Pa'nop'ti'con (noun). A circular prison with cells so constructed that the prisoners can be observed at all times. [ Greek panoptos 'seen by all'] Anais Hendricks fifteen is in the back of a police car headed for the Panopticon a home for chronic young offenders. She can't remember the events that led her here but across town a policewoman lies in a coma & there is blood on Anais' school uniform. Smart funny & fierce Anais is a counter-culture outlaw a bohemian philosopher in sailor shorts & a pillbox hat. She is also a child who has been let down or worse by just about every adult she has ever met. The residents of the Panopticon form intense bonds heightened by their place on the periphery & Anais finds herself part of an ad hoc family there. Much more suspicious are the social workers especially Helen who is about to leave her job for an elephant sanctuary in India but is determined to force Anais to confront the circumstances of her birth before she goes. Looking up at the watchtower that looms over the residents Anais knows her fate: she is part of an experiment she always was it's a given a liberty
- a fact. & the experiment is closing in. In language dazzling energetic & pure The Panopticon" introduces us to a heartbreaking young heroine & an incredibly assured & outstanding new voice in fiction."
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Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart funny & fierce but she is also a child who has been let down or worse by just about every adult she has ever met. Sitting in the back of a police car she finds herself headed for the Panopticon a home for chronic young offenders where the social workers are as suspicious as its residents. But Anais cant remember the events that have led her there or why she has blood on her school uniform... ...

Philip Daviess best-selling Lost London 1870-1945 has been described as a publishing phenomenon. Opening windows on a vanished past it captivated modern audiences & was described by John Carey in The Sunday Times as a haunting portal into the bygone life of the capital. Like its predecessor Panoramas of Lost London reproduces historic photographs commissioned by London County Council
- many of them in the early days of photography
- to capture individual buildings & streets that along with their entire neighbourhood were on the threshold of redevelopment. Lost Londons portrayal of whole buildings entire streets & skylines was achieved by scaling the images which often made invisible the wealth of pin-sharp detail contained within the historic photographs. Changes in scale & cropping have have brought to light an astonishing depth of detail: haunting faces from the forgotten past live again hoardings & shopfronts reveal their wares while architectural details & textures leap into focus
- reinforcing the sense of shock & awe" that Marcus Binney identified when reviewing Lost London in The Times. The result is a series of breathtaking visual revelations."


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The darkest secrets of World War II...finally revealed. The number one bestseller returns with his most explosive book to date. Europe is ablaze. America is undecided about joining the fight against Nazism. & James Zennor a brilliant troubled young Oxford don is horrified. He returns one morning from rowing to discover that his wife has disappeared with their young son leaving only a note declaring her continuing love. A frantic search through wartime England leads James across the Atlantic & to one of America's greatest universities its elite clubs & secret societies
- right to the heart of the American establishment. & in his hunt for his family James unearths one of the darkest & deadliest secrets of a world at war...
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It's one of the most dangerous & volatile countries in the world: Yemen. A Middle Eastern hotbed of corruption & insurgency & the perfect training ground for Islamic terrorists When FBI agents John Corey & Kate Mayfield are assigned to overseas posts in Sana'a Yemen's capital city they are tasked with hunting down the high-ranking Al Qaeda operative responsible for the USS Cole bombing. This man known as The Panther is wanted for terrorist acts & multiple murders & the US government is determined to bring him down no matter the cost. As latecomers to a deadly game John & Kate don't know the rules the players or the score. What they do know is that there is more to their assignment than meets the eye
- & that the hunters are about to become the hunted. In an action-packed & terrifying race to take down one of the most ruthless men alive Nelson De Mille reunites readers with his charismatic hero John Corey
- the sixth novel from the series.

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Small children (and lots of adults!) love pants. They love talking about pants. They giggle whenever pants are mentioned. Let's face it
- pants are VERY FUNNY! PANTS is a picture book with a brilliant rhyming text by Giles Andreae & lots of hilarious pictures by Nick Sharratt. As we go through the book we meet lots of different animals people & sometimes inanimate objects each wearing a different kind of pants
- every shape pattern colour size & style that you can think of
- & lots more besides! This book will make children laugh & they will ask for it again & again. PANTS
- which ones are your favourite?



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Small children (and lots of adults!) love pants. They love talking about pants. They giggle whenever pants are mentioned. Let's face it
- Pants are VERY FUNNY! PANTS is a picture book with a brilliant rhyming text by Giles Andreae & lots of hilarious pictures by Nick Sharratt. As we go through the book we meet lots of different animals people & sometimes inanimate objects each wearing a different kind of pants
- every shape pattern colour size & style that you can think of
- & lots more besides! This book will make children laugh & they will ask for it again & again. PANTS
- which ones are your favourite?



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Jess & Fred are finally an 'item'. They have spent the remainder of their summer holidays just as they planned to
- creating fabulous
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A broken heart is hard to mend. & a good heart is practically impossible to find... When Georgia Abbotts fiance cheats on her shes left with a broken heart & the reality of her humdrum life in London. Until someone tells her about a job on Glow magazine: in Sydney. Thats Sydney Australia
- where the welcome is as warm as the weather & the men look like Mel Gibson but taller. Whats she got to lose? So Georgia packs up & ships out Down Under. & at first things seem promising as shes swept up in a whirl of A-list parties dancing & debauchery. But while Australian water may go down the plughole the other way Australian men are
- oh dear
- starting to look all too familiar...


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This is a fantastic new collection from our best-selling poet. Pauls new collection contains a wonderful range of poetry
- mostly
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