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The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin¿s best-selling San Francisco saga.'Perhaps the most sublime piece of popular literature America has ever produced¿ Salon____________________A touching portrait of friendship, family, and fresh starts, the City by the Bay welcomes back Mary Ann Singleton, the beloved Tales of the City heroine who started it all. A new chapter begins in the lives of both Mary Ann and Mich...

The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin¿s best-selling San Francisco saga.`A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh.... It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly¿ Edmund White, Times Literary Supplement____________________When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there¿s more to making a baby than meets the eye. Hel...

The third novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin¿s best-selling San Francisco saga.`An enormously talented writer¿ By writing about what's seemingly different Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what's so hilariously painfully true for all of us¿ Amy Tan____________________The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal i...

The second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin¿s best-selling San Francisco saga.`Entertains, illuminates¿ A cultural touchstone that has enlarged our understanding of the varieties of human behavior¿ Washington Post____________________The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cosy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppelgän...

Temi and Wale meet in London. They flirt, date, meet each other's friends.. . . Then Wale dumps Temi to go on Love Island.Instead of giving in to heartbreak, Temi throws herself into her dream: writing. She's within touching distance of a book deal that would solve all her problems. But publishers keep passing on her novel and bills still have to be paid. So, when the opportunity to ghost-write a celebrity autobiography arises, Temi finds hers...

The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin¿s best-selling San Francisco saga, is an uproariously moving novel and an indelible portrait of cultural change from the seventies.Named as one of the BBC¿s 100 Most Inspiring Novels, a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick and Britain¿s favourite gay/lesbian novel from The Big Gay Read____________________Originally serialised in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1970s, ...

How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which each generation has reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary world, through times of revolution, conflicting ideologies and war...

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The greatest European football teams are preparing for the continent's biggest tournament! Travel around Europe and search and find the footballers as they site-see, ski and get lost in the busy crowds. Spot 11 players from each nation as well as extra items in each scene!From the crowded streets of Paris to the opening ceremony in Munich, this search-and-find is perfect to keep football fans entertained.Search, find and let the games begin!

What would life be like if we had the courage to say, 'I want something different'? 'Elegant, thoughtful, vulnerable, and inspiring' Elizabeth GilbertFrom a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful testament to the power of reimagining - the act of creating in our mind's eye that which does not but can and should existWe all experience breaking points, those moments when we realise that s...

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Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. With a new introduction and notes by John ZilcoskyThe Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world w...

Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you: a wonderfully entertaining overview of all of psychology by one of its greatest experts.'Like having the mind's complexities untangled by a witty, eloquent and deeply knowledgeable friend' OLIVER BURKEMAN'Really wonderful, hugely readable' DERREN BROWN`This book is a gem¿ ROBERT SAPOLSKYNothing is more familiar and yet less understood than the human mind. It defines the experience...

Dark comedy and darker thrills' - ALEX MICHAELIDES'A world-class whodunit' - STEPHEN KING'Edgy, thrilling, twisty - I loved it!' - LIANE MORIARTYAm I a murderer? You tell me . . .You probably already know about me. Lucy Chase, the woman who doesn¿t remember murdering her best friend.You all think I did it. That¿s OK, I get it. Being found wandering the streets covered in her blood wasn't a great look.Believe me, I¿m as frustrated as you are. I...

A brilliant translation of one of the greatest works of Franz Kafka, author of Metamorphosis, telling the haunting story of a man's desperate search for answers amid his prosecution for an unknown crimeA Penguin ClassicA terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is relea...

I'm so excited for your book about wealth. I feel like a lot of people need that.'Steven Bartlett, author of The Diary of a CEOThe world is changing. It's time for a new financial playbook.In this must-have guide to optimizing your life for wealth, success and happiness, you'll learn:¿ how to find and follow your talent¿ what small steps you can take now that pay big returns later¿ how to develop better financial habitsBursting with practical,...

They knew each other because their families knew each other: had known each other, for a long time.An elegant, audacious and blisteringly funny portrait of inheritance, defiance and love - from a major new talent'Carnal and precise' RAVEN LEILANI, author of LusterLondon, 2014. Hal Lancaster - twenty-two, gay, Catholic, chops lines of cocaine with his myWaitrose card - is the reluctant heir of his father Henry, the sixteenth Duke of Lancaster. ...

Peppa and her friends take centre stage in this brand-new series of phonics readers, wipe-clean titles, sticker activity books and interactive board booksSupports key early writing skills through finger-trail letter shapes that are designed for tracing over with a fingerEach Learn with Peppa book has been developed by educational expertsAccess additional resources and guidance on the Learn with Peppa websiteGo on an adventure from A-Z with Pep...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA SARAH JESSICA PARKER BOOK OF THE YEARFour generations. Three sisters. One impossible choice.Tricked aboard a boat to East Africa, Pirbhai is only thirteen when he is forced by the British into labouring on the railway. Under sweltering heat, hungry and frightened, he commits a terrible act just to survive.He will never tell a soul, even when he meets Sonal, a fierce, loving woman with whom he starts a family in Ug...