The Beach House: A Kissing Booth Story (The Kissing Booth)
Want to know what happened to Elle and Noah straight after the smash-hit Netflix film The Kissing Booth? Elle Evans always spends a perfect summer full of sun sea and plenty of flirting at Lee and Noah's beach house. And she can't wait to hit the beach even if this year things are a little different...Elle is now officially dating hotter-than-hot Noah - it's amazing and Elle's never been happier. But Noah's leaving for Harvard at the end of the summer - and what will happen to them then?Meanwhile Lee's new girlfriend Rachel is joining them for the summer. Elle and Lee have always been BFFs but can everything stay the same with Rachel on the scene - and with Elle now dating Lee's big brother?Can Elle have one last perfect summer with her two favourite boys?
Peppa Pig: 2021 Advent Book Collection
Join your favourite Peppa Pig characters in the countdown to Christmas with this advent book collection of 24 stories!Find 23 surprise mini storybooks behind each door plus a brand-new special Christmas story for Christmas Eve Peppa's Special Christmas Eve.Stories include: Peppa's Theatre Trip Peppa Plays Football Pedro's Pirate Treasure Peppa Goes Swimming Miss Rabbit's Day Off George's Noisy Dinosaur Tooth Fairy and Peppa's Special Christmas Eve.Put the books back inside the windows so you can reuse your Advent Book Collection every year!
Lolita: Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin Essentials)
'Lolita light of my life fire of my loins. My sin my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap at three on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants.Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?
The Bench
#1 New York Times Bestselling Picture BookMeghan The Duchess of Sussex's first children's book The Bench beautifully captures the special relationship between father and son as seen through a mother's eyes. The book's storytelling and illustration give us snapshots of shared moments that evoke a deep sense of warmth connection and compassion. This is your benchWhere you'll witness great joy.From here you will restSee the growth of our boy.In The Bench Meghan The Duchess of Sussex touchingly captures the evolving and expanding relationship between father and son and reminds us of the many ways that love can take shape and be expressed in a modern family.Evoking a deep sense of warmth connection and compassion The Bench gives readers a window into shared and enduring moments between a diverse group of fathers and sons - moments of peace and reflection trust and belief discovery and learning and lasting comfort.Working in watercolour for the first time Caldecott-winning bestselling illustrator Christian Robinson expands on his signature style to bring joy and softness to the pages reflecting the beauty of a father's love through a mother's eyes. With a universal message this thoughtful and heartwarming read-aloud is destined to be treasured by families for generations to come.
Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers: Michelle Obama
*A younger reader's edition of the number-one bestselling memoir by former first lady of the United States Michelle Obama. With a new introduction from Mrs Obama herself*What's important is our story our whole story including those moments when we feel a little vulnerable . . . Michelle Robinson started life sharing a bedroom with her older brother Craig in their family's upstairs apartment in her great-aunt's house. Her parents Fraser and Marian poured their love and energy into their children. She would go on to become Michelle Obama the inspirational First Lady of the United States of America.Now adapted for younger readers with new photographs and a new introduction from Michelle Obama herself this memoir tells a very personal and completely inspiring story of how through hard work and determination the girl from the South Side of Chicago built an extraordinary life. A tale of ups and downs triumphs and failures this is an incredibly honest account. It will take you from the early years - first kiss first school first love - to the wonders of the White House and the moment Mrs Obama shook hands with the Queen of England.A book to read share and talk about with the adults in your life this is a call to action and compassion and hope for change in uncertain times and in a scary world.You'll be inspired to help others and understand that no one is perfect. Just like Michelle Obama you too are finding out exactly who you want to be (and actually so are the adults in your life).Above all it is a book to make you think: who are you and what do you want to become?
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium?Caffeine?Mescaline
'It's a trip - engrossing eye-opening mind altering' New Statesman'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious careful open minded' The GuardianFrom the international bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind comes a ground-breaking exploration of our relationship with natural drugsOf all the many things humans rely on plants for surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate calm or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium caffeine and mescaline - and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or in the case of caffeine trying not to consume) them Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants and the equally powerful taboos. In a unique blend of history science memoir and reportage Pollan shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively. In doing so he proves that there is much more to say about these plants than simply debating their regulation for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. This ground-breaking and singular book holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations the operations of our minds and our entanglement with the natural world.
If You're Spooky and You Know It: A Halloween sound button book
Press the sound button to sing along and hear the ghost shout 'BOO!'Sing along to the tune of If You're Happy and You know It with this halloween sound book.This catchy sound book will have children clapping their claws and stamping their paws as they sing along and have fun pressing the sound button.The perfect halloween gift for little monsters everywhere!
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
*The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller**Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize**Bill Gates' Top 5 books for 2020*'THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ' JOHN LE CARR A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterwordOn a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous printed with the red logo of Safeway the British supermarket.The man was a spy. A senior KGB officer for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying. Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever...BEN MACINTYRE'S NEXT BOOK AGENT SONYA IS AVAILABLE TO BUY NOW
Everything I Know About Love: Dolly Alderton
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON TURNING THIRTY'There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it' Lisa Taddeo author Three Women'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug' Evening StandardAward-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squalid flat-shares the heartaches and humiliations and most importantly the unbreakable female friendships that helped her to hold it all together. Glittering with wit heart and humour this is a book to press into the hands of every woman who has ever been there or is about to find themselves taking that first step towards the rest of their lives.'Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation' Elizabeth Day'Steeped in furiously funny accounts of one-night stands ill-advised late-night taxi journeys up the M1 grubby flat-shares and the beauty of female friendships as Alderton joyfully booze-cruises her way through her twenties' Metro'Deeply funny sometimes shocking and admirably open-hearted and optimistic' Daily Telegraph'A sensitive astute and funny account of growing up millennial' Observer'I loved its truth self awareness humour and most of all its heart-spilling generosity' Sophie Dahl 'Alderton proves a razor-sharp observer of the shifting dynamics of long term female friendship' Mail on Sunday'It's so full of life and laughs - I gobbled up this book. Alderton has built something beautiful and true out of many fragments of daftness' Amy Liptrot*Winner of Autobiography of the Year at the National Book Awards 2018**A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2019**A Sunday Times paperback of the year 2019**Selected for Stylist's The Decade's 15 Best Books by Remarkable Women*
In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation or disease or even execution. This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and then her escape from China across the Gobi desert to Mongolia with only the stars to guide her way and from there to South Korea and at last to freedom; and finally her emergence as a leading human rights activist - all before her 21st birthday.'Clear-eyed and devastating' Observer
