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How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of comic books, humourists, historians, biographers, nature writers, film writers, travel writers, writers young and old and from an extraordinary range of backgrounds. Most are famous perhaps because they have won the Booker or other literary prizes, written bestsellers, changed the face of popular culture or sold millions of records. Others are not yet household names but write with depth of insight and feeling.There is some extraordinary writing in this book. Some of these pieces are expressions of love of particular places in Europe. Some are true stories, some nostalgic, some hopeful. Some are cries of pain. There are hilarious pieces. There are cries of pain and regret. Some pieces are quietly devastating. All are passionate.Conceived as a love letter to Europe, this book may also help reawaken love for Britain. It shows the unique richness and diversity of British cultures, a multitude of voices in harmony.Contributors include:Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Philip Ardagh, Jake Arnott, Patricia Atkinson, Paul Atterbury, Richard Beard, Mary Beard, Don Boyd, Melvyn ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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An uplifting, funny adventure of family, faith and a very annoying alien from master storyteller and UK Children's Laureate 2024–2026 Frank Cottrell Boyce, with illustrations throughout by Steven Lenton.

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Funny, exciting and brilliantly clever, Frank Cottrell-Boyce''s Millions is a fantastic adventure about two boys, one miracle and a million choices. Perfect for boys and girls of 8 to 12.What would you do with a million pounds? Buy a thousand pizzas? Give it to charity?When a bag stuffed full of money drops out of the sky, Damian and Anthony And themselves rich. Very rich indeed. Suddenly the brothers can buy anything they want. They''ve got millions - but only seventeen days to spend it.An incredible tale of brothers and lots and lots of pizza, Millions won the CILIP Carnegie medal and is celebrating twenty years of bestselling success.This edition of Frank Cottrell-Boyce''s Carnegie Medal-winning Millions features fantastic cover artwork from the brilliant Steven Lenton.Millions is also a major film directed by Oscar-winner Danny Boyle.''Fresh, funny, touching and wise'' – The Times

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The UK Children''s Laureate 2024-2026, Frank Cottrell-Boyce presents . . . The Wonder Brothers!''A writer of comic genius - he has something of Roald Dahl''s magic, but more heart'' - Sunday TelegraphBudding magicians everywhere, prepare to be dazzled and astounded by the laugh-out-loud adventure written by multi-award-winner Frank Cottrell-Boyce and illustrated throughout by Steven Lenton.It''s . . . SHOW TIME!Drum roll please for Nathan (that''s me) and Middy (that''s her). We are . . . The Wonder Brothers!Cousins Middy and Nathan love magic, the on-stage, cape-swirling, bunny-out-of-a-hat kind. So, when the famous Blackpool Tower dramatically vanishes the night of the Big Switch-On, showman Nathan announces live on TV that they will magic it back home.With a stick of rock, a spangly cape, and a bit of misdirection, they end up lost in Las Vegas, home to the grand master of illusion, and magic legend, Perplexion. But, with a great illusionist, comes great mystery – and , in Las Vegas, nothing is as it seems . . .

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Winner of the 2012 Guardian Children''s Fiction Prize, this is a stunning and magical story of a summer of friendship which also explores the plight of refugees by the 2024–2026 UK Children''s Laureate.From the award-winning author of Millions comes a story of friendship in the midst of adversity. Winner of the 2012 Guardian Children''s Fiction Prize, this magical and poignant book is enriched by stunning and atmospheric Polaroid photos.Two refugee brothers from Mongolia are determined to fit in with their Liverpool schoolmates, but bring so much of Mongolia to Bootle that their new friend and guide, Julie, is hard-pressed to know truth from fantasy. Told with the humour, warmth and brilliance of detail which characterizes Frank Cottrell-Boyce''s writing, readers will be transported from the streets of Liverpool to the steppe of Mongolia.

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''He has something of Roald Dahl''s magic, but more heart'' - Sunday TelegraphA stunning cover by Steven Lenton for the paperback edition of Cosmic, the laugh-out-loud space adventure by bestselling, award-winner Frank Cottrell-Boyce.Liam Digby wanted to see the world, but not quite like this . . . He''s just an ordinary twelve-year-old. A very, very TALL ordinary twelve-year-old. Some people even think he''s a grown-up.This is the incredible story of how Liam told some fibs, won a trip to a theme park, made some new friends and sort of, by accident, ended up in space.A laugh-out-loud adventure of friendship, big dreams and an even bigger rocket, shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.

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''A writer of comic genius – he has something of Roald Dahl''s magic, but more heart'' – The Sunday TelegraphThe perfect crime - it''s a work of art, in bestselling, award-winning Frank Cottrell Boyce''s funny, touching story, Framed. Cover illustration by award-winner Steven Lenton.Dylan has accidentally been caught up in the crime of the century. Up until now he''s been bored stiff, as the only boy living in the tiny Welsh town of Manod, with only his chickens for company.Until one day, he spots a mysterious convoy of lorries heading straight for the disused mines. They''re carrying a very precious cargo and when Dylan decides to investigate, he is quickly thrown headlong into the greatest art heist in history . . . probably.A laugh-out-loud story about a very unlikely crime, shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie medal and the Blue Peter Book Award.''Ingeniously comic'' – Independent

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Hilarious and heartwarming adventure by bestselling, award winner Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Gorgeously illustrated in black and white throughout by Steven Lenton.

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A funny and heartwarming adventure from award-winning author and UK Children's Laureate 2024–2026, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, with illustrations by Steven Lenton.

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When the Prime Minister begins making Ted''s great ideas a reality, he suddenly has a lot of responsibility on his shoulders … A hilarious comedy caper from Waterstones Children''s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce.Ted thinks there’s something fishy going on. Ever since his birthday when he got a special loyalty card at the local shop, all his great ideas are being thought of by the new Prime Minister too. Now there’s laws about walking to school and everyone has Mondays off! Could the shop’s market research lady have anything to do with it? And if Ted has become a Leader, shouldn’t he start thinking up proper laws to save the world…Particularly suitable for readers aged 7+ with a reading age of 7.

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''Brilliantly entertaining & thought provoking . . . I am in total awe.'' David Walliams''Proper, sparkly, witty, enticing storytelling . . . It''s perfect.'' Hilary McKayPacked with mystery, adventure and laughs, Noah''s Gold is the exciting novel from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Millions and Cosmic, Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Fully illustrated in black and white throughout by Steven Lenton, this is perfect for readers of 9+.Being the smallest doesn''t stop you having the biggest ideas.Eleven-year old Noah sneaks along on his big sister''s geography field trip. Everything goes wrong! Six kids are marooned on an uninhabited island. Their teacher has vanished. They''re hungry. Their phones don''t work and Noah has broken the internet. There''s no way of contacting home . . . Disaster!Until Noah discovers a treasure map and the gang goes in search of gold.''A writer of comic genius - he has something of Roald Dahl’s magic, but more heart'' – Sunday Telegraph''Joyous writing. Wonderful characters. Authentic humour. Heart & soul. So Much Fun. And, oh, the dialogue! Just love it! Pure class'' Jenny Pearson, author of The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates

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''A writer of comic genius - he has something of Roald Dahl''s magic, but more heart'' - Sunday TelegraphNo matter how big the show – family, friendship and adventure shine through in The Wonder Brothers by multi-award-winning author Frank Cottrell-Boyce, illustrated throughout by Steven Lenton.Cousins Middy and Nathan love magic. The on-stage, cape-swirling, bunny-out-of-a-hat kind.For Middy, it’s all about patience and practice. She uses magic skills to help her out of tricky situations.Nathan is a show-off and a total danger magnet, he is drawn to the sensation, spectacle and audience.So when the famous Blackpool Tower dramatically vanishes the night of the Grand Lights Switch-On, showman Nathan announces live on TV that they will magic it back home.With a stick of rock, a spangly cape, and a bit of misdirection, they end up lost in Las Vegas, home to the grand master of illusion, Perplexion, ‘Legend of Magic’.Full of tricks, twists and deceptions, the delightful Nathan and Middy will keep you guessing until the very end.

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Packed with fun illustrations by Joe Berger, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again is the hilarious sequel to Ian Fleming''s much loved children''s classic, by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the author of the Carnegie Medal-winning Millions.When the Tooting family find a vast abandoned engine and fit it to their camper van, they have no idea of the adventure that lies ahead. The engine used to belong to an extraordinary flying car - and it wants to be back on the road again . . . fast! The Tootings can haul on the steering wheel and pull the handbrake as hard as they like, but their camper van now has a mind of her own. It''s not long before they''re hurtling along on a turbocharged chase as Chitty tracks down her long-lost bodywork. But there are sinister forces at work too. When it comes to a car as special as Chitty, everybody wants a piece of her . . .

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Hilarious and heartwarming adventure by bestselling, award winner Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Gorgeously illustrated in black and white throughout by Steven Lenton.

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''Proper, sparkly, witty, enticing storytelling . . . It''s perfect.'' – Hilary McKay, author of The Skylarks'' WarPacked with mystery, adventure and laughs, Noah''s Gold is the exciting novel from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Millions and Cosmic, Frank Cottrell-Boyce.Fully illustrated in black and white throughout by Steven Lenton, this is perfect for readers of 9+.Being the smallest doesn''t stop you having the biggest ideas.Eleven-year old Noah sneaks along on his big sister''s geography field trip. But everything goes wrong! Six kids are marooned on an uninhabited island. Their teacher has vanished. They''re hungry. Their phones don''t work and Noah has broken the internet. There''s no way of contacting home . . . Disaster!Until Noah discovers a treasure map and the gang goes in search of gold.''A writer of comic genius - he has something of Roald Dahl’s magic, but more heart'' – Sunday Telegraph

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Co byste dělali, kdybyste vedle vlakové trati našli pytel nacpaný spoustou peněz? To je otázka, která trápí hlavní hrdiny Boyceova románu, čtvrťáka Damiana a páťáka Anthonyho. Popravdě řečeno, trápí se vlastně jenom Damian, který je "posedlý" konáním dobra. Měl by bohatství, které mu tak nečekaně spadlo do klína, rozdat chudým? Nebo je raději odvézt do ještě chudší Afriky? To Anthony si s podobnými morálními dilematy hlavu zrovna dvakrát neláme. Podle něj je ze všeho nejlepší peníze jednoduše utratit, a to co nejrychleji. Ostatně Británie má za pár týdnů stejně přejít na euro, takže když peníze nepoužijí oni dva, budou za chvíli bezcenné. Totéž si ovšem uvědomují i ti, kteří onen pytel s librami "ztratili", a tak začíná napínavá honička. Britský spisovatel a filmový scenárista získal za svou originální románovou prvotinu, která rozhodně pobaví i dospělé čtenáře, řadu literárních ocenění, nejvýznamnější z nich, Carnegie Medal, mu byla udělena v roce 2004. Uznávaný britský režisér Danny Boyle, z jehož tvorby lze jmenovat např. filmy jako Mělký hrob, Trainspotting, Pláž či letošního oscarového Milionáře z chatrče, podle ní natočil stejnojmenný celovečerní film. Pro čtenáře od 14 let.

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‘It''s true that you can''t buy love or happiness with money, but it is interesting to see what you can buy.'' When a bag stuffed full of ten pound notes comes hurtling out of the sky and lands a Damian''s feet, he doesn''t realise at first how hard it will be to spend it all. And he has to spend it quickly because in seventeen days time the Euro will be introduced and it will be worthless. Damian wants to use the money to do good deeds, but his brother Anthony, with his eye for an investment has other ideas. “Written with charm and humour, this is a touching, absorbing oddity of a book about love, grief, avarice and generosity.” – The Sunday Times

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The world-renowned Zen monk argues for a more mindful, spiritual approach to environmental protection and activism—one that recognizes people and planet as one and the same While many experts point to the enormous complexity in addressing issues ranging from the destruction of ecosystems to the loss of millions of species, Thich Nhat Hanh identifies one key issue as having the potential to create a tipping point. He believes that we need to move beyond the concept of the “environment,” as it leads people to experience themselves and Earth as two separate entities and to see the planet only in terms of what it can do for them. Thich Nhat Hanh points to the lack of meaning and connection in peoples’ lives as being the cause of our addiction to consumerism. He deems it vital that we recognize and respond to the stress we are putting on the Earth if civilization is to survive. Rejecting the conventional economic approach, Nhat Hanh shows that mindfulness and a spiritual revolution are needed to protect nature and limit climate change. Love Letter to the Earth is a hopeful book that gives us a path to follow by showing that change is possible only with ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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A Love Letter to Football is the story of how the beautiful game, from the litter-strewn pitches of the grassroots to packed stadiums at the top of the sport, can help carry us through our darkest days. In 2016, Mark Davies was diagnosed with a rare and incurable blood cancer. A lifelong supporter of Middlesbrough Football Club, his devotion to the club and passion for a game so cherished by billions of people has been essential in helping him navigate the uncertainty of diagnosis and treatment. It’s been a fundamental part of his life in other ways too, from dealing with depression to fatherhood, not to mention some of the trials and tribulations of life’s broader challenges.This honest, funny and entertaining account of a life-changing experience, love for a football club and the way the game has been a bedrock throughout his life underlines that football may not be more important than life and death, but the joy and ecstasy it can bring – even for a Middlesbrough fan – really can help when times are hard.

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A heartwarming picture book love letter to libraries and all the moments that make them so special!Everyone loves visiting the library! Children-and adults alike-enjoy searching the shelves for new adventures, curling up in their favorite cozy chair during story time, and even laughing with their friends during arts and crafts. The library has something for everybody!Thank you, library, for books in every nook and cranny.Thank you, library, for taking me on adventures from the seas to the stars.Thank you, library, for helpers who find the perfect book that I hug hard the whole way home.

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From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Kandi Steiner comes a new edition of this #BestofBookTok favorite - an angsty and powerful story of lovers continually fighting the curse of bad timing. Preorder now and receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while supplies last, featuring gorgeous sprayed edges, exclusive special design features, and never before seen bonus content.Brecks Kennedy has spent years writing the story of her life, but there’s one chapter that never quite closed… Jamie Shaw. It all started with a jog, a clumsy collision, and an instant crush. But while B’s heart skipped a beat, Jamie’s eyes found her best friend instead. And just like that, her crush became her closest friend. Bound by shared moments of music, surfing, and secrets, their connection is undeniable, even as they desperately try to fight it. But between college campuses, chance encounters, and stolen moments, fate has a way of bringing them together when they least expect it, time and time again. As they wrestle with their feelings and the choices that have kept them apart, both B and Jamie must decide if they are finally willing to risk everything for the love that’s always been just out of ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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This iconic tree once covered great swathes of Europe and North America; now all but a handful have been wiped out by Dutch Elm Disease. This is the story of our attempt to save the elm, and how its legacy lives on in our mythology and folklore.

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‘Melvyn not only makes you think … he makes it enjoyable too. He’s brilliant.’ – John Humphrys, the Today Programme. ‘In a troubled world where many sneer at experts, In Our Time is always a treat. Those who know what they're talking about, talk about it, and they do it under the benevolent if occasionally testy guidance of one who knows how to bring out the best in them. Listen, read, mark, and inwardly digest; agreeable glass of accompanying refreshment optional.’ - Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch 'This beautifully produced and expertly edited book is a wonderfully rich and varied sample of 50 In Our Time programmes, from ancient Greek philosophy to dark matter via the gin craze. It will whet your appetite to visit or revisit the many hundreds of other programmes in this remarkable series.' - Professor Angela Hobbs 'Bragg gives short shrift to pretension of any kind, while remaining stalwart in his search for knowledge. His methodology in In Our Time is... not unlike that of a man throwing a stick at a dog: he chucks his questions ahead, and if the chosen academic fails to bring it right back, he chides them. He retains enough of his bluff ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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''Melvyn Bragg''s account of the passionate and painful love affair between the 12th century radical theologian, Peter Abelard, and the brilliant young convent-educated Eloise springs magnificently to life . . . Thrilling.'' Piers Plowright, Tablet Paris in 1117. Heloise, a brilliant young scholar, is astonished when the famous, radical philosopher, Peter Abelard, consents to be her tutor. But what starts out as a meeting of minds turns into a passionate, dangerous love affair, which incurs terrible retribution. Nine centuries later, Arthur is in Paris to recreate the extraordinary story of Heloise and Abelard in a novel. To his surprise, his daughter visits and agrees to help, challenging his portraits of a couple who seem often inscrutable, sometimes breathtakingly modern. It soon emerges she is on her own mission to discover more about her parents'' fractured relationship - and that Arthur''s connection to his subject is more emotional than he cares to admit.

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Melvyn Bragg''s first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which vividly evokes a vanished world.''The best thing he''s ever written . . . What a world he captures here. You can almost smell it'' Rachel Cooke, Observer''Wonderfully rich, endearing and unusual . . . a balanced, honest picture'' Richard Benson, Mail on SundayIn this elegiac and heartfelt memoir, Melvyn Bragg recreates his youth in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton: a working-class boy who expected to leave school at fifteen yet who gained a scholarship to Oxford University; who happily roamed the streets and raided orchards with his gang of friends until a breakdown in adolescence drove him to find refuge in books.Vividly evoking the post-war era, Bragg draws an indelible portrait of all that formed him: a community-spirited northern town, still steeped in the old ways; the Lake District landscapes that inspired him; and the many remarkable people in his close-knit world. ''A charming account of a lost era, full of details and often lyrical descriptions of people and places . . . fascinating and often moving'' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times

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''Melvyn Bragg''s account of the passionate and painful love affair between the 12th century radical theologian, Peter Abelard, and the brilliant young convent-educated Eloise springs magnificently to life . . . Thrilling.'' Piers Plowright, Tablet Within the Cloisters of Notre-Dame, a charismatic philosopher and a young woman renowned for her scholarship embark on an ardent, secret affair. It will send shockwaves through Paris, incur savage retribution and lead to years of separation, though nothing will break the bond between them.Bringing the true story of Heloise and Abelard to vivid life, this engrossing novel conveys the powerful emotions and beliefs that drove them. It captures a couple who defied the conventions and religious orthodoxies of their times with striking audacity, and illuminates why their extraordinary tale still resonates today.

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Margaret Drabble on the RomanticsHerself a literary luminary, Drabble illuminates how this love of place fashioned some of the RomanticsÂ’ greatest works. She considers the resonances of myth and legend, art and earlier literature that the Romantics found in places such as North Wales and Cornwall, and investigates how their writing has, in turn, shaped our visual attitudes, taste in landscape and relation to nature.

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The first serious study on the paintings of the female icon and one of the most celebrated British artists, Tracey Emin Dame Tracey Emin DBE is known for her frank, confessional style and for transforming her inner world into intimate works of art. She has become one of the most celebrated artists in the world, a household name, and part of the Art establishment. Her practice includes painting, drawing, film, photography, sewn appliqué, sculpture, and neon, but in recent years she has focused on painting. Inspired by artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch, her paintings are provocative, confrontational, and vulnerable. They are at once deeply personal and universal, and it’s for this reason her work is revered around the world, and she has become an international icon. The book features more than 300 images of Emin’s gestural and expressive figurative paintings, from the 1990s to today, as well as a conversation with close friend David Dawson and an essay by Australian writer Jennifer Higgie. Made in close collaboration with the artist, this special book is the first publication dedicated to Emin’s emotive paintings and showcases her soulful work like never before.

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Historical introduction to William Tyndale and his continuing influence on the world and how we see it.

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A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work.In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Their aim: to collect the wisdom of the sages and mystics of the Byzantine East before their fragile world shattered under the eruption of Islam. Almost 1500 years later, using the writings of John Moschos as his guide, William Dalrymple set off to retrace their footsteps.Taking in a civil war in Turkey, the ruins of Beirut, the tensions of the West Bank and a fundamentalist uprising in Egypt, William Dalrymple's account is a stirring elegy to the dying civilisation of Eastern Christianity.

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‘Could you show me a djinn?’ I asked. ‘Certainly,’ replied the Sufi. ‘But you would run away.’From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted ‘The Return of a King’, this is William Dalrymple’s captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous invisible djinns. Lodging with the beady-eyed Mrs Puri and encountering an extraordinary array of characters – from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj – William Dalrymple comes to know the bewildering city intimately.He pursues Delhi’s interlacing layers of history along narrow alleys and broad boulevards, brilliantly conveying its intoxicating mix of mysticism and mayhem.‘City of Djinns’ is an astonishing and sensitive portrait of a city, and confirms William Dalrymple as one of the most compelling explorers of India’s past and present.

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In her witty, masterful debut novel, Margaret Drabble conjures a gripping story of sibling rivalry. Louise, beautiful and sophisticated, marries wealthy novelist Stephen Fairfax. Sarah, recently graduated from Oxford, is thrown back into family matters. Louise''s life becomes one of parties, gossip columns and glamour. Sarah, now in London, begins to discover a newfound freedom, only glimpsing her sister''s fashionable life. But as rumours of infidelity in Louise''s marriage surface, Sarah finds that her sister, beneath her cool exterior, may not be the woman she thought she was.''Margaret Drabble''s early novels were intimate and sprightly chronicles of the small dissatisfactions and small triumphs of young women like herself'' - Hilary Mantel

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A fresh take on one of contemporary art’s most renowned figures Tracey Emin (b. 1963) is widely known for dynamic and autobiographical works that reflect grief, hope, loss, and love. For more than three decades, her art has challenged stereotypes about female experience and sexuality. Rising up with a cohort dubbed the Young British Artists (YBAs), Emin made her mark in London with sculptural installations that became icons of the 1990s. She went on to explore an exceptional range of media, becoming famous for her neon and textile works. Yet Emin has long thought of painting as central to her artistic practice and since the early 2000s has intensified her focus on the medium in large-scale figurative works rooted in emotion and bodily experience. Published to accompany Emin’s first major exhibition in North America, this generously illustrated volume features an exclusive interview with the artist, places her work in its art-historical context, and opens new avenues for approaching her painting and closely related drawing practice.  Published by the Yale Center for British Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: Yale Center for British Art(March 29–August 10, 2025)

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Liam has always had trouble keeping his feet on the ground. Being 239,000 miles from earth doesn''t make it any easier.

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From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted ‘Return of a King’, the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa – ‘Most Excellent among Women’ – the great-niece of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad. He fell in love with her and overcame many obstacles to marry her, converting to Islam and, according to Indian sources, becoming a double-agent working against the East India Company.It is a remarkable story, but such things were not unknown: from the early sixteenth century to the eve of the Indian Mutiny, the ‘white Mughals’ who wore local dress and adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassment to successive colonial administrations. Dalrymple unearths such colourful figures as ‘Hindoo Stuart’, who travelled with his own team of Brahmins to maintain his temple of idols, and Sir David Auchterlony, who took all 13 of his Indian wives out for evening promenades, each on the back of her own elephant.In ‘White Mughals’, William Dalrymple discovers a world almost entirely unexplored by history, and places at its centre ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in ‘City of Djinns’, returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying India’s first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet; and a palace where port and cigars are still carried to guests on a miniature silver steam train.Dalrymple meets such figures as Imran Khan and Benazir Bhutto; he witnesses the macabre nightly offering to the bloodthirsty goddess Parashakti – She Who Is Seated on a Throne of Five Corpses; he experiences caste massacres in the badlands of Bihar and dines with a drug baron on the North-West Frontier; he discovers such oddities as the terrorist apes of Jaipur and the shrine where Lord Krishna is said to make love every night to his 16,108 wives and 64,732 milkmaids.‘The Age of Kali’ is the fourth fascinating volume from the author of ‘In Xanadu’, ‘City of Djinns’ and ‘From the Holy Mountain’.

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The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation.Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this.''Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory'' TelegraphTracey Emin''s Strangeland is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own, private-public life in present-day London. Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life. A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind.''As spare and poignant as one of Emin''s line drawings'' Marie Claire

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The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation.Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this.''Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory'' TelegraphTracey Emin''s Strangeland is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own, private-public life in present-day London. Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life. A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind.''As spare and poignant as one of Emin''s line drawings'' Marie Claire

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One hot summer afternoon in South Yorkshire, Faro sits at a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has travelled from London to the Northern mining town where generations of her family have lived and worked, to explore her own past. Decades before, in the early twentieth century, Bessie Bawtry also ponders her place in the world. A child of unusual determination and precocious intelligence, she longs for the day she will eventually escape the working-class life her ancestor would never have dreamt of leaving.The Peppered Moth explores the way we are shaped by our environment and ancestry, told with elegant prose, wry humour and captivating storytelling, through the story of one family across generations through the twentieth century.''Margaret Drabble is writing, not about an individual, but about a generation, or two, or more - of women . . . This is a sad tale, tenderly told, embedded in a robust family chronicle'' - Doris Lessing

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THE FINAL NOVEL IN ''ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED LITERARY SERIES IN RECENT TIMES'' (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)''Eclipses anything Bragg has written before''Daily Mirror''Utterly absorbing''Scotsman''A terrific book''Daily Mail''A powerful novel that communicates difficult emotional truths''The TimesA passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the sixties. From its tentative early stages, the relationship develops into a life-changing one, whose profound impact continues to reverberate forty years later.

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The Pure Gold Baby is the story of Anna, a little girl with a luminescent quality, her mother, Jess, and the community that envelops them. A happy child, Anna is the unchanging core of this journey spanning decades and continents through the lives of those that love her.This profoundly engaging portrait of family, friendship, and the way we care for each other is a powerful reminder, if one were needed, of Margaret Drabble''s literary greatness.

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''This is historical fiction with a human face''Peter Ackroyd, The Times''A vivid and erudite tour de force''Penelope Lively, Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger''A skilled, ornate and convincing examination of a nineteenth-century scandal in Bragg''s own Cumbria''Thomas Keneally, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler''s ArkSet in the Lake District in the early nineteenth century, this is a riveting story of love and deception, and a scandal that shook the entire nation.

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Autorka úspěšné série knih o Harrym Potterovi, J. K. Rowlingová, vydá v září svůj první román pro dospělé, který se bude jmenovat The Casual Vacancy (Prázdné místo). Podle jejího vydavatele Little, Brown půjde o černou komedii situovanou do anglického města Pagfordu, které není tak idylické, jak se na první pohled zdá.Román se vyznačuje černou komikou, nutí k přemýšlení a neustále překvapuje, uvádí se v prohlášení nakladatelství. Pagford je zdánlivě idylické anglické městečko s dlážděným náměstím a starobylým opatstvím, ale za hezkou fasádou je město ve válce, naznačuje děj nakladatel. Bohatí jsou ve válce s chudými, teenageři s rodiči, manželky s manželi, učitelé se žáky.Zápletka začíná úmrtím čtyřicátníka Barryho Fairweathera, které obyvatele městečka šokuje. Prázdné místo, které po Barrym zůstane v radě farnosti, se brzy stane katalyzátorem pro největší válku, jakou město zažilo. Kdo bude triumfovat ve volbách provázených vášněmi, pokrytectvím a nečekanými odhaleními? píše nakladatelství Little, Brown. Již v únoru Rowlingová řekla, že její příští kniha bude velmi odlišná od série s Harrym Potterem. Současně tehdy zdůraznila, že úspěch knih o čarodějnickém učni jí přinesl svobodu prozkoumat nová území.Pro spisovatele zavedeného jako autor pro děti může být přechod k literatuře pro dospělé obtížný. Například A. A. Milne býval úspěšným dramatikem, ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Originální pohádkový příběh od věhlasné autorky, která napsala sérii Harry Potter | Napínavé vyprávění plné naděje, které ilustrovalo 34 českých dětí. Království jménem Přehršlánie bývalo nejšťastnější na světě. Oplývalo spoustou zlata, zdejší král měl nejkrásnější knír ze všech a po místních dobrotách lidé tančili blahem. Jen v mlžném Mokřadu na severu žil podle legendy strašlivý Ikabog. Všichni věděli, že jsou to povídačky, ale ty někdy začnou žít vlastním životem. Co když se taková legenda rozhodne srazit království na kolena a unést dvě děti ve víru dobrodružství, o které ani za mák nestály? Ikabog je původní pohádka, kterou J. K. Rowlingová napsala před více než deseti lety a četla ji před spaním svým dvěma menším dětem. Přestože se jí samotné příběh moc líbil, časem se smířila s tím, že jej budou znát jen její děti. K vydání oblíbeného rodinného příběhu se rozhodla právě teď, aby pobavila děti, rodiče a opatrovníky uvězněné doma během pandemie Covid-19. Příběh je zamýšlen k předčítání, je zasazen do vymyšleného království a jde o samostatný text, který nijak nesouvisí s jinými knihami autorky, přestože obsahuje témata, kterým se J. K. Rowlingová často věnuje.

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In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business.William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.

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India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific. William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India’s oft­forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world. From the largest Hindu temple in the world at Angkor Wat to the Buddhism of China, from the trade that helped fund the Roman Empire to the creation of the numerals we use today (including zero).

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This tender and moving rhyming poem, illustrated by Catalina Echeverri, is both a love letter to Lisa''s own daughters and a testament to the unwavering strength of parental love, a timeless message for families facing the challenges of bereavement. See also 9781802581614.

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One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of 'Return of a King', which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan's stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the width of Asia, along dusty, forgotten roads, through villages and cities full of unexpected hospitality and wildly improbable escapades, to Coleridge's Xanadu itself.At once funny and knowledgeable, In Xanadu is in the finest tradition of British travel writing. Told with an exhilarating blend of eloquence, wit, poetry and delight, it is already established as a classic of its kind.

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A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand. Although single parenthood is still not socially acceptable, she chooses to have the baby rather than to seek an illegal abortion, and finds her life transformed by motherhood. ''Rosamund is marvellous, a true Drabble heroine . . . what spirit is here'' Sunday Times''One of our foremost women writers'' Guardian''The novelist who will have done for late twentieth-century London what Dickens did for Victorian London'' The New York Times

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Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Millstone is a radical celebration of the mother-child relationship. It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and becomes pregnant as a result of a one-night stand. Although single parenthood is still not socially acceptable, she chooses to have the baby rather than to seek an illegal abortion, and finds her life transformed by motherhood.''Rosamund is marvellous, a true Drabble heroine'' - Sunday Times

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