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It all starts with a fire. Seven children, asleep in a big house in the Italian countryside. A forgotten candle. Their parents are not there. They are in a different country, a different continent, Africa, where other siblings are growing as part of the...

Fang Fang’s Soft Burial begins with a mysterious, nameless protagonist. Decades earlier she was pulled out of a river in a state of near-death; upon regaining consciousness, she discovered that her entire memory had been erased. The narrative follows her...

'When a robin appears, a loved one is near' In 2019, Tony Putman was working as a gardener in Edenbridge, Kent, when he noticed a bold robin sitting on a branch of an old plum tree. The robin glanced in his direction as he approached, but he didn't move,...

Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle the big issues embroiling society-state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of...

This book is a unique collaboration of philosophers from across the world bringing together contemporary concepts of consciousness, the Māori conception of self, as well as Indian and Buddhist concepts of self and mental states. Contemporary concepts of...

The Times Children's Book of the Week 9th April 2023 Shortlisted for the Historical Association's Young Quills 2023 Award Inspired by a true family story, Michael Rosen presents an astonishing account of perseverance, love and hope in wartime. Beginning...

Protecting Your Freedoms in Today’s Cultural Warfare In America, the seeds of tyranny have taken root—and we’re reaching critical tipping points on many cultural battlefronts. In Uncommon Courage, constitutional lawyer Keisha Russell exposes the tactics...

A kaleidoscopic literary exploration of extinction and conservation, inspired by the latest scientific researchCreature Needs is a polyvocal call to arms about animal extinction and habitat loss that harnesses the power of literature and scientific...

Are some patterns destined to be repeated? "Spellbinding and decadent . . . an astonishing debut" SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN, author of PANDORA___________________Paris, 1789. The Oberst Factory, which crafts exquisite wallpaper for the most fashionable French...

Get swept away by the dual-POV sequel to the instant Sunday Times bestseller Spice Road, a romantic, action-packed fantasy set in an Arabian-inspired land. Once, Imani swore to protect her home from the monsters roaming the desert. But now an even...

A deeply felt and humorous collection examining a year in the wake of extraordinary loss. In November 2010, on the morning after election day, Mirsky lost her three-year-old son, Lev. In the year that followed, she produced a profound and provocatively...

Seven years after the publication of the first Dior by Mats Gustafson, the Swedish illustrator returns to capturing the sophistication and glamour of the House of Dior. In this sublime volume, Gustafson s ethereal watercolors and vibrant collages focus...

Birds of Arizona and New Mexico is a comprehensive field guide to commonly found birds in the region, including local favorites and rare curiosities. This full-color guide includes precise descriptions of voices, behaviors, and habitats and details the...

Celebrates the British Museum's rich collection of artworks created as part of Japanese cultural salonsIn early modern Japan, cultural salons were creative spaces for people of all ages and social levels to pursue painting, poetry, and other artistic...

The first comprehensive study of the two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is one of the leading innovators in American theater today. In settings ranging from seventeenth-century France (Las Meninas) to twenty-first century conflicts in the...

Meet the Spellcasters, who can change the world with their ancient magic and girl power! Four friends channel the magical abilities of their ancestors to protect their community in this empowering, action-packed new illustrated series for readers aged 7+...

THE CAPTIVATING, HEART-RENDING STORY OF TWO WOMEN IN 1800S CHINA'Brilliantly written, masterful storytelling, and hard to put down. This story will stay with me for a very, very long time' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzLove and loss...

From the bestselling author of The History of Bees Longyearbyen, 2110: Far to the North, buried deep in the mountains, is a massive vault filled with seeds from every corner of the Earth. Tommy grows up in the brutal landscape of Spitzbergen alongside...

Little Godwit hatches late and learns that his flock has left to escape the cold Arctic. Soon, he meets different birds who try to make him fit in with them. Little Godwit has to decide if he should stay with these birds or keep flying. How will he find...

Kerry Brown began his life in nineties China almost by chance, cutting his teeth in its northern backwaters. He went on to become a British diplomat in Beijing and then one of the world's foremost sinologists. Since then, the Middle Kingdom has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399719735Author Lucy DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Hodder PaperbackPublisher Hodder & Stoughton

The Bible is the living word of God. More than 2,000 times in the Old Testament alone, the Bible asserts that God spoke what is recorded in its pages. The phrase "the Word of God" occurs more than forty times in the New Testament. The Bible claims...

Welcome to the Merfolk chronicles, an underwater fantasy world. Dive beneath the waves and discover the world of mer and sirens. Briet has adjusted to her life as a mer; at least she's had her sister with her. But when Briet comes home to find the cave...

 Turin, with its roots dating back to ancient Roman times, bears the indelible marks of its storied past in its meticulously laid-out checkerboard streets and its archaeological remnants. As the inaugural capital of Italy, its grandeur echoes through...

The psalms help us to find refuge in God in the midst of trouble, and model how we can respond to the ups and downs of life in the context of our covenant relationship with him.Showing not only how each psalm might be read or preached, but also how it...

The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence is central to the Platonic and the Judaeo-Christian traditions. It is how thinkers throughout history have justified existence itself, explaining temporal being vis-à-vis God. Yet in the...

The wonder of birds has charmed and inspired poets down the centuries and across the globe. From Shakespeare's 'feathr'd king' to Ted Hughes 'butterfly lightness', of swifts, this is a collection to stir the soul of any nature lover. Our emotional and...

The first comprehensive study of the two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is one of the leading innovators in American theater today. In settings ranging from seventeenth-century France (Las Meninas) to twenty-first century conflicts in the...

In the course of forty years an increasingly subtle conversation has evolved between words and silence at the core of Philip Gross's poetry. This is never more so than in the poems of this edgy homage to Estonia, the country of his refugee father’s birth...

'Intriguing, propulsive and profoundly disturbing, this is a fearless look into the dark heart of family politics from a naturally gifted storyteller'JONATHAN COE'Magnificent, indelible . . . That a young British novelist, on his first try, should have...

Monster is a bold and lyrical exploration of the Black female body as a site of oppression and resistance. At its heart is a study of the world of Sarah Baartman, aka the Hottentot Venus, a Khoikhoi woman from South Africa who was displayed in freak...

Gender and Emotion in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Raging Women and Crying Men investigates emotional excess from the perspectives of performance studies, gender studies, and cultural studies. For the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain,...

This informative guide to the most iconic works in The Frick Collection's holdings is published on the occasion of the fall 2024 reopening of the museum following its renovation. From paintings and sculpture to decorative arts, this publication...

This seminal photography text, now in its 11th edition, has been revamped, reorganized, and modernized to include the most up-to-date and need to know information for photographers. Introducing all the key concepts and fundamentals of photography, this...

The volume collects studies in the linguistic, exegetical and historical traditions found in Samaritan texts or pertaining to our understanding of the Samaritans, from antiquity to the present. Apart from the Hebrew Pentateuch, a special focus is laid on...

Inspired by traditional animal stories from Africa, find out WHY Leopard has spots!Once upon a time, Leopard didn't have a wonderfully spotty coat. Until he rescued a firebird from the flames and she left her sooty mark on his golden fur.A vibrant animal...

This seminal photography text, now in its 11th edition, has been revamped, reorganized, and modernized to include the most up-to-date and need to know information for photographers. Introducing all the key concepts and fundamentals of photography, this...

In this exhilarating work, Amber Massie-Blomfield brings together stories of remarkable acts of creativity that have shifted history on its axis, from writer Ken Saro Wiwa combatting oil pollution in Nigeria and British environmentalists taking...

Are you numb? Bored? Are you afraid you're wasting your life?  We all desperately want to live for something. We die a little inside when we think we aren’t living for something, and are ready to die when we think we can’t. But, Jennie Allen says that...

**A 2023 NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST Notable Book and a BOSTON GLOBE Best Book of the Year**From the Ernest J. Gaines Award-winning author of Everywhere You Don't Belong, a touching, timely novel-called "smart, witty" by the New York Times Book...