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But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true - because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)? It's an argument that Christianity is recognisable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those...

Why did Bach's son call him 'The Old Wig'? What part did Stravinsky's parrot play at dinner parties? How did Mozart keep his pigtails styled? What did Schumann invent to make his fingers stronger? And why did Beethoven throw the stew? This book is a...

Whatever happens, don't go Outside. Naya has been navigating the disappearing doors, shifting windows, and size-changing rooms of her indoor city her whole life. She will do anything to be accepted into the city's governing body and police force, the...

Learn everything there is to know about the WNBA's brightest star in The Totally Awesome World of Caitlin Clark! Are you a basketball superfan? Do you want to dive into the life of one of the greatest players? From the Totally Awesome World series...

Presented in four chapters that each focus on a specific technique, palette, and set of projects, Watercolor Your Way meets artists at their current level so they can enjoy the process as they build skills. Written and illustrated by artist Sarah...

Challenge yourself to learn dozens of embroidery stitches and use them to create 30 simple projects that are ready to display. If youve always wanted to learn embroidery but havent known where to start, The 30-Day Embroidery Challenge is the perfect way...

Jasmine's dad is a farmer, and her mum is a large-animal vet, so Jasmine spends a lot of time caring for animals and keeping them out of trouble. Unfortunately, this often means she gets into hot water herself... In this first in the series, Jasmine...

Janey is 18 and all alone apart from her baby daughter. Disowned by her family she is forced to move into a small flat on Peppercorn Street and learn to survive by herself. Just as her new life starts to show promise, events from her past catch up with...

Do You Dream of Riding a Motorcycle? The Craft and Art of Motorcycling will help make your dream a reality-from your first ride to the road ahead.Hollywood's go-to riding guru, Steve Krugman, has trained thousands of riders including high-profile...

Be inspired by the amazing life of Stan Lee, the comic book genius who created Spider-Man, The Hulk and Iron Man! Little Stan grew up in New York City. As a child, he loved reading books, poems and newspaper strips. And when he didnt have his head in a...

From bed head to battle hair, the way you style your manga character's hair can make or break their look. In this guide, discover hundreds of styles to transform your sketches into amazing illustrations. How to Draw Anime Hairstyles includes: -...

Trixie Belden and her best friend Honey are exploring an old gatehouse when they unearth a diamond hiding in the dirt. Has a jewel thief come to Sunnyside? No secret can stay buried long when detective Trixie Belden is on the case! Trixie Belden and her...

Trixie Belden's best friend Jim ran away before anyone could tell him that he is the heir to a major fortune. Secrets shift into high gear when Trixie and her friends set off on a road trip to find Jim--and uncover another mystery along the way! Trixie...

Yo, what's up, Fuzznut? Sing along with the viral TikTok song Bad Hair Day in this riotous journey through the world's worst bad hair day EVER!  You won't be able to stop laughing, or dancing, along to this extraordinary tale. Have you ever woken...

What is fake news? How can the news be wrong? How do we know if what were reading is true or not? The concept of fake news and the media as a whole is discussed as part of the Whats the Issue series. Whats the Issue asks what's all the fuss about?' It...

Young Hedy Lamarr was fascinated with machines. At 5 years old, she would take apart her music box and put it back together to see how it worked. A gifted musician and actress, she soon found fame on the stage, but her scientific curiosity never stopped...

Triumph Cars chronicles the company and its remarkablevehicles, from the first 10/20 through a string of automobiles sought afterby collectors, from the early Supers and Glorias through the entire TR and Spitfire ranges, and on to the legendary GT6 and...

A unique, welcoming guide for the ultimate outdoor hobby. Axes, woodchopping, and fire: it can all seem intimidating. But the truth is that with the proper knowledge and technique, they are safe, fun, sustainable, passions. What's more, times have...

Learn from a birrias master how to make your Mexican home cooking more varied, exciting, and richly flavorful than ever before. Traditionally, birrias are the beloved stews served in Mexico on all special occasions, such as weddings, quinceaneras...

A curated guide to the most beautiful, intriguing and unique sites in London, from the creators of the popular Instagram account. Based on the hugely successful @PrettyLittleLondon, your guides, Andrea and Sara, take you on a visual tour of the city -...

Fans of the hit Netflix series Bridgerton will love this lush coloring book with 30 original coloring pages inspired by the show. With the Unofficial Bridgerton Coloring Book, you can color your own outrageous gowns for the Featherington sisters, hunky...

Following their award-winning debut, Fleche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collection: Bright Fear. Through poems which engage fearlessly with intertwined themes of identity, multilingualism and postcolonial legacy, Chan's latest work...

Introducing the explosive first book in the Torch Trilogy - the hottest release of the decade! *LONGLISTED BRANFORD BOASE AWARD 2025* *NOMINATED CARNEGIE MEDAL 2025* 'Hard-hitting, imaginative, wide-ranging.' GUARDIAN 'A superb opening instalment of a...

When Dilly arrives on the island of Ollipest, she is unsure what to expect from her new life . . . She certainly doesn't expect to find magic! Until now, the magic of Ollipest Island has been a well-kept secret. Then the Museum of Lost Umbrellas opens...

A fun-filled memoir by the Karate Kid and Cobra Kai actor that's equal parts nostalgia and contemporary relevance, based on both the classic movies and his current show, which is Netflix's #1 hit and gaining legions of new fans from every generation. ...

This lively new translation by Tina Kover of a remarkable rediscovered novel blends Dumas's precient views on race with a rip-roaring tale of heroic deeds, dastardly villains, a beautiful damsel in distress, and a deadly slave uprising on the island of...

The Greek myths, refined by the great poets and playwrights of Ancient Greece, distil the essence of human life: its brief span, its pride, courage and insecurity, its anxious relationship with the natural world - earth, sea and sky, represented by...

With a visual style inspired by the aesthetics of animation and silent comedy, Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking over the past three decades, melding the exotic, the horrific and the comic, and manipulating expressionism and fantasy...

A rescue at sea plunges an ex-marine into a deadly people trafficking conspiracy. Sam Ireland wants to raise his daughter in peace, but when he saves a woman and child from drowning, he's drawn into a dangerous web of human trafficking.Joining forces...

Did you know that chicken eggs can influence how computers generate random events? Or that humans can postpone death until after important ceremonial occasions? Or live three to five years longer if they have positive initials, like ACE? All these...

September 1925. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family in the French countryside. But when they arrive at Damian's...

Two days before an auction of the contents of High Gates House in Borrow dale, Christopher Henderson bumps into Jennifer Reade, the heir to the entire estate, and the expected recipient of the proceeds of the house clearance sale.She discovers...

Britain's bestselling historian's #1 bestselling account of the classic WW2 folly Operation Market Garden, the plan in 1944 to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept: the Americans thought it...

Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little...

'Thompson could be said to be an English Dylan - only in some ways he's even better than that.' - Guardian Richard Thompson came of age at an extraordinary moment in British culture. It was 1967 and popular music was reflecting a wide range of...

Arriving in California as a young boy in the early 1960s, Edward Van Halen and his brother Alex were ripe for the coming musical revolution. The sons of a Dutch, saxophone-playing father, the brothers discovered the Beatles, Cream and others. From the...

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks is a groundbreaking account of a major composer whose life and works have been the subject of intense controversy ever since his attempted suicide and early death in an insane asylum. Schumann was a key figure in the...

It's 1973 and Jenny has been cast in a major motion picture. Her ordinary life is about to become extraordinary! From the Costa-winning author of Five Children on the Western Front. 12-year-old Jenny is in shock. She's just been cast as one of the lead...

*Featured in The Times' 'Best Books of the Year So Far'* What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? The second volume of Moby's...

You don't own yourself any longer. Society owns you. Had it not been for society, you would not be lying here now. Bruno, a young magazine editor, seems to live a charmed life, until he discovers a growth on his neck - the first sign of incurable cancer...

Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) is one of the most important and controversial artists at work in the world today. Through such diverse mediums as painting, photography, artist's books, installations and sculpture, he has interpreted the great political and...

The Monocle team dips its toe into the world of swimming, revealing 100 beautiful and inspiring places to take the plunge. Swimming is excellent exercise of course, but it's so much more than that: it can be a transcendental experience, offering us space...

A compact edition of this highly acclaimed survey of the Fayum paintings, the enigmatic and compelling funeral portraits created by the inhabitants of Roman Egypt in the 1st century CE. These remarkable paintings take their name from a district of Roman...

'Brilliant.' The Times 'One of Upson's most evocative novels.' Guardian September 1939: The worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca. Little does Josephine realise...

'A rare and magical book. I didn't want it to end.' - Bill Bryson A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That's far enough to get to the moon and back -...

Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to make it. It replaces his New Selected Poems 1966-1987, giving a fuller selection from each of the volumes represented there and adding large parts of those...

Christmas Eve was here at last, The countdown clock was ticking fast . . . But yikes! When Santa turned the key (The reindeer need some help you see) The engine didn't start, it spluttered, 'That isn't right', the elves all muttered . . . When Santa's...