'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee Williams Often cited as one of the great novels of twentieth-century American fiction, Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the cafe where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry socialist drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant, and he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways the could never imagine. Moving, sensitive and deeply humane, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter explores loneliness, the human need for understanding and the search for love.

Contributing authors: Sole Anatrone, Nicolino Applauso, Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto, Mary Ann McDonald Carolan, John Champagne, Mark Chu, Shelleen Greene, Kristi Grimes, Julia Heim, Akash Kumar, Kenyse Lyons, Vetri Nathan, Deborah Parker, Deanna Shemek, Alessia Valfredini, Gaoheng Zhang. This volume of essays embodies the genesis of change in Italian studies. In essays theoretical and practical, scholars set out to draw the contours of a new interactive and responsive map. Looking with fresh eyes and scholarly thoroughness at decades-old learning systems, they identify problems and challenge assumptions that undergird these systems' limitations and legacies. Fundamental new approaches, including those emerging from the experiences of Black and other non-White students and professors as well as of LGBTQIA+ scholars and others, are brought to bear in this frank re-evaluation. Facing the task of effecting the radical changes necessary for creative development, these scholars look hopefully and with determination toward the future of Italian studies.

'R eminds me of why I became a fantasy enthusiast in the first place' - Robin Hobb, author of Assassin's Apprentice The first novel in John Gwynne's epic and stirring Of Blood and Bone trilogy. The Ben-Elim, a race of warrior angels, once vanquished a mighty demon horde. Now they rule the Banished Lands. But their dominion is brutally enforced and their ancient enemy may not be as crushed as they thought. In the snowbound North, Drem, a trapper, finds mutilated corpses in the forests - a sign of demonic black magic. In the South, Riv, a young, tempestuous soldier, discovers a deadly rift within the Ben-Elim themselves. Two individuals with two world-changing secrets. But where will they lead? And what role will Drem and Riv play in the Banished Lands' fate? Difficult choices need to be made. Because in the shadows, demons are gathering, waiting for their time to rise . . . Continue the heroic fantasy series with A Time of Blood. 'A truly excellent read . . . Exciting, well-written swords and sorcery' - Mark Lawrence, author of The Broken Empire 'John Gwynne is one of the modern masters of heroic fantasy' - Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time Of Blood and Bone is set one hundred years after the end of Gwynne's Faithful and the Fallen quartet, and can be read as a standalone series. The trilogy includes A Time of Dread, A Time of Blood and A Time of Courage.

'R eminds me of why I became a fantasy enthusiast in the first place' - Robin Hobb, author of Assassin's Apprentice The first novel in John Gwynne's epic and stirring Of Blood and Bone trilogy. The Ben-Elim, a race of warrior angels, once vanquished a mighty demon horde. Now they rule the Banished Lands. But their dominion is brutally enforced and their ancient enemy may not be as crushed as they thought. In the snowbound North, Drem, a trapper, finds mutilated corpses in the forests - a sign of demonic black magic. In the South, Riv, a young, tempestuous soldier, discovers a deadly rift within the Ben-Elim themselves. Two individuals with two world-changing secrets. But where will they lead? And what role will Drem and Riv play in the Banished Lands' fate? Difficult choices need to be made. Because in the shadows, demons are gathering, waiting for their time to rise . . . Continue the heroic fantasy series with A Time of Blood. 'A truly excellent read . . . Exciting, well-written swords and sorcery' - Mark Lawrence, author of The Broken Empire 'John Gwynne is one of the modern masters of heroic fantasy' - Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time Of Blood and Bone is set one hundred years after the end of Gwynne's Faithful and the Fallen quartet, and can be read as a standalone series. The trilogy includes A Time of Dread, A Time of Blood and A Time of Courage.

A stunning collection of all 80 exquisite Little Black Classics from Penguin This spectacular box set of the 80 books in the Little Black Classics series showcases the many wonderful and varied writers in Penguin Black Classics. From India to Greece, Denmark to Iran, the United States to Britain, this assortment of books will transport readers back in time to the furthest corners of the globe. With a choice of fiction, poetry, essays and maxims, by the likes of Chekhov, Balzac, Ovid, Austen, Sappho and Dante, it won't be difficult to find a book to suit your mood. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of the Penguin Classics list - from drama to poetry, from fiction to history, with books taken from around the world and across numerous centuries. The Little Black Classics Box Set includes: · The Atheist's Mass (Honoré de Balzac) · The Beautifull Cassandra (Jane Austen) · The Communist Manifesto (Fredrich Engels and Karl Marx) · Cruel Alexis (Virgil) · The Dhammapada (Anon) · The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon (Aesop) · The Eve of St Agnes (John Keats) · The Fall of Icarus (Ovid) · The Figure in the Carpet (Henry James) · The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows (Rudyard Kipling) · Gooseberries (Anton Chekhov) · The Great Fire of London (Samuel Pepys) · The Great Winglebury Duel (Charles Dickens) · How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog (Johann Peter Hebel) · How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Leo Tolstoy) · How To Use Your Enemies (Baltasar Gracián) · How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing (Michel de Montaigne) · I Hate and I Love (Catullus) · Il Duro (D. H. Lawrence) · It was snowing butterflies (Charles Darwin) · Jason and Medea (Apollonius of Rhodes) · Kasyan from the Beautiful Mountains (Ivan Turgenev) · Leonardo da Vinci (Giorgio Vasari) · The Life of a Stupid Man (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) · Lips Too Chilled (Matsuo Basho) · Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Oscar Wilde) · The Madness of Cambyses (Herodotus · The Maldive Shark (Herman Melville) · The Meek One (Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Mrs Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio) · My Dearest Father (Wolfgang Mozart) · The Night is Darkening Round Me (Emily Brontë) · The nightingales are drunk (Hafez) · The Nose (Nikolay Gogol) · Olalla (Robert Louis Stevenson) · The Old Man in the Moon (Shen Fu), Miss Brill (Katherine Mansfield) · The Old Nure's Story (Elizabeth Gaskell) · On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (Thomas De Quincey) · On the Beach at Night Alone (Walt Whitman) · The Reckoning (Edith Wharton) · Remember, Body… (C. P. Cavafy) · The Robber Bridegroom (Brothers Grimm) · The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue (Anon) · Sindbad the Sailor · Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) · Socrates' Defence (Plato) · Speaking of Siva (Anon) · The Steel Flea (Nikolai Leskov) · The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe) · The Terrors of the Night (Thomas Nashe) · The Tinder Box (Hans Christian Andersen) · Three Tang Dynasty Poets (Wang Wei) · Trimalchio's Feast (Petronius) · To-morrow (Joseph Conrad), Of Street Piemen (Henry Mayhew) · Traffic (John Ruskin) · Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls (Marco Polo) · The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe (Richard Hakluyt) · The Wife of Bath (Geoffrey Chaucer) · The Woman Much Missed (Thomas Hardy) · The Yellow Wall-paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) · Wailing Ghosts (Pu Songling) · Well, they are gone, and here must I remain (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

A stunning collection of all 80 exquisite Little Black Classics from Penguin This spectacular box set of the 80 books in the Little Black Classics series showcases the many wonderful and varied writers in Penguin Black Classics. From India to Greece, Denmark to Iran, the United States to Britain, this assortment of books will transport readers back in time to the furthest corners of the globe. With a choice of fiction, poetry, essays and maxims, by the likes of Chekhov, Balzac, Ovid, Austen, Sappho and Dante, it won't be difficult to find a book to suit your mood. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of the Penguin Classics list - from drama to poetry, from fiction to history, with books taken from around the world and across numerous centuries. The Little Black Classics Box Set includes: · The Atheist's Mass (Honoré de Balzac) · The Beautifull Cassandra (Jane Austen) · The Communist Manifesto (Fredrich Engels and Karl Marx) · Cruel Alexis (Virgil) · The Dhammapada (Anon) · The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon (Aesop) · The Eve of St Agnes (John Keats) · The Fall of Icarus (Ovid) · The Figure in the Carpet (Henry James) · The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows (Rudyard Kipling) · Gooseberries (Anton Chekhov) · The Great Fire of London (Samuel Pepys) · The Great Winglebury Duel (Charles Dickens) · How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog (Johann Peter Hebel) · How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Leo Tolstoy) · How To Use Your Enemies (Baltasar Gracián) · How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing (Michel de Montaigne) · I Hate and I Love (Catullus) · Il Duro (D. H. Lawrence) · It was snowing butterflies (Charles Darwin) · Jason and Medea (Apollonius of Rhodes) · Kasyan from the Beautiful Mountains (Ivan Turgenev) · Leonardo da Vinci (Giorgio Vasari) · The Life of a Stupid Man (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) · Lips Too Chilled (Matsuo Basho) · Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Oscar Wilde) · The Madness of Cambyses (Herodotus · The Maldive Shark (Herman Melville) · The Meek One (Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Mrs Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio) · My Dearest Father (Wolfgang Mozart) · The Night is Darkening Round Me (Emily Brontë) · The nightingales are drunk (Hafez) · The Nose (Nikolay Gogol) · Olalla (Robert Louis Stevenson) · The Old Man in the Moon (Shen Fu), Miss Brill (Katherine Mansfield) · The Old Nure's Story (Elizabeth Gaskell) · On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (Thomas De Quincey) · On the Beach at Night Alone (Walt Whitman) · The Reckoning (Edith Wharton) · Remember, Body… (C. P. Cavafy) · The Robber Bridegroom (Brothers Grimm) · The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue (Anon) · Sindbad the Sailor · Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) · Socrates' Defence (Plato) · Speaking of Siva (Anon) · The Steel Flea (Nikolai Leskov) · The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe) · The Terrors of the Night (Thomas Nashe) · The Tinder Box (Hans Christian Andersen) · Three Tang Dynasty Poets (Wang Wei) · Trimalchio's Feast (Petronius) · To-morrow (Joseph Conrad), Of Street Piemen (Henry Mayhew) · Traffic (John Ruskin) · Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls (Marco Polo) · The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe (Richard Hakluyt) · The Wife of Bath (Geoffrey Chaucer) · The Woman Much Missed (Thomas Hardy) · The Yellow Wall-paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) · Wailing Ghosts (Pu Songling) · Well, they are gone, and here must I remain (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Wer gerne bekannte Songs auf dem Klavier spielen möchte ist mit Bosworth Music Die ersten 50 Popsongs für Klavier gut beraten. Das Songbook enthält beliebte Klassiker sowie moderne Songs die eine Bereicherung für jedes Repertoire sind. Der Schwierigkeitsgrad nach dem die Stücke angeordnet sind reicht von sehr leicht bis mittelschwer. Das macht die Ausgabe auch zum idealen Werk für Anfängerinnen und Anfänger. Schwere Rhythmen wurden hier leicht arrangiert aber doch bewusst nah am Original gehalten. Das Spielen bekannter Lieder und Melodien bringt frischen Wind in den Unterricht und motiviert beim Lernen. Gleichzeitig bildet sich ein solides Repertoire auf das immer zurückgegriffen werden kann. Auch eine gute Vorbereitung auf die ersten Auftritte. Die Klaviernoten sind zusätzlich mit Tempoangaben Akkordsymbolen Fingersatz und dem Text versehen. Dies ermöglicht ein genaues Einstudieren und schult bei Bedarf das zeitgleiche Singen. Inhalt: Blowin' In The Wind BOB DYLAN Amazing Grace TRADITIONAL Banks Of The Ohio TRADITIONAL Strangers In The Night FRANK SINATRA Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow THE SHIRELLES Budapest GEORGE EZRA Narcotic LIQUIDO Wind Of Change SCORPIONS Dance Me To The End Of Love LEONARD COHEN Greensleeves TRADITIONAL Major Tom (Coming Home) PETER SCHILLING My Heart Will Go On FILM: TITANIC San Francisco SCOTT MCKENZIE Set Fire To The Rain ADELE Summer Wine VILLE VALO & NATALIA AVELON Du erinnerst mich an Liebe ICH + ICH No Time To Die BILLIE EILISH Game Of Thrones FILM: GAME OF THRONES Black Is Black BELLE EPOQUE Super Trouper ABBA Your Song ELLIE GOULDING With Or Without You U2 I Shot The Sheriff ERIC CLAPTON Love Hurts NAZARETH Video Games LANA DEL REY Sailing ROD STEWART Imagine JOHN LENNON Spanish Eyes ELVIS PRESLEY Über den Wolken REINHARD MEY Where Do I Begin FILM: LOVE STORY Speak Softly Love FILM: DER PATE Bésame Mucho Brazil JIMMY DORSEY & HIS ORCHESTRA Chasing Cars SNOW PATROL California Dreaming THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS Please Please Me THE BEATLES Every Breath You Take THE POLICE Hey Jude THE BEATLES Crying In The Rain A-HA Mad World MICHAEL ANDREWS FEAT. GARY JULES Irgendwie irgendwo irgendwann NENA She Moves ALLE FARBEN Mambo No. 5 LOU BEGA Küss mich halt mich lieb mich FILM: DREI HASELNÜSSE FÜR ASCHENBRÖDEL Über sieben Brücken musst du gehn PETER MAFFAY / KARAT We Are The Champions QUEEN Stay RIHANNA Blue Eyes ELTON JOHN Feeling Good NINA SIMONE Only You THE PLATTERS

Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Treasure Island Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable gift editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - celebrate the 140th anniversary of Treasure Island with this dazzling clothbound edition. When an old sea Captain named Billy Bones leaves behind a mysterious chest at Jim Hawkins' parents inn, Jim discovers a map to the legendary Treasure Island! Fingers keepers, right? Jim sets sail with Long John Silver and his ragtag crew but can they be trusted? Collect our Puffin Clothbound Classics: 9780241444313 The Little Prince 9780241663554 The Jungle Book 9780241568811 Charlotte's Web 9780241688243 Little Women 9780241688250 Peter Pan 9780241688267 The Railway Children 9780241688236 Chinese Cinderella 9780241411216 Treasure Island 9780241411209 The Wizard of Oz 9780241655702 Watership Down 9780241663578 The Worst Witch 9780241663547 David Copperfield 9780241663561 The Neverending Story 9780241623909 Stig of the Dump 9780241623916 The Dark is Rising 9780241411162 The Secret Garden 9780241411148 Black Beauty 9780241411155 Dracula 9780241425121 Frankenstein 9780241425138 Wuthering Heights 9780241425114 Tales from Shakespeare 9780241425107 Tales of the Greek Heroes 9780241411193 A Christmas Carol 9780241621196 Grimms' Fairy Tales 9780241425145 Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales

What would killing him accomplish? Nothing, mostly. Then again, neither would letting him live. When Hester is diagnosed with cancer on her fortieth birthday, she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged father. With no friends or family tying her to the life she's built in New York City, she quits her wildly lucrative job in corporate law and sets off. She hasn't made it far when she runs into John, an eco-activist in need of a ride to superfund sites where he documents environmental crimes. From five-star Midwestern hotels to cultish Southwestern compounds, the two slowly make their way across the country. But will the experiences they have along the way dissuade Hester from her final goal? Ragingly singular and surprisingly moving, combining tragic intensity and pitch-black humour, Bad Nature is an incendiary debut novel. Part road trip, part revenge tale, part eco-thriller, it's ultimately a deft examination of the futility of violence and the eternal possibility of redemption.

Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Treasure Island Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable gift editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - celebrate the 140th anniversary of Treasure Island with this dazzling clothbound edition. When an old sea Captain named Billy Bones leaves behind a mysterious chest at Jim Hawkins' parents inn, Jim discovers a map to the legendary Treasure Island! Fingers keepers, right? Jim sets sail with Long John Silver and his ragtag crew but can they be trusted? Collect our Puffin Clothbound Classics: 9780241444313 The Little Prince 9780241663554 The Jungle Book 9780241568811 Charlotte's Web 9780241688243 Little Women 9780241688250 Peter Pan 9780241688267 The Railway Children 9780241688236 Chinese Cinderella 9780241411216 Treasure Island 9780241411209 The Wizard of Oz 9780241655702 Watership Down 9780241663578 The Worst Witch 9780241663547 David Copperfield 9780241663561 The Neverending Story 9780241623909 Stig of the Dump 9780241623916 The Dark is Rising 9780241411162 The Secret Garden 9780241411148 Black Beauty 9780241411155 Dracula 9780241425121 Frankenstein 9780241425138 Wuthering Heights 9780241425114 Tales from Shakespeare 9780241425107 Tales of the Greek Heroes 9780241411193 A Christmas Carol 9780241621196 Grimms' Fairy Tales 9780241425145 Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales

In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John Clare. In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough. He was searching for his lost love Mary Joyce - a woman three years dead ... In 2000 Iain Sinclair set out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness. He wanted to understand his bond with the poet and escape the gravity of his London obsessions. Accompanied on this journey by his wife Anna (who shares a connection with Clare) the artist Brian Catling and magus Alan Moore - as well as a host of literary ghosts both visionary and romantic - Sinclair's quest for Clare becomes an investigation into madness sanity and the nature of the poet's muse. 'Brilliant . . . amusing alarming and poignant. An elegy for an already lost English landscape. Magnificent and urgent' Robert Macfarlane Times Literary Supplement 'A sensitive beautifully rendered portrait . . . a feast a riddle a slowly unravelling conundrum . . . a love-letter to British Romanticism' Independent 'Sinclair walks every inch of his wonderful novels and psychogeographies pacing out huge word-courses like an architect laying out a city on an empty plain' J. G. Ballard Observer Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landor's Tower; White Chappell Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital Dining on Stones Hackney that Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.

In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John Clare. In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough. He was searching for his lost love Mary Joyce - a woman three years dead ... In 2000 Iain Sinclair set out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness. He wanted to understand his bond with the poet and escape the gravity of his London obsessions. Accompanied on this journey by his wife Anna (who shares a connection with Clare) the artist Brian Catling and magus Alan Moore - as well as a host of literary ghosts both visionary and romantic - Sinclair's quest for Clare becomes an investigation into madness sanity and the nature of the poet's muse. 'Brilliant . . . amusing alarming and poignant. An elegy for an already lost English landscape. Magnificent and urgent' Robert Macfarlane Times Literary Supplement 'A sensitive beautifully rendered portrait . . . a feast a riddle a slowly unravelling conundrum . . . a love-letter to British Romanticism' Independent 'Sinclair walks every inch of his wonderful novels and psychogeographies pacing out huge word-courses like an architect laying out a city on an empty plain' J. G. Ballard Observer Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landor's Tower; White Chappell Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital Dining on Stones Hackney that Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.

Now in paperback, the anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller featuring a wealthy Black family in 1910s Chicago Like the blazing Chicago sun, the drama is heating up for the Davenports and their social set. Before the summer of 1910 drops its last petal, the lives—and loves—of these four young women will change in ways they never could have imagined: Newly engaged Ruby Tremaine is eagerly planning her wedding to the love of her life when a nasty rumor threatens her reputation and her marriage. Olivia Davenport has committed to the social justice cause and secretly hopes she’ll be reunited with dashing lawyer Washington DeWight—until her parents decide she’s to marry someone else. Amy-Rose Shepherd is making her lifelong wish of owning a salon come true, but when an incident forces her to return to Freeport Manor, she’s back in the path of John Davenport, who still holds her heart. Helen Davenport is determined to get over her own heartbreak and bring the Davenport Carriage Company into the new century, even if it means teaming up with a thrill-seeking racecar driver who just loves to get under her skin. Inspired by the real-life story of the Patterson family, More Than This is the second book in the critically adored Davenports series, following four empowered and passionate young Black women as they navigate a rapidly changing society and discover the courage to steer their own paths in life—and love.

"In American icon John Grisham's new novel, Camino Winds, an odd assortment of mystery and crime authors, some of them felons themselves, discover one of their colleagues has been murdered during the fury of a massive hurricane-the perfect crime scene. Since officials are preoccupied with the aftermath of the storm, the authors set out to solve the mystery themselves, in the type of wild but smart caper that Grisham's readers love." -Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing John Grisham, #1 bestselling author and master of the legal thriller, sweeps you away to paradise for a little sun, sand, mystery, and mayhem. With Camino Winds, America's favorite storyteller offers the perfect escape. Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen-even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's and an author of thrillers. But the nature of Nelson's injuries suggests that the storm wasn't the cause of his death: He has suffered several suspicious blows to the head. Who would want Nelson dead? The local police are overwhelmed in the aftermath of the storm and ill equipped to handle the case. Bruce begins to wonder if the shady characters in Nelson's novels might be more real than fictional. And somewhere on Nelson's computer is the manuscript of his new novel. Could the key to the case be right there-in black and white? As Bruce starts to investigate, what he discovers between the lines is more shocking than any of Nelson's plot twists-and far more dangerous. Camino Winds is an irresistible romp and a perfectly thrilling beach read-# 1 bestselling author John Grisham at his beguiling best.

Neal Asher takes us on a thrilling ride into interstellar politics and impending war, in this second volume of Rise of the Jain. Their nemesis lies in wait . . . Orlandine has destroyed the alien Jain super-soldier by deploying an actual black hole. And now that same weapon hoovers up clouds of lethal Jain technology, swarming within the deadly accretion disc's event horizon. All seems just as she planned. Yet behind her back, forces incite rebellion on her home world, planning her assassination. Earth Central, humanity's ruling intelligence, knows Orlandine was tricked into releasing her weapon, and fears the Jain are behind it. The prador king knows this too - and both foes gather fleets of warships to surround the disc. The alien Client is returning to the accretion disc to save the last of her kind, buried on a ship deep within it. She upgrades her vast weapons platform in preparation, and she'll need it. Her nemesis also waits within the disc's swirling dusts - and the Jain have committed genocide before. The Warship is set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe. 'Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain' - John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War and The Collapsing Empire.

Tumble down the rabbit hole and into a delightfully surreal jigsaw puzzle Toadstools, teapots, playing cards, and chess pieces all spring gloriously to life in this surreal take on Lewis Carroll’s beloved classics. Maria Rivans takes her cue from the illustrators, including John Tenniel, who have pictured Carroll’s books, and sets their creations loose in her own idiosyncratic version of Wonderland, combining characters and narratives from both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Featuring: Alice (including shrunken Alice, giant Alice, long-necked Alice . . .), the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Duchess, the Caterpillar with his hookah, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse. Also, the King, Queen, and Knave of Hearts, the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle. And from Through the Looking Glass, the white and black kittens, the White Queen, the Red Queen, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Red King, the Talking Sheep, the Walrus and the Carpenter, the Lion and the Unicorn, and many others. The accompanying 12-page booklet tells the story of Alice’s creation, illustration, and publication. Box measures 9 7/8" x 9 7/8" x 2 3/8"; puzzle measures a generous 27"x 18 7/8".

Der Mould King 20035 - Mould King M26 Pershing Panzer RC ist ein motorisiertes Klemmbausteinmodell des schweren amerikanischen Kampfpanzers M26 Pershing aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und dem Koreakrieg. Mit 1.054 Teilen entsteht ein detailgetreues M26 Pershing Klemmbausteine-Modell - mit RC-Antrieb und drehbarem Turm. Das Vorbild - der M26 Pershing Kampfpanzer Der M26 Pershing - benannt nach General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing - war die amerikanische Antwort auf die schweren deutschen Panzer Tiger und Panther. Die Entwicklung begann 1942; erste Einsätze folgten während der Ardennenoffensive und in Deutschland im Jahr 1945. Als Hauptbewaffnung trägt er eine 90-mm-Kanone M3, ergänzt durch zwei Maschinengewehre. Insgesamt wurden rund 2.202 Fahrzeuge produziert. Mit verbesserter Panzerung und einem neuen Fahrwerk war er dem M4 Sherman deutlich überlegen und diente als Grundlage für spätere amerikanische Panzer wie den M46 Patton. Auch im Koreakrieg bewährte er sich und blieb bis in die frühen 1950er Jahre im aktiven Dienst. Das Modell - Mould King 20035 Das Mould King 20035 Panzer Bausteinmodell setzt den M26 Pershing mit dem charakteristischen geschlossenen Turm, der langen 90-mm-Kanone und den breiten Kettenlaufwerken in Klemmbausteinen um. Das Mould King Panzerfahrzeug ist voll motorisiert: Antrieb und Turmdrehung werden per RC-Fernbedienung gesteuert. Als Historischer Kampfpanzer Klemmbausteine-Set ist es ein authentisches Abbild eines der bedeutendsten amerikanischen Kampfpanzer der Kriegsgeschichte. Kein LED-Beleuchtungs-Powerset enthalten. Technische Daten Das Mould King 20035 Mould King Militärfahrzeug umfasst 1.054 Teile. Empfohlen ab 8 Jahren. Enthalten: Motor, Akku, Fernbedienung. Ob als Mould King Panzer für WWII-Fans oder als Klemmbausteine Militärmodell für Sammler historischer Fahrzeuge - der Mould King 20035 ist ein detailgetreues Abbild eines der wichtigsten amerikanischen Kampfpanzer des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Tumble down the rabbit hole and into a delightfully surreal jigsaw puzzle Toadstools, teapots, playing cards, and chess pieces all spring gloriously to life in this surreal take on Lewis Carroll’s beloved classics. Maria Rivans takes her cue from the illustrators, including John Tenniel, who have pictured Carroll’s books, and sets their creations loose in her own idiosyncratic version of Wonderland, combining characters and narratives from both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Featuring: Alice (including shrunken Alice, giant Alice, long-necked Alice . . .), the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Duchess, the Caterpillar with his hookah, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse. Also, the King, Queen, and Knave of Hearts, the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle. And from Through the Looking Glass, the white and black kittens, the White Queen, the Red Queen, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Red King, the Talking Sheep, the Walrus and the Carpenter, the Lion and the Unicorn, and many others. The accompanying 12-page booklet tells the story of Alice’s creation, illustration, and publication. Box measures 9 7/8" x 9 7/8" x 2 3/8"; puzzle measures a generous 27"x 18 7/8".

Neal Asher takes us on a thrilling ride into interstellar politics and impending war, in this second volume of Rise of the Jain. Their nemesis lies in wait . . . Orlandine has destroyed the alien Jain super-soldier by deploying an actual black hole. And now that same weapon hoovers up clouds of lethal Jain technology, swarming within the deadly accretion disc's event horizon. All seems just as she planned. Yet behind her back, forces incite rebellion on her home world, planning her assassination. Earth Central, humanity's ruling intelligence, knows Orlandine was tricked into releasing her weapon, and fears the Jain are behind it. The prador king knows this too - and both foes gather fleets of warships to surround the disc. The alien Client is returning to the accretion disc to save the last of her kind, buried on a ship deep within it. She upgrades her vast weapons platform in preparation, and she'll need it. Her nemesis also waits within the disc's swirling dusts - and the Jain have committed genocide before. The Warship is set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe. 'Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain' - John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War and The Collapsing Empire.

'Clever, compelling and terrifyingly plausible' - C. J. Tudor, author of A Sliver of Darkness What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey? Set in the same world as The One, now a Netflix Original Series, The Marriage Act is a dark, high-concept thriller from bestselling author John Marrs. 'A page-turning and thought-provoking read' - Daily Mirror Britain. The near future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society's ills - the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single. But four couples are about to discover just how impossible relationships can be when the government is supervising every aspect of our personal lives, monitoring every word, every minor disagreement - and will use every tool in its arsenal to ensure everyone will love, honour and obey . . . Shortlisted for the Goodreads Awards 2023. Black Mirror meets thriller with a dash of Naomi Alderman's The Power. 'One of the most exciting original thriller writers' - Simon Kernick, author of Good Cop Bad Cop 'Brilliantly tricksy' - Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond 'Dark, immersive speculative fiction at it's very best!' - Sarah Pearse, author of The Retreat and The Sanatorium