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A new adventure from the award-winning author of Wolfstongue and The Fox's Tower

What does it mean to be the best in the world at something? From football to tennis, meet the legends of the game.

How do animals get around? Some gallop, while others scurry. These animals all hop!

A cold December day in Cheshire England, the funeral of crime, boss, Roberto Sartori, The death of an Archbishop and the attempted assassination of his brother interrupt proceedings. A kidnap in Boone, Iowa, USA occurs on the same day with a huge ransom at stake. Are they possibly related? The race against time begins for DI Jonty Ball as he works with the family to close the case.In this sequel to, A WALK TO REVENGE.

A drizzly Manchester night, a hit and run. A chance meeting decades later leads ultimately to the exposure of a transatlantic crime family. Their story begins during the twenties New York prohibition era and follows its evolution into a modern-day underworld business.Jake Hughes and DI Jonty Ball threaten the empire and as a web of murder and deceit is exposed, the crime family bares its' teeth, leading to an explosive finale where the winner takes all! Or do they?

A cold December day in Cheshire England, the funeral of crime, boss, Roberto Sartori, The death of an Archbishop and the attempted assassination of his brother interrupt proceedings. A kidnap in Boone, Iowa, USA occurs on the same day with a huge ransom at stake. Are they possibly related? The race against time begins for DI Jonty Ball as he works with the family to close the case.In this sequel to, A WALK TO REVENGE.

A drizzly Manchester night, a hit-and-run. A chance meeting decades later leads ultimately to the exposure of a transatlantic crime family. Their story begins during the twenties New York prohibition era and follows its evolution into a modern-day underworld business. Jake Hughes and DI Jonty Ball threaten the empire, and, as a web of murder and deceit is exposed, the crime family bares its' teeth, leading to an explosive finale where the winner takes all! Or do they? A crime novel with a touch of paranormal.read

Do you appreciate beer and want to learn more about it?Have you ever considered brewing your own beer?Do you want to be the life of the party with your own beer brand?To begin with, there are two sorts of homebrewing: all grain and extract. Beer is manufactured from the sugars found in malted (partially germinated) grains. However, there is no need to spend a fortune to begin creating your own beer. The simplest route is to get a basic homebrewing kit.Get your copy today!

"The Fox's Tower takes everything you knew, or thought you knew, about nature and the animal kingdom, and turns it on its head." - Piers Torday, author of The Last Wild trilogy

"The best animal adventure since Watership Down" - The TimesA boy who finds speaking difficult enters a hidden world of talking animals, a world where language is power. Can he find his voice to help the wolves outsmart the clever foxes?

First Coding introduces children to the basic principles of programming and computing, from being safe on the internet to their first steps in computer logic. This series uses easy-to-read text and colourful images, as well as real examples of code.

The Man Booker longlisted novel is a meditation on how each of us conjures up our own city.Every city is made of stories: stories that meet and diverge, stories of the commonplace and the strange, of love and crime, of ghosts and monsters.The iridescent, Man Booker longlisted Communion Town is reminiscent of David Mitchell's Ghostwritten and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, it is the story of a place that never looks the same way twice: a place imagined anew by each citizen who walks through the changing streets among voices half-heard, signs half-glimpsed and desires half-acknowledged.This is the story of a city.