“A Little History of the World” presents Ernst Gombrich’s lively & involving history to English-language readers for the first time. In 1935, with a doctorate in art history & no respect of a job, the twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, & “ Eine kurz Weltgeschichte für jinge Leser” was published in Vienna to immediate success, & is now available in twenty-five languages across the world. Toward the end of his life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision &, at last, an English translation; in forty concise chapters, he tells the story of man from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colourful picture of wars & conquests, grand works of art, & the spread & limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates & facts, but by the sweep of mankind’s experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity’s achievements & an acute witness to its frailties. The product of a generous & humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history. ...

E. H. Gombrich’s “ History of the World” is one of the most famous books of all time, & here in this fantastically illustrated edition is that book’s concise little brother, “A Little History of the World”. In forty chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colourful picture of wars & conquests, grand works of art, & the spread & limitations of science. This wonderful illustrated edition brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind’s eye as he wrote the book. With a revised preface, new maps, two hundred illustrations (most in colour), this is both a sumptuous gift book & an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history. ...

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful & heartbreaking novel of brotherly love & the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they`re broke, adrift, & buoyed only by their friendship & ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; & withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen & darken, tinged by addiction, success, & pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realise, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind & body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, & haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he`ll not only be unable to overcome
- but that will define his life forever.
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` Now I am a mother & a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime`: so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager
- `our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us`
- she drops out of school, gets a crappy job, sees a terrible brightness at night, & drifts into bad company. Her little brother brings home two petty criminals who need a place to stay. As the four of them share the family apartment & plot a strange crime, Bianca learns she can drift lower.. . Electric & tense with foreboding, with its jagged, propulsive short chapters beautifully translated by Natasha Wimmer, A Little Lumpen Novelita
- one of the last novels Roberto Bolano published
- delivers a surprising, fractured fairy tale of taking control of one`s fate.



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A specially adapted board book edition of Oliver Jeffers` original whodunit The Great Paper Caper. There was once a forest where everyone was contentedly going about their business. All was well until the strangest thing suddenly started happening. Without any warning, branches started disappearing from trees. Something would have to be done, everyone agreed
- everyone that is, except for someone who was acting very mysteriously indeed. A thrilling tale of mystery, crime, a forest, paper planes & a bear who wanted to win!
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Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to make friends at boarding school & settle in. But when she learns that she`ll never see her beloved father again, her life is turned upside down. Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons & luxury for drudgery & a room in the attic. Will she find that kindness & generosity are all the riches she truly needs? With deeply poignant introduction written by bestselling author of ” Chinese Cinderella”, ”A Little Princess” is one of the twelve wonderful classic stories being relaunched in ” Puffin Classics” in March 2008. ...

Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to settle in & make friends at boarding school. But when she learns that she`ll never see her beloved father gain, her life is turned upside down. Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons & luxury for hard work & a room in the attic. Will she find that kindness & genorosity are all the riches she truly needs? ...

`I am a princess. All girls are.` Heiress Sara Crewe has everything a little girl could want
- until the sudden death of her father
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A specially adapted board book edition of Oliver Jeffers` laugh-out-loud classic, Stuck. Floyd gets his kite stuck up a tree. He throws up his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck too. So he throws up his other shoe & that gets stuck, along with...a ladder, a pot of paint, the kitchen sink, an orang-utan & a whale, amongst other things! Will Floyd ever get his kite back? A hilarious book with a wonderful surprise ending. ...

Each title in this popular series is both a cookbook & a photographic essay of people & places. The series encapsulates the flavours of the world`s most exciting & popular cuisines & explores the colourful settings in which food is sourced, cooked & enjoyed. Each book contains a selection of authentic recipes suitable for the home cook. This title features fresh new covers that will appeal to a new generation of cooks ready to discover the diverse cuisines around the world. All of the recipes in this work are beautifully photographed & accompanied by helpful pictures of techniques, equipment & ingredients. ...