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The Wonder of Early Years Teaching: A practical guide to nurturing young minds
Step into the wonderful world of early years education and let the journey begin.Early years education is a journey of magical moments, of experiences that ignite curiosity and spark lifelong learning. At its core, it′s always about the children; their boundless potential, their unique journeys and the profound impact we have as their privileged educators.
This book invites early years practitioners to find the joy in Early Years Practice. It supports the creation of imaginative environments that spark opportunities for learning. Blending research, personal anecdotes and humour, this practical guide is rooted in every day practice. With a focus on practical tips for Early Years classrooms and settings, all content is linked to current early years frameworks.
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MBA Day by Day: How to turn business school insights into real-world excellence
MBA Day by Day (3rd edition) is the practical companion for managers and MBA students who want to translate business-school thinking into real workplace habits.
Written by Henley Business School’s Chris Dalton, this fully updated 3rd edition covers leadership, decision-making, strategy, marketing and finance through concise frameworks, real-world cases and daily practice prompts. It places reflective practice and personal development at the centre of management learning, helping you build the habits, judgement and emotional resilience that make strategy stick.
This edition mirrors contexts managers now face: digital transformation and AI, tighter governance and a stronger regulatory focus on ESG, and sustainable business. A new chapter on Information connects tactical data management with the rigorous critical thinking needed for sense-making and strategic decisions.
A primer for anyone considering an Executive MBA, companion for current students, and refresher for alumni, MBA Day by Day will also help any manager who just wants to think better, act smarter and lead with a clearer purpose, one day at a time.
- Four-part framework: Combines personal development with tactical, strategic, and visionary skills for every career stage.
- Daily practice prompts: turn MBA insights into real decisions and habits.
- Reflective practice at the core: builds judgement, self-awareness and emotional resilience.
- Cross-functional clarity: leadership, strategy, marketing and finance in one coherent toolkit.
The real value of what you learn isn’t what you know, it’s what you keep using. This book is not an MBA replacement; it is an MBA amplifier.
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Women and Leadership, Updated and Expanded (featuring “Stop Telling Women They Have Impostor Syndrome” by Ruchika T. Malhotra and Jodi-Ann Burey)
Overcome the unique challenges that women face at work.
If you read nothing else on women and leadership, read this book. We’ve chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you understand the barriers holding women back, ensure their voices are heard, and create a path forward for aspiring female leaders.
This book will inspire you to:
- Challenge stereotypes about women’s leadership and vision
- Root out bias in organizational processes, from hiring to promotion
- Practice inclusive leadership, especially in male-dominated industries
- Embed sponsorship into leadership development
- Invest in on-the-job learning opportunities
- Work collaboratively to drive change
This collection of articles includes “How to Close the Gender Gap,” by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg; “Make Yourself Heard,” an interview with Deborah Tannen by Amy Bernstein, Sarah Green Carmichael, and Nicole Torres; “Women and the Vision Thing,” by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru; “Stop Telling Women They Have Impostor Syndrome,” by Ruchika T. Malhotra and Jodi-Ann Burey; “Dig, Bridge, Collectively Act,” by Tina Opie and Beth A. Livingston; “The Memo Every Woman Keeps in Her Desk,” by Kathleen Reardon; “How Women Can Get Comfortable Playing Politics at Work,” by Lisa Zigarmi, Julie Diamond, and Lesli Mones; “What’s Really Holding Women Back?,” by Robin J. Ely and Irene Padavic; “The Secrets of Successful Female Networkers,” by Harvard Business Review; “How to Do Sponsorship Right,” by Herminia Ibarra; “Achieve DEI Goals Without DEI Programs,” by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev; “Does the Tech Industry Need a Reboot?,” an interview with Telle Whitney by Alison Beard; “Are You Taking on Too Many Non-Promotable Tasks?,” by Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie Weingart; and “How Women Can Win in the Workplace,” by Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and María del Mar Martínez.
HBR’s 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.
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Off The Score Sheet: A Spicy Grumpy Sunshine Gay Hockey Romance
HENRIK
They call me The Golden Boy, and I’ve never lost a game I truly wanted to win. My next goal? To prove I belong in the NHL. That, and to crack the icy exterior of my captain, Sebastian Buchanan. He’s grumpy, disciplined, and watches me like he can’t decide if he wants to bench me or pin me against the boards. He thinks he’s immune to my charm, but I see the fire behind his eyes. And I’ve never been one to back down from a challenge.
SEBASTIAN
My job is simple: lead my team to victory. That means focus, discipline, and no distractions. Then Henrik Ljungberg shows up: a flashy, insufferable rookie who’s as infuriating as he is magnetic. He’s a walking penalty, and he’s stirring things I’ve kept locked down for years. I need him to be a professional. I need him to fall in line. Most of all, I need him to stop looking at me like he knows every secret I’ve ever kept. When we’re named roommates on a six-day road trip, keeping my distance becomes impossible, and the one rule I’ve always lived by—team first—is about to get shattered.Read more
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The Wild Card: Vancouver Storm 5
Tate Ward is the best coach in professional hockey, a hot single dad, one of the best players of all time, and my new boss who likes everyone but me.
The players will do anything for him, the media is obsessed, and the fans still wear his jersey. Everyone’s in love with handsome, authoritative Coach Tate Ward. Everyone except me, and the feeling’s mutual.
To save the Vancouver Storm from being sold, though, we need to work together and win the Stanley Cup, and I can’t help but push his buttons to get under his skin.
He moves me into his guest house and makes me sleep in his bed.
He encourages me with the team and tells me I belong.
He’s adorable with his daughter and makes me long for things I shouldn’t.
Beneath his controlled exterior, Tate is protective, playful, and funny. He puts everyone before himself, but when I encourage him to be selfish, I learn that Tate wants…
Me.
The Wild Card is a pro hockey single dad romance. It is the fifth and final book in the Vancouver Storm series but can be read as a standalone.
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All at Sea: Can you solve the clues in the most fiendish new cosy crime novel?
A murder at sea, a killer below deck?
BELOW DECK meets KNIVES OUT in this breathless voyage into murder and mayhem on the high seas…
Howie Temple is down on his luck and desperate for cash. Once an action movie star, he now lives off a crumbling reputation. On his way to film a new reality TV show, which casts a team of c-list celebrities as crew aboard a luxury yacht, he meets fellow contestant, influencer-of-the-moment Cassandra Troy. The duo take an immediate dislike to each other.
After a hectic first day of filming, the pair are shocked discover that the captain of the ship has been murdered – locked in his control room, slumped over the wheel, a knife in his back. Convinced by the show’s ever-opportunistic director to keep the cameras rolling, the pair team-up to hunt the murderer.
Will the show make Howie and Cassandra bigger stars than they could ever dream of? And can they crack the case before the killer strikes again, or will they go down with this sinking ship?
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You’ll Always Be My Baby
A reassuring, rhyming picture book from bestselling author, poet and influencer, Jessica Urlichs. The perfect shared reading experience for parent and child, celebrating the deep forever-love of family.
Of all Jessica’s popular poems, You’ll Always Be My Baby is the one that is most requested by her followers to be turned into a picture book – it’s the perfect love note to your little one.
This keepsake, hardback edition is beautifully illustrated by Jedda Robaard.
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Alone in Japan: A Journey to the Future
From the acclaimed writer and journalist, a vivid and wide-ranging portrait of love, sex and loneliness in contemporary Japan
No sex. No kids. No future?
When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising superpower, a technology giant, and a global symbol of prosperity, civility and success. When he returned twenty-four years later, the country was still a sign of things to come – but, he began to realize, it was no longer a beacon. It was a warning.
This book offers a unique portrait of life in contemporary Japan, from the quiet of its furthest flung villages to the dynamism of its megacities. It tells the story of how, from the mid-seventies onwards, Japanese society unknowingly embarked on a vast, silent process of transformation that is still unfolding today. The country is still peaceful; it is still prosperous. But the population is shrinking. As things stand, it will fall by a third with each new generation.
Travelling through shrines and bars, rice fields and mango farms, coffee shops and old peoples’ homes, Feiling meets those affected by, and driving, this transformation. Through countless interviews and extensive research, he weaves together a powerful account of how and why men and women are ceasing to pair off and have kids. He reveals how sexual appetites and behaviours are both shaped by, and reshaping the evolving economy, and considers the risks – and the opportunities – of the rise in solo living in Japan, and beyond.
Clear-sighted and surprising, Alone in Japan is a portrait of love, sex and death in contemporary Japan that should provoke and engage us all. It is an electrifying portrait of a nation on the brink by one of the most original reporters working today.
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Start With Yourself
START WITH YOURSELF is a game-changing, no-BS guide for anyone seeking meaningful success on their own terms. It’s an essential framework that will give you the tools and mindset to unlock your full potential in life and business – straight from a woman who defied all the odds to become a serial entrepreneur, co-founder of culture-defining global businesses, a non-profit champion and host of “Aspire with Emma Grede” podcast. All while raising a family of four children.
Based on the factors of her early life – she’s the child of a working-class single mother who grew up in a rough neighborhood in East London and dropped out of high school – you’d never guess that Emma Grede would go on to become one of America’s richest self-made women.
This makes Grede singular and unique, but she’s convinced you can do it too: START WITH YOURSELF is a blueprint to her mindset and how she thinks about business and life, structured in easy takeaways, so you can immediately apply her philosophy to what you’re trying to build and create.
Among her most blazing insights, Grede identifies what she calls “Old Thoughts”: stale thinking, outdated ideas; set-in-stone rules ingrained into the culture about work life balance, the crassness of money and the unseemliness of ambition – which aren’t actually rules at all. They’re biases, Grede insists, system errors, and we must strike them from our minds in order to create a greater sense of control, even mastery, over our day-to-day and long-range goals.
Ultimately, this is a book for everyone tired of feeling like a bystander or passenger in their own life. Grede offers tangible and applicable-right-now solutions to create a mindset, an overall system of thought to manage emotions, clarify ideas, and illuminate the right next step – while always staying positive.
It’s about gathering yourself after failure. It’s about being accountable but also forgiving yourself. It’s about not expecting shortcuts while never being bashful about grabbing them when they appear. It’s about pushing hard for wins and never apologising for your dreams.
Above all, Grede offers a new vision for work and life that encourages readers everywhere to take responsibility for their own thinking to achieve personal and professional success at the highest levels.
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The Next World War: The new age of global conflict and the fight to stop it
“Incredibly well sourced… One of the most plugged-in voices in modern warfare” – THE TELEGRAPH
“Reads like a real-life geopolitical thriller … The fact it doesn’t feel like scaremongering says a lot about the state of the world” – Jonn Elledge, author of A History of the World in 47 Borders
The Next World War takes readers behind the scenes of the most dangerous era of international tensions since the end of the Cold War, as countries and military forces prepare for potential large-scale combat on a scale unseen since 1945.
From the corridors of power in Washington, Whitehall, Moscow and Beijing to the new frontlines of conflict in Ukraine, Taiwan, cyberspace and even the far side of the moon, Peter Apps unflinchingly explores the fault lines where global peace is already starting to unravel.
Featuring the voices of the commanders, diplomats and technologists already shaping history, as well as the nervous conscripts and ordinary people directly caught up in events, The Next World War examines the real-world effects of this new era of global confrontation. For some – including millions of citizens told to stockpile food and water and prepare for potential mass disruption – it still may not feel entirely real. But for Russia, China and their growing ‘axis of upheaval’, today’s conflicts represent a growing opportunity to reshape the world as they would like it – leading to potential disaster for the West if it cannot heed the warnings in time.
From the return of Cold War-style atomic threats to new forms of sabotage and ‘hybrid warfare’, the battle for global dominance is already firmly underway. The Next World War is the book you need to understand the growing precariousness of our current situation – and the unending battle to stop it escalating past the point of no return.
“Gripping and important … A warning order for the future” – General Sir Tim Radford KCB DSO OBE
“Sweeping and compelling, with plenty of human stories that really pull you in. A must-read book from the expert I go to when I really want to get a sense of where things might be going” – Anna-Joy Rickard, Great British Foreign Affairs podcast
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How to Talk to AI: (And How Not To)
*Featured in BBC’s Books to Read in 2026*
Knowing how to speak to AI – and how not to – is a skill that everyone now needs. This book will help the reader understand how to make the most of these incredible new technologies, without succumbing to new powers of manipulation and control.
Hundreds of millions of people now talk to AI like ChatGPT every day. They organise their finances and holidays, ask advice, seek therapy and find love – via machines. Almost overnight, chatbots are transforming society, politics and business.
This is one of the biggest and fastest technological changes in history – but most people still don’t really understand how AI works, how to make the most of it – or what the dangers are. As some people use it to turbo-charge their productivity at work, others are falling into dangerous conspiracies, delusions and psychosis.
In How to Talk to AI, tech commentator Jamie Bartlett takes the reader inside the machine: showing how we can stay in control of our powerful new companions, even as they are changing the way we live, feel, and think.
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Dogs, Boys and Other Things I’ve Cried About
From the social media superstar behind @SimonSits, Isabel Klee – known for her heartwarming tales of dog rescue – comes an utterly winning memoir about a twentysomething woman’s search for true love in New York City and the dogs who helped her find it.
Isabel Klee had always wanted to live in New York City. At age 20, she got her chance, ditching her college upstate for Marymount Manhattan and moved into a tiny basement apartment on the Upper East Side. Dog-obsessed since childhood, her first postgrad job was managing content for the incredibly popular account The Dogist, and something clicked into place: a career focused on helping dogs was the new dream.
Isabel quickly found a passion for using her own growing platform to help rescue pups find their forever homes. At the same time, she was caught up in a whirlwind of friendships, parties, fickle boyfriends and grand romances, which she recounts in honest, tender and sometimes devastating chapters about the search for love and belonging.
Isabel’s first true love, though, was Simon, a fluffy puppy who’d been saved from the meat trade. As the highs and lows of this turbulent decade hit Isabel, it was Simon who kept her grounded. Together, Isabel and Simon created an online community of dog-lovers, fellow foster advocates and girls just trying to get through the trenches of their twenties.
In Dogs, Boys and Other Things I’ve Cried About, Isabel weaves together the stories of her foster dogs – and the challenges she helped them overcome – with tales of bad dates, hard decisions and great loves in New York City, all leading to a happy ending not only for the rescue pups, but for Isabel herself.
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William Tyndale and the English Language
‘Dearly beloved’, ‘say the word’, ‘the powers that be’, ‘for ever and ever’ – these familiar phrases and many more were set down in print for the first time by William Tyndale. For his groundbreaking English translation of the Bible, he deliberately chose to write in a way that could be understood by the widest possible audience.
In the first half of this pioneering exploration of the extraordinary impact Tyndale’s writing had on the development of the English language, David Crystal provides an analysis of his prose style, demonstrating its character as a novel genre of ‘written speech’, and bringing to light the remarkable number of cases where Tyndale is the first recorded user of a word or phrase in English. He also draws attention to the hitherto unrecognised role of Tyndale as an early lexicographer. The second half of the book is a linguistic detective story, devising an innovative lexical and grammatical metric to investigate the often-stated claim that eighty per cent of later biblical translations display Tyndale’s influence.
The result is a fascinating exploration of the work of the Father of the English Bible.
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there’s an overwhelming variety of tools and analytical systems, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, plus data warehouses and data lakes. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords?In this second edition, authors Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini build on the foundation laid in the acclaimed first edition, integrating new technologies and emerging trends. You’ll be guided through the maze of decisions and trade-offs involved in building a modern data system, from choosing the right tools like Spark and Flink to understanding the intricacies of data laws like the GDPR.
- Peer under the hood of the systems you already use, and learn to use them more effectively
- Make informed decisions by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of different tools
- Navigate the trade-offs around consistency, scalability, fault tolerance, and complexity
- Understand the distributed systems research upon which modern databases are built
- Peek behind the scenes of major online services, and learn from their architectures
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Cozy Friends: A relaxing cosy colouring book for all ages, from the bestselling author (Coco Wyo)
Relax and unwind with this adorable colouring book, full of tiny furry friends!
Penguin Books edition – updated with exclusive new drawings!Find comfort in the enchanting world of Cozy Friends, with 45 uplifting hand-drawn pages ready for you to colour in.
In this book you’ll find familiar everyday activities, but with your brand new Cozy Friends – super cute animal characters!
Cozy Friends has sweet and irresistible images for colouring fans of all ages, and also includes:
- 45 hand-drawn pages ready for your creativity
- Large, bold designs that are easy to colour
- Convenient 8 x 8-inch size, perfect for relaxing anywhere
- Crisp, high-resolution illustrations that bring each page to life
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The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game
‘Lucid, entertaining and precise… a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life’ Time Clare, Guardian
Is this the game you want to be playing?
Scoring systems are everywhere. Underpinning our daily lives – whether it’s the fit bits on our wrists, likes on social media, and even school rankings – they have become pervasive and increasingly dangerous, warping our desires and outsourcing our values to external institutions. Instead of encouraging us to be more playful, to take pleasure in the journey of striving towards a goal, institutions, corporations and bureaucracies weaponize scoring systems to impose their own interests. No matter what, we always seem to be playing by someone else’s rules.
In The Score, philosopher C. Thi Nguyen shows us how this newly ‘gamified’ world has fundamentally captured our value systems, turning what might be moral or personal life choices into numerical data, and forcing us to prioritise what can be measured and monetized over what is truly meaningful to us.
A life-long lover of online and board games himself, Nguyen argues that we should not stop playing games but rather take a step back and become more aware of their immersive and profound power, so that we might chart a way towards more creative and joyful lives. To start playing our own game.
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A Waffle Lot of Love: Funniest children’s graphic novel of 2025 for readers aged 5+ in the much-loved Narwhal & Jelly series!: Book 10
‘Hilarious and charming. The most loveable duo.’ Dav Pilkey, bestselling author of DOGMAN and CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS
Dive into the hilarious tenth book of this blockbuster graphic novel series!
Narwhal is a happy-go-lucky narwhal. Jelly is a no-nonsense jellyfish. The two might not have a lot in common, but they do love waffles, parties and adventures.
Have a whale of a time with the ocean’s most adorable best friend duo in four new under the sea stories!
It’s PALentine’s Day and Jelly gives Narwhal a whaley nice card ― but now Narwhal has no idea what to give him! One card isn’t nearly enough, and soon Narwhal is flooding Jelly with gifts galore: waffles, a book about Jelly, more waffles, a song about Jelly … MORE waffles! Jelly is grateful, but hanging out with his friend is all he really wants. A hilarious and charming book about the true nature of friendship.
Full-colour artwork throughout and packed with facts and jokes – the perfect first graphic novel series for young readers and next step from picture books.
Ten hilarious books to collect:
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea
Super Narwhal and Jelly Jolt
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Narwhal’s Otter Friend
Happy Narwhalidays
Narwhal’s School of Awesomeness
Narwhalicorn and Jelly
A Super Scary Narwhalloween
Narwhal’s Sweet Tooth
Narwhalentine
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Pokémon Colour and Design: the official Pokémon colouring book for fans of the original game, relaxing and satifying. NEW for 2026!
Bring colour to the striking world of Pokémon!
This official adult colouring book contains the original 151 Pokémon from the Kanto region. From the dark purple of Gengar, to the bright orange of Charmander, to the iconic yellow of Pikachu, explore the colourful world of Pokémon.
With intricate designs for mindful, relaxing and cosy colouring, this is the perfect gift for any Pokémon fan (including yourself!)
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Girl Moments: A relaxing cosy colouring book for all ages, from the bestselling author (Coco Wyo)
Relax and unwind with this adorable colouring book, perfect for curling up with and getting cosy!
Penguin Books edition – updated with exclusive new drawings!Step into the calm and comforting world of Girl Moments, with 45 unique illustrations to help you pause and take in the little joys – from a warm cup of tea in the morning to cosying up in bed with a book.
Drift away into the soft, soothing vibes and rediscover the simple comforts that make every day a little brighter.
Girl Moments has sweet and irresistible images for colouring fans of all ages, and also includes:
- 45 hand-drawn pages ready for your creativity
- Large, bold designs that are easy to colour
- Convenient 8 x 8-inch size, perfect for relaxing anywhere
- Crisp, high-resolution illustrations that bring each page to life
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How I Wish I’d Taught Writing
There are four myths that hinder the teaching of writing. First, that it is so cognitively complex that there can be no established pedagogy that captures that complexity in a rational and teachable progression. Second, that the research on teaching writing is so thin as to be almost irrelevant. Third, that reading and writing are inverses and so long as we teach reading we are per se teaching writing. Fourth, that writing is a creative form and is therefore a divine gift rather than a teachable social necessity. Through analysis of the substantial and growing research into writing, this book aims to dispel all four myths and offer a clear, research-led and unambiguous companion to the DfE Writing Framework on how writing is best taught in primary schools.Read more
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So, I Met This Guy . . .: The perfect laugh-out-loud read for women who have had ENOUGH!
So, I Met This Guy . . .
Well, isn’t that how every love story starts? But how does it end – a happily ever after? Or with the discovery that the supposed love-of-your-life has stolen your life savings and your home, trashed your heart and demolished your self-esteem?
Maggie is barely fifty years-old, and she’s not one to give up on herself. So when she meets Flick, a young reporter who realizes this story could be the big break she’s been looking for, they set off to catch him as he goes on the run across Europe. After all, she’s got nothing left to lose, right?
But as the pair embark on the road trip of their lives, unexpected twists, hidden secrets and hard truths are revealed. And as an unlikely friendship begins to blossom, they realize it’s not just about finding the guy, it’s about finding themselves . . .
From the author of the mega bestseller Confessions of a Fortysomething F##k Up comes another laugh-out-loud novel full of wit, wisdom . . . and women who have had ENOUGH.
‘The Bridget Jones for our times’ – Daily Telegraph
‘A rip-roaring plot and some of the best twists I’ve ever read – THE mega hit of 2026!’ – Matt Cain
‘A thrilling, witty, twisty, turny wonderful adventure with a grand splosh of self-discovery’ – Milly Johnson
‘Warm, witty and wise . . . An absolute triumph!’ – Mike Gayle
‘The perfect blockbuster read’ – Alex Brown
‘Heartwarming, joyful and uplifting’ – Laura Price
‘A moving tribute to the transformative power of female friendship’ – Freya North
‘I could not love this book more’ – Lindsey Kelk
‘Like having a catch-up with good friends’ – C. J. Wray
‘Potter’s writing sparkles with energy, with humour . . . and a wonderful human heart’ – Peter James
‘A story of hope, redemption and the magical energy of female friendship’ – Lucy Dillon
‘This book was superb’ – Prima
‘All the ingredients of the perfect holiday read’ – Daily Express
What readers love about Alexandra Potter:
‘Full of humour, optimism, love, loss, friendship, reality and a little magic. Really lifted my spirits’
‘So relatable’
‘Laugh-out-loud moments with such thoughtful insights into real life’
‘Inspiring, funny, emotional – I could not put it down’
‘Obsessed’
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No-Nonsense Nutrition: The Science-based Plan to Transform Health, Lose Weight, Feel Amazing
Love real food, look and feel amazing, with this life-changing guide.
Over 100 healthy recipes to stay fuller, longer.
Food is one the most powerful tools we have for good health. Acclaimed clinical nutritionist Dominique Ludwig has helped thousands of people transform their health, reset their appetite, boost energy and mood, and lose weight with her science-proven method.
Her six evidence-based principles will revolutionise your approach to food and introduce you to eating that fuels your body and promotes longevity and happiness, without ever missing out.
By re-learning how to eat, what to eat and when to eat, we can unlock our body’s natural wellness and stimulate the release of GLP1 reducing food noise, curbing cravings and feeling ready to enjoy life at our best. No fads, just delicious food. All of the enjoyment, none of the nonsense.
The simple balanced recipes have been developed following Dominique’s pioneering methods: combining fibre, protein, plants and healthy fats to satisfy and energise.
With a real-life track record, Dominique’s no-nonsense method:
· Boosts your body’s natural GLP-1, the hormone that signals fullness
· Silences food noise and ends the cycle of constant hunger
· Promotes natural weight loss learning to eat balanced plates and stop grazing
· Increases energy and aids good sleep, improving your mood in less than two weeks
· Reduces inflammation and promotes healthy gut microbiome
· Promotes longevity, helping us to be healthier into old age
· Includes macro counts, two week meal plan and meal prep adviceThis stunning guide makes healthy eating easy to understand and even easier to follow. It is your definitive guide to a healthier, happier you.
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One Woman’s War: Rags to Riches, Book 2 (Audio Download): Rosie Goodwin, Charlie Sanderson, Zaffre: Amazon.co.uk: Books
A Rags to Riches novel .
The second book in a brand-new historical trilogy from Britain’s best-loved saga author.
Nuneaton, 1914
War is just around the corner and for Annie Lilburn and her adopted family, life will never be the same. Annie, after a difficult childhood, has never felt like she fits in, but since Levi Lilburn, the local rag and bone man, took her under his wing and she became a business woman in her own right, things have been on the up. Soon that is set to change when World War I is declared and the men of the town enlist. And as more and more casualties come in, Annie needs to step up and do her bit for the war effort.
Annie trains to become a nurse and eventually finds herself on the battlefields in France. With death and destruction all around her, Annie is experiencing things she could never have imagined, but finds an inner strength like no other. Then through the devastation of war, love starts to bloom when Annie meets a young officer. Could this orphan girl finally be finding her place in the world and someone to truly love her, or is her happiness set to come crashing down once again?
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John of John: The extraordinary new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain
The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of SHUGGIE BAIN and YOUNG MUNGO.
‘This book is special’ – Colm Tóibín
‘Passionate, liberating, and gorgeous’ – Min Jin Lee
‘Brilliant and rare’ – Ann Patchett
‘A masterpiece’ – Elaine Feeney
‘A fierce, glorious sting of a novel’ – Lauren GroffOut of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.
While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.
John of John is the heartbreaking story of a young man’s return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of the great British writers at work today.
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Northwestern France 2026 – Michelin National Map 706
Updated annually, MICHELIN National Map Northwestern France 706 will give you an detailed picture of your journey from Amiens to Brest and La Rochelle to Clermont-Ferrand thanks to its clear and accurate mapping scale 1/500,000. Our map will help you easily plan your safe and enjoyable journey in the southwestern parts of France thanks to a comprehensive key, a complete name index as well a clever time & distance chart. Michelin’s driving information will help you navigate safely in all circumstances. Furthermore this map features zoom on major cities and towns as well as QR codes to the complete your journey with ViaMichelin. This map includes tourist sights, scenic route and is cross-referenced with the famous MICHELIN Green Guide highlighting destinations worth stopping for! With MICHELIN National Maps, find more than just your way! MICHELIN NATIONAL MAPS feature: * Up-to-date mapping * A scale adapted to the size of the country * A clear and comprehensive key * Distance and time chart * Place name index * Driving and road safety information * Tourist sights information Our maps are regularly updated even if the ISBN does not change.Read more
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First Overland: London–Singapore by Land Rover
Decades before Race Across the World, six friends made the epic journey from London to Singapore and back in two Land Rovers.
Why not? No-one had ever done it: one of the longest of all overland journeys, from the English Channel to Singapore. Several expeditions had tried. Some had reached the Persian deserts; a few, the Indian plains. But none had gone further: over the jungle-clad Assamese mountains, across northern Burma, to Thailand and Malaya. It was 1955. For the final 3,000 miles, it seemed, there were ‘too many rivers and too few roads’. But no-one really knew…
They were undergraduates with no money, no cars―no nothing, except cool audacity. They wheedled and cajoled, coaxing the BBC into supplying film for a possible series; ‘persuading’ Rover to lend them two factory-fresh off-road vehicles; sweet-talking a book publisher into offering an advance. By the time they set off, their eighty-plus sponsors ranged from whiskey distillers to collapsible bucket–makers. Seven months and 12,000 miles later, two weary, police-escorted Land Rovers rolled into Singapore to flash-bulbs and champagne. Here, their bestseller is republished, with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough. He had given them that film, after all.
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When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine
The spirit of a place lies in the people who inhabit it, in the stories that intertwine through its streets. And this is especially true of a land like Palestine, the witness to defining historical transitions and stage to one of the most painful chapters in contemporary history. With a voice both authoritative and deeply human, Francesca Albanese, who had been living in Palestine for many years while following the legal battles of numerous Palestinian families, takes on the role of narrator of the ongoing conflict, starting from the stories of the people she met. Albanese elegantly composes a gallery of stories, characters, and places that allow us to understand what Palestine was like until a year and a half ago, and what it has become today. ‘Is it possible that after 42,000 people have been killed, you still cannot empathize with the Palestinians? Those among you who have not uttered a word about what is happening in Gaza demonstrate that empathy has evaporated from this room. Empathy is the glue that makes us stand united as humanity.’ -Albanese at the United Nations General Assembly, October 2024.Read more
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Queens and Kings: An Unusually Personal History
THE BRAND-NEW BOOK FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LUCY WORSLEY: AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW
No one has lived and breathed the monarchy quite like Lucy Worsley. For over twenty years, she worked as Chief Curator in some of Britain’s most splendid palaces – and now she is ready to throw open the doors and welcome us in.
In QUEENS & KINGS, Lucy takes us on a journey through some of our most turbulent and significant moments in history. From the Council Chamber in which Henry VIII decided to break from the Pope to lunch with the late Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, from encounters with the Tower of London’s Ravenmaster to the depths of Queen Victoria’s wardrobe, Lucy shares how she grew to know the queens and kings, courtiers and servants who lived in these buildings before her. She traces their footsteps through the corridors and cloisters, the courtyards and kitchens and breathes new life into moments of great joy and consequence – as well as tales of intrigue which lurked in the shadows of regal splendour.
Packed with new stories told from unexplored places, this is a fresh history of the monarchy.
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Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 29: Volume 29
To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural!In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna’s body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural!
Itadori closes in on Sukuna thanks to the help of Miguel and Larue, two members of Geto’s faction. Despite getting weaker, Sukuna pulls off a black flash attack and begins to recover! As the ultimate battle unfolds, Itadori uses black flash himself in order to awaken his potential!
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The Eights: The captivating debut historical novel following the first women to study at Oxford University
‘Entertaining and moving…I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters’ TRACY CHEVALIER
‘I ADORED it. What a fantastic read. My book of the year’ JILL MANSELL
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They knew they were changing history.
They didn’t know they would change each other.Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight. They have come here from all walks of life, and they are thrown into an unlikely, life-affirming friendship.
Dora was never meant to go to university, but, after losing both her brother and her fiancé on the battlefield, has arrived in their place. Beatrice, politically-minded daughter of a famous suffragette, sees Oxford as a chance to make her own way – and her own friends – for the first time. Socialite Otto fills her room with extravagant luxuries but fears they won’t be enough to distract her from her memories of the war years. And quiet, clever, Marianne, the daughter of a village vicar, arrives bearing a secret she must hide from everyone – even The Eights – if she is to succeed.
But Oxford’s dreaming spires cast a dark shadow: in 1920, misogyny is still rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of the Great War are still very real indeed. And as the group navigate this tumultuous moment in time, their friendship will become more important than ever.
The Eights is a captivating debut novel about sisterhood, self-determination, courage, and what it means to come of age in a world that is forever changed.
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‘Beautifully captures the power of friendship … A pleasure to read’ PIP WILLIAMS, author of A Dictionary of Lost Words
‘I so enjoyed The Eights’ CLARE CHAMBERS, author of Small Pleasures
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Ready to Teach: An Inspector Calls
This book brings together the deep subject knowledge, resources and classroom strategies needed to teach J. B. Priestley’s famous play for GCSE, as well as the pedagogical theory behind why these ideas work, helping teachers to deliver a knowledge-rich curriculum with impact. With fresh approaches building on the success of the Ready to Teach series, each chapter contains lesson-by-lesson essays and commentaries that enhance subject knowledge on key areas of the text alongside fully resourced lessons reflecting current and dynamic best practice. The book also offers an introduction to the key pedagogical concepts which underpin the lessons and why they are proven to help students develop powerful knowledge and key skills. Whether you are new to teaching or looking for different ways into the text, Ready to Teach: An Inspector Calls is the ideal companion to the study of this 20th century classic.Read more
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Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 30
To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural!In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna’s body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural!
The final battle between Itadori and Sukuna reaches its climax! Itadori attacks the seam between souls in an attempt to separate Sukuna from Fushiguro. Will his last-ditch effort bring an end to this stunning fight? Find out in this final volume of Jujutsu Kaisen!
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Japanese Gothic: The all-new haunted house Samurai horror from Sunday Times bestselling author of Bat Eater!
Kylie Lee Baker returns with another witty, gory, horror PHENOMENON
‘Brilliantly inventive. A must read – I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough’ MONIKA KIM
2025
Lee can’t remember exactly where he hid the body, but he can remember the blood. Hiding out at his father’s centuries-old home in Japan, Lee knows something is wrong with him, and he knows it has something to do with his mother’s disappearance almost a decade ago.1877
A female samurai, Sen, stalks the borders of her home to protect her family from slaughter after the abolition of the samurai class. She’s not sure how they’ll ever survive, not without her father, who has returned from war with a different soul behind his eyes.When Lee and Sen find one another through a door between their worlds, they’re both looking for answers. But what they find in the creaking old house they share is beyond what either of them could imagine…
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🦇 ‘This book dug its claws into me and would not let go’ LING LING HUANG 🦇
🦇 ‘Body horror and female rage fiction combine in a powerful novel that will leave you quaking’ ALMA KATSU 🦇
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The Distinctly Competent District Councillor: The new, heart-warming novel from the multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon
The charming and original story of a small, declining community’s struggle to survive in the shadow of an all-consuming metropolis, from from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
All over the world, people sleep blissfully in Traumbett beds. These marvellous feats of German engineering have successfully cornered the mattress market everywhere. Everywhere, except Sweden and owner Konrad Kaltenbacher Jr is desperate to expand there.
With Konrad Jr’s sights set firmly on stylish Stockholm, Julia Bäck, district councillor of the small, decaying town of Halstaholm, has plans of her own. Seeing an opportunity to attract 800 new jobs, Julia jumps into spearheading a persuasive campaign to win the contract. A roundabout is hastily renamed in honour of Angela Merkel; a German school is quickly established under the leadership of a ten-year-old boy and three elderly pensioners; and the town swimming pool is rapidly transformed into a beerhouse – it had been empty for years anyway!
Julia’s get-up-and-go impresses the German boss … but has she made herself a tricky bed to lie in?
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