Stunning reissue of an international bestseller from the author of ' The Joy Luck Club' & ' The Bonesetter's Daughter'. Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan her older sister from China comes to live with the family & turns her life upside down bombarding her day & night with ghostly stories of strange ancestors from the world of Yin. Olivia just wants to lead a normal American life. For the next thirty years Olivia endures visits from Kwan & her ghosts who appear in the living world to offer advice on everything from restaurants to Olivia's failed marriage. But just when she cannot bear it any more the revelations of a tragic family secret finally open her mind to the startling truths hidden in Kwan's unorthodox vision of the world. ...

Packed with fascinating & enthralling historical information this book shows how the village of Bisley in Surrey has been endowed with a remarkably long & eventful history all the more surprising for it remains one of the smallest civil parishes in the county. Each chapter covers a specific aspect of the village in a way that the reader will find so much more absorbing than a chronological series of events. Who can fail to be allured by the tale of Bisley Detached for example (which is completely isolated from the rest of the village) or the inside-out" building the Grade Two Listed hole in the ground the witchcraft trial or the bird bath used at baptisms? Some of the village folk are no less interesting: The miscreants benefactors indolent hard-working & the poverty-stricken
- their stories are all here. Even the title of the book is taken from a chapter which records that this disparaging epithet was made on more than one occasion."
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Divided Houses" is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III a senile pathetic symbol of Englands past conquests was condemned to see them overrun by the armies of his enemies. When he died in 1377 he was succeeded by a vulnerable child who was destined to grow into a neurotic & unstable adult presiding over a divided nation. Meanwhile France entered upon one of the most glittering periods of her medieval history years of power & ceremony astonishing artistic creativity & famous warriors making their reputations as far afield as Naples Hungary & North Africa. Contemporaries in both countries believed that they were living through memorable times: times of great wickedness & great achievement of collective mediocrity but intense personal heroism of extremes of wealth & poverty fortune & failure. At a distance of six centuries as Jonathan Sumption skilfully & meticulously shows it is possible to agree with all of these judgments." ...

The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji a boy from Mumbai who embarks along with his boisterous family on a picaresque journey first to London & then across Europe before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a famous chef Madame Mallory in the remote French village of Lumiere. A culinary war ensues pitting Hassans Mumbai-toughened father against the imperious Michelin-starred cordon bleu until Madame Mallory realizes that Hassan is a cook with natural talents far superior to her own. ...

The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong has become a children's classic! From The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog to karate princesses & hot cross bottoms there's a Jeremy Strong story to suit every child's sense of humour. Jeremy's readers range from 7 to teen perfect for fans of Roald Dahl & Andy Stanton. Streaker is a mixed-up kind of dog.. .with quite a bit of Ferrari & a large chunk of whirlwind. Streaker is no ordinary dog. She's a rocket on four legs with a woof attached & Trevor has got until the end of the holidays to train her. If he fails he'll lose his bet with horrible Charlie Smugg & something very very yucky involving frogspawn will happen... Award-winning Jeremy Strong has written many wacky books for children aged 7-teen including My Dad's Got an Alligator & My Brother's Famous Bottom. Most of which are illustrated by Nick Sharratt who also illustrates for Jacqueline Wilson! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog is back causing more chaos & getting into more trouble in Return of the Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Lost! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Wanted! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Christmas Chaos for the Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog & The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Goes for Gold
- guaranteed to have you laughing your socks off!
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Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky
- a palace above the clouds where gods & mortals lives are intertwined. There to her shock Yeine is named one of the potential heirs to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won & Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with a pair of cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mothers death & her familys bloody history. But its not just mortals who have secrets worth hiding & Yeine will learn how perilous the world can be when love & hate
- & gods & mortals
- are bound inseparably.


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It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there. But as it turns out Allan is not... Slowly but surely Allan climbs out of his bedroom window into the flowerbed (in his slippers) & makes his getaway. & so begins his picaresque & unlikely journey involving criminals several murders a suitcase full of cash & incompetent police. As his escapades unfold we learn something of Allan's earlier life in which
- remarkably
- he helped to make the atom bomb became friends with American presidents Russian tyrants & Chinese leaders & was a participant behind the scenes in many key events of the twentieth century. Already a huge bestseller across Europe The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window & Disappeared is a fun feel-good book for all ages.

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From corny quips to putrid puns this pack of cards is just groaning with jokes. Each card is packed with silly riddles funny jokes painful puns & rib-tickling illustrations with the answers to the jokes on the back. It is filled with humorous themes from under the sea to outer space back in time with the dinosaurs or under the bed with the monsters. ...

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