This book is a new edition of this festive favourite. It is another charming tale from Apple Tree Farm as the Boot family prepare for Christmas and Poppy and Sam wonder whether Santa will bring them what they asked for. It offers an interactive reading ex

Will a computer ever compose a symphony, write a prize-winning novel, or paint a masterpiece? And if so, would we be able to tell the difference? As humans, we have an extraordinary ability to create works of art that elevate, expand and transform what it means to be alive. Yet in many other areas, new developments in AI are shaking up the status quo, as we find out how many of the tasks humans engage

The Number One eBook Bestseller What would YOU do if your child wasn\'t yours? Utterly compelling, Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks\'s new contemporary novel The Stranger In My Home, is sure to move, grip and delight her fans, along with readers of Liane Moriarty, Jane Shemilt and Lisa Jewell. Alison is lucky and she knows it. She has the life she always craved, including a happy home with Jeff

Alongside a satisfying relationship, a career we love is one of the foremost requirements for a fulfilled life. Unfortunately, it is devilishly hard to understand oneself well enough to know quite where one\'s energies should be directed. A Job To Love is designed to help us out of some of these impasses. It is a guide to how we can better understand ourselves and locate a job that is right for us.

This sticker workbook contains a variety of activities, including questions to answer, pictures to draw and colour, puzzles to solve, and games that can be played again and again.

Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn\'t cry wolf. His boundless sense of adventure and vivid imagination mean he has a tendency to concoct stories so extraordinary and so far-fetched that no one can possibly believe him. But when Laurent disappears, former Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true. So begins

\'Best. Diary. Ever\' Metro \'Cheeringly depressing\' Guardian\'Abandon all hope, ye who buy it\' New York TimesPerpetual Disappointments Diary is a downbeat journal for pessimists, cynics and losers everywhere. You\'ll love it.Ground yourself with a weekly demotivational proverb (\'If ignorance is bliss, why are you so sad?\', \'Crappe diem\') and reminders of Notable Deaths. Travel the world with

\'Do read this . . . I don\'t think I\'ve ever read a collection which exuberantly spans such breadths of time and space.\' Mark Haddon An interview with the last speaker of a language. A chronicle of the final seven days of a town that is about to be razed to the ground by an invading army. The lonely voyage of an elephant from Kerala to a princess\'s palace in Morocco. A fabled cook who flavours

Man seduces another\'s wife then kidnaps her. The husband and his brother get a gang together to steal her back and take revenge. The woman regrets being seduced and wants to escape, whilst the man\'s entourage resent the position they have been placed in. Yet the battle lines have been drawn and there is no going back...Not the plot of the latest Hollywood thriller, but the basis of the ILIAD - the

Charles Darwin\'s masterpiece, \"On the Origin of Species\", shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions

In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his \'strange stories\', Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition and the hallucinated life. Lene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls\' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncanny inhabitants entered her dreams. Most chillingly, the geometries of the house didn\'t add

Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face-to-face with a beastly creature which gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graci

A big book of fabulous ideas for making birthday cakes for kids. The cake part is easy uathere are recipes for simple cakes, or you can use a packet mix or a cake you have bought. It\'s the decorating that\'s the fun part and these cakes are mostly decorated with simple icings and lots of lollies. Included are more than 120 delightful, witty individual party cakes.

Mario Pricken, v současnosti jeden z nejžádanějších kreativců, představí více než 200 světových reklam z širokého spektra médií, včetně časopisů, billboardů, TV, kina a internetu. Sleduje kreativní proces v pozadí vybraných nejúčinnějších reklamních kampa

Sommer 2011. Adolf Hitler erwacht auf einem leeren Grundstück in Berlin-Mitte. Ohne Krieg, ohne Partei, ohne Eva. Im tiefsten Frieden, unter Tausenden von Ausländern und Angela Merkel. 66 Jahre nach seinem vermeintlichen Ende strandet der Gröfaz in der Gegenwart und startet gegen jegliche Wahrscheinlichkeit eine neue Karriere - im Fernsehen. Dieser Hitler ist keine Witzfigur und gerade deshalb erschreckend

Für die beiden mächtigsten Nationen der Welt ist - trotz Abrüstung - kein Ziel wichtiger als die Errichtung eines Abwehrsystems für Atomraketen. Mit ihren geheimnisvollen Bauten in der Nähe der afghanischen Grenze sind die Sowjets den Amerikanern einen gewaltigen Schritt voraus, denn von hier aus haben sie erstmals mittels eines Laserstrahls einen US-Spionagesatelliten \'geblendet\'. Nur zwei Männer

You\'re the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.\' \'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I\'d be taller.\' Return to the Sanctuary of the Redeemers. A place of pain, cruelty and terrible, dark devotion. Thomas Cale - the Left Hand of God, the Angel of Death - is put in charge of an army and groomed to bring about the end of the world. But might not Cale

The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion fills in the background which lies behind the more popular work, and gives the earlier history of Middle-earth, introducing some of the key characters. The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien\'s World. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call \'objectivity\'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship\'s officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it

Brighton, 1950. When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old friend of Edgar\'s. They served together in the war as part of a shadowy unit called the Magic Men. Max is still on the circuit, touring seaside towns in the company of ventriloquists, sword-swallowers