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Split into five sections - 'Reading', 'Being', 'Seeing', 'Feeling' and 'Remembering' - CHANGING MY MIND finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays - some published here for the first time - reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas.

Use your very own Peppa Pig pen on the piggy puzzles, games and activities. This title is suitable for encouraging children to start to read by themselves.

A storybook that is based on the number one and award-winning preschool children's TV show on Channel 5 and Nickelodeon - "Peppa Pig!

Splish, splash! Oh dear, Peppa Pig's pet fish, Goldie, isn't well. This title takes you on an exciting bus ride to the vet to find out why Goldie isn't eating her food. It is suitable for sharing at school or for snuggling up at bedtime and encouraging children to start to read by themselves.

Kafka on the Shore" follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. Cats converse with people, ...

Lauren Child is one of today's most talented and innovative children's author/illustrators. Winner of the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and the Kate Greenaway Medal, she is best known for creating the characters Clarice Bean and the BAFTA-award-winning Charlie and Lola. She is also co-creator of The Princess and the Pea and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Charlie and Lola is now a top-rated BBC children's television show and a huge international ...

Trust my snap judgement, buy this book: you'll be delighted' THE NEW YORK TIMESAn art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture and instantly spots it's a fake.A marriage analyst knows within minutes whether a couple will stay together.A fire-fighter suddenly senses he has to get out of a blazing building.A speed dater clicks with the right person...This book is all about those moments when we 'know' something without knowing why. Here Malcol...

Jamie Oliver is a global phenomenon in food and campaigning. During a 20-year television and publishing career he has inspired millions of people to enjoy cooking from scratch and eating fresh, delicious food. Through his organization, Jamie is leading the charge on a global food revolution, aiming to reduce childhood obesity and improve everyone's health and happiness through food. Jamie started cooking at his parents' pub, The Cricketers, in...

One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father or friends again. But she refuses to give up hope. Lina hopes for her family, her country and her future. For her first love, with the boy she barely knows but does not want to lose. Set in 1941, BETWEEN SHADES OF GREY is a...

And so begins this epic, tragic, comic, brilliant novel set in and around Dublin's Seabrook College for Boys. Principally concerning the lives, loves, mistakes and triumphs of overweight maths-whiz Ruprecht Van Doren and his roommate Daniel 'Skippy' Juster, it features a frisbee-throwing siren called Lori, the joys (and horrors) of first love, the use and blatant misuse of prescription drugs, Carl (the official school psychopath), various atte...

Young Artemis has frequently used high-tech fairy magic to mastermind the most devious criminal activity of the new century. Now, at a conference in Iceland, Artemis has gathered the fairies to present his latest idea to save the world from global warming. This eagerly-awaited adventure is now out in paberback with a fabulous new cover-look to celebrate ten years of Artemis action.

An explosion shatters the ancient Rosetta stone and unleashes Set, the evil god of chaos. Set imprisons Dr Kane in a golden coffin and Carter and Sadie must run for their lives. To save their dad, they embark on a terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris to the American South-west and discover the truth about their family's connection to the House of Life: an Egyptian temple of magic that has existed for thousands of years. The pharaohs of ancient...

Paperback edition of the 2nd book in Higson's zombie series, which began with "The Enemy". Sales of Higson's previous "Young Bond" series are now well over a million in the UK alone, and "The Enemy" reached number 12 and was the 20th bestselling hardback of 2009. Higson is also well known for his comedy, he co-created "The Fast Show" and has appeared on Radio 4's "Down The Line" and BBC2's "Bellamy's People". 'Brutal, blood-soaked, full of zom...

A grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comedyland in the 1980s, with tone-perfect anecdotes and genuine readerly excitement. Stephen Fry writes in perfect prose and with excrutiating honesty, essentially, about who he really is. Above all else, it is a thoughtful book, namedroppy, too, funny, and marbled with melancholy' Observer.

While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in history.

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his timeDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying his true nature, he rejects ...

Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - -a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!"First published in 1953, Baldwin's first novel is a short but intense, semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the Depression.

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Chunky board books with tactile tabs and surprise flaps, encouraging early word recognition and early learning subjects.