On this island your friends & your enemies quickly end up the same.. .-1985- When fifteen-year-old Catherine sees her best friend slip from a wild cliff path she vows never to say a word. But Catherine was the last person to see her alive. -1940- Charlie is also holding back a secret from the adults on the isl&. As German soldiers arrive on Guernsey, he carries out an act of rebellion with consequences that will reach far into the future
- & into Catherine`s own life. The Book of Lies is a powerful novel about friendship, love & betrayal. Weaving together two lives across the decades, it proves that no truth is as simple as it seems.
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These seven stunning tales are about all the big things: faith, love, family, temptation & redemption. They show us at our ...

Why did London Underground once employ a one-legged man to ride up & down the escalators at Earl`s Court tube station? What did Hitler plan to do with Nelson`s Column? Why is London`s only medieval mummy a prostitute named Clarice la Claterballock? How did a beer flood in Tottenham Court Road drown nine people? Where can you see a pair of Queen Victoria`s knickers? Containing chapters covering London past & present; buildings & streets; famous & unexpected Londoners; arts, literature & crime; plus much much more, the 180 lists will amaze, amuse & inform. More than simply a keepsake for tourists, every self-respecting Londoner needs this book. ...

Ever wondered if Cheapside really is cheap, what you do in Threadneedle Street, or who the knights of Knightsbridge were? Did you know that Piccadilly is actually an insult? & that Euston Road was built because there were too many cows on Oxford Street? Or that the River Fleet was covered over partly because of a drunken butcher? Take a trip down narrow lanes, through cobbled streets & crowded markets to discover the meanings behind the city`s place names. Meet forgotten residents whose names survive in the places where they lived & uncover tales from London`s murky past that have shaped the modern city. From famous landmarks to forgotten rivers, grand thoroughfares to lost palaces, & ancient villages swallowed up as the city grew, Caroline Taggart explains the hidden meanings behind familiar places. If you have ever wanted to learn more about the history of London & discover the people, events & stories that shaped our capital city, then come on a journey that will show you London in a new light... ...

Ever wondered if Cheapside really is cheap, what you do in Threadneedle Street, or who the knights of Knightsbridge were? Did you know that Piccadilly is actually an insult? & that Euston Road was built because there were too many cows on Oxford Street? Or that the River Fleet was covered over partly because of a drunken butcher? Take a trip down narrow lanes, through cobbled streets & crowded markets to discover the meanings behind the city`s place names. Meet forgotten residents whose names survive in the places where they lived, such as Sir George Downing of Downing Street, & uncover tales from London`s murky past that have shaped the modern city. From famous landmarks to forgotten rivers, grand thoroughfares to lost palaces, & ancient villages swallowed up as the city grew, Sunday Times bestselling author Caroline Taggart explains the hidden meanings behind familiar places. If you have ever wanted to learn more about the history of London & discover the people, events & stories that shaped our capital city, then come on a journey that will show you London in a new light... ...

`...as when iron is drawn to a magnet, camphor is sucked into hot air, crystal lights up in the Sun, sulfur & a volatile liquid are kindled by flame, an empty eggshell filled with dew is raised towards the Sun.. .` The Bible is full of stories featuring forms of magic & possession
- from Moses battling with Pharaoh`s wizards to the supernatural actions of Jesus & his disciples. As, over the following centuries, the Christian church attempted to stamp out `deviant` practices, a persistent interest in magic drew strength from this Biblical validation. A strange blend of mumbo-jumbo, fear, fraud & deeply serious study, magic was at the heart of the European Renaissance, fascinating many of its greatest figures. This is a book filled with incantations, charms, curses, summonings, cures & descriptions of extraordinary, shadowy, only half-understood happenings from long ago. It features writers as various as Thomas Aquinas, John Milton, John Dee, Ptolemy & Paracelsus along with anonymous ancient & medieval works which were, in some cases, viewed as simply too dangerous even to open. Brian Copenhaver`s wonderful anthology will be welcomed by everyone from those with the most casual interest in the magical tradition to anyone drawn to the Renaissance & the tangled, arcane roots of the scientific tradition.
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Every wonder why Italy`s Leaning Tower of Pisa has been slowly toppling over for centuries? Stack books on a foundation of paper balls to learn about rickety building foundations & entre of mass. How about the 15 foot high tidal wave of molasses that to re through the streets of Boston in the Great Molasses Flood of 1919? Karate chop a full tube of toothpaste (outside!) to demonstrate the messy behaviour of non-Newtonian fluids. With The Book of Epically Disastrous Engineering, kids get active with a fun, illustrated tour through the physics & technology of crumbling buildings, sinking ships, wobbly bridges, mud stuck tanks, & much more. Covering a wide range of snafus, mishaps, & outright disasters throughout history
- some infamous, like the Titanic sinking & Chilean miners trapped underground, & others lesser know, like the Fidnae Stadium collapse in ancient Rome
- these 48 hands on experiments put readers newfound knowledge into action. Each demonstration uses familiar household ingredients & helps break down the barrier between learning & doing
- or even better, between learning & having fun.


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Are you ready for another EPIC book from the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2016 (Best Book with Facts)? If you ran your school, what would the rules be? Would you rather talk to animals, or speak every language in the world? How fast can you run? Answer these questions & much more, with real life comparisons
- how do you compare to an animal, another human, or even your parents? Collect your own data & enjoy silly facts, quizzes, & scrapbook activities. Write, draw, cut-out & fully make this book about you!
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This is the story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd`s death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face & I was nine years old & my father & mother sold me to a strange man. I say my father & my mother, but really it was just my mother. Memory, the narrator of The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she has been convicted of murder. As part of her appeal her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, & Memory is, both literally & metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried & convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? & did everything happen exactly as she remembers? Moving between the townships of the poor & the suburbs of the rich, & between the past & the present, Memory weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate & the treachery of memory. ...

The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd`s death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face & I was nine years old & my father & mother sold me to a strange man. I say my father & my mother, but really it was just my mother. Memory, the narrator of ” The Book of Memory”, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she has been convicted of murder. As part of her appeal her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, & Memory is, both literally & metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried & convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? & did everything happen exactly as she remembers? Moving between the townships of the poor & the suburbs of the rich, & between the past & the present, Memory weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate & the treachery of memory. ...