Have you ever wished you could improve your reading, writing, spelling, maths, & your memory & learning skills? This title takes you through a series of simple logical steps which build on each other to enable you or your children to visualise your way to success, developing skills you already possess. ...

Offers a collection that is by turns a voice & a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables & tall tales. The author creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected. ...

Hwei Min, the only daughter of the emperor of China, has been blind since she was born. Her father offers a reward to anyone who can find a cure for the little girl. It seems that no one, from magicians to physicians, can help her. Then one day, a wise old man with a mysterious seeing stick visits the princess. ...

Ever wondered whether more people own a car in England than in France, or which country gives the most to charity? In this book, readers can discover a wealth of facts about each country across many topical subjects, including: Cancer survival; Childhood ...

This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the series of 12-line poems entitled Squarings, shows he is ready to re-imagine experience & to credit marvels. The title poem is typical in that it begins with memories of an actual event, then moves towards the visionary. ...

Help Fairy Jasmine plan the perfect party as you search for hidden objects on every page. There are over 1001 items to find! This book comes with your very own charm bracelet, so you will feel just like a fairy. Find the magical charms, which have been hidden all around the Kingdom & match the charms on your bracelet! This stunning padded hardcover book with bracelet features a fun rhyming story, gorgeous artwork & a sparkly glitter cover, & will provide hours of seek & find fun. ...

When fate throws Crystal Brook into the path of Xav Benedict, the personality clash is explosive. It's hate at first sight. As their families gather in Venice, a powerful enemy seizes the opportunity to attack. Xav & Crystal must unite to save their loved ones, discovering a secret that entwines them forever.. . ...

On the 7th of February 1829 the notorious Irish mass murderer & 'resurrectionist' William Hare (of Burke & Hare infamy) was freed from a Scottish gaol, put on a coach to Carlisle, left on the roadside there & subsequently disappeared from human view as if he had never existed. His fellow conspirator & provider of fresh 'meat' for the Edinburgh surgeons' operating tables had earlier been hanged, but fearing the mob's vengeance, the authorities had freed Hare hoping he would vanish for ever, little knowing that his name along with the nature of his terrible crimes would reverberate & live on even if his subsequent history did not. Seeking Mr Hare takes up the story where our pariah flees his past through the Northern English countryside & finally across to Irel&. Joining forces with Hannah, a young mute farm-girl, on the way, the pair travel from one adventure in survival to the next, all the while pursued by Percy Speed, a retired London enquiry agent hired by his noble employer to track down a life-mask of Hare for his private cabinet of curiosities. However when Lord Beckford loses interest in the quest, Speed doggedly carries on, determined to come face to face with his cunning & elusive quarry, no matter what the quest costs & where it leads him. ...

In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President was an immense gamble but a brilliant stroke of policy. It marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations & changed the international balance of power for ever. This book deals with the story of Nixon, Mao & the week that changed the world. ...

Outpirating the pirates with one of the most interesting men alive: Max Hardberger recounts his adventures repossessing ships & sneaking them out of lawless, third-world countries, often under threat of death or imprisonment. His journeys lead him from corrupt ports in the Caribbean to the ice-bound docks of Vladivostok. ...