THE SCARECROWS` WEDDING is the eagerly awaited new picture book from the creators of THE GRUFFALO & STICK MAN, now available in paperback. Written in Julia Donaldson`s glorious rhyme & illustrated in glowing colour by Axel Scheffler, THE SCARECROWS` WEDDING is a fabulous love story, with drama, humour, originality
- & a happy ending! Two scarecrows, Betty O` Barley & Harry O` Hay, are planning the perfect wedding. But wicked scarecrow, Reginald Rake, has other ideas & almost ruins their special day. Harry must become a hero before he & Betty can have the wedding of their dreams.
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AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR An extraordinary book by a man with a unique & inspiring perspective, SCARP will change the way you view the places & spaces around you, & reveal a forgotten London you never knew existed. Nick Papadimitriou has spent a lifetime living on the margins, walking & documenting the landscapes surrounding his home in Child`s Hill, North London, in a study he calls Deep Topography. Part meditation on nature & walking, part memoir & part social history, his arresting debut is first & foremost a personal inquiry into the spirit of a place: a 14-mile broken ridge of land on the fringes of Northern London known as Scarp. Conspicuous but largely forgotten, a vast yet largely invisible presence hovering just beyond the metropolis, Scarp is a vast storehouse of regional memory. We join the author as he explores & reimagines this brooding, pregnant landscape, meticulously observing his surroundings, finding surprising connections & revealing lost slices of the past. SCARP captures the satisfying experience of a long, reflective walk. Whether talking about the beauty of a bird or a telegraph pole, deaths at a roundabout or his own troubled past, Papadimitriou celebrates the poetry in the everyday. His captivating prose reveals that the world around us is alive & intrinsically valuable in ways that the trappings of day-to-day life lead us to forget, & allows us to re-connect with something more authentic, more immediate, more profound. ...

Man is a delicate mechanism...he can easily be set off course. It is the late 18th century & a young Sicilian nobleman, Vitellio Scarpia, finds himself penniless & in disgrace on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home to pursue a military career, his impulsive & undisciplined nature has led to his expulsion from Spanish royal guard, & he must now seek his fortune in Italy; a fortune inseparably bound up with the ruler of the Eternal City, the Pope. Scarpia enrols in the Papal army & becomes the lover of an alluring countess who introduces him into Roman society with its blend of religiosity, sophistication & intrigue. Half-enthralled, half-appalled, Scarpia enjoys the life of the decadent city, learning in due course that as an unsophisticated provincial he is no match for the worldliness of Rome. Patronized by a powerful Cardinal, Scarpia is sent on a mission to Venice, where he encounters the beautiful, exquisitely gifted singer, Floria Tosca. As the armies of revolutionary France invade Italy, & war & revolution engulf the whole peninsula, the lives of the two become fatefully entwined. Piers Paul Read brilliantly reimagines the infamous villain of Puccini`s opera, Tosca, telling a story that shines a light into the dusty corridors of history & the dark corners of the human soul. ...

For fans of Borgen, The Killing & the Wallander series, a thrilling novel of murder & political scandal in Oslo. An elderly woman is found dead in a nursing home. Bjarne Brogel&, who heads up the investigation, soon realises that they are on the trail of a meticulous killer who has developed a keen taste for revenge. A killer who has only just begun... Trine Juul-Osmundsen, Norway`s Secretary of State & Henning Juul`s sister, is accused of sexually harassing a young male politician. As the allegations cause a media frenzy, Trine receives an anonymous threat telling her to resign. If she doesn`t, the truth about what she really did that night will be revealed. Scarred reporter Henning Juul, finds himself torn between the two high profile cases. He wants to help his estranged sister, but as he digs into their past, he discovers memories that haunt them both. Memories of a broken home. Memories of a dead father. As the two cases collide, both their worlds threaten to fall apart. Scarred is the third novel in the acclaimed Henning Juul series, following Burned & Pierced, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Petrona Award. ...

` My friend Ellingham has persuaded me to reveal to the public the astounding features of the Reisby case. As a study in criminal aberration it is, he tells me, of particular interest, while in singularity of horror & in perversity of ingenious method it is probably unique.` 1913. John Farringdale, with his cousin Eric Foster, visits the famous archaeologist Tolgen Reisby. At Scarweather
- Reisby`s lonely house on the windswept northern coast of England
- Eric is quickly attracted to Reisby`s much younger wife, & matters soon take a dangerous turn. Fifteen years later, the final scene of the drama is enacted. This unorthodox novel from 1934 is by a gifted crime writer who, wrote Dorothy L. Sayers, `handles his characters like a ”real” novelist & the English language like a ”real” writer
- merits which are still, unhappily, rarer than they should be in the ranks of the murder specialists.`


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Scary Creatures is an entertaining series investigating the more grisly aspects of natural history. The rainforests are the richest habitats on earth, with huge numbers of animal species that are found nowhere else. & some of them are seriously scary
- from big cats to poison-arrow frogs. Learn about the creatures that live in the different levels of the forest: floor, understorey, canopy & emergent layer. Today, this amazing habitat is under threat
- what can we do to help? Scary Creatures of the Night is packed with facts written in an accessible question-&-answer format. Special x-ray pages enable readers to see how the internal structure of an animal corresponds to its external appearance. The book features startlingly realistic illustrations & impressive photographs. Informative captions, a complete glossary & an index make this title an ideal educational text. In

Includes:: matt covers with Spot UV lamination & an embossed logo.



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You`re invited to a party. What fun! Hip, hip, hooray! So come along to Monster`s house at three o`clock today. Raymond the hairdresser is scarily busy. Everyone wants to look their best for Monster`s party. But a series of disasters at Raymond`s hair salon
- Oops, too much hair gel! Oops, the dyes have been muddled!
- leave his customers disappointed until.. .they discover Monster`s party has a very special theme! A very silly, slightly spooky story that is perfect for youngsters at Halloween! From a bestselling author (Aliens Love Underpants) & illustrator (Barry the Fish with Fingers, Supertato).

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Dom Joly sets off round the world again, but this time he's not looking to holiday in a danger zone
- he's monster hunting. Ever
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Dom Joly sets off round the world again, but this time he`s not looking to holiday in a danger zone
- he`s monster hunting. Ever
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Alex knows there`s a way that she & Callum can be together. Catherine holds the key to unlocking the secret but she`s disappeared. Olivia has answers, too, but they`re hidden deep inside her troubled mind & won`t be found. It seems impossible but Alex can`t give up. The question is, how much will she risk to be with the one she loves? Could it be everything? ...