On the dirty backstreets of Liverpool, housemaid Maud Linklater witnesses an appalling accident.

Rushing young chimney-sweep

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Rosie is in a coma, unable to reach out to the world or communicate. She only has one chance to make it back to consciousness
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Armed with razor-sharp instincts & a licence to kill, James Bond battles diabolical arms merchants bent on world domination in this thrilling, lightning-paced adventure. Timothy Dalton brings energy, humour & ruthless cunning to his debut performance as Agent 007. ...

Explore this beautiful celebration of forests & their many layers of beauty in this visual journey into the heart of the woods...

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Packed with fantastic facts, illustrations, top tens, cross references, world records & detailed captions, this amazing book encompasses the breadth of life on our planet, Find out how plants are pollinated, why sharks are fierce predators, how many eggs a queen bee lays per day & why spiders spin webs. ...

Ever since Angus was a wee baby monster, living below the surface of Loch Ness, his parents tried to teach him to be a proper monster.  But as Angus grows bigger, he gets sloppy. Puggy-nit shells (peanuts) are piling up; his grottie (dirty) laundry is in a heap; tatties (potatoes) litter the floor. It’s a mountain of a mess! & as Angus’s trash heap grows, pushing him away from the comforts of home, a surprising Loch Ness sighting of his own awaits on the surface of the lake… Product Information:  •†ISBN:†9781839135323 •†Author: Helen Lester •†Publisher: Andersen Press  •†Format: Paperback •†Pages: 32 •†Dimensions: 24 x 0.4 x 28cm ...

Details: 1827 During a research trip to Loch Ness, Scotl&, a young Charles Darwin encounters a mysterious & terrifying
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Some doors are locked for a reason… While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, & Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows about her past, & she'll do anything to keep it that way. Then one of her young female patients is murdered, killed in the same unique & horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims. Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she's not like her father. The police can't pin anything on her. As long as they don't look in her basement… Product Information:  •†ISBN:†9781464221354 •†Author: Freida Mc Fadden •†Publisher: Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press •†Format: Paperback •†Pages:†320 •†Dimensions:†19.8 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm ...

Kamila is nine years old when she is taken from the poverty of her childhood village in southern Lebanon to Beirut. She has never learned to read or write though she longs to go to school. Stories, poetry & film are her passion
- & a beautiful boy called Muhammad. They fall in love before Kamila is forced into an arranged marriage, despite her tears & screams. She is only fourteen years old. On her wedding night, her first daughter is conceived; four years later, Hanan is born. Kamila & Muhammad continue to see each other in secret, risking their lives. It is eight years before Kamila can bring herself to divorce her husb&, as to do so means leaving her daughters behind. Beautifully evoking the dusty streets of Beirut & life in Lebanon, this is a heartbreaking memoir of an extraordinary woman. The size of this book is 19.7cm in height & 13cm wide with 302 pages
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If humans are so clever, why do we smoke & gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this really rational behaviour? & how come your idiot boss is so overpaid? In fact, the behaviour of even the unlikeliest of individuals
- prostitutes, drug addicts, racists & revolutionaries
- complies with economic logic, taking into account future costs & benefits, even if we don't quite realise it. We are rational begins after all.

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