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Adrian Mole is thirty-four and three quarters, almost officially middle-aged, when Mr Blair tells Parliament that Weapons of Mass Destruction can be deployed in forty-five minutes and can reach Cyprus.

Adrian is worried that he might not get a refund on his holiday. But that's not all tha

The hilarious SEVENTH BOOK in Sue Townsend's bestselling series, sees Adrian fall in love, be inconvenienced by the war and face his new nemesis: a swan from the local canal . . .
Wednesday April 2nd
My birthday.
I am thirty-five today. I am officially middle-aged. It is all do

Award-winning writer and nurse Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking yet practical perspective on death and dying in this frank, direct and compassionate meditation on the inevitable.

From the sublime (the faint sound of Mozart as you take your last breath) to the ridiculous

During a cold, British winter, three women reach crisis point. Emily, an immigrant survivor of the Rwandan genocide is existing but not living. Vera, a Christian Londoner is striving to live a moral life, undermined by secrets from her past. Lynn, battling a disease, is consumed by resentm

It is early 1942 and Australia is in the midst of war. While working at a Japanese hospital in the port of Broome, Dr Ibaraki is arrested and sent to Loveday internment camp in a remote corner of South Australia. As tensions at the isolated camp escalate, the doctor's beliefs are thrown in

One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind. When his car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and stumbles upon a grand but dilapidated house. Its residents claim to have been waiting for him… There's Hester, their controlling host, Alex and Cla

On May 3rd, 1942, fifteen-year-old Alma Braithwaite and her fellow boarders at Goldwyn's school huddle in an air-raid shelter as bombs rain down on Exeter. When the girls emerge, the school is in ruins. Twenty-one years on, Alma lives alone and teaches music at her old school. The arrival

Rob and Anna have arrived for their holiday in the Caribbean. Kim and Owen, a friendly couple they met in the harbour, offer to charter their beautiful boat to take them to a distant island. Rob dreams of lazy afternoons spent snorkeling. Anna looks forward to the silence of days at sea. B

This is the story of the Honourable Guinevere Dilberne, daughter of Arnold, 11th Earl of Dilberne, Sandra Sinclair and Rita Boniface. Yes, that's right. Three parents. Or, in fact, four, if you wish to count Sandra's husband Clive. Though he played little part in it. It all begins with a l

In the quiet of a New Zealand winter's night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He's fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse, and his condition is critical. At first, Finn's fall looks like a horrible accident; after

Kings Cross station, 1943: As the bombs fall, Rose loses her heart to a pilot but will lose so much more before the war has done its worst. Las Vegas, present day: A beautiful woman in a wedding dress walks into a seedy bar and asks the first man she sees to marry her. So when Jane meets

Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tender-hearted, balancing acerbic humour with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they

Kate Madison's children are grown and ready to forge lives of their own. Her daughter Isabelle is a dedicated attorney, until she falls for a client she represents in a criminal case… And then there's Julie, who meets a man who seems too good to be true, for good reason. Justin is a stru

The latest book one-off novel in the New York Times bestselling series Pantheon.

The date is 4 Jaguar 1 Monkey 1 House November 25th 2012 by the old reckoning and the Aztec Empire rules the world. The Aztecs' reign is one of cruel and ruthless oppression, encompassing regular human sacri

When SPEARS receives an emergency distress call from its marine outpost in Antarctica, there is only one team they can send. Agnes and Attie are soon up to their eyes in an icebound mystery. What is causing the tremors threatening to destroy the rescue centre? Why are the local Adelie peng

Third in the AGENTS OF THE WILD series: fun-packed young fiction with wildlife conservation themes. Agnes and Attie – AGENTS OF THE WILD – are off to the Sahara Desert on a mission to rescue rare baby animals from illegal wildlife traders. When a lesser flamingo crashes into Agnes's wi

When 8-year-old Agnes is signed up for SPEARS (the Society for the Protection of Endangered and Awesomely Rare Species), she has no idea of the adventures that lie ahead with her elephant-shrew mentor Attie (short for „Attenborough“). Operation Honeyhunt sends them to the Brazilian rainfor

Ärgern Sie sich oft? Neigen Sie zu unkontrollierten Wutausbrüchen? Dann leiden Sie darunter vermutlich ebenso wie Ihr Umfeld. Dieses Buch hilft Ihnen Ärger und Aggressionen in den Griff zu bekommen und in Beruf und Freizeit gelassener zu werden. Der erfahrene Therapeut W. Doyle Gentry h

V romanu Kersnik opisuje predvolilne boje v tedanjem času. Proti liberalcem so nastopali katoliški konservativci, ti pa so sodelovali z nemškutarji in nemškimi uradniki.

Sam Kersnik je bil izvoljen za poslanca v deželni zbor in je dobro poznal tedanje politične razmere. V Ke

For the opening of a new aquarium Theodosia has been hired to cater the private party to honor dignitaries and donors. Things are going swimmingly – until Theodosia discovers a body entangled in a net, drowned in one of the aquarium's state-of-the-art tanks. The victim is Theodosia's ex, P

Mafia im 21. Jahrhundert: Tomaten sind das neue Kokain Der größte Exportschlager Italiens ist seine Küche. Der Anteil der Mafia an diesem Geschäft: 25 Milliarden Euro jährlich. Sie kontrolliert nicht selten gesamte Lieferketten, vom Anbau bis zum Endprodukt. Und durch die Coronakrise

Kai-Fu Lee: China, USA und die künstliche Intelligenz Wer wissen will, wie sich in der Welt die Gewichte verschieben, muss sich die Künstliche-Intelligenz-Industrie (AI-Industrie) anschauen. Kai-Fu Lee, Ex-Google-China-CEO, milliardenschwerer Start-up-Investor und einer der weltweit ren

The inspirational story of Britain's greatest paralympian.

In Seoul in 1988, Tanni Grey-Thompson represented Great Britain and won her first Paralympic medal – the 400m bronze. It was the beginning of an outstanding career leading to an astonishing sixteen medals – eleven of which are go

17 September 1944: The allies launch the largest airborne offensive in history, delivering 36,000 troops by parachute and glider to the Dutch / German Border. In nine days' time, half of them will be casualties of war. Among their number is Theo Trickey, a young paratrooper so dreadfully i