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 'Ma, I feel exhausted with consuming, with taking and grabbing and using. I am so bloated that I feel I cannot breathe any more. I am leaving to find some air, some place where I shall be able to purge myself, push back against the life given me and make my own. I feel I live in a borrowed house. It's time to find my own...Forgive me...' Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire to change his life and the world around him, all he leaves behind before disappearing is this note...The ageing patriarch and matriarch of his family, the Ghoshes, preside over their large household, unaware that beneath the barely ruffled surface of their lives the sands are shifting. More than poisonou

Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagan's epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man's reckoning with the truth.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014

'Can books conduct electricity?' 'My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok...isn't it?' A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the "Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" blog, which grew over three years into one bookseller's collection of ridiculous conversations on the shop floor. From 'Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?' to the hunt for a paperback which could forecast the next year's weather; and from 'I've forgotten my glasses, please read me the first chapter' to 'Excuse me...is this book edible?' This full-length collection illustrated by the Brothers McLeod also includes top 'Weird Things' from bookshops around the world.

Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Private Investigator Kinsey Millhone's name and number was in his pants pocket. The coroner asked her to come to the morgue to see if she could ID him. Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes. But as Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange links begin to emerge. And before long at least one aspect is solved a

Tim Burton is one of the great modern-day visionaries of cinema, a director who has fabricated his own deliciously nightmarish universe in movies as extraordinary as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and The Nightmare before Christmas - not to mention his twisted takes on the tales of Batman, Sleepy Hollow and Planet of the Apes. Following the release of his re-imagining of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with long-time comrade Johnny Depp (who also provides a new Foreword here), as well as Burton's return to feature-length animation with Corpse Bride, this updated and fully illustrated new edition of the definitive Burton interview book casts light on Burton's Burbank childhood, his early work at Disney, the recurrent themes and stunning designs of his mov

The Culture View DVD pack contains a DVD and a CD-ROM. Each DVD pack offers 12 films and covers six topics with a documentary and a drama sketch for each topic. Six drama sketches of everyday situations and six cultural documentaries showing life in Britain. Each CD-ROM provides photocopiable worksheets for the DVD material.

Topics: Music, Landscape, Media, Animals, Literature, Language

The Culture View DVD pack contains a DVD and a CD-ROM. Each DVD pack offers 12 films and covers six topics with a documentary and a drama sketch for each topic. Six drama sketches of everyday situations and six cultural documentaries showing life in Britain. Each CD-ROM provides photocopiable worksheets for the DVD material.

Topics: Home, Transport, Food, Appearance, Sport, School

GREAT BRITISH THINGS TO MAKE AND DO is filled with brilliant but simple things for children to create, paint and try out for every occasion - from birthday parties to Easter and everything in between. Using everyday items and following simple step-by-step instructions, children can make easy-peasy party bunting, go on a thoroughly British treasure hunt, create pop-up cards for Mum and Dad and much more - all themed around the British Isles.

Prepare your students for the new 2015 Cambridge English: First exam.

Cambridge: English First Result is fully updated to prepare students for success in the new 2015 exam. The contemporary topics, lively texts and vibrant design keep students motivated and the online practice and online practice test provide plenty of opportunities for further learning outside class.

The Student’s Book comes with access to Online Practice and an online practice test. The online material is automatically marked, saving time for teachers and giving students instant feedback on their answers. The LMS functionality allows teachers to instantly see students’ results in the online gradebook, so they can identify

Prepare your students for the new 2015 Cambridge English: First exam.

Cambridge: English First Result is fully updated to prepare students for success in the new 2015 exam. The contemporary topics, lively texts and vibrant design keep students motivated and the online practice and online practice test provide plenty of opportunities for further learning outside class.

The Student’s Book comes with access to Online Practice and an online practice test. The online material is automatically marked, saving time for teachers and giving students instant feedback on their answers. The LMS functionality allows teachers to instantly see students’ results in the online gradebook, so they can identify

Prepare your students for the new 2015 Cambridge English: First exam.

Cambridge: English First Result is fully updated to prepare students for success in the new 2015 exam. The contemporary topics, lively texts and vibrant design keep students motivated and the online practice and online practice test provide plenty of opportunities for further learning outside class.

The Student’s Book comes with access to Online Practice and an online practice test. The online material is automatically marked, saving time for teachers and giving students instant feedback on their answers. The LMS functionality allows teachers to instantly see students’ results in the online gradebook, so they can identify

Rube never loved any of them. He never cared about any of them. He just wanted each one because she was next, and why not take the next thing if it was better than the last? Needless to say, Rube and I aren't too much alike when it comes to women. Cameron and Ruben have always been loyal brothers, but that loyalty is about to be tested to the limit when Cam falls for Octavia - Rube's latest girlfriend. Will he get the girl? Will his love for her tear their brotherly bond apart? And would Octavia ever go for a guy like him anyway?