From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six in which a legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine. Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain\'s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is

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In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid\'s Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalised readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred\'s future at the end of The Handmaid\'s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood\'s sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown,

This series provides a wide variety of reading material for all learners of English. The books are retold versions of popular classics and contemporary titles as well as specially written stories.

A warmly humane look at universal questions of belonging, infused with humour, from the bestselling author of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father, their loving Mexican American family, and his best friend, Samantha. But it\'s senior year, and suddenly Sal is throwing punches, questioning everything, and realizing he no longer

Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today\'s most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, \"one of the great novelists of our time.\" (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times) Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. \'It doesn\'t matter if you\'re born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan\'s egg!\' (from \'The Ugly Duckling\') This collection brings together some of Hans Christian Andersen\'s most popular fairy tales - including \'The Little Mermaid\', \'The Ugly Duckling\' and \'Thumbelina\' - in a celebration

Soon to be a major film starring Chloe Grace Moretz. Just listen,\' Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. \'Stay,\' he says. Everybody has to make choices. Some might break you. For seventeen-year-old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough, but they\'re all about

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There is something strange about Coraline\'s new home. It\'s not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It\'s the other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. Another mother and father with black-button eyes and papery skin are waiting for Coraline to join them

Der Schauplatz des Herrn der Ringe ist Mittelerde, eine alternative Welt, und erzählt wird von der gefahrvollen Quest einiger Gefährten, die in einem dramatischen Kampf gegen das Böse endet. Durch einen merkwürdigen Zufall fällt dem Hobbit Bilbo Beutlin ein Zauberring zu, dessen Kraft, käme er in die falschen Hände, zu einer absoluten Herrschaft des Bösen führen würde. Bilbo übergibt den Ring an seinen

DeDaumier-Smith\'s Blue Period,\" \"Teddy,\" and \"A Perfect Day for Bananafish\" are among the nine works in a collection of Salinger\'s perceptive and realistic short stories.\"

Make to Know: From Spaces of Uncertainty to Creative Discovery will change the way you think about creativity. The book upends popular notions of innate artistic and visionary genius and probes instead the event of discovery that happens through the act of making. In contrast to the classic tale of Michelangelo, who \'saw the angel in the stone\', the artists and designers Buchman interviews for this

On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world\'s story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future? Will they - and we - ever find a safe landing place?

Violet has always been in the shadow of her mesmerising, controlling brother Will - by turns delightful and terrifying. Now that Will has learned a shocking secret about his own past, things seem to be getting worse. Violet retreats further into her fantasy world built around the fairy characters created by her favourite author, Casper Dream. The arrival of Jasmine, a new girl at school who immediately

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY DR DIETER FUCHS AND JOSEPH O\'CONNOR Against the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy becomes a man: his mind testing its powers, obsessions taking hold and loosening again, the bonds of family, tradition, nation and religion transforming from supports into shackles; until the young man devotes himself to the celebration of beauty, and reaches for independence and the

World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn\'t \'retiring\' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal -- th

Part of \"Penguin\'s\" beautiful hardback \"Clothbound Classics\" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Pip doesn\'t expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things