THE THIRD CRUSADE IS OVER Richard the Lionheart is bound for England. But with all the princes of Europe united against him ...can the greatest warrior in Christendom make it safely home? THE LION IS CHAINED Captured. Bound. Imprisoned. King Richard\'s slim hope of salvation rests on one man - a former outlaw, a vengeful earl, a man who scoffs at Holy Mother Church: ROBIN HOOD For King and country

After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow t ravels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they

Alice Munro\'s territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the universal nature of their fears, sorrows and aspiration

The green movement has got it very wrong. Nature no longer controls our planet -- it is humanity, \'the god species\', that must save the environment we have inflicted unprecedented damage upon. And the tools we must use are the very technologies that environmentalist have told us for years will spell disaster: nuclear power, GM food and geo-engineering. In this blistering and urgent manifesto, Mark

*From the author who brought you the \'genius\' bestsellers The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k and Get Your Sh*t Together* In The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, our favourite \'anti-guru\' Sarah Knight unleashed the power of saying no. In Get Your Sh*t Together, she prioritised the sh*t you need and want to do so you can achieve your hopes and dreams. Now she\'s back, doubling

Anthony Bridgerton needs a wife. Having spent his twenties in a rakish pursuit of pleasure (whilst taking care to ensure the financial security of his mother and seven younger siblings and mother) he knows it\'s high time he settled down and ensured the continuation of the Bridgerton line. Edwina Sheffield is considered the most beautiful debutante of the current season. She is also sweet, innocent

After eight years as a soldier, Peter Ash came home from Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls \'white static\', a buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming the US Pacific coast\'s mountains and forests, sleeping under the stars. But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man\'s

Inside Baste Prison, Meliodas has an explosive reunion with Ban, the Fox Sin of Greed. However, trouble is on the horizon as their journey continues. Another member of The Seven Deadly Sins appears and is dead set on punishing Ban. The heroes clash as a feud is revived from their past!

The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons is a prodigious, slip-cased, two-volume, 1,600-page A-to-Z curation of cartoons from the magazine from 1924 to the present. Bob Mankoff - for two decades the cartoon editor of the New Yorker - organizes nearly 3,000 cartoons into more than 250 categories of recurring New Yorker themes and visual tropes, including cartoons on banana peels, meeting St. Peter, being

Ragnarok was the End of Worlds. Asgard fell, centuries ago, and the old gods have been defeated. Some are dead, while others have been consigned to eternal torment in the netherworld - among them, the legendary trickster, Loki. A god who betrayed every side and still lost everything, who has lain forgotten as time passed and the world of humans moved on to new beliefs, new idol and new deities . .

New York Times best-selling writer Scott Snyder, author of such instant-classic BATMAN graphic novels as THE COURT OF OWLS, DEATH OF THE FAMILY and ENDGAME, joins forces with an all-star lineup of comics’ top artists to bring the madness and menace of some of the Dark Knight’s greatest villains into the modern era with ALL-STAR BATMAN VOL. 2: ENDS OF THE EARTH (Rebirth). Join Snyder and his frequent

This is a mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84. Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning \'red pine\', and Oumi, \'blue sea\', while the girls\' names were Shirane, \'white root\', and Kurono, \'black field\'. Tazaki was the

One of a series of fairytale stories with an emphasis on the traditional approach, reassuring to parents and suitable to be read aloud to three to six-year olds.

The art of political spin is a delicate one, indeed. If you want to succeed in politics without really lying - and business, sports, the arts and basically any other field - you must perfect the art of terminological inexactitude. This handy dictionary - a bullshictionary, if you will -will make you an expert in misdirection in no time. Wish you could nimbly side-step a straightforward question without

When bestselling crime writer Mike Noonan\'s wife dies, he suffers from writer\'s block. Until he is drawn from Derry to his lakeside retreat, Sara Laughs - a house once inhabited by a famous singer. It\'s a community run by rich, tyrannical, wheelchair-bound Devore and his terrifying, skeletal female bookkeeper. Devore is hell-bent on getting custody of his grandchild. Three year old Kyra and her

Les plaisanteries les plus courtes sont toujours les meilleures ! Plongez avec nous dans l\'univers loufoque de trois nouvelles plus tordantes les unes que les autres. Vous y découvrirez un couple jaloux qui brise la vaisselle, un bal masqué o des inconnus s\'étonnent de ne pas se connaître, et un happy end o le plus malheureux n\'est pas celui qu\'on croit. Puis vous vous laisserez séduire par la

A book about growing up which has delighted generations of young readers. The illustrations by Ella Bailey are perfect for the modern audience. This edition includes extra material for young readers. The four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been drafted to fight in the Civil War. The girls embark on a series

A cunning group of street artists is appropriating public spaces with astonishing artistic interventions. We Come at Night introduces the work of thirteen street artists whose artistic interventions are not only aesthetically motivated but also function as razor-sharp social, political and ironic commentary on its surroundings. Featured artists include Akim One Machine, Blu, Brom, Dr. Innocent, JR,

Joseph Roths »Hiob« erschien 1930, wenige Jahre, bevor die Zerstörung der darin dargestellten Welt begann. Der Roman erzählt von den Heimsuchungen Mendel Singers, der in Ostgalizien ein bescheidenes Dasein als Dorfschullehrer fristet, bis ihn Schicksalsschlag auf Schicksalsschlag trifft. Die ergreifende Geschichte eines einfachen Juden und seiner Familie, und zugleich die Geschichte eines Volkes und

Porridge is the breakfast of choice for celebrities, chefs, athletes and slimmers, but it\'s also one of the most comforting foods out there - the ultimate winter breakfast. The latest superfood to grab media attention, oats are revered for their cholesterol-lowering properties and what\'s more, they are super cheap. We think of porridge and oatmeal as having a Scottish heritage but in fact versions