Dung beetles love to chew on other animals’ tasty poo. But when the monkeys make fun of them for having such a stinky lunch, the beetles decide to munch elsewhere. What the monkeys didn’t realise is that without the beetles, there’s no one to clean up their business. & so, the pile of poo grew & grew & GREW. In this hilarious picture book, Peter Bently imagines what might happen if dung beetles stopped doing their job & shows children that every creature is important to our environment, even those that are small & smelly. Illustrated by Nick East. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781526365453 • Author: Peter Bently • Publisher: Hachette Children's Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 24.2 x 24.2 x 0.6cm ...

John Julius Norwich examines the oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter (traditionally
- but by no means historically
- the first Pope) to the present. Of the 280-odd holders of the supreme office, some have unquestionably been saints; others have wallowed in unspeakable iniquity.

One was said to have been a woman, her sex being revealed only when she improvidently gave birth to a baby during a papal procession. Almost as shocking was Formosus whose murdered corpse was exhumed, clothed in pontifical vestments, propped up on a throne & subjected to trial.

From the glories of Byzantium to the decay of Rome, from the Albigensian Heresy to controversy within the Church today, The Popes is superbly written, witty & revealing.





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Books Historical Fiction Books Divided by war. Reunited by courage. Phoebe is a volunteer nurse at a Base Hospital in Étaples, France, treating men who've served on hte Western Front. Their courage & resilience inspires her, & though she's meant to keep her distance, Captain Archie Bailey soon captivates her heart. Her younger sister Celia is a nurse at a POW camp on the island of Jersey. These men fight for the forces that bombed her brother & parents, but long hours spent healing them shows her they aren't the monsters she expected. Despite the miles between them, both Celia & Phoebe come to see the commonality in their experiences
- the sense of community & friendship, the unexpected moments of love & laughter, & a bond so strong that even war can't break it…   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780008534615 •†Author: Deborah Carr  •†Publisher:   Harper Collins Publishers •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:† 375 •†Dimensions:†12.9 x 19.9 x 2.8 cm
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Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw & Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. But his insensitivity to this love is in direct contrast to the tenderness with which he attempts to make his aunt's slow death in hospital tolerable, while his employer, Maloney, failed poet & comic king of pornographers, comes gradually to preside over this broken world. Everywhere in this rich novel is the drama of opposites, but, above all, sex & death are never far from each other. ...

Jane Campion directs this adaptation of the Henry James novel. Independent woman Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman) refuses two suitors, Lord Warburton (Richard E. Grant) & Caspar Goodwood (Viggo Mortensen), when they propose marriage. Instead she travels to ...

Nolan Moore & his team of explorers arrive in the remote town of Birchlake, California to investigate the uncanny stone walls that snake the town, built by an unknown h&.

Their arrival is met with suspicion by the townspeople. & when Nolan learns that a teenage girl has recently disappeared without a trace, it becomes clear there is a link between the missing girl & the secret of the stone walls.

But as Nolan & his team are drawn into the search, a thick fog descends on the town.

Soon events take a dark turn, & the line between reality & imagination begins to blur, leaving Nolan & his team questioning their own sanity...

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• ISBN: 9781785767654
• Author: Michael Rutger
• Publisher: Zaffre
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 496
• Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.7 x 19.8 cm

















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Terence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother's suicide & his wife's murder when

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Toys & Games Jigsaw Puzzles Have hours of fun piecing together this stunning Post Office image! This picture-perfect puzzle ...

Toys & Games Jigsaw Puzzles Have hours of fun piecing together this stunning Post Office image. This picture perfect puzzle ...

With the Great War raging, can they keep Britain going?

1915. On Beth Healey's eighteenth birthday, she hopes that

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