Like bubonic plague & stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras & do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling & telling the British people to f*** off at the same time. It was something we would have to get used to.` Things Can Only Get Better is the personal account of a Labour supporter who survived eighteen miserable years of Conservative government. It is the heartbreaking & hilarious confessions of someone who has been actively involved in helping the Labour party lose elections at every level: school candidate: door-to-door canvasser: working for a Labour MP in the House of Commons; standing as a council candidate; & eventually writing jokes for a shadow cabinet minister. Along the way he slowly came to realise that Michael Foot would never be Prime Minister, that vegetable quiche was not as tasty as chicken tikki masala & that the nuclear arms race was never going to be stopped by face painting alone. ...

After an Arctic winter, a British recession, & a downturn in the newspaper industry, two journalists & their dog embark on an adventure in the wild & beautiful southern Peloponnese. A perfect plan, except for one thing
- Greece is deep in economic crisis. & if fiscal failure can't overturn the couple's escapade in rural Greece, perhaps macabre local customs, a scorpion invasion, zero dog-tolerance, health scares, & touchy expats will. This is a humorous & insightful journey through one of the last unspoilt regions of Greece. It is full of encounters with warm-hearted, often eccentric, Greeks who show that this troubled country still has heroes, if not euros. In a hillside village in the Mani, the locals share their lives, their laughter & their stories & help chart the couple's own passage back to happiness. They even find a place in their hearts for their Greek nemesis
- the local pungent goat cheese. Things really can only get feta -

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` Hilarious, insightful & has that rare quality of making politics fun. A brilliant book everyone should read, whoever you vote for.` Owen Jones, author of The Establishment From the giddy heights of New Labour`s landslide victory in 1997 to the shock result of the 2017 snap election, these are the frank & funny memoirs of one bewildered Labour activist who tried to carry on as usual long after politics had stopped making sense. With a literary flair that has been compared to Donald Trump`s tweets, John O` Farrell attempts to explain the alarming rise of populist politics, Labour`s twenty-year identity crisis, & why you should never tell your mother you are doing a radio phone-in, unless you want her ringing up to tell everyone she agrees with you. On everything. Along the way, John stood for parliament against Theresa May but failed to step into her shoes; he took his campaigning skills to America (but still Obama got in); & he was dubbed `the sickest man in politics` by the Daily Mail when in truth he`s only the second or third. The long-awaited sequel to the best-selling Things Can Only Get Better is for everyone who could use a good laugh after Brexit, Trump & learning you were governed by the DUP. A twenty-year journey from hope to despair & back again, packed with political confessions even more outrageous than running through fields of wheat. ...

` Hilarious, insightful & has that rare quality of making politics fun. A brilliant book everyone should read, whoever you vote for.` Owen Jones, author of The Establishment From the giddy heights of New Labour`s landslide victory in 1997 to the shock result of the 2017 snap election, these are the frank & funny memoirs of one bewildered Labour activist who tried to carry on as usual long after politics had stopped making sense. With a literary flair that has been compared to Donald Trump`s tweets, John O` Farrell attempts to explain the alarming rise of populist politics, Labour`s twenty-year identity crisis, & why you should never tell your mother you are doing a radio phone-in, unless you want her ringing up to tell everyone she agrees with you. On everything. Along the way, John stood for parliament against Theresa May but failed to step into her shoes; he took his campaigning skills to America (but still Obama got in); & he was dubbed `the sickest man in politics` by the Daily Mail when in truth he`s only the second or third. The long-awaited sequel to the best-selling Things Can Only Get Better is for everyone who could use a good laugh after Brexit, Trump & learning you were governed by the DUP. A twenty-year journey from hope to despair & back again, packed with political confessions even more outrageous than running through fields of wheat. ...

First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe`s Things Fall Apart is one of the modern age`s defining books
- the book that marked African
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Among these wonderful, blackly comic tales from the Spanish master of the short story, an office queen falls from her throne, a tartan shirt holds the threads of a man`s life, a simple dictation test results in glimpsed mortality, & a case of mistaken identity finally pays off. Taking in love, family, war, food & the unforgettable view of the world from childhood, these rich, charming stories & Fraile`s light touch will stay with you long after you have finished reading. ...

From the tiniest Earth dwellers to far-flung celestial bodies
- considering everything from the similarity of gods to donkeys,
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This is a book about the universe which begins with swimming salmon & ends with the starry sky. From the tiniest Earth dwellers to far-flung celestial bodies
- considering everything from the similarity of gods to donkeys, to exploding stars & exploding sea cucumbers
- Amy Leach rekindles our communion with the world. This stunning debut will leave you with a deeper understanding of the universe & a greater sense of the magic that surrounds us.

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An account of the extraordinary meeting between four brilliant political activists: Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Pentagon Papers insider Daniel Ellsberg & acclaimed actor John Cusack ` What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were these that have been broken?` In 2014, four people met in secret in a hotel room in Moscow. Each was a leading global advocate for government transparency & accountability: they had come together to talk. Over the course of two days, Arundhati Roy, Edward Snowden, John Cusack & Daniel Ellsburg shared ideas & beliefs
- about the Vietnam War & the Pentagon Papers, the NSA & the ongoing crises in the Middle East, the American government & the nature of activism. Co-authored by Roy & Cusack, & interleaving verbatim conversations with narrated recollections, this Penguin Special captures an historic moment. Interrogating the geopolitical forces that shape our world, it is both political & personal, activist & humanist
- irreverent, funny & absolutely urgent. In Things That Can & Cannot Be Said, Arundhati Roy & John Cusack issue a powerful rallying cry, a call to resistance against America`s ongoing, malign hegemony.

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Explore the busy town, bustling seaside & look up in the air in First Explorers: Things That Go! Spot cars, boats & fire engines, as well as lots of other things that go all around us. Each scene has chunky push, pull & slide mechanisms perfect for little hands & vehicles to spot with fun facts about them. Beautifully illustrated by Christiane Engel, this title provides gentle early learning & is a wonderful introduction to science topics for small children. Discover more in the First Explorers series: Night Animals, Sea Creatures, In the Jungle, Dinosaurs, My Body, Astronauts, Wild Animals, Brilliant Bugs, Snowy Animals ...