A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for ' Leviathan'. The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe & the food we eat. It is ceaseless change & constant presence. It covers two-thirds of our planet. Yet caught up in our everyday lives, we barely notice it. In ' The Sea Inside', Philip Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea, its islands, birds & beasts. He begins on the south coast where he grew up, a place of almost monastic escape. From there he travels to the other side of the world
- the Azores, Sri Lanka, New Zealand
- in search of encounters with animals & people. Navigating between human & natural history, he asks what these stories mean for us now. Along the way we meet an amazing cast; from scientists to tattooed warriors; from ravens to whales & bizarre creatures that may, or may not, be extinct. Part memoir, part fantastical travelogue, ' The Sea Inside' takes us on an astounding journey of discovery.

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A mysterious trip to the desolate Northern Isles soon turns into a terrifying adventure when Bill is kidnapped! Marooned far from the mainland on a deserted coast, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann & Jack find themselves playing a dangerous game with an unknown enemy. Will they escape with Bill, & their live ...

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1861. Heading home to Orkney, Constable Faro is pursing a private investigation into the mysterious drowning of an ex-colleague's relative, champion swimmer Dave Claydon. Was it an accident? Or does Clayton's death have a sinister connection with missing artefacts recovered from the Armada galleon sunk off Spanish Cove? At Scarthbreck Faro's mother is determined to find a wife, & this Lammastide the legend of the seal king's annual claim of a human bride becomes reality. Faro's holiday & his original secret mission turns into a nightmare with himself becoming the prime suspect in a girl's disappearance. He is in deadly danger, his life threatened by circumstance beyond his control. ...

Here comes a delicious tale of secrets, betrayal & forbidden love. After a separation of many years, Emily Fido Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed: Helen is more & more unhappy in her marriage to the older Vice-Admiral Codrington, while Fido has become a successful woman of business & a pioneer in the British Womens Movement. But, for all her independence of mind, Fido is too trusting of her once-dear companion & finds herself drawn into aiding Helens obsessive affair with a young army officer. When the Vice-Admiral seizes the children & sues for divorce, the womens friendship unravels amid accusations of adultery & counter-accusations of cruelty & attempted rape, as well as a mysterious sealed letter that could destroy more than one life... Based on blow-by-blow newspaper reports of the 1864 Codrington Divorce, " The Sealed Letter", full of sparkling characters & wicked dialogue, is a thought-provoking mystery & gripping drama of friends, lovers & marriage. ...

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The original Book of General Ignorance was published in 2006, & since then has been translated into 26 languages & sold over 1.2 million copies. Now, just when you thought it was safe to start showing off again, the QI team are back with a lorry load of mistakes & misunderstandings. This book is the essential set text for everyone who's proud to admit that they don't know everything, & an ideal stick with which to beat people who think they do. ...

One disastrous year. One magical wish. One chance to change the past. In one fell swoop, Sadie Thatcher managed to lose her job, her apartment, & her boyfriend. So when a fortune teller offers her one wish, Sadie longs to redo her awful year. More than a little sceptical, she makes her wish, opens her eyes, &... nothing has changed. & then, in perhaps her worst move yet, she kisses her brother's best friend, Jacob. When Sadie wakes up the next morning, she's in her former apartment with her former boyfriend, & her former boss is expecting her at work. She realises it's January 1... of last year. As Sadie navigates her second-chance year, she begins to see the red flags she missed in both her relationship & her career. Plus, she keeps running into Jacob, & she can't stop thinking about their kiss... the one he has no idea ever happened. Suddenly, Sadie begins to wonder if her only mistake was wishing for a second chance. Product Information:  •†ISBN: 97810354061... ...

Empress Josephine's family has been called to Napoleon's court to hear the terrible news that he intends to divorce his wife of thirteen years
- who has failed to provide an heir
- & take a younger bride, the Austrian princess Marie-Louise. For his new wife, the marriage is a horrible duty she must take on in her father's name & there is little in her new life to enjoy. But an unlikely friendship with Hortense, Josephine's daughter, will bring her much comfort as she fights for happiness. For Napoleon's sister, Pauline Bonaparte, it is yet another woman stealing her brother's attention. Having spent years attempting to control his power, she must fight dirtier if she is to win...

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When Davis Calder moves in next door to Kate Easton & her seventeen-year-old daughter Roxy, neither has any idea of the devastation about to be unleashed. With Kate struggling to accept her daughter's independence & Roxy getting more secretive by the day, there's enough family tension to go round already. Before they know it, glamorous, charismatic Davis is the only one who seems able to keep the peace. Until, one wedding day later, Kate makes a discovery that blows the whole family apart. ...