From a multi award-winning German novelist comes this finely nuanced & disarmingly funny novel about a woman who has lost sight of who she once was. Katharina`s husband isn`t coming home for the weekend
- again
- so she`s on her own. When their chaotic daughter Helli has a nosebleed, Kat has to dash off to school to pick her up. Then their son, Alex, announces he`s bringing his new girlfriend home for the first time. Kat`s best friend from college is coming around tonight too, & she`s wondering if she should try to seduce him
- but first she needs to do the shopping, the vacuuming & the laundry, deal with an exploding clothes-dryer, find their neighbour`s severed thumb in the front yard & catch a couple of escaped rodents. When she`s got all that sorted, perhaps she`ll have time to think about the thing she`s been trying not to think about
- the lump she`s just found in her breast. Because you can`t just die & leave a huge mess for someone else to clean up... can you? & wasn`t there supposed to be more to life than this?



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Open your eyes & head on an oceanic adventure. Look Inside Ocean gives your child an amazing window on the great oceans & seas of the world
- from the dazzling coral reef inhabitants of the Indo-Pacific to the enchanting Pacific kelp forests. An amazing panoramic CGI artwork of the ocean sets the scene in eye-popping detail. Each page is packed full of photographs & fun facts that bring the ocean life as they zoom in & out of the scene. Watch as your child gets up close with the underwater world in Look Closer Ocean.
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This ultimate picture book packed with wonderful, quirky, amusing & delightful images from the British Museum. There is no text at all: the pictures, & combinations of pictures, speak for themselves. This makes the book accessible to all ages. Quite young children will enjoy examining & talking about the pictures; even adult visitors familiar with the museums galleries will find much to surprise & entertain them. Every reader is likely to be surprised at the breadth & variety of images, all of which come from the British Museum. ...

The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West & Nicole Kidman. Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter Oliver & entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in small-town America. Both lonely outsider & passionate chronicler of American life, Eugene experiences upheaval & family tragedy before coming to realise that he must leave his home behind if he is to forge his own path in the world. This is the dazzlingly rich first novel from one of the most brilliant & mercurial voices of early twentieth-century, who was a major influence on writers including Hunter S Thompson, Ray Bradbury, Philip Roth & the Beats. This new edition

Includes:: an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian. Wolfe`s second novel, Of Time & the River, continuing the story of Eugene Gant, is also now available in Penguin Classics.

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An action-packed book filled with building sites to explore, construction machines to learn about & a demolition site in action. Lift the flaps to discover the work that goes into building a house, a bridge, a skyscraper & more, the jobs people do & the machines that are used. An exciting introduction to how buildings go up
- & come down.
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A fascinating flap book packed with interesting information about how lots of things work. Discover the inner workings of cars & boats, farm & building site machines, everyday household items including vacuum cleaners, computers & fridges, & much more. ...

Take a trip to London with this neat, lift-the-flap information book which explores the UK capital`s most famous sites, including Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square & the Tower of London. With lots of things to spot & talk about, including iconic red telephone boxes, red double-decker buses & black cabs. ...

What is the earth made from & what goes on beneath the surface? This non-fiction lift-the-flap book features bold illustrations, simple explanations to complex questions & over 60 flaps to lift. An introduction to geology & geography for young children. ...

This is a great fun flap book packed with interesting information about space, & the amazing things that float through it
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This is a great, fun flap book packed with interesting information about popular sports, particularly those taking place at the 2012 Olympics. Each scene has several flaps to lift to find out even more about the sport
- such as what goes on behind the scenes at a busy stadium, how athletes train, interesting bits of sports kit, or what lies underneath a football pitch or ice rink. Scenes include an Olympic swimming pool, an athletics stadium, a ski slope, & a cycling velodrome.
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