Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting, the history of ideas and the work of geologists, botanists and marine biologists

From the Orange Prize long-listed and award-winning author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak, Honour is a novel of love, betrayal and a clash of cultures. \"A powerful book; thoughtful, provoking and compassionate\". (Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat). \'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten...\' Leaving her twin sister behind,

Enact your favourite lightsaber battles from all six Star Wars films! Simply attach the two plastic lightsabers - one blue and one red - to duelling thumbs with Velcro, and enact your favourite battle scenes. Each of the seven spreads acts as a \'game board\', or a stage for battle.

Set in Denmark in the here and now, \"The Quiet Girl\" centres around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities in return for his

An engrossing, touching and uplifting travel memoir from the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and her daughter.Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann chronicle their travels together at a time when each had reached an important turn ing point in her life. What emerged was a quest for Ann and Sue to redefine themselves and also rediscover one other. Against the backdrop of the sacred

One of Spider-Man\'s most terrifying villains, MISTER NEGATIVE, has followed him to Shanghai. In Mister Negative\'s service are two beloved Marvel heroes. Wait, TWO HEROES?! What is Mister Negative\'s plan and how did he convince two fan-favorite heroes to join him? COLLECTING: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 6-11

In the military family there is no worse crime than cowardice. Malachy Kitchen, Intelligence officer, posted to Iraq, appears guilty of it while on patrol with an infantry platoon ambushed by insurgents. When word spreads that he was ‘yellow’ under hostile fire, his life starts to disintegrate.Kicked out of the army, he becomes an isolated recluse in a drugs infested London estate. But the mugging

\'Do read this . . . I don\'t think I\'ve ever read a collection which exuberantly spans such breadths of time and space.\' Mark Haddon An interview with the last speaker of a language. A chronicle of the final seven days of a town that is about to be razed to the ground by an invading army. The lonely voyage of an elephant from Kerala to a princess\'s palace in Morocco. A fabled cook who flavours

When Frank McCourt becomes a teacher in New York, he finds himself standing in front of bored, confused, angry students. Will he fail as a teacher? Or can he use his miserable Irish childhood to help his students? This is the true story of one man\'s surprising, upsetting, but sometimes very funny experiences in the classroom.

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD -- Small parts | Not for children under 3 yrs. To play with this book, all you need is your finger. Take a pen, draw two eyes and a mouth, and there you are - your very own finger worm! Follow finger worm through the day from waking up and having breakfast, to getting dressed and going to school

The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael Hofmann Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embroiled in an underworld of pimps, thugs, drunks and prostitutes, Franz

The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - \'A first-class storyteller\' The Times Throughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy - which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome - English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of

Das \"Alte Testament\" von Mittelerde zum ersten Mal als illustrierte Ausgabe \"Das Silmarillion\" erzählt von den Ereignissen des Ersten Zeitalters jener fernen Epoche von Mittelerde, auf welche die Helden des \"Herrn der Ringe\" immer wieder in Ehrfurcht zurückblicken. Hier liegt es zum ersten Mal mit über 40 Farbillustrationen von Ted Nasmith vor.

As the Pargiters, a middle-class English family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the \'present day\' of the 1930s, they are weighed down by the pressures of war, the social strictures of patriarchy, capitalism and Empire, and the rise of Fascism. Engaging with a painful struggle between utopian hopefulness and crippled with despair, the novel is a savage indictment

The secret to winning is not what you think it is. It\'s not the coach. It\'s not the star. It\'s not money. It\'s not a strategy. It\'s something else entirely. The founding editor of The Wall Street Journal\'s sports section profiles the greatest teams in history and identifies the counterintuitive leadership qualities of the unconventional men and women who drove them to succeed. Fuelled by a lifetime

Originally published in 1848, \"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall\" is the second of only two novels written by Anne Bronte. Considered one of the first feminist novels because it challenged the social norms of the Victorian era, \"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall\" is essentially a romantic novel which is chiefly concerned with the relationship between Gilbert Markham, a prosperous farmer, and the mysterious

This title features 3 Star Wars colouring books in 1 collectible tin! It is the perfect gift for any Star Wars fan. It features 3 books with content from popular adult colouring books. You can colour in all your favourite characters, including Leia, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, R2-D2, C-3PO and many more. It is suitable for all Star Wars fans aged 7 and up. Look out for: Star Wars Empire Tin; Star Wars