A special set of 10 hardcover classics, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. These stunning new editions innovatively use foil as well as a special new binding vegetable material to create a highly collectible set that look and feel leather bound.

This is the brand new edition of the hilarious, bestselling follow-up to \"The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4\", Sue Townsend\'s \"The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole\". Sunday July 18th. My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy. I pushed my sausages away untouched. In this second installment of teenager Adrian Mole\'s diaries, the Mole family is in crisis and

This richly illustrated book is the most authoritative account of life in medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance. Full coverage is given to all aspects of life in a thousand-year period which saw the creation of western civilization: from the empires and kingdoms of Charlemagne, the Byzantines, and the Hundred Years War, to the ideas of the Crusades;

Set 300 years before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire, FIRE AND BLOOD is the definitive history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule through to the Dance of the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war that nearly ended their dynasty forever. The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in

A disparate group of human protagonists from Dark Horse\'s past thirty years of Predator are set on a collision course with their most hated enemy--rendered in frenetic, violent detail by artist Francisco Ruiz Velasco! Since time immemorial, the aliens known as Predators have come to Earth to hunt us. Now a group of survivors of those visits have begun a hunt of their own. This is the year that humanity

Rejected by her mother and excluded by her school, Flip is a little girl desperate to be loved. \'Am I ugly, Mummy?\' are the first words that little Phillipa says to Mike and Casey as she stomps into their lives on a hot August afternoon. She has a Barbie doll in one hand and a pink vanity case in the other and the bemused Watsons can only stare in amazement at this tiny eight year old girl who is

A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexicos most important artist - along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo - Diego Rivera (1886-1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After spending the 1910s in Europe, where he surrounde d himself with other artists and embraced the Cubist movement, he returned to Mexico and began to paint the large-scale murals for which he is most famous.

Martin Corridon le savait, cela ne pouvait pas durer. Sa combine commençait s\'éventer. Il avait beau séduire, faire peur, et avoir un passif impressionnant, les bruits le concernant se faisaient de plus en plus précis. Viendrait le moment o il lui faudrait sortir avec une escorte. L\'argent se faisait rare. Mme s\'il ne le souhaitait pas son pire ennemi, il allait devoir répondre aux appels du colonel.

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS Young Pip Tyler doesn\'t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she\'s saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she\'s squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother - her only family - is hazardous. But she doesn\'t have a clue who her father is, why

MARVEL\'S HYPERACTIVE ASSASSIN IN HIS FIRST FULL-LENGTH NOVEL! HIS TARGET: PUPPIES THAT BECOME GIANT MONSTERS. WAIT. PUPPIES? IS THAT RIGHT? CAN WE DO THAT? Marvel\'s popular Merc with a Mouth stars in an original novel of the Marvel Universe! Blending gritty action with hard-hitting humor, this witty tome is guaranteed to ARRGGH GLAK MMMPPH * ...Sorry Marvel, somethin\' happened to your copy guy.

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‘The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.’ Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the stone on her eighteenth birthday. That very evening, the diamond is stolen and there begins an epic enquiry into hunting down the thief. At the same time,

Hailed by many as their cookbook of the 1990s, How To Eat is far more than just an imaginative collection of over 350 uncomplicated, delicious recipes. Nigella Lawson combines a refreshingly down-to-earth practicality with a passion for food and a writer\'s ability to find just the right words to evoke the taste of a succulent roast chicken or homemade custard. Her excellent advice on how to organise

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In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the hush-hush floor of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting

The street as a stage or site of creative action has acquired its own special role in art history: think of Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose work stemmed directly from street culture, or Mark Jenkins irritating pedestrians with his subtle infiltration of human-like sculptures, or the participatory installations of Kader Attia. Each of the 30 artists contributing to this volume has found ways to weave art

Alle lieben Ove: der Nummer-1-Bestseller aus Schweden. Eine Geschichte über Freundschaft, Liebe, das richtige Werkzeug und was sonst noch wirklich zählt im Leben - witzig, rührend, grummelig, großartig. Haben Sie auch einen Nachbarn wie Ove? Jeden Morgen macht er seine Kontrollrunde und schreibt Falschparker auf. Aber hinter seinem Gegrummel verbergen sich ein großes Herz und eine berührende Geschichte.

Bei einer Expedition auf dem Mars gerät der Astronaut Mark Watney in einen Sandsturm und wird bewusstlos. Als er aus seiner Ohnmacht erwacht, ist er allein. Auf dem Mars. Ohne Nahrung. Ohne Ausrüstung. Und ohne Crew, denn die ist bereits auf dem Weg zurück zur Erde. Für Mark Watney beginnt ein spektakulärer Überlebenskampf ...