Imardin is a city of dark intrigues & deadly politics where those who wield magic wield power Into this established order has blundered a young street-girl with extraordinary magical gifts Adopted by the Magicians' Guild her life is changed forever
- but for better or for worsesonea knew that she'd face a tough time training within the Magicians' Guild but she little realised the level of animosity she would face from her fellow novices The sons & daughters of the most powerful families in the realm her classmates seem determined to see her fail
- at whatever cost But in accepting the protection of the guild's high lord Sonea may have embraced an even bleaker fate For High Lord Akkarin harbours a secret that is far darker than his magician's robes

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Winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Award 2016 & the Scottish Children's Book Award 2016 & the North East Book Award 2015 (so far) When the mysterious Nowhere Emporium arrives in Glasgow orphan Daniel Holmes stumbles upon it quite by accident Before long the 'shop from nowhere' -- & its owner Mr Silver -- draw Daniel into a breathtaking world of magic & enchantment Recruited as Mr Silver's apprentice Daniel learns the secrets of the Emporium's vast labyrinth of passageways & rooms -- rooms that contain wonders beyond anything Daniel has ever imagined But when Mr Silver disappears & a shadow from the past threatens everything the Emporium & all its wonders begin to crumble Can Daniel save his home & his new friends before the Nowhere Emporium is destroyed forever? Ross Mac Kenzie unleashes a riot of imagination colour & fantasy in this astonishing adventure perfect for fans of Philip Pullman Cornelia Funke & Neil Gaiman ...

' Empowering brutally honest & realistically complex' Buzzfeed'A call-to-action to everyone out there who wants to fight back' Bustle' With a powerful message about consent on the one hand & a diverse range of female protagonists & attitudes towards sexuality on the other this is an engrossing & inspiring read One of my absolute favourites of 2017' Irish Times Who are the Nowhere Girls? They're every girl But they start with just three Grace the preacher's daughter who unwittingly moved into the old house of a victim whose pain adorns the walls Bold Rosina whose heart has become hardened by all of the straight girls who broke it And misunderstood Erin the girl who finds more solace in science & order than she does in people They are brought together by the idea of changing the narrative of a girl they had never met Lucy Moynihan the victim of a sexual assault who was victimised further by people who found it easier to believe she had cried wolf than to confront what had really happened to her A girl who through the course of one evening went from an excited teenager who felt wanted by a boy for the first time to someone else entirely with 'a voice in the darkness giving her a new name Slut' Together they form the Nowhere Girls & decide to avenge the rape of a girl none of them knew' At once harrowing & heart-lifting it's both an indictment of entrenched victim-blaming & a demonstration of what can happen when girls lay aside their differences to demand better treatment' the Guardian ...

That rare thing a sequel that rivals the original The No 1 Bestselling The Nowhere Man is a thrilling pulse-pounding ride for readers & the hero of Orphan X' An even more intense & harrowing thriller The pace that never lets up' Daily Mail He was once called Orphan X As a boy Evan Smoak was taken from a children's home raised & trained as part of a secret government initiative buried so deep that virtually no one knows it exists But he broke with the programme choosing instead to vanish off grid & use his formidable skill set to help those unable to protect themselves One day though Evan's luck ran out Ambushed drugged & spirited away Evan wakes up in a locked room with no idea where he is or who has captured him As he tries to piece together what's happened testing his gilded prison & its highly trained guards for weaknesses he receives a desperate call for help With time running out he will need to out-think out-manoeuvre & out-fight an opponent the likes of whom he's never encountered to have any chance of escape He's got to save himself to protect those whose lives depend on him Or die trying The Nowhere Man delivers another masterclass in hi-octane thriller writing It doesn't get better than this ...

Winner of The Times British Sports Book Award 2014 A fascinating insight into the enclosed world of football scouts in the UKA teenaged boy plays football in a suburban park His name is Raheem Sterling The call is made Get down here quick This is something special Another boy is 8 going on 28 His name is Jack Wilshere The referee an Arsenal scout spirits him away from Luton Town A young goalkeeper struggles on loan at Cheltenham Town in League Two His name is Jack Butland Within months he will be playing for England Welcome to football's hidden tribe Scouts are everywhere yet nowhere faceless & nameless despite making the informed decisions worth millions Award-winning sportswriter Michael Calvin opens up their hidden world examining their disconnected lifestyles petty betrayals & unconsidered professionalism of men who spend long lonely hours on the road ...

Thriller starring Jim Carrey Walter Sparrow (Carrey) is a middle-aged dogcatcher whose wife Agatha (Madsen) has bestowed him with an obscure mystery novel detailing the investigation launched by a tough-talking gumshoe named Fingerling (also Carrey) whose every move seems to be overshadowed by the number 23 After noting a series of alarming parallels shared between the fictional detective & himself Walter is quickly drawn in to the story His mind fast descending into a dark & violent whirlwind of madness Walter enlists the aid of Agatha & the pair&s adolescent son Robin (Logan Lerman) in seeking out the author of the mysterious tome & uncovering the sinister truth behind the enigma ...

The story of a boy's journey to becoming a professional footballer Will the advice of 5 of Manchester United's greats help him achieve his dream? A must for football fans everywhere Jimmy has always dreamed of becoming a pro footballer & gets one step closer when he's invited to go for a trial for the Man U Academy! But he still has lots to learn Follow Jimmy's progress with the help of 5 of Man U's heroes all legends of the number 7 shirt Fabulous football story featuring facts about Best Beckham Cantona Robson & Ronaldo ...

From the author of The Music of the Primes' & Finding Moonshine' comes a short lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse be solved
- & on how many everyday problems can be solved by maths Every time we download a song from Itunes take a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our mobile phones we are relying on great mathematical inventions Maths may fail to provide answers to various of its own problems but it can provide answers to problems that don't seem to be its own
- how prime numbers are the key to Real Madrid's success to secrets on the Internet & to the survival of insects in the forests of North America In The Number Mysteries' Marcus du Sautoy explains how to fake a Jackson Pollock; how to work out whether or not the universe has a hole in the middle of it; how to make the world's roundest football He shows us how to see shapes in four

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- & how maths makes you a better gambler He tells us about the quest to predict the future
- from the flight of asteroids to an impending storm from bending a ball like Beckham to predicting population growth It's a book to dip in to; a book to challenge & puzzle
- & a book that gives us answers






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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 The Number One Girl stars Vinnie Jones & Tony Schiena in this martial arts action movie! Joey Scalini a full contact martial arts champion is persuaded by his life-long friend London mob thug Dragos Molnar (Vinne Jones) to perform as a guest judge on a televised beauty pageant In spite of Dragos& warnings to stay away from the top four contestant Joey just can&t help himself when it comes down to Tatiana (Lisa Mc Allister) When Dragos discovers that Joey has broken the rules he is determined to teach his old friend a lesson! ...

Adapted from Diderot&s novel THE NUN tells the story of Suzanne (Pauline Etienne) a young woman born into a bourgeois family who is sent to a convent against her wishes to become a nun After taking comfort in the protection of her kindly Mother Superior Suzanne suffers brutally at the hands of her sadistic successor Sister Christine (Louise Bourgoin) Events are complicate further at her next convent where her new Mother Superior (Isabelle Huppert) offers a very different kind of comfort ...