When Rosie finds a beautiful silk picture frame decorated with a little princess sitting on an elephant she is soon whisked away on another adventure
- this time in India. But she cant find the little princess. She meets Suvita who tells her that she lives with her uncle because her mother & father are dead & that shes definitely not a princess! Suvita tells Rosie about how before Suvita was born the maharajahs daughter went missing from the palace because she wanted to marry the man who she loved. The maharajah has been sad ever since. Then Suvita tells Rosie about the sari & poem that her mother gave her before she died. With the help of Suvitas friend Anil the girls go in search of the answer to the riddle left to Suvita by her mother. What they find out surprises them all!
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Youve finished Fifty Shades.. . Now treat yourself to Silken Bonds this Christmas. Christmas is never a good time to break up with someone but Tamzin has had enough of Tim; he isnt man enough for her. Bored & frustrated Tamzin agrees to attend a Christmas party hosted by a colleague unaware of how out of hand things will get. Tamzin discovers startling things about her desires
- & she wants to learn more. When she hears about a very special hotel that caters for all tastes Tamzin knows she must stay there. It is at Cheveral Court that Tamzin encounters Guy a man like no other shes ever met before. Will he be the one to take her to the edge?
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When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge's guilty verdict he quietly hopes that a long & arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason expect that he'll be seeing Trent again much sooner than he'd ever imagined. Setting aside his barrister's wig Mason heads to Sandown to don his racing silks. An amateur jockey his true passion is to be found in the saddle on a thoroughbred pounding the turf. But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered -- a pitchfork driven through his chest -- the prime suspect is champion jockey Steve Mitchell & the evidence is overwhelming. Mason reluctant to heed Mitchell's pleas for legal advice soon finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of threat & intimidation & is left fighting a battle of right & wrong & more immediately a battle of life & death...his own. ...

Billy is a bit of a worrier. He worries about hats & shoes. He worries about clouds & rain & giant birds. Most of all he worries about staying at other people's houses. His mum & dad try to help but still Billy worries...until a visit to his grandma's shows him how to overcome his fears with the aid of his imagination
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Charming funny beautifully illustrated this is an hilarious picture book that will resonate with dog lovers both adults & children as they read it together. It is full of visual jokes & it comes complete with a fold-out poster When Lily looks out of her bedroom window she gets the best surprise ever
- a doggy! But this is no normal doggy this is actually an escaped bear. Lilys adventure with doggy is told through a poster Lily has made advertising that shes found a lost dog. Sadly a zookeeper comes to collect Doggy. But the next day Lily has another fantastic surprise & Lilys sadness turns to joy as she seeskitty an escaped tiger in her garden.
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Silly Verse for Kids"
- a hilarious collection of silly poems by Spike Milligan! A collection of the absurd ridiculous sublime
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Designed to take fans of The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths & legends of Middle-earth The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days of the First Age of Tolkien's world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back & in whose events some of them such as Elrond & Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth the first Dark Lord dwelt in Middle-Earth & the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Included in the book are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is a myth of the Creation & in the Valaquenta the nature & powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age & Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age as narrated in The Lord of the Rings. ...

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of first publication a new de luxe edition of The Silmarillion featuring the revised reset text a colour frontispiece illustration bound in special materials & presented in a matching slipcase. The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days of the First Age of Tolkiens world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back & in whose events some of them such as Elrond & Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth the first Dark Lord dwelt in Middle-Earth & the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Included in the book are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is a myth of the Creation & in the Valaquenta the nature & powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age & Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age as narrated in The Lord of the Rings. For the first time we are publishing a deluxe edition of this pivotal work featuring the revised corrected text & including by way of an introduction a fascinating letter written by Tolkien in 1951 in which he gives a full explanation of how he conceived the early Ages of Middle-earth. Quarter-bound & set in a matching slipcase this attractive edition will prove a fine addition to any Tolkien collection. ...

A new hardback edition with a cover design by Tolkien himself to complement the popular Hobbit & Lord of the Rings hardbacks.



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For the first time in paperback a fully illustrated edition of The Silmarillion with colour plates by the celebrated artist Ted Nasmith
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