This is the remarkable story of tea & its uses from ancient times to the present. The narrative takes the reader from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the splendor of the Tang & Song Dynasties in China, from the tea ceremony aesthetics of medieval Japan to the fabled tea & horse trade of Central Asia, from the advent of Britain`s love affair with tea to the tea party that sparked the American Revolution. Throughout the centuries, tea has inspired artists, enhanced religious experience, played a pivotal role in the emergence of world trade, & helped trigger major wars. No other drink has touched the lives of so many people in so many different ways. ” The True History of Tea” brings all these disparate strands together in an erudite tale full of quirky facts & unexpected byways, celebrating the common heritage of a beverage we have all come to love. ...

Matt Charman, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Stephen Spielberg`s Bridge of Spies, & Mammoth Screen, producers of Poldark & Victoria, are producing a big budget TV series based on the book. Maxwell Knight was a paradox. A jazz obsessive & nature enthusiast (he is the author of the definitive work on how to look after a gorilla), he is seen today as one of MI5`s greatest spymasters, a man who did more than any other to break up British fascism during the Second World War
- in spite of having once belonged to the British Fascisti himself. He was known to his agents & colleagues simply as M, & was rumoured to be part of the inspiration for the character M in the James Bond series. Knight became a legendary spymaster despite an almost total lack of qualifications. What set him apart from his peers was a mercurial ability to transform almost anyone into a fearless secret agent. He was the first in MI5 to grasp the potential of training female agents. M is about more than just one man however. In its pages, Hemming reveals for the first time in print the names & stories of seven men & women recruited by Knight, on behalf of MI5, & then asked to infiltrate the most dangerous political organizations in Britain at that time. Until now, their identities have been kept secret outside MI5. Drawn from every walk of life, they led double lives-often at great personal cost-in order to protect the country they loved. With the publication of this book, it will be possible at last to celebrate the lives of these courageous, selfless individuals. Drawing on declassified documents, private family archives & interviews with retired MI5 officers as well as the families of MI5 agents, M reveals not just the shadowy world of espionage but a brilliant, enigmatic man at its centre.
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National Bestseller Don`t despair. Don`t retreat. Fight back. The stunning election of Donald J. Trump rocked an already divided ...

Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime
- to pen the biography of the elusive
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The truth about Christmas
- its traditions unravelled! Have you ever wondered:
- Who decided to celebrate Jesus` birthday on

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August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that made him a household name. Quebert is the only suspect. Marcus Goldman
- Quebert`s most gifted protege
- throws off his writer`s block to clear his mentor`s name. Solving the case & penning a new bestseller soon merge into one. As his book begins to take on a life of its own, the nation is gripped by the mystery of ` The Girl Who Touched the Heart of America.` But with Nola, in death as in life, nothing is ever as it seems.

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Arthur & The Truth are not the best of friends right now. Why? Because today Arthur did something he shouldn`t have done
- he rode
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Ella Black seems to live the life most other seventeen-year-olds would kill for... Until one day, telling her nothing, her parents whisk her off to Rio de Janeiro. Determined to find out why, Ella takes her chance & searches through their things. And realises her life has been a lie. Her mother & father aren`t hers at all. Unable to comprehend the truth, Ella runs away, to the one place they`ll never think to look
- the favelas. But there she learns a terrible secret
- the truth about her real parents & their past. & the truth about a mother, desperate for a daughter taken from her seventeen years ago...

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Henry Stanfield, the newly arrived Truth Commissioner, is troubled by his estrangement from his daughter, & struggling with the consequences of his infidelities. Francis Gilroy, veteran Republican & recently appointed government minister, risks losing what feels tantalisingly close to his grasp. In America, Danny & his partner plan for the arrival of their first child, happily oblivious to what is about to pull him back to Belfast & rupture the life they have started together. Retired detective James Fenton, on his way to an orphanage in Romania with a van full of supplies, will soon be forced to confront what he has come to think of as his betrayal, years before, of a teenage boy. In a society trying to heal the scars of the past with the salve of truth & reconciliation, these four men`s lives become linked in a way they could never have imagined. ...

From number one bestselling author Matt Haig comes a hilarious & heartwarming story, brilliantly illustrated throughout by Chris Mould Wherever she is, whatever the day, She only has one kind of thing to say. Just as cats go miaow & cows go moo, The Truth Pixie can only say things that are true.A very funny & lovable tale of how one special pixie learned to love herself. The Truth Pixie is an enchanting, rhyming story that will delight younger readers
- with words by the bestselling mastermind Matt Haig & pictures by the inky genius Chris Mould.
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