Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize'A masterwork I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade A homage to the redemptive power of love' Independent Summer 1921 Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens & woods above Lahardane
- the home her family is being forced to abandon She knows the Gaults are no longer welcome in Ireland & that danger threatens Lucy however is headstrong & decides that somehow she must force her parents into staying But the path she chooses ends in disaster One chance event unwanted & unexpected will blight the lives of the Gaults for years to come & bind each of them in different ways to this one moment in time to this wild stretch of coast ' Flawless Guaranteed to keep you reading
- all through the night if necessary
- to find out what happens Trevor's best novel' New Statesman' Dark elegantly written a book to relish' Independent on Sunday


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Hilarious story with trademark Stanton-esque nonsense Matthew Buzzington has a superpower
- he can turn into a fly! It's just
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This along with The Tale of The Fierce Bad Rabbit was intended for very young children It recounts the tale of a pussy cat Miss Moppet chasing a mouse It turns out to be a bit of a battle of wits & who do you think will win? The Story of Miss Moppet is number 21 in Beatrix Potter's series of 23 little books the titles of which are as follows 1 The Tale of Peter Rabbit 2 The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin 3 The Tailor of Gloucester 4 The Tale of Benjamin Bunny 5 The Tale of Two Bad Mice 6 The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle 7 The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher 8 The Tale of Tom Kitten 9 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck 10 The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies 11 The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse 12 The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes 13 The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse 14 The Tale of Mr Tod 15 The Tale of Pigling Bland 16 The Tale of Samuel Whiskers 17 The Tale of The Pie & the Patty-Pan 18 The Tale of Ginger & Pickles 19 The Tale of Little Pig Robinson 20 The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit 21 The Story of Miss Moppet 22 Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes 23 Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes ...

A funny philosophical book about the universal subject of money by award-winning non-fiction writer Martin Jenkins A funny philosophical look at the universal subject of money by award-winning non-fiction writer Martin Jenkins illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura In the Yap Islands in the South Pacific money can be a stone with a hole in the middle It can be a string of shells a bundle of cloth or a copper slab It's the stuff that makes the world go round & doesn't grow on trees In this fascinating & thought-provoking book Martin Jenkins explores the history of money from its earliest beginnings to the electronic banking of today Along the way we learn about hunter gatherers barter clay tablets goat swapping precious metals hard bargains IOUs interest coins Romans taxes inflation paper money currencies & exchange rates Satoshi Kitamura's quirky satirical drawings perfectly complement the dry humour of the text & in the end we are reminded that money only exists because we believe in it ...

Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series & The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3 In his dynamic tour through 40000 years of music from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop Howard Goodall leads us through the story of music as it happened idea by idea so that each musical innovation
- harmony notation sung theatre the orchestra dance music recording broadcasting
- strikes us with its original force He focuses on what changed when & why picking out the discoveries that revolutionised man-made sound & bringing to life musical visionaries from the little-known Perotin to the colossus of Wagner Along the way he also gives refreshingly clear descriptions of what music is & how it works what scales are all about why some chords sound discordant & what all post-war pop songs have in common

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This Ladybird Book about the story of Napoleon is a gem from the Ladybird vintage archive First published in 1968 this is a classic Ladybird hardback book packed with information about one of the most famous soldiers in history This new edition published alongside the Story of Nelson two hundred years after the Battle of Waterloo is exactly the same as the original with a dust jacket & beautifully reproduced images The story of Napoleon is told dramatically by L du Garde Peach & his adventures are wonderfully illustrated throughout the book ...

Nelson was a young South African with a reputation for trouble-making Who would have thought he would one day lead his people to freedom? 128 pages Hadland Adrian ...

To tie into the anniversary of the 100th NOW album this book is a celebration of the last 35 years of pop music as told through the NOW brand & 100 of the most iconic artists ever featured 240 pages Mulligan Michael ...

Four friends Twenty years One powerful secret There are certain dates on which you'll always remember where you were The day Princess Diana died 911 The London 2012 opening ceremony The same is true for Sophie Emily Amy & Melissa who have been best friends since they met twenty years ago As history has moved on around them they have seen each other through everything From Sophie's secret fear that she doesn't actually want to be a mother despite having two kids to Amy's perfect-on-the-outside-abusive-on-the inside marriage to Melissa's spiralling alcoholism & Emily's single motherhood But could a lie that spans just as long tear them apart? A moving unputdownable novel about four incredible friendships & the stories we all share The Story of Our Lives is a treat for fans of The Versions of Us & One Day A moving unputdownable novel about four ...

Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain Scraped knees toothaches migraines giving birth cancer heart attacks & heartaches pain permeates our entire lives We also witness other people
- loved ones
- suffering & we 'feel with' them It is easy to assume this is the end of the story 'pain-is-pain-is-pain' & that is all there is to say But it is not In fact the way in which people respond to what they describe as 'painful' has changed considerably over time In the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries for example people believed that pain served a specific (and positive) function
- it was a message from God or Nature; it would perfect the spirit ' Suffer in this life & you wouldn't suffer in the next one' Submission to pain was required Nothing could be more removed from twentieth & twenty-first century understandings where pain is regarded as an unremitting evil to be 'fought' Focusing on the English-speaking world this book tells the story of pain since the eighteenth century addressing fundamental questions about the experience & nature of suffering over the last three centuries How have those in pain interpreted their suffering
- & how have these interpretations changed over time? How have people learnt to conduct themselves when suffering? How do friends & family react? & what about medical professionals should they immerse themselves in the suffering person or is the best response a kind of professional detachment? As Joanna Bourke shows in this fascinating investigation people have come up with many different answers to these questions over time & a history of pain can tell us a great deal about how we might respond to our own suffering in the present
- & just as importantly to the suffering of those around us




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