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Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
WORLD WAR ONE BOOK OF THE YEAR In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War - a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe. Throughout, he exposes the complex, shocking paraphernalia of the era's racial obsessions, which dictated which men would serve, how they would serve, and to what degree they would...
Author
Publisher
Robert Hale
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
All DJ has to do is report to HMRC when Moran a ruthless international drug baron arrives ... but things don't go exactly to plan, for Gorgonzola's senitive nose soon detects something much more sinister than drugs. Others who threaten Moran's multi million pound master plan are eliminated, and one more will make no difference. Can DJ remain undetected long enough to identify Moran and make her escape?.
Author
Series
Emma Harte Saga volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In 1905 a young kitchen maid leaves Fairley Hall. Emma Harte is sixteen, single and pregnant. By 1968 she is one of the richest women in the world, ruler of a business empire stretching from Yorkshire to the glittering cities of America and the rugged vastness of Australia. But what is the price she has paid? A Woman of Substance is as impossible to put down as it is to forget. This multi-million copy bestseller is truly a novel of our times.
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming... This monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Costa and Galaxy...
Author
Series
Too Small Tola volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Three charming stories about a young girl who lives in a flat in Lagos with her sister, Moji, who is very clever; her brother, Dapo, who is very fast; and Grandmummy, who is very bossy. Too Small Tola is just the right size to fit under the bed and rescue Grandmummy's most prized possession when it goes missing. Her abilities in maths prove to be very helpful when Grandmummy becomes ill. In the title story, though Grandmummy can't afford to buy Tola...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
If you?ve never seen an Eddie Stobart truck, you?ve never driven down a British motorway. This is the extraordinary story of a multi-million pound business that spawned a middle-class motorway game. Of dynastic struggles that ended in a merchandising shop opposite Carlisle cathedral. A quintessentially British tale - written by the inimitable bestselling writer Hunter Davies, and with the full support of Eddie Stobart himself.
Author
Series
Too Small Tola volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Tola may be small, but she's very determined. Three delightful stories about Too Small Tola, a young girl who, though small, is very determined. Tola lives in a flat in Lagos with her sister, Moji, who is very clever; her brother, Dapo, who is very fast; and Grandmummy, who is very bossy. Tola proves to be stronger than she seems when she goes to market with Grandmummy and manages to carry home a basket full of yams and vegetables, chilli peppers...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The stunning new novel of World War One from Michael Morpurgo, the nation?s favourite storyteller and multi-million copy bestseller..May, 1915. Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies - injured, thirsty, lost? and with absolutely no memory of who she is, or how she came to be there. She can say only one word: Lucy.Where has she come from? Is she a mermaid, the victim of a German U-boat, or even - as some...
9) Cry wolf
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
From the multi-award winning author of The Bridge (BBC) and Marcella (Netflix, ITV) comes a blockbuster new thriller?A DEAD WOLFA DRUG DEAL GONE WRONGA LETHAL FEMALE ASSASSINHannah Wester, a detective in the remote northern Swedish town�of�Haparanda, finds herself on the precipice�of�chaos.When human remains are found in the stomach�of�a dead wolf, Hannah knows that this summer won?t be like any other.�The remains are soon linked to...
10) The break
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Stella, a young M�tis mother, lives with her family by the Break, an isolated strip of land on the edge of their small Canadian town. Glancing out of her window one winter's evening Stella spots someone in trouble; horrified, she calls the police. But when they arrive, no one is there, scuff marks in the compacted snow the only sign anything may have happened. What follows is a heartbreaking and powerful tale of a community in crisis as the people...
11) The map of us
Author
Publisher
HarperImpulse
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
I fell in love with Violet and her grand-daughter Tilly and I know you will too? Irish Times bestseller Carmel HarringtonViolet North is wonderfully inconvenient. Abandoned by her family and lost in an imagined world of moors and adventure, her life changes in the space of just 37 words exchanged with a stranger at her front door.Decades later, Daniel Bearing has inherited his father's multi-million pound business, and is utterly lost. He has no idea...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Twelve years ago, Nick?s brother Rob was caught in a storm out at sea and drowned. His body was never found. When Nick met Susie at his brother?s funeral, he thought it was destiny at play. Then Rob suddenly appears on television. He is a hero. He has brought down a terrorist who opened fire on dozens of restaurant diners. Everyone wants to know who Rob is, but he?s vanished a second time, without a word. Nick is soon drawn into a multi-layered world...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Children
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Discover how to build your own awesome LEGO� Animals! Be inspired by 30 incredible LEGO animals, from a roaring lion to a multi-coloured turtle. Embark on an imaginative building journey as the models get more challenging through the book. Each animal idea is broken down into three, four, or five important building steps. Learn essential building techniques to create claws and teeth, legs and tails, textures and colours and much more, for your own...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
**FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS** Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through...
Author
Series
Dan Forrester volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Dan Forrester, piecing his life back together after the tragic death of his son, is approached in a supermarket by a woman who tells him everything he remembers about his life - and his son - is a lie. Grace Reavey, stricken by grief, is accosted at her mother's funeral. The threat is simple: pay the staggering sum her mother allegedly owed, or lose everything. Lucy Davies has been forced from the Met by her own maverick behaviour. Desperate to prove...
Author
Series
Dan Forrester volume 1
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
C.J. Carver is a top notch thriller writer and Spare Me The Truth is right up there with the best - Simon Kernick For fans of Lee Child and Jason Bourne, Spare Me the Truth is the gripping new thriller from the multi-award winning author of Blood Junction. Dan Forrester, piecing his life back together after the tragic death of his son, is approached in a supermarket by a woman who tells him everything he remembers about his life - and his son - is...
17) The tw*t files
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When I was younger I wanted to be an interesting, sophisticated, semi-heroic, multi-layered person. BUT that kind of perfect is impossible. Being an actual tw*t is much more the real me. Sorry to boast, but I am a champion tw*t. In The Tw*t Files I will tell you about all the times I?ve been a total and utter tw*t. The moments where I?ve misunderstood stuff and messed up. In my life these have been key because: Mistakes tell us about ourselves. Mistakes...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to be a sporty woman in the 21st century? From the launch of Net-A-Sporter, serving up sports clothing for fashionistas, to the introduction of #plankie as the new Instagram selfie for yoga bunnies; exercise for women has finally gone mainstream. But if sweating has never been so hot for female celebrities, then why are there still so many obstacles for girls and women when it comes to sport? Why do girls still hate school sports...
Author
Publisher
BBC Digital
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Leave it all on the floor.. Queen of Latin Ballroom, Shirley Ballas has a spectacular dance career spanning over 40 years - she has Cha-Cha'd her way across the world's dance floors to become a multi-award-winning ballroom champion and one of the most renowned dancers in the world. In 1996, Shirley retired from competitive dancing to become a highly-acclaimed coach and now holds the enviable position of Head Judge on BBC One's prime time show Strictly...
Author
Publisher
Profile Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and billionaire investor, had masterminded the whole thing. Still furious at an article that had outed him ten years previously, and increasingly disgusted at Gawker's unscrupulous reporting methods, Thiel had spent nearly a decade meticulously plotting a conspiracy that would lead to the demise of Gawker and its founder, Nick Denton. After a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, the settlement of $140million...
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