'A hugely enjoyable romp through the pleasures & pitfalls of setting up home in a foreign land' PD Smith Guardian When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland journalist & archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland but Denmark a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters cured herring Lego & pastries What is the secret to their success? Are happy Danes born or made? Helen decides there is only one way to find out she will give herself a year trying to uncover the formula for Danish happiness From childcare education food & interior design (not to mention 'hygge') to SAD taxes sexism & an unfortunate predilection for burning witches The Year of Living Danishly is a funny poignant record of a journey that shows us where the Danes get it right where they get it wrong & how we might just benefit from living a little more Danishly ourselves ...

From one of America's iconic writers a portrait of a marriage & a life
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A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir Andy Miller had a job he quite liked a family he loved & no time at all for reading Or so he kept telling himself But no matter how busy or tired he was something kept niggling at him Books Books he'd always wanted to read Books he'd said he'd read when he hadn't Books that whispered the promise of escape from the 644 to London & so with the turn of a page began a year of reading that was to transform Andy's life completely This book is Andy's inspirational & very funny account of his expedition through literature classic cult & everything in-between Crack the spine of your unread Middlemarch' discover what The Da Vinci Code' & Moby-Dick' have in common (everything surprisingly) & knock yourself out with a new-found enthusiasm for Tolstoy Douglas Adams & The Epic of Gilgamesh' The Year of Reading Dangerously' is a reader's odyssey & it begins with opening this book ...

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale & Alias Grace The sun brightens in the east reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them the air smells faintly of burning The waterless flood
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- has ended the world But two young women have survived Ren a young dancer trapped where she worked in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); & Toby who watches & waits from her rooftop garden Is anyone else out there?

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An addictive blend of magic & murder noir a Gareth L Powell BSFA award-winning author of Ack-Ack Macaque Agent " Sully" Sullivan is one of the top cops in the Imperial Bureau of Investigation A veteran witch of the British Empire who isn't afraid to use her magical skills to crack a case But Sully might need more than a good education & raw power to stop the string of grisly murders that have been springing up across the American Colonies Every one of them marked by the same chilling calling card a warning in the form of a legion of voices screaming out through the killers' mouths " It IS t He YEAr o F the KNife" Sully's investigation will drag her away from the comforts of home in New Amsterdam the beautiful but useless hyacinth macaw that used to be her boss & the loving arms of her undead girlfriend in a thrilling race against time demonic forces & a shadowy conspiracy that will do anything to keep its hold on power & ensure that Sully takes their secrets to her grave as soon as possible GD Penman's imaginative The Year of the Knifeis a fun fast-paced urban fantasy mystery with an engaging set of characters most notably Agent Sully of the Imperial Bureau of Investigation ...

The brilliantly heartwarming & life-affirming new novel from Number 1 bestselling author Cathy Kelly 400 pages Kelly Cathy ...

Beautifully illustrated with photographs representing different aspects of the seasons & with"es from Lorna this is the perfect book for those looking to keep their guardian angel close to them at all times Lorna Byrne helps you to recognise the spiritual side of yourself through the seasons of the year It is about awakening & feeling blessed in your life It is about knowing that you are not alone not even for one second
- your guardian angel is right there with you the gatekeeper of your soul loving you unconditionally The Year With Angels will enable you to realise how much you are loved & cherished because inside of you is a spiritual being your soul Your soul is that spark of light that radiates so brilliantly like nothing one has ever seen before & that is your spiritual self
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Take a journey into darkness Visit places where one might expect to find the dark
- in a house where love was shared & lost a milky-white
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This incomparable annual compilation of the best short fiction & novellas features an unmatched variety of the quietly weird the merely eerie high fantasy modern Lovecraftian horror nightmarish near-future scenarios the darkly humorous the supernatural & the monstrously mundane from the brightest new talent legendary authors like Joe R Lansdale Tanith Lee & Gene Wolfe & bestsellers such as Holly Black Neil Gaiman & Sarah Langan

Includes:: a 36000 word novella by George RR Martin set in his A Song of Fire & Ice universe

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Darkness surrounds us We can find darkness anywhere in a strange green stone etched with mysterious symbols; at a small town's annual picnic; in a ghostly house that is easy to enter but not so easy to leave; behind the dumpster in the alley where a harpy lives; in The Nowhere a place where car keys toys people disappear to; among Polar explorers; & most definitely within ourselves Darkness flies from mysterious crates; surrounds children whose nightlights have vanished; & flickers between us at the movie theater Darkness crawls from the past & is waiting in our future; & there's always a chance that Halloween really is a door opening directly into endless shadow Welcome to the dark You may never want to leave This inaugural volume of the year's best dark fantasy & horror features more than 500 pages of dark tales from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique Chosen from a variety of sources these stories are as eclectic & varied as the genre itself ...