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Edmonds Classics
The Edmonds Cookery Book has been loved and trusted by New Zealand families for almost 100 years. Everyone has an Edmonds recipe to which special memories are attached; we undertook a national quest to collect these special recipes. All your favourite recipes are included in Classic Edmonds, along with ...
Anne of Green Gables
Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big surprise. They are waiting for an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables - but a skinny, red-haired girl turns up instead. Feisty and full of spirit, Anne Shirley charms her way into the Cuthberts' affection with her vivid imagination and constant ...
The Price of Water in Finistere
At just the point when most sensible people are settling into the routines of middle age, a feisty, fiercely independent woman abandons her home for a new life in another country. Description of the Book 'In the same way as there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is f...
Imaginary Homelands : Essays and criticism 1981-1991
Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour, eloquence and indignation he carefully examines an expans...
The Help
"The Help" is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeent...
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted...
The Night Circus
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.But behind the s...
A.A. Gill is Away
A. A. Gill is probably the most read columnist in Britain. Every weekend he entertains readers of the SUNDAY TIMES with his biting observations on television and his unsparing, deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews. Even those who want to hate him agree: A. A. Gill is hopelessly, painfully funny. He i...
Five Have a Puzzling Time (Famous Five Colour Short Stories #5)
Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog find excitement and adventure wherever they go in Enid Blyton's most popular series. When George is kept awake at night by a toothache, she notices a light on the supposedly empty Kirrin Island. While George is at the dentist the others decide to investigate ...
Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets
"Riveting . . . A genuinely important book that casts the problem of sex trafficking in America into stunning, heartbreaking relief." ("Kirkus Reviews") A "School Library Journal "Best Adult Book for TeensA Joan F. Kaywell Award Finalist from the Florida Council of Teachers of English Carissa Phelps was...
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus - How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies such as Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? How could things be different? In San Francisco in 2013 activists protesting against the gentrification of their city smashed the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work. But these pr...
Beyond the Bright Sea
"Harper Lee has a worthy successor. Wolk is a big new talent" - (The Times). Crow has lived her whole life on a tiny, starkly beautiful island. Her only companions are Osh, the man who rescued her from a washed-up skiff as a baby and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their neighbour across the sandbar. But i...
Ivy and the Inky Butterfly
Bring your own colour to the storyFrom colouring book queen Johanna Basford, a lavishly illustrated fable about a girl named Ivy who stumbles upon a secret door leading to the magical world of Enchantia.A charming story that interacts playfully with beautiful, colourable artwork in Johanna's signature s...
Gather the Daughters
GATHER THE DAUGHTERS is a haunting story of an isolated island cult for fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE, THE GIRLS and THE POWER. 'An intriguing, gorgeously realised and written novel which inexorably draws you into its dark heart' Kate HamerOn a small isolated island, there's a community that lives by its ...
Jamie Cooks Italy
Jamie has travelled around Italy to find the best of fast and slow cooking for us all to enjoy in our kitchens at home. Jamie Cooks Italy is a celebration of the joy of Italian food. Jamie wants to share his love of all things Italian with accessible, best-ever recipes for Classic Carbonara, Salina Chic...
Severance
Severance is a 2018 satirical science fiction novel by the Chinese-American author Ling Ma. It follows Candace Chen, an unfulfilled Bible designer, before and after Shen Fever slowly obliterates global civilization. Severance explores themes of nostalgia, modern office culture, monotony, and intimate re...
Call Me Evie
DON'T TRUST HIM. IT WASN'T ME. IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ME. Meet Evie, a young woman held captive by a man named Jim in the isolated New Zealand beach town of Maketu. Jim says he's hiding Evie to protect her, that she did something terrible back home in Melbourne. In a house that creaks against the wind, E...
Transcendent Kingdom
Gifty is the younger child in a family of four who have emigrated from Ghana to the American South. While her gorgeous brother is a sports hero, her father longs to return home and her mother is desperate to hold this family of four together. When Gifty's brother's glorious success on the basketball cou...
Himalaya: A Human History
The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains'A scholarly yet entertaining synthesis of hundreds of years of history' Financial Times This is the first major history of the Himalaya- an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among ...
It's Your Loss - Living with Grief Is Hard. We Hope This Book Will Help
Emma Hopkinson; Robyn Donaldson
How to navigate through different kinds of loss, drawing on personal experiences, practical suggestions and professional advice.Written by two women who were bereaved at a young age It's Your Loss explores approaches to grieving loss to find the one that's right for you.Any kind of loss - whether the de...
The Romantic
Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in war and ...
The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing
Feminism is the insight that women are oppressed, and the struggle against that oppression. The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing is a global anthology of feminist writers, edited and introduced by a major new essay by Hannah Dawson. It brings together an unprecedented line-up of the movement. It unfurls...
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