1795: the shadow of Bonaparte has fallen across Europe & touches each member of the far-flung Morland family. As the century draws to a close Jemima Morland wearily ackowledges that her life is also nearing its end but she has scant peace as her unpredictable children behave ever more incomprehensibly: James's marriage to Mary Ann in closer to falling apart; Lucy's marriage de convenance is in the balance
- her affair with Lieutenant Watson an open scandal; Mary bears a daughter on board her husband's ship during the battle of the Nile; & William supports a mistress whose marriage cannot be dissolved. Jemima's death appears to unite the family but as ever with the Morlands the future holds more peril than hope.
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Welcome to Absurdia: a strange & wonderful land where nothing is quite what it seems. Trees are birds umbrellas are trees & the sky is thick with snoring fish. Join one small boy as he tumbles out of bed into a crazy dreamland of wardrobe monsters dragons & amazing adventure. This gloriously rich & beautiful picture book comes from a uniquely talented artist at the height of his powers. With a story to enchant the youngest reader & pictures to gasp & pore over whatever your age it is an extraordinary achievement & one to savour. ...

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize In The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee doctor researcher & award-winning science writer examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision a historian's perspective & a biographer's passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid & eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with
- & perished from
- for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity resilience & perseverance but also of hubris arrogance & misperception all leveraged against a disease that just three decades ago was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out 'war against cancer'. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries setbacks victories & deaths told through the eyes of predecessors & peers training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary. From the Persian Queen Atossa whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation & chemotherapy & Mukherjee's own leukemia patient Carla The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic bruising & draining regimes to survive & to increase the store of human knowledge. Riveting & magesterial The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments & a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors scientists philosophers & lay people have observed & understood the human body for millennia.

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In February 1940 the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lodz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman & orphanage director & the elusive authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto's very existence. From one of Scandinavia's most critically acclaimed & bestselling authors The Emperor of Lies" chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter of a million Jews. Drawing on the chronicles of life in the Lodz ghetto Steve Sem-Sandberg captures the full panorama of human resilience & questions the nature of good & evil." ...

Like his father before him Octavio runs the Notre-Dame bakery & knows the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette. But also like his father Octavio has never mastered the art of reading & his only knowledge of the world beyond the bakery door comes from his own imagination. Just a few streets away Isabeau works out of sight in the basement of the Louvre trying to forget her disfigured beauty by losing herself in the paintings she restores & the stories she reads. The two might never have met but for a curious chain of coincidences involving an impoverished painter a jaded bookseller & a book of fairytales lost & found... Evocative romantic & wise this is a magical novel about the power of stories
- to help us find enchantment freedom & sometimes even love.
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A plague is attacking the Cerani Empire: as the geometric patterns cover the skin so the victims fall under the power of the Pattern Master. Only three people stand in his way: a lost prince a world-weary killer & a young girl who once saw a path through the waving grass. ...

Read it yourself" is a learning to read series of classic traditional stories with four levels of difficulty to suit the stage your child is at with reading. Written in a simple way for young readers they will build their confidence in learning to read as they progress through each level. Familiar fairytales & exciting stories will amuse children & encourage them to progress further with this series & become confident readers. Each book in the Read it yourself with Ladybird series is carefully structured to include many everyday words that are vital for first reading/beginner readers. They also contain clear beautiful pictures for extra support & interest. Extra puzzle questions at the end of each book further help with comprehension. This " Read it yourself version of The Emperors New Clothes" is a level 1 title & so is suitable for children who are beginning to learn to read. The story is told simply using short sentences & a small number of frequently repeated words." ...

Step into the magical world of Childs Play fairy tales... Traditional tales are a well-established part of all cultures. Retold from the originals these lively stories will captivate readers with their delightful illustrations & fun lift-up flaps which really add to the action. The flip-up flaps encourage prediction & discussion & well-known stories will give young readers confidence. ...

A heretic thief is the empires only hope in this fascinating tale that inhabits the same world as the popular novel Elantis. Shai is a Forger a foreigner who can flawlessly copy & re-create any item by rewriting its history with skilful magic. Condemned to death after trying to steal the emperors sceptre she is given one opportunity to save herself. Though her skill as a Forger is considered an abomination by her captors Shai will attempt to create a new soul for the emperor who is almost dead. Probing deeply into his life she discovers Emperor Ashravans truest nature -- & the opportunity to exploit it. Her only possible ally is one who is truly loyal to the emperor but councillor Gaotona must overcome his prejudices to understand that Shais forgery is as much artistry as it is deception. Brimming with magic & political intrigue this deftly woven fantasy delves into the essence of a living spirit. ...

The Emperors Tomb is a magically evocative haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire & to the passing of time & the loss of youth & friends. Prophetic & regretful intuitive & exact Roths acclaimed novel is the tale of one mans struggle to come to terms with the uncongenial society of post-First World War Vienna & the first intimations of Nazi barbarities. ...