Han Solo & Chewbacca the Wookiee team-up for an all-new adventure in this thrilling upper middle grade novel. Set between Star Wars: A New Hope & Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the story follows everyone`s favorite pair of smugglers as they fly the Millennium Falcon on a top-secret mission for the Rebellion. Hidden in the story are also hints & clues about the upcoming film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, making this a must-read for fans old & new! ...

Join Han & Chewbacca aboard the fastest bucket of bolts in the galaxy. Packed with amazing puzzles & a Millennium Falcon of your own to build, there`s hours of Star Wars fun to be had. Complete mazes, codewords & puzzles in the uniquely illustrated, full colour activity book. Then press out the pieces to create your very own mini Millennium Falcon model, perfect for recreating famous scenes from the Star Wars saga. ...

A cellar door creaking open in the middle of the night, or a hand slipping quickly into a trench coat
- the most compelling transactions
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The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother, who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. Though her own husband isn`t all that satisfactory either. Still, this is Alan Bennett, so what is happening in the bedroom (and in lots of other places too) is altogether more startling, perhaps shocking, & ultimately more true to people`s predilections. The Greening of Mrs Donaldson Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory & finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers, her mundane life becomes much more stimulating... ...

Hot on the heels of Veggiestan, Sally Butcher brings us Snackistan: a fictitious land where tummies are always full, & there`s a slightly naughty smile on every face. Snackistan does not, of course, exist, any more than Veggiestan does. It is, rather, a borderless confederation of the Middle East`s favourite foodstuffs. The simple fare that people actually eat on a daily basis: dishes they prepare at home, or cook to share with friends, or look forward to indulging in at the end of the week. We all like to snack
- increasingly, formal dining is being nudged aside in favour of meze-style spreads. &, at the same time, street food has come of age. In malls & farmers markets across the world, food on the hoof has become a stylish & popular way to feed. This book picks out the Middle East`s most exciting street foods & meze dishes, together with a range of homely & simple snack recipes elicited from family & friends. Chapters comprise Nuts & Nibbles, Fishy Things, Meat on Sticks, Meat Not on Sticks, Salady Stuff, Hot Veggie Dishes, Mostly Carbs, Puds, & Something to Wash it Down With. The burst of flavours is intoxicating, as is Sally`s trademark wit & attention to detail
- a must-buy for all Middle Eastern food enthusiasts.

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Sam the Seashell Snail is too young to go surfing around the world with his brother, Tiger. Not wanting Sam to miss out on the adventure, Tiger sends him Snail Mail from Brazil, America, India, Japan & France. Tiger`s last Snail Mail has a very special birthday surprise! With pull-out postcards to pore over, this fun & charming picture book will captivate even the most tech-savvy of children. A Jolly Postman for this generation. ...

A newly revitalized edition of Tomi Ungerer`s children`s classic. Snail, where are you? At a party? At sea? In the mountains? Young sleuths will have hours of fun finding Tomi Ungerer`s snail in his many disguises. This beautiful, classic concept book, first published in 1962, has been re-imagined with added text to enhance the playful, gorgeously restored & revitalized illustrations. ...

The terrifying first use of nuclear weapons over Hiroshima & Nagasaki in August 1945 was the most controversial act of warfare in history, dramatically ending the Second World War but ushering in the age of mass destruction. Yet it was also the climax of a story that extends beyond Japan & Washington: the culmination of decades of scientific achievement & centuries of colonial exploitation. Snake Dance is the account of a journey that turned into a quest to discover how humanity reaches this point. Patrick Marnham travels from the opulent nineteenth-century palaces of King Leopold II of Belgium, built with riches plundered from the Congo, to the lethally derelict nuclear reactor of modern-day Kinshasa. He follows the shipment of Congolese uranium to the deserts of New Mexico for the Manhattan Project`s secret test detonation. Here he uncovers the legacies of Robert Oppenheimer & Aby Warburg, two `mad geniuses` who confronted the devastating power of twentieth-century science in very different ways. Both men travelled to New Mexico. Oppenheimer was honoured for buiding a bomb, the ancestor of weapons that have enslaved humanity. Warburg, condemned to obscurity & confined to a mental hospital, regained his sanity by studying the rituals of the Native Americans of the Southwest who, for thousands of years, practiced the ritual of the `snake dance` in an attempt to harness the power of lightening. & it was in New Mexico, at Los Alamos, that the ultimate act of playing God was realised. The circle is closed in Japan. Faced with the catastrophe at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant in March 2011, scientific man, like the snake dancers, is faced with a power beyond his control. Spanning three continents & the history of civilisation, Snake Dance is at once an intrepid intellectual adventure & a wake-up call for mankind. ...

THE FOURTH CHINA THRILLER, FROM THE MILLION-SELLING PETER MAY
- AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSE. SUFFOCATED
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Bat Katanga is a Ugandan just returned to his homeland after two years in Britain. While he completed a postgraduate degree at Cambridge, he watched from afar as ”flag independence gave way to economic independence” in Uganda, his chances to make a fortune there increasing with each ”reform” imposed by Idi Amin. Now, when Bat lands a job as Bureaucrat Two in the Ministry of Power & Communications, he feels himself entering the top echelons of government, his sense of honor & honesty firmly intact
- ” Everything seemed to have been building to this moment, his triumphant entry into the bastions of power.” But when he is threatened into taking a bribe from a Saudi prince, he unwittingly begins a journey
- both psychological & physical
- into the darkest & most dangerous precincts of the madness that was Amin`s Uganda. As Bat`s life begins to unravel, we see the men & women whose lives intersect his
- General Bazooka, his superior at the ministry
- ”a creature of people`s fears & prejudices”
- a man slowly losing Amin`s approval, & with it any sense of safety or sanity; Victoria, who bears both Bat`s child & a deadly grudge against him; Bat`s family & friends, coping with the advantages & disadvantages of connection to someone in high places; Bat`s wife, Babit, who pays the ultimate price for his mistakes; Robert Ashes, the mercenary Englishman who insinuates himself into Amin`s trust
- & who will be the only one left standing after Amin`s downfall. Snakepit is an extraordinarily revealing, deeply humanizing exploration of the experience of virulent corruption. It is a fiercely compelling novel.






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