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Return to the world of Saffy's Angel in the fourth book in the hilarious and heartwarming Casson Family series.

The first novel in Hilary McKay's award-winning Casson Family series.

A warm, quirky, magical middle-grade adventure with a strong-willed heroine who is part-girl, part-cat

Return to the world of Saffy's Angel in this second hilarious title in the beloved Casson Family series.

Return to the world of Saffy's Angel with the hilarious and heart-warming third book in the Casson Family series.

This book explores the global impact of Alice in Wonderland across art, design and performance from the nineteenth century to today. It shows how Alice has been re-imagined and reinterpreted by each new generation: from the original illustrations by John Tenniel to artwork by Peter Blake and Salvador Dali, and from the 1951 Disney movie to Tim Burtons latest interpretation. This beautiful, playful publication also includes specially commission...

This book is about a new field in statistical machine learning - about interpretation and explanation of predictive models. Machine learning models are widely used in predictive modelling, both for regression and classification.

Detective Superintendant Banks and his team are drawn further into the ongoing investigation into organised crime in Yorkshire - and Banks suspects the involvement of his friend Zelda...

The twenty-seventh book in the number one bestselling Alan Banks crime series - by the master of the police procedural.

FROM CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNING AUTHOR RUTA SEPETYSMadrid, 1957. Tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine while Spanish citizens are gripped by a dark secret.Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, hopes to connect with the country of his mother's birth through the lens of his camera. Photography -and fate - introduce him to Ana, a hotel maid, whose family is suffering under the fascist di...

A deliciously gothic story of wishes and curses - a new dark fairy tale set against a Victorian backdrop full of lace and smoke.

A colourful new arrival turns the chicken coop upside-down in this delightfully funny rhyming picture book from Rachel Bright, multi-award-winning author of The Lion Inside.

Who needs a Prince Charming when you're busy running the world? From ancient empresses and warrior queens, to fearsome pirates and modern-day monarchs, Fabulously Feisty Queens explores the lives and legacies of history's most powerful women. Made of stronger stuff than beauty and grace, discover just how bright, brave, brilliant and clever the world's female rulers have been throughout the centuries. With a foreword by historian and Chief Cur...

The third book in Anna Jacobs' wonderful Birch End saga

Powerful . . . A twisting tale of love, loss, and dark family secrets' Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the WaterIt begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother - and then vanishes.Amy, the sheltered baby of the Lee family, is too young to remember a time when her ...

The book is a new take on perception and preconceptions about the unclothed body and how, through art, the naked becomes the nude.

Appealing to fans of "The Wrong Knickers" and "Everything I Know About Love", this is brutally honest memoir of one woman's millenial misadventures. Following Jones' journey through friendship, marriage and mental health disasters, this is a relatable memoir that will open up many discussions about mental health.

In war, there is no easy victory.When troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, the gamble we took was a grave mistake, and its ramifications continue to reverberate through the lives of millions, in Iraq and the West. As we gain more distance from those events, it can be argued that many of the issues facing us today - the rise of the Islamic State, increased Islamic terroris...

Europe, a mere forty years in the future, looks very different... SUPER-STATE is Europe in a mere 40 years' time, where men and women are much like us, but despite technological advancement the basic questions of life have yet to be answered by either philosophers or scientists.

A collection of thought-provoking essays and revelations (seven essays, one speech and an extended autobiography) by Brian Aldiss, the master of British science fiction. 'The best contemporary writer of science fiction.' - The Guardian 'The colossus of science fiction' - New Yorker