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A tender and funny story about wanting to go back - when you know it's time to move on • Theo has been living in his parents' shed, nursing a broken heart and a wounded ego, convinced life can't get any worse. Then he gets evicted on his 30th birthday. Theo thinks he's done with the real world - until it shows up on his doorstep • Joel is a successful TV scriptwriter, still in love with his teenage sweetheart. A proper grown-up - and yet he's falling apart at the seams. He's headed home to reconnect with best friend Theo - except they haven't spoken since the summer they turned 16 • One of them is keeping a secret, and the other is living a lie. But can the promise they once made to walk all 184 miles of the Thames Path help them find their way back to the truth - and to their friendship?

Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets • Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide's mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: the power to talk to the dead. The women of Yejide's family are human but also not - descended from corbeau, the black birds that fly east at sunset, taking with them the souls of the dead • Darwin and Yejide both have something that the other needs. Their destinies are intertwined, and they will find one another in the sprawling, ancient cemetery at the heart of the island, where trouble is brewing

One morning, Rebecca wakes up and realises she has turned into the wrong person • Is she really this joyous and outgoing organiser of parties, the put-upon heart of her dead husband's extended family? What happened to her quiet and serious nineteen-year-old self, and what would have happened if she'd married her college sweetheart? Can someone ever recover the person they've left behind?

A gorgeously immersive, mesmerising and life-affirming literary debut - a love story and a ghost story set in modern day Trinidad • Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets. Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, Yejide's mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: the power to talk to the departed. Darwin and Yejide's destinies are intertwined, and they will find one another in the ancient cemetery at the heart of the city, where trouble is brewing and destiny awaits • Embedded with a timeless, mythic magic, and yet alive with a fresh, modern sensibility, this hypnotic literary debut is a masterpiece of rhythm, exuberance, heart, loss in cycle with renewal and darkness with light: a reckoning with a grief that runs back generations and a defiant, joyful affirmation of hope

Cormac is a photographer. Approaching forty and still single, he suddenly finds himself 'the leftover man' • Through talent and charm, he has escaped small town life and a haunted family. But now his peers are all getting divorced, dying, or buying trampolines in the suburbs. Cormac is dating former students, staying out all night and receiving boilerplate rejection emails for his work, propped up by a constellation of the women and ex-lovers in his life • In the last weeks of the year, Cormac meets Caroline, an ambitious young dancer, and embarks on a miniature odyssey of intimacy. Simultaneously, he must take responsibility for his married brother, whose mid-life crisis forces them both to reckon with a death in the family that hangs over those left behind

A body washed up on the beach… • Evacuation to an old house with forbidden rooms and dark secrets… • An animal rescue service… • Set in World War Two, Emma Carroll explores the resilience, resourcefulness and inventiveness of children when their lives fall to pieces. Introducing some compelling new characters, as well as revisiting some familiar settings, these adventures are sure to win over new readers, as well as fans of old favourites such as Letters from the Lighthouse and Frost Hollow Hall

Loss and adversity are part of the human condition, but an imperfect past isn’t always an indicator of what’s to come • This book traces a pattern: why is it that often the people with the hardest beginnings in life – children who experience displacement, disease, financial ruin, abandonment or bereavement – become the most successful adults? And is there something to learn from those people, who perhaps have the strongest sense of what matters most? • Of Britain’s fifty-five prime ministers, twenty-five lost one or both of their parents as a child and 69 per cent suffered some form of serious childhood trauma. For their acclaimed podcast Past Imperfect, Thomson and Sylvester spoke to some such prime ministers, as well as pioneers and poets, CEOs and chefs, actors and archbishops, sports stars and Nobel prize-winning scientists

«В Букингемский дворец на прогулку собрались • Кристофер Робин с нянею Алис» • Великолепные стихотворения из этого сборника гарантируют начинающим читателям комфортное и весёлое знакомство с детской поэзией. Здесь они смогут познакомиться с самыми первыми детскими стихами Алана Милна, повествующими о приключениях простоватого, но очаровательного медвежонка по имени Винни-Пух • «Когда мы были совсем маленькими», сборник стихов Алана Александера Милна с оригинальным оформлением художника Э. Х. Шепарда, станет замечательным подарком для детей • По мотивам произведений Алана Милна были сняты культовые американские и советские мультфильмы • Книга на английском языке • 'They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - Christopher Robin went down with Alice

«В Букингемский дворец на прогулку собрались • Кристофер Робин с нянею Алис» • Великолепные стихотворения из этого сборника гарантируют начинающим читателям комфортное и весёлое знакомство с детской поэзией. Здесь они смогут познакомиться с самыми первыми детскими стихами Алана Милна, повествующими о приключениях простоватого, но очаровательного медвежонка по имени Винни-Пух • «Когда мы были совсем маленькими», сборник стихов Алана Александера Милна с оригинальным оформлением художника Э. Х. Шепарда, станет замечательным подарком для детей • По мотивам произведений Алана Милна были сняты культовые американские и советские мультфильмы • Книга на английском языке • “They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace – Christopher Robin went down with Alice

'When I first began tinkering with a software program that eventually gave rise to the idea of the World Wide Web, I named it Enquire, short for "Within upon Everything"... the book served as a portal to a world of information - Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Internet • This Victorian miscellany was first published in 1857 and was intended to answer any query that a family might have about domestic problems. It proved so popular that it went through hundreds of editions and sold millions of copies worldwide

The puzzles and solutions in this wonderful collection are presented in large-print type, making them easy on the eye and extremely enjoyable to solve. Give your word power and general knowledge an enjoyable challenge as you complete them • Easy-to-read puzzles and solutions: Large-print type with plenty of space around the puzzles means that you won't strain your eyes as you solve them • Exercise your brain: Give your mind a great workout as you solve each clue • Reduce stress: Feel your stress melt away as you focus on these satisfying puzzles

It's great being in your 60s. Once you're over the hill, you pick up speed. The Japanese believe that when you hit 60, you enter your second childhood. It's time to do all those things you've secretly wanted to do all your life but were afraid of trying. (Warning: it won't all be plain sailing.) This book proves age ain't nothing but a number. The perfect light-hearted present to be enjoyed by different generations • Featuring more than 120 cartoons