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Big Book format of this popular children's title. Includes teacher's notes for classroom use.

Christmas at Tiffany's is an exciting, globetrotting story of friendship and romance from Karen Swan.Cassie settled down too young, marrying her first serious boyfriend. Now, ten years later, she is betrayed and broken. With her marriage in tatters and no career or home of her own, she needs to work out where she belongs in the world and who she really is. So begins a year-long trial as Cassie leaves her sheltered life in rural Scotland to sta...

An examination of the development of local radio broadcasting and the trend for locally-owned, locally-originated and locally-accountable commercial radio stations to fall into the hands of national and international media groups. Starkey traces the early development of local radio through to present-day digital environments.

The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but it will be twenty-one tumultuous years before Harry discovers the truth about how his father really died and if, in fact, he even was his father. The first in the series, Only Time Will Tell takes a cast of memor...

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A beautiful gift book celebrating the forgotten language of flowers. All over the world, flowers are an integral part of human culture, celebration and remembrance. But, while the aesthetic is obvious, few people are aware that an entire language of flowers exists with every bloom, foliage and plant having a significance, whether it is hazel for reconciliation or ivy for fidelity. Includes a dual dictionary searchable by flower and by emotion,...

She had a big job on Wall Street, a loving husband and an infant son, and a confidence born of intelligence and beauty. But on 9/11, good fortune was no match for catastrophe. When a wall of flame at the World Trade Center burned more than 80 percent of her body, Lauren Manning began a ten-year journey of survival and rebirth that tested her almost beyond human endurance. A 9/11 survivor's awe-inspiring story of how she overcame tragedy and re...

An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories' Independent on Sunday As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological con...

The first in a five part multi-generational family saga and Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. Harry Clifton's epic tale begins in 1920, with the chilling words, 'I was told that my father was killed in the war'. But it will be another twenty years before Harry discovers how his father really died, but who was his father? ONLY TIME WILL TELL takes a cast of memorable characters from the...

Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' Observer How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the c...

Mark Casey has left the rural community where his family has farmed for generations to study for a doctorate in Dublin. To his father, the pursuit isn't work at all and indeed Mark finds himself in pubs and at parties. Then he meets Joanne Lynch, a trainee solicitor. Joanne too has a past to escape and they share the rapture of a new love affair, until tragedy changes everything.

Touch the Gruffalo's terrible tusks, feel his knobbly knees and tickle his purple prickles in this bold, eye-catching book with touch-and-feel elements on every page. My First Gruffalo: Touch-and-Feel is part of the exciting My First Gruffalo series for babies and toddlers, based on the bestselling picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. The nation's favourite bedtime story made perfect for small paws!

The latest in the highly collectible series of question-and-answer books. Questions cover a wide range of subjects - science, nature, geography and history. This book answers a wide range of 'which?' questions and provides further information with fun-filled facts. Ever wondered which is the hottest planet? Or which bird can fly underwater? And just which city is in the sky?

A unique follow-up to the ground-breaking WILD ALPHABET. With wheels to turn, flaps to lift and tabs to pull, this is an exciting and engaging book to introduce early learners to the concept of opposites. 40 lively pages showcase a range of opposing ideas, from the familiar to the downright quirky. This is a book that readers of all ages will treasure and enjoy for years to come.

First instalment in a thrilling new dystopic trilogy set onboard two spaceships on their journey to colonise a New Earth. Combines elements of LORD OF THE FLIES and THE HANDMAID'S TALE.

If this were the only cookbook you owned, neither you nor those you cooked for would ever get bored.' Nigella Lawson Marcella Hazan is widely regarded as one of the greatest Italian cookery writers in the world and The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking is her masterpiece. Aimed at cooks of every level, be they beginners of accomplished chefs, it is an accessible and comprehensive guide to authentic Italian cuisine and should find a place...

In a brutal world, charismatic rebel miner Mack McAsh - a slave by birth - is a man with the courage to stand up for what is right, and the strength to stick by his beliefs. Independent, rebellious Lizzie Hallim, meanwhile, is engaged to Jay Jamisson, the ruthless landlord's son and heir to an exploitative business empire. Born into separate worlds, Mack and Lizzie are thrown together when Mack becomes an enemy of the state and is forced to fl...

A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders' Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians an...

From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the World has ever seen. Roy Jenkins faithfully presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character. In depth analysis and brilliant historical research make this a magnificent one-volume biography of an extraordinary life. In some ways a companion p...

Life, the Universe and Everything: the unimssable The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Three.