A moving and insightful story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer\'s disease, now a major film starring Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart. Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she\'s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in linguistics, with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow

Learning Chinese is notoriously difficult and has long put off even the most linguistically savvy Westerners until now. ShaoLan has used her entrepreneurial and software background to unpick Chinese characters and create a simple system for quickly understanding the basic building blocks of the written language. Working with renowned illustrator Noma Bar, she has developed a unique set of illustrations

She was a brazen hussy.\" \"She wasn\'t. And she was pretty, wasn\'t she?\" \"I didn\'t look ...And tell your girls, my son, that when they\'re running after you, they\'re not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes\"\'. The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband,

Fujita has drifted through middle school aimlessly, unable to find friends or anything that can hold his attention. Then, one day, he\'s attacked by a gang and saved by a mysterious man. But this isn\'t a karate master. Fujita\'s Mr. Miyagi is a ballroom dance instructor! Reluctantly, Fujita takes a few beginner classes, only to find his inspiration: an entrancing teenage dance prodigy named Shizuku.

From Louise Bourgeois, Andreas Gursky, Zaha Hadid, and Shirin Neshat, to David Lynch, Omar Sharif, Sting, and Naguib Mahfouz: many artists and other celebrities from the worlds of film, music, and literature have posed for the camera of Egyptian photographer Youssef Nabil (*1972 in Cairo). His first portraits were of friends, taken after he finished studying literature in the early nineties before

The artist Angie Lewin has a unique vision of the natural world. Her hugely popular prints depict in intricate detail the native flora of a variety of environments, from salt marsh and Highland loch to flower-strewn meadow and wild garden. Lewin finds beauty in each landscape, whatever the season, and is particularly inspired by plant forms: slender reeds, stately goatsbeard, spiky teasels and sculptural

Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first title in Cassandra Clare\'s internationally bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy with this sumptuous new edition. Brand new content, including the first chapter of Chain of Gold. Love is the most dangerous magic of all... First in the bestselling prequel series to The Mortal Instruments, set in Victorian London. Something terrifying is waiting for Tessa

The stunning new summer besteller from Freya North. Vita\'s nursing a broken heart. Oliver\'s heart belongs to the past. They should be perfect for each other. But will they chance it? Vita\'s gift shop would do better if she ran it as a business, not as somewhere to daydream. But she\'s not one to tell herself off: she leaves that to Tim, her ex. Active and outdoorsy Oliver runs his tree-surgery business

The most anticipated fantasy debut of the year. In this thunderously good read, prophecy and magic combine in an incredible epic of imperial politics, gods and demons. When destiny calls, there\'s no fighting back . . . As a bard\'s apprentice, Kihrin grew up with tales of legendary deeds. He also steals, desperate to buy a way out of Quur\'s slums. Then he raids the wrong house, he\'s marked by a

Hardboiled feline detective John Blacksad is back in the latest tour de force from the multiple-award winning duo of writer Juan Díaz Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido! Taking a much-needed break after the events of A Silent Hell, Blacksad lands a side job driving a rich Texan\'s prized yellow Cadillac Eldorado across 1950s America, hitting the back roads from New Orleans to Tulsa. But before long,

Mikami\'s middle age hasn\'t gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he s disappointed but not exactly surprised to find that he s not a knight or a wizard but a blind slime demon. But there are chances for even a slime to become a her

A MAJOR SEVEN-PART BBC TV SERIES. OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me ...The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation\'s past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell

\'Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here\'s the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King.\' The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy - the chauffeur\'s son instead of the son of the rich

From the very first mouthful, \'Lunch with the FT\' was destined to become a permanent fixture in the Financial Times. One thousand lunches later, the FT\'s weekly interview has become an institution. From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, the list reads like an international Who\'s Who of our times. Lunch with the FT is a selection of the best: 52 classic

En avril 1945, Budapest est libérée par l´armée russe au terme d´un si ge implacable. Cet épisode historique, que S ndor M rai évoquera vingt-cinq ans plus tard dans ses Mémoires de Hongrie, lui inspire, chaud, ce roman qu´il ach ve en quelques mois. Pendant les derni res semaines du si ge, une centaine de réfugiés se terrent dans les caves d´un immeuble, attendant l´issue d´un combat incertain. Autour

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Without a doubt one of the greatest achievements in children\'s literature, \"Alice\'s Adventures in Wonderland\" introduces children to a whole world of humour, fun and invention. Featuring more iconic characters and locations than any other children\'s story, Alice\'s world introduces today\'s children to the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the evil Queen of Hearts, the tea party and, of course, the

At thirty a woman has a directness in her eye. Juliet Montague did anyhow. She knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted to buy a refrigerator. But in a rash moment, Juliet commissions a portrait of herself instead. She has been closeted by her conservative Jewish community for too long, ever since her husband disappeared. Now she is ready to be seen. So begins the journey of a suburban wife and mother

Soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where the author lived as a boy, this delightful book tells of Gerald Durrell\'s early life with his \'family and other animals\'. Brought vividly to life are the extraordinary members of the Durrell family and their many eccentric hangers-on, as well as the bizarre menagerie Gerry adopts for closer study. The procession of creatures he brings back to the strawberry-pink,