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Did you know that early versions of football were played by the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Chinese? Or that Christiano Ronaldo once leapt nearly 3 metres into the air in order to head the ball into the goal? Find out all about football positions, moves, equipment, teams, stadiums and more in ...

Cleo and her unicorn friends are having fun dancing, prancing and swishing their tails in the magic forest, until - oh no! - their noise wakes the big, scary GIANT. But not all is what it seems - and a FE FI FO FUM turns quickly into friendship!

The Women's Murder Club is out celebrating an engagement at San Francisco's finest restaurant when a blood-curdling scream interrupts the festivities. They soon discover a young woman who has been the victim of a violent assault. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer makes an arrest. Assistant District Attorney...

When a beautiful woman mysteriously vanishes, her sister must tally up the clues to discover her fate. Marguerite has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But was foul play involved? Did she merely get away for fun? Or did she finally make the decision to leave behind her claustro...

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? 'Abroad in Japan' charts a decade of l...

Master of modern meditation Deepak Chopra illuminates the path to abundance, helping readers become agents of change in their own lives. Demonstrating how to work past self-generated feelings of limitation and fear and providing meditations to help you focus and direct your attention and intuitio...

'The Achilles Trap' untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and details America's fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein. Beginning with Saddam's rise to power in 1979 and the birth ...

Bear and Bird are best friends! And while they don't always understand each other, they both agree: all they want is to make the other happy. In these four stories, the pals discover a hole, make a new friend called Mole, go out on a boat and even have fun doing nothing at all.

Today the Museum Kids are discovering the history of technology, but the adventure is a bit too exciting because they've all been shrunk by accident! Along the way the kids get stuck in a potter's wheel, nearly get crushed by the first printing press, encounter robot dogs and futuristic flying ca...

Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, o...

Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers and an international system studded with catastrophic risk - the early decades of the 21st century may be one of the most revolutionary periods in modern history. But they are not the first. Humans have l...

London, 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times, having just lost her beloved husband, Harry, and with a lingering sadness at never having been able to have a child of her own. Struggling to face running the bookshop she and Harry opened together, Gertie is preparing to sell up ...

Nothing exciting ever happens on twelve-year-old Danny's estate - that is until he falls through a locker in his grandad's workshop and finds himself in an Interdimensional Lost Property Office! Join Danny, Modge and Inaaya in more rocket-fuelled rampages across the universe and space shenanigans...

Meet the Flying Doctors - a dragon, knight and girl. Their names are Gadabout the Great, and Zog, and Princess Pearl. Get to know Zog and his friends in this fun shaped board book.

As the long-lost heir to the Jinn throne, Alizeh has finally found her people - and she might've found her crown. Cyrus, the mercurial ruler of Tulan, has offered her his kingdom in a twisted exchange: one that would begin with their marriage and end with his murder. Cyrus's dark reputation prece...

'All You Need is Love' is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, co...