit as moving & convincing as The Secret Life of Bees' Mirror In her forties & married for half her life Jessie Sullivan honestly believes that she is happy She has a lovely home a dependable husband & an accomplished & adored teenage daughter But when shocking news about her mother compels Jessie to visit the island where she grew up she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas a Benedictine monk on the verge of taking his final vows Amidst the seductive beauty of the South Carolina salt marshes Jessie is torn between powerful new longings & her enduring marriage After all these years she is finally beginning to understand who she really is & where she belongs But she has still to discover how much of her old life has a place in the new one ...

A magical mermaid picture book On the rugged Cornish coast where the land meets the sea lies the village of Zennor Here there are stories & whispers of a villager capturing the heart of a mysterious & beautiful stranger
- a stranger from the sea
- a mermaid! From a landscape rich with myth & magic comes this classic folk tale illustrated by award-winning artist Michael Foreman'A simple magical story which enters your heart & stays there' Books For Keeps

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Animated feature directed by Adam Qiu When an estate project designed by Xuan threatens the marine environment of Shan & the other mermaids she tries to persuade Xuan to abandon the project Though she succeeds the pair must now fend off the advances of a hidden organisation hunting the mermaids Directors Adam Qiu Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio Unknown Number of discs 1 ...

Why did Wynn Staniland a legend in the literary world suddenly become a recluse in the 1980s? Most assumed he stopped writing because of his wife's bizarre suicide; a death that mirrored a murder case from the nineteenth century & now a promising young author called Zac Wilkinson is working on Staniland's biography & hopes to reveal the true story to a waiting world
- while at the same time keeping his own troubled past hidden from public view When Wilkinson is found brutally murdered DI Wesley Peterson finds links to the unexplained poisoning of a middle-aged couple at a local caravan park
- & Wynn Staniland appears to be the connection As Wesley delves further into the case he suspects a sinister puppet show might provide the solution a grim re-enactment of the murder of Mary Field a cause celebre from the reign of Queen Victoria that inspired Staniland's best-known novel The case becomes personal for Wesley when he discovers his son is involved & as he begins to unravel decades of secrets & deception the shocking truth proves almost too much to bear

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