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A beautiful hardback edition of a unique book: one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century. Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive batt...

They dug a hole right there on our farm on the bank of the Mangawara and they put the box filled with gold inside it and covered it with dirt. And to keep the gold safe until they could return one of them placed a tapu on it. A tapu so that anyone who tried to touch the gold before they could come back for it would die. Titch is determined to find the gold hidden somewhere on her family's farm. It might be tapu but that won't put her off. Her ...

A beautiful hardback edition of the most famous anti-war novel ever written.One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.'Remarque's ev...

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Mindfulness is as easy as ABC with bestselling author Emma Mildon’s illuminating new picture book which makes learning the alphabet a portal to learning about the world around us. Each beautifully illustrated page reinforces the joy of life at any age. In a time when mindfulness is becoming mainstream and parents are more aware of the options available to them, they are seeking content to educate and empower their children. This is largely ref...

A historical mystery about a girl who risks everything to track down a vicious serial killer-for fans of The Enigma Game and Last Night at the Telegraph Club.Virginia, 1943: World War II is raging in Europe and on the Pacific front when Kit Sutherland is recruited to help the war effort as a codebreaker at Arlington Hall, a former girls' college now serving as the site of a secret US Signal Intelligence facility. But Kit is soon involved in an...

The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music.    “People tell me it’s country music, ” Terry Allen has joked, “and I ask, ‘Which country?’” For nearly sixty years, Allen’s inimitable art has explored the borderlands of me...

Well-known disability activist and social media influencer Melissa Blake offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies. In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake’s work in a YouTube video. What happened next is equal parts a searing view into society, how we collectively view and treat disabled people, and ...

An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues, drawing from the group's private archive.

Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW), or "German New Wave, " was made extraordinarily popular in the 1970s and 1980s by the likes of Nena's "99 Luftballoons" and Trio's "Da Da Da"-and then left as quickly as it came. Conventional wisdom among artists dictates that it's better to burn out than fade away, but this doesn't tell the full story of NDW-the reason for its rapid rise and fall, the historical context that necessitated the genre, and where the ene...

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This is the first monograph fully dedicated to critically investigating the political, economic, artistic, urban, and societal relationships of Manifesta - European Biennial of Contemporary Art, a European nomadic biennial initiated in the post-Cold War era. Despite being one of the most important recurrent exhibitions taking place in Europe, surprisingly little has been written about it since the mid-2000s, Manifesta, Art, Society and Politic...

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A baby board book that brings a game of peekaboo to life with grab-and-pull mechanisms.

A baby board book that brings a game of peekaboo to life with grab-and-pull mechanisms.

Alone and exiled on a dilapidated houseboat, a man named Suttree lives amongst the outcasts of humanity. From Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and All the Pretty Horses.

This bumper wipe-clean workbook is full of bright, fun activities to encourage pen control skills!

A gripping story set over 24 hours where readers will come face-to-face with the most amazing snakes in the world, written by expert and TikTok star Christian Cave.

Julia's Chapman's latest witty and engaging Dales Detective novel sees Delilah's brother under suspicion of murder. Can Delilah and Samson prove he's innocent? Perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Robert Thorogood, this is cosy crime at its very best.

When Mirabelle gets so cross with her brother, Wilbur, that she says she wishes he would just disappear, she doesn't actually think it will happen. How will she get him to come back? Hopefully, a new friend can lend a ghostly hand. . .