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The Concubine of Shanghai
The Concubine of Shanghai
China, 1907. Sixteen-year-old orphan Cassia is sold by her aunt to a brothel. There, she works as a lowly maid for Madame Emerald until a powerful and dangerous client plucks her from obscurity. Master Chang is the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad and he always gets what he wants. Despite her unbound feet and breasts, Cassia swiftly becomes Chang's...
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Essays in Idleness
Essays in Idleness
 The Penguin Book of American Verse
The Penguin Book of American Verse
Five Bells
Five Bells
 Captains of the Sands
Captains of the Sands
 The Wine of Solitude
The Wine of Solitude
Captives
Captives
Faraway Smell of Lemon
Faraway Smell of Lemon
With Blood And Iron
With Blood And Iron
The Flamethrowers
The Flamethrowers
The Rosie Project
The Rosie Project
First Novel
First Novel
The Spook's Stories: Witches
The Spook's Stories: Witches
School's Out!
School's Out!
Intermission
Intermission
Fiction
The Air Raid Girls: Wartime Brides
The Air Raid Girls: Wartime Brides
 The Wartime Bookshop
The Wartime Bookshop
 Winter’s Daughter
Winter’s Daughter
 Christmas With The Wartime Midwives
Christmas With The Wartime Midwives
 Searching For Tilly
Searching For Tilly
 A Rose and a Promise
A Rose and a Promise
 The Lost Days of Summer
The Lost Days of Summer
 Fragile Monsters
Fragile Monsters
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Non-Fiction
I Never Knew There Was a Word For It
I Never Knew There Was a Word For It
From 'shotclog', a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks, to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody's quality of life. All they need is this book! This bumper volume...
Adam Jacot de Boinod
Shady Characters
Shady Characters
Keith Houston
 Scots
Scots
Billy Kay
 Simply English
Simply English
Simon Heffer
 Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
David Bellos
Power Presentation
Power Presentation
Patsy Rodenburg
 Abigail's Party & Goose-Pimples
Abigail's Party & Goose-Pimples
Mike Leigh
 The Penguin Guide to Punctuation
The Penguin Guide to Punctuation
R L Trask
 The Reverend Guppy's Aquarium
The Reverend Guppy's Aquarium
Philip Dodd
Short Stories in Japanese
Short Stories in Japanese
Michael Emmerich,Michael Emmerich
 Balderdash & Piffle: One Sandwich Short of a Dog's Dinner
Balderdash & Piffle: One Sandwich Short of a Dog's Dinner
Alex Games
 The Last Lingua Franca
The Last Lingua Franca
Nicholas Ostler
 Through the Language Glass
Through the Language Glass
Guy Deutscher
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Children's
Phenomenal Future Stories
A cloned boy looking for his 'father'; the dramatic rescue of a captive tiger; the submersion of the Scottish isles in a flood; a girl who finds out why cyber-pets will never be as good as the real thing - these are among the fascinating scenarios conjured up in this world-shattering collection of original stories. Published for the new Millenium,...
For the Record
Luke is a gifted but awkward ten-year-old who is obsessed with world records, and is nervous about starting senior school a year early as 'the swot with the dead dad'. When Luke's tiny, unique Jersey village is in danger of being bulldozed to the ground to make way for a waste incinerator plant, the only way to stop it is...
A Million Suns
Trapped on board the spaceship Godspeed, Amy trusts no-one. The ship's ruler is dead and a rebellion threatens. Amy wants to help Elder as he tries to take charge, but she's torn between her feelings for him and the chaos that's pulling everything apart. As more harrowing discoveries are made about Godspeed, Amy is caught in a desperate race to...
Wicked Hat Trick
THREE BOOKS IN ONE! Wicked Day! Join all the fun and games of Sports Day. Bradley and his mates are out to a very special day. But what's happened to the cup? Wicked Catch! Come and enjoy all the excitement of a challenge game of rounders. Who will make the vital catch - could it be Bradley's dog, Dylan? Woof!...
Jamie and the Vampires (Storycuts)
Jamie is just an ordinary boy dealing with ordinary struggles: trying to fit in and avoiding his overbearing mother. However, the discovery of what his friends call a Vampire's Tomb reveals an opportunity for Jamie to prove himself. All he has to do is wait in the graveyard as the church clock strikes midnight. He's not scared - vampires don't...
Allie/Alma / Bridgey (Storycuts)
In 'Allie/Alma', Alma is a very good girl who volunteers with the elderly in her free time. Allie is her wicked alter ego. While Alma courteously tends to her companions' needs, Allie is scheming to steal their precious heirlooms and artefacts. So it happens one day that Allie is so overcome by greed for a particular carved egg that she...
South Sea Adventure
'It's a lost world out there' Hal and Roger Hunt sink deep into danger when a specimen-collecting trip takes them into the lost world of the South Seas. But the deep-sea trawl has a hidden agenda - a top secret mission for Professor Stuyvesant, and his scientific experiments in Pearl Lagoon . . . ...
Princess Poppy: Ballet Dreams
Poppy and Honey are thrilled when Madam Angelwing starts advanced ballet classes. At first, Poppy loves the extra lessons, but soon gives them up when she begins to feel that ballet is taking over her life. Honey decides to stick with the classes as Madam has told her she's good enough to be a professional ballerina when she grows up....
The Fate of Thomas P Kanne (Storycuts)
Thomas P Kanne is the Phantom Snake, an elusive graffiti artist who has made many enemies in his attempts to vandalise his home city of Middlechester. Mr Bausin, the caretaker of the local museum is a seemingly harmless old man with a dark secret, but more importantly, a vendetta against the Phantom Snake. When Mr Bausin finally gets to confront...
Comet in Moominland
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson, read by Hugh Dennis. If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! A comet is speeding towards Earth and nobody knows what to do! Will it destroy everything and everyone? Moomintroll decides to find out. So, with Sniff, he sets out on...
Angel Academy - Angels Undercover
Mo, Colin and Ronnie go undercover to catch a crafty blackmailer at work in the Academy. But when things go wrong, and Colin is charged with the crime, Mo and Ronnie must work together to prove his innocence and unveil the identity of the real blackmailing baddie. ...
Jack Stalwart: The Puzzle of the Missing Panda
An endangered Giant Panda has been kidnapped from the Wolong Nature Reserve in China. Can Secret Agent Jack Stalwart find the panda and rescue it before the evil Scorpion Gang sells it for profit? Time is running out . . . ...
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