An extremely very good book all about Charlie & Lola! Lola loves dogs. So when Charlie takes Lola & her friend Lotta to the park with his friend Marv & Marv`s dog Sizzles, Lola is thrilled. Marv lets her & Lotta look after Sizzles on the promise that they don`t let him off the lead. Can Lola & Lotta keep their promise & look after Sizzles? ...

Christmas is a time for sharing, & h&-knitted gifts for friends & family are the perfect way to spread a little festive joy. We Knit You a Merry Christmas has something for everyone. Traditional Christmas characters such as angels, choir boys, Father Christmas & the three kings make great decorations. Or add some fun & laughter to your Christmas celebrations this year with knitted animals such as sheep (` Baa Humbug`), crocodiles (` Snappy Christmas`) & Three French Hens, as well as quirkier items like chillies, sledging snowballs & of course the famous pea (` Ha Pea Christmas`). So forget gold, frankincense & myrrh & give the gift of knitting this Christmas. Word count: 12, 000 ...

An imaginative collection of sophisticated & decorative cushions from We Love Cushions, designed to bring life & style to any room setting. Cover images have been taken from various sources, including pre-war posters published by London Transport to encourage travel by tube to the capital’s landmarks & famous events, posters from the collection held by the National Railway Museum, maps from the British Library, etc. All the covers are printed using archival inks to get the brightest finish possible, are made from super soft, high quality faux suede, & are fully machine washable at 30º. Cushion pad is included. ...

Whether they`re big, small, fast, slow, stripy, spotty or anything in-between, there`s just so much to love about dinosaurs! With a rhythmic rhyming text, bright watercolour illustrations, & lots of loveable dinosaurs, this joyful read is prefect for little dinosaur experts. ...

' To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA & Britain & Canada & Australia & Switzerland & them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti & not even this one we live in
- who wants to be a terrible place of hunger & things falling apart?' Darling & her friends live in a shanty called Paradise, which of course is no such thing. It isn't all bad, though. There's mischief & adventure, games of Find bin Laden, stealing guavas, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices. They dream of the paradises of America, Dubai, Europe, where Madonna & Barack Obama & David Beckham live. For Darling, that dream will come true. But, like the thousands of people all over the world trying to forge new lives far from home, Darling finds this new paradise brings its own set of challenges
- for her & also for those she's left behind.

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This is the Orange prize winning, million copy bestseller: now a ” Serpent`s Tail” classic. Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker & a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood & Kevin`s horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husb&, Franklyn. Uneasy with the sacrifices & social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails. ...

This title presents a film starring Tilda Swinton & John C. Reilly, directed by Lynne Ramsay, to premiere at Cannes in May 2011, with UK release in summer 2011. Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker & a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood & Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husb&, Franklyn. Uneasy with the sacrifices & social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails. Adapted & directed by Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar, & Ratcatcher), the film of We Need to Talk About Kevin stars Tila Swinton (I Am Love) & John C. Reilly (The Aviator), with Ezra Miller (Californication) as the eponymous teenage murderer. ...

`I can`t stop biting off more than I can chew. Maybe I`m wearing everything out, but I believe the body is a fantastic thing & it will repair itself & I`ll go again. If it`s running too rich, I don`t stop what I`m doing, just weaken the mixture & carry on.` Since we last heard from him, Guy Martin has restored a 1983 Williams F1 car then raced Jenson Button in it; helped to build a First World War tank; ridden with Putin`s favourite biker gang the Night Wolves; competed on the classic endurance circuit; stood on top of one of Chernobyl`s nuclear reactors & taken part in his last ever Isle of Man TT. Then there`s the stuff he really can`t wait to get out of bed for: 12-hour shifts for a local haulage firm & tatie farming in his new John Deere tractor. Besides all this, he`s saved his local pub from closure & become a dad. But let him tell you his own stories, in his own words:` You`re getting it from the horse`s mouth. No filter. I hope you enjoy it.` ...

Based on a huge trove of diary & personal letter material regarding principally British & American, but also Russian & French, correspondents, ” We Saw Spain Die” is a study of how the war correspondent came of age. It examines the problems
- political, professional & personal, faced by some of the century`s greatest war correspondents both within Spain & also in America, Britain, France & Russia. It throws light not just on the Spanish Civil War but also on internal politics within all those countries. The most powerful message is that it re-vindicates a number of America`s greatest liberal journalists. Along with the professional war correspondents, some hardened veterans of Abyssinia, others still to win their spurs, came some of the world`s most prominent literary figures: Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Josephine Herbst & Martha Gellhorn from the United States; W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Kim Philby & George Orwell from Britain; Andre Malraux & Antoine de Saint Exupery from France.
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A personal & powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of ` Americanah` & ` Half of a Yellow Sun`, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name. What does ”feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay
- adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name
- by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of ` Americanah` & ` Half of a Yellow Sun`. With humour & levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century
- one rooted in inclusion & awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviours that marginalise women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences
- in the U.S., in her native Nigeria
- offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women & men, alike. Argued in the same observant, witty & clever prose that has made Adichie a best-selling novelist, here is one remarkable author`s exploration of what it means to be a woman today
- & an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.





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