From the bestselling authors of Why does Emc 2? comes The Quantum Universe in which Brian Cox presenter of the BBC's Wonders of the Solar System & Wonders of the Universe & Jeff Forshaw go on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science But just what is quantum physics? How does it help us understand our amazing world? Where does it leave Newton & Einstein? & why above all can we be sure that the theory is good? Here Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw give us the real science behind the bizarre behaviour of the atoms & energy that make up the universe & reveal exactly how everything that can happen does happen ...

When Martha accepts a place at university her decision is met with a mixture of hostility & pride by her uncomprehending family This is the story of a young woman's journey to maturity & independence struggling to cope with the intellectual & emotional challenges that surround her at a time when such space was rarely given freely to women In The Quarry Wood Nan Shepherd's subtle prose is matched with intense & memorable descriptions of the natural world & a dry sense of humour Ninety years after the first publication it remains as fresh & original today ...

The Royals they're just like us The Queen & I is a hilarious satire on modern Britain & an exploration of what it really means to be human by the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series THE MONARCHY HAS BEEN DISMANTLEDWhen a Republican party wins the General Election their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets & titles & send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it) caviar for boiled eggs servants for a social worker named Trish the Queen & her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else? Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades' No other author could imagine this so graphically demolish the institution so wittily & yet leave the family with its human dignity intact' The Times' Absorbing entertaining the funniest thing in print since Adrian Mole' Ruth Rendell Daily Telegraph' Kept me rolling about until the last page' Daily Mail Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 5534) Number Ten Ghost Children The Queen & I Queen Camilla & The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers She has also written numerous well-received plays She lives in Leicester where she was born & grew up ...

On the morning of 20th June 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl is called from her bed to be told that she is Queen of England The Victorian age has begun The young queen's first few years are beset with court scandal & malicious gossip there is the unsavoury Flora Hastings affair a source of extreme embarrassment to the queen; the eternal conflict between Victoria & her mother & the young queen's hatred of Sir John Conroy her mother's close friend Then there is the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne
- ' Lord M'
- worldly cynic & constant companion to the queen himself a veteran of many a latter-day scandal He proves to be her guiding light
- until the dashing Prince Albert appears & she falls hopelessly in love


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The pieces are easy to connect to each other No glue no scissors 155 puzzle pieces 48 x 15 x 43 cm Assembly time 3h Instructions included ...

One day in 2005 while searching for food nine-year-old Ugandan Phiona Mutesi followed her brother to a dusty veranda where she met Robert Katende Katende a war refugee turned missionary had an improbable dream to empower kids in the Katwe slum through chess
- a game so foreign there is no word for it in their native language Laying a chess-board in the dirt Robert began to teach At first children came for a free bowl of porridge but many grew to love the game that
- like their daily lives
- requires persevering against great obstacles Of these kids one girl stood out as an immense talent Phiona By the age of eleven Phiona was her country's junior champion & at fifteen the national champion Now a Woman Candidate Master
- the first female titled player in her country's history
- Phiona dreams of becoming a Grandmaster the most elite level in chess But to reach that goal she must grapple with everyday life in one of the world's most unstable coun-tries The Queen of Katwe is a remarkable & inspirational book that shows how ' Phiona's story transcends the limitations of the chessboard' (Robert Hess US Grandmaster)




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The Queen of Spades & Selected Works is a brand new English translation of two of Alexander Pushkin's greatest short stories ' The Queen of Spades' & ' The Stationmaster' together with the poem ' The Bronze Horseman' extracts from Yevgeny Onegin & Boris Godunov & a selection of his poetic work' The Queen of Spades' (' Pikovaya dama') originally published in Russian in 1834 is one of the most famous tales in Russian literature & inspired the eponymous opera by Tchaikovsky; in ' The Stationmaster' (' Stantsionnyy smotritel'') originally published in Russian in The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin (Povesti pokoynogo Ivana Petrovicha Belkina) in 1830 he reworks the parable of the Prodigal Son; the hugely entertaining ' Tsar Nikita & his Forty Daughters' is a bawdier early poem; & the deeply moving narrative poem ' The Bronze Horseman' inspired by a St Petersburg statue of Peter the Great is one of his most influential works The volume also

Includes:: a selection of his best lyric poetry Translated by Anthony Briggs The Queen of Spades & Selected Works is the perfect introduction to Alexander Pushkin's finest work Contents' The Queen of Spades'' The Stationmaster' Extract from Boris Godunov Extract from Mozart & Salieri' The Bronze Horseman'' Tsar Nikita & His Forty Daughters' Extract from Yevgeny Onegin Fourteen lyric poems Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin ranks as one of Russia's greatest writers Born in 1799 he published his first poem when he was a teenager & attained fame in 1820 with his first long poem Ruslan & Lyudmila In the late 1820s he found himself the target of government censors unable to travel or publish at will; during this time he wrote his most famous play Boris Godunov & Yevgeny Onegin (published 1825-1832) ' The Queen of Spades' his most famous prose work was published in 1834; his best-known poem ' The Bronze Horseman' appeared after his death (from a wound sustained in a duel) in 1837 Anthony Briggs is one of the world's leading authorities on the work of Pushkin author of Alexander Pushkin A Critical Study & editor of Alexander Pushkin A Celebration of Russia's Best-Loved Writer He is also an acclaimed translator from the Russian whose translations include War & Peace The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

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Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believe they have God in their pocket She is a modern-day Florence Nightingale always up at the Hospice or the Wives' club; she is too enthusiastic; she talks too much Her concern for the welfare of her wealthy south London neighbours even extends to ingenuous well-meaning notes of unsolicited advice under the door It is just such a one-sided correspondence that heralds Eliza's undoing Did her letter have something to do with Joan's abrupt disappearance from number forty-one? What to make of the long absences of her husband & Joan's & of the two men's new inseparable friendship? & why will no one else on Rathbone Road speak of Joan? As Eliza's own life seems to disintegrate she finds that despite the pity & embarrassment with which her neighbours greet her she is at last being drawn into their lives
- although not in the way she had once fantasised about This is a sharp poignant & wickedly funny tale of love heartache & disillusionment
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Kelsea Glynn is the sole heir to the throne of Tearling but has been raised in secret after her mother
- a monarch as vain as she
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THE QUEEN OF FEEL-GOOD FICTION!' Every time you discover a new Milly book it's like finding a pot of gold
- & this gem is no exception
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