Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry\'s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard,

ON BEHALF OF QUEEN, COUNTRY ...AND THE PERFECT POT OF TEA When Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama (Rue to her friends) is given an unexpected dirigible, she does what any sensible female would under similar circumstances - names it the Spotted Crumpet and floats to India in pursuit of the perfect cup of tea. But India has more than just tea on offer. Rue stumbles upon a plot involving local dissidents,

On 14 February 1989, Valentine\'s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been \'sentenced to death\' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being \'against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran\'. So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton and Jeremy Irons. Dominika Egorov, former prima ballerina, is sucked into the heart of Putin\'s Russia, the country she loved, as the twists and turns of a betrayal and counter-betrayal unravel. American Nate Nash, idealistic and ambitious, handles the double agent, codenamed MARBLE, considered one of CIA\'s biggest assets.

Trevor\'s mum has offered him GBP30 to walk the dog every day of the holidays. But Streaker is no ordinary dog, she\'s a rocket on four legs with a woof attached. Trevor\'s sure there must be a way to control her and Tina, his best friend, knows about training dogs. Their attempts involving such things as a pair of roller skates, a mobile phone and a bicycle, always lead to trouble. Horrid Charlie

STUNNING ADVERTISING, is a hard-hitting book on publicity. Remembering such as the Benetton campaigns some years ago, a company which opted for publicity without taboos in which we were presented with images opposing aids, hunger, and racism... we thought of doing this book. Selecting only those campaigns which provoked a sensation in the way we act. Those which leave us speechless, or those which

Energetic and cosmopolitan, the Batrakani family fate is entwined with that of their adopted land, Egypt, as it is caught in the upheavals of the 20th century. Georges Bey Batrakani is the patriarch of this family of Greek Catholic, French-speaking Syrians, living in a Muslim Cairo run by the British. He is driven by the need to achieve the wealth necessary for the luxury he craves. His chosen method

FEAR KEEPS THEM RUNNING. HOPE KEEPS THEM ALIVE. Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, AMERICAN DIRT is the first novel to explore the experience of attempting to illegally cross the US-Mexico border. Described as \'A Grapes of Wrath for our times\' (Don Winslow) it is a story that will leave you utterly changed. Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop. Yesterday, Lydia was married to a journalist. Yesterday,

Alien meets Psycho with a chilling mystery set on a haunted spaceship in this short story, soon to be an original series on Netflix, by the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones. On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race. But another enigma is the Nightflyer itself, a cybernetic wonder with an elusive captain

A stunning classic set in Italy\'s most vibrant and turbulent metropolis - Naples - in the immediate aftermath of World War Two. These lively and superbly written stories helped inspire Elena Ferrante\'s Neapolitan novels. Ortese\'s work was also championed by Italo Calvino, who was her Italian editor. The stories and reportage collected in this volume form a powerful portrait of ordinary lives, both

This is an innovative and accessible guide to business, management and commerce. Learning about business can be daunting, but The Business Book makes it easier than ever by giving you all the big ideas simply explained. Simple explanations and stylish infographics open up the business world to even the complete novice. The Business Book is the perfect primer to key theories of business and management,

This startling collection showcases the work of internationally acclaimed fashion and glamour photographer Frank De Mulder. His work has graced top advertising campaigns and leading magazines. Known for the electric eroticism of his work, De Mulder u ses light and contour to create compositions with painterly clarity. Respectful of his subjects De Mulder captures feminine beauty at its most intimate

Un abogado poco serio, un tipo guapo y misterioso, un maletín, un negocio diferente, unos cuantos ladrones, muchos enredos y la taxista Pepa Villa recorriendo las calles y los bajos fondos de Barcelona.... for the 18+ only!

This book brings together a colorful mixture of various works focusing on themes of the fantastic and surreal, starting with Böcklin\'s \"Toteninsel\" and including Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer’s dolls, the Australian painter Sidney Nolan, Giger\'s monsters, Cattelan\'s pope, and the Chapman brothers’ hybrids, as well as surreal painting from Magritte and Delvaux, the mystical and sensual

Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark.Lisey knew it when she first fell for Scott. And now he\'s dead, she knows it for sure. Lisey was the light to Scott Landon\'s dark for twenty-five years. As his wife, only she saw the truth behind the

The Spark is Kristine Barnett\'s remarkable memoir about being mother to a genius. Kristine Barnett\'s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein\'s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became a paid researcher in quantum

The men aboard an impounded freighter in the port of Marseilles are divided - should they wait for the money owed to them, or accept thier fate and look for work on another ship? This may be Captain Abdul Aziz\'s last commission and he is determined to save his ship and do the right thing by the men aboard.

Inventive, electrifying and daring, True Story is a novel like nothing you\'ve ever read before. After a college party, two boys drive a girl home: drunk and passed out in the back seat. Rumours spread about what they did to her, but later they\'ll tell the police a different version of events. Alice will never remember what truly happened. Her fracture runs deep, hidden beneath cleverness and wry

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Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly tormented by nightmarish visions of the Iranian president Ahmadinejad, anti-Semitic remarks both real and imagined, and, perhaps most worrisome of all, a dogged telemarketer who seems likely to chase him to