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Play Time: Selection of Plays

From the best-selling and much-loved author of "The Gruffalo" and other classic picture books, this title contains eleven fun-to-act short plays for primary-aged children (Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2) complete with...

Players

Harry Hunter was everywhere you looked - bearing down from bus billboards, beaming out from the society pages, falling out of nightclubs in the gossip columns, and flirting up a storm on the telly chat show circuit....

Point Omega

`Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo`s late novels` - Sunday Telegraph. Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, `somewhere south...

Poisoning in the Pub

What`s your poison? Fethering residents, Jude and Carole, get more than they bargained for when a lunchtime meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified and when a series of...

Polar Star Ned

Renko, Volovoi read, as if familiarizing himself with a problem. Chief Investigator, dismissed, expelled from the Party, Psychiatric rehabiliation. You see, I have the same file as the captain has, assigned to labour...

Prep

Princess Diaries 6: Sixsational (A)

Prodigal Daughter (Ned)

Hers was the ultimate ambition The magnificant story of love and politics that continues the saga of `Kane and Abel`. The titanic battle between two men obsessed with destroying each other follows on into the next...

Quirkology: Curious Science of Everyday Lives

Ever wondered why bad musicians always win the Eurovision Song Contest, or how incompetent politicians get elected? You need some Quirkology in your life. While other scientists beaver away on obvious problems,...

Room (Booker10 Shortlist)

Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don`t have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. `Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it`s over you look up: the world looks the same...

Rupture

`Find what you were looking for, Inspector`? Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming back. But they were...

Secret Kept,A, Rosnay, Tatiana de

Seven Ancient Wonders

Shrine

Shuttlecock (Ned)

Prentis, senior clerk in the `dead crimes` department of police archives, is becoming more and more confused. Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a...

Size 12 Isnt Fat (A)

Size 14 Is Not Fat Either

It`s the first day of the winter semester at New York College, and assistant dorm director Heather Wells has a lot more to worry about than roommate conflicts. One of the New York College cheerleaders has lost her...

Songs of the Doomed: Death of the American Dream

`I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the stand back. We are on the brink. Yes. I...

Space Poems

Blast off into space with this spectacular collection of poems about galaxies, the moon, planets, stars, rockets, astronauts, UFOs, aliens, black holes, the milkyway, and space pets and that`s just for starters!

Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West

In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy...

Stalin (Ned)

Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service`s biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates...

Stalins Ghost OME

Starcrossed

When shy, awkward Helen Hamilton sees Lucas Delos for the first time she thinks two things: the first, that he is the most ridiculously beautiful boy she has seen in her life; the second, that she wants to kill him...

Strangers Child TPB (Booker11 Longlist)

This is Alan Hollinghurst`s first novel since "The Line of Beauty", winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at `Two Acres`, the home of...

Sunset Limited

A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment, `Black` and `White`, as the two men are known, begin...