The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi- comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its poetry. It concludes, moreover, with the most daring and moving reconciliation scene in all Shakespeare's...

“This richly filled Norton Critical Edition contains a reliably edited and annotated text of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; extracts from some of Joyce’s other works; historical, religious, aesthetic, and literary writings from the novel’s time period; and recent critical essays...

'Clennam rose softly, opened and closed the door without a sound, and passed from the prison, carrying the quiet with him into the turbulent streets.'Introspective and dreamy, Arthur Clennam returns to England from many years abroad to find a people gripped in their self-made...

One of France's best-selling writers at the time of the novel's composition, Dumas here combines what he considered to be life's essentials - `l'action et l'amour'. This historical romance is the climax of his epic of chivalry and valour that began with The Three Musketeers,...

Rene Weis reveals Shakepeare's use of multiple sources to be eclectic in the extreme in this radical reconsideration of the play's date and text. He also argues for the first time that Falstaff was called Oldcastle in Part 2 as well as in Part...

The home of trusted Mandarin dictionaries for everyday language learning. A clear, modern Chinese to English and English to Chinese dictionary. The essential reference book for Chinese: an up-to-date dictionary and a user-friendly language supplement in one handy volume. Designed for learners of Chinese...

The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues!   A wall can't protect them anymore . . .   Snowfall didn't expect to be queen of the IceWings at such a young age, but now that she is, she's going to be the best queen ever....

America's favorite series returns with a new look and a Netflix tv show. Claudia's not worried when she hears her newest baby-sitting charge, Betsy Sobak, is a great practical joker. After all, how much harm can one little girl do? Plenty. Claudia breaks her...

A moving, compelling and uplifting story of following your dreams against the odds from the world’s favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel.Iris Cooper grew up dirt poor in Texas. Her mother left when she was a baby, leaving her to be raised by her rodeo cowboy...

The fourth book in the hilarious series from Roald Dahl Funny Prize winning author. Philip Ardagh and illustrator of The Gruffalo , Axel Scheffler.Over the years, the Grunts have made more than a few enemies. But fortunately they're all safely behind bars. Or are...

Explore an enchanting world of 101 nursery rhymes, poems and songs, illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon, illustrator of I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree, which won Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year.This is the fourth title in the Nosy Crow Classics series, which...

The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz now a major TV series on SkyCilka's Journey is a powerful testament to the triumph of the human will.It will move you to tears, but it will also leave you astonished and uplifted by one woman's fierce determination to...

The world is at war and the prophesied savior is nowhere to be found. The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, races to find her in the fourth novel of Andrzej Sapkowski's groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the hit Netflix show and the blockbuster video...

The Financial Times Guide to How the Stock Market Really Works is an introduction to the complex world of the financial markets. Whether you are new to investing, or already have a share portfolio, this is an intelligent guidebook will guide you safely through the...

Many people stumble through their financial life reacting to events and advice in an ad hoc way. As a result, few choose the most suitable financial products, some fall prey to misselling and many never realise their financial goals. Are you one of them?...

Effective Academic Writing, Second Edition provides the tools necessary for successful academic writing:-Step-by step Writing Process guides and refines writing skills.-Timed Writing practice prepares students for success on high-stakes tests.-Online Writing Tutor on Oxford Learn improves academic writing inside and outside the classroom.-Online Grammar...

John Wanamaker famously observed that "half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half." Indeed, though advertising is pervasive in our society, how it works (if and when it works) is not a question most of...

'This is a miracle of a book' George Lamming'Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age' Owen Jones 'Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial'This is the story, in his own words, of the extraordinary life of Stuart Hall: writer, thinker...

'This is a funny, pointed love letter to Texas, at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre, The Times From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. Texas is a Republican...

Split Second is the first in the gripping King and Maxwell series by bestselling author David Baldacci.When something distracts Secret Agent Sean King for a split second, it costs him his career and presidential candidate, Clyde Ritter, his life. But what stole his attention?...

Enjoy lots of creative colouring with this fantastic Gruffalo artist pad. Packed with lots of pages of colouring fun and puzzles and filled with loads of reusable stickers. Also contains 3 double-ended crayons.

Get your students thinking critically. A six-level skills-based English course. Unlock Reading, Writing & Critical Thinking is a six-level, research-informed, academic-light English course created to build the skills and language students need for their studies. It develops students' ability to think critically in an...

Welcome to Wimmelworld—a land of few words, yet endless entertainment—for curious kids ages 2 to 5!In these one-of-a-kind picture books, every page is bursting with life—and tons to discover!Children as young as two have a blast pointing out recognizable things—a blue tricycle, a hungry dog, a...

This kit has been specially created to support your child’s steps towards becoming an independent reader and writer. Based on Ruth Miskin’s trusted and successful Read Write Inc. synthetic phonics programme, which is used by more than a quarter of the UK’s primary schools,...

This kit has been specially developed to improve the ability of your developing reader by introducing first blending skills. Based on Ruth Miskin’s Read Write Inc. synthetic phonics programme, which is used by more than a quarter of the UK’s primary schools, the kit...

As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He...

Luke and his brother have swapped bodies by accident. Zack's got Luke's weird feet while Luke has Zack's SUPERPOWERS! Now he needs another world-threatening adventure to try them out. Could a family mini-break at Great Minds Leisure Park be his chance? Probably, because that's...

Join Billy Goat Gruff in this unusual new guide book. Gruff tricked the troll and now he shows you 'how to' do a million other clever things in this wickedly witty, companion to the familiar world of Fairy Tale Land. Packed full of fun,...

'Extraordinary...smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North.' LEE CHILD`Tense and compelling.' James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMADNorth Korea and the USA are on the brink of warA young American...

Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones 'Explosive' John McDonnell, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'Thought-provoking and funny' The Times Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe...

Can doughnuts get any cuter? You can sew your own adorable doughnut-shaped animals in this fun kit! These treats are too sweet to eat, so we are making them out of felt. This kit includes pre-cut felt pieces to make 6 doughnuts and a...

Caraval is over, but perhaps the greatest game of all has begun - with lives, empires, and hearts all at stake. There are no spectators this time: only those who will win, and those who will lose everything. Welcome, welcome to the Caraval's Finale....

The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book’s brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupéry in 1943, only a year before his...

Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would ‘curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.’ The tale is a superb blend of...

‘There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts...

‘…man is not truly one, but truly two.’ In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Born from a nightmare...

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart…” Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts,...

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin’s brutal regime was either censored or...

FROM ONE OF JAPAN'S GREATEST CRIME WRITERS—THE AUTHOR OF THE HONJIN MURDERS: Nothing at The Black Cat Café is as it seems. . .In order to solve this sensational stand-alone murder mystery, scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi will have to untangle a complex web of love,...

A Japanese mystery bestseller, revolving around a series of creepy drawings, in which the reader is the detective - from the Youtube sensation Uketsu.A series of drawings made by a young woman before her death.A child's disturbing picture of his home.A desperate sketch made...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ADALYN GRACE IS BACK WITH A GORGEOUS, THRILLING, BEAUTIFULLY ROMANTIC FANTASY - IF YOU LOVED BELLADONNA AND FOXGLOVE, YOU WILL ADORE THIS... ** Hidden foil on the case available only for limited time! Order yours now!** Blythe Hawthorn has...

Achieve genuine inner healing, let go of trauma and find clarity, resilience and freedom with #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Vex King.Vex developed powerful inner healing techniques to help him break free from his troubled past, heal his emotional pain and trauma, and create...

WINNER – COSTA CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEARThe second sensational middle-grade standalone that follows an epic voyage from England to France in the aftermath of WW1, from the bestselling author of The Children of Castle Rock. In the aftermath of...

The story of one girl’s quest for clarity and forgiveness after an awful, universe-gone-mad-mistake. From the internationally bestselling author of Girl in Pieces   ‘Breathtaking and heartbreaking, and I loved it with all my heart.’ Jennifer Niven   I thought I was done with death, at...

From the internationally bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and How to Make Friends with the Dark comes a breathtaking contemporary YA about addiction, family and finding your voice.   ‘Kathleen Glasgow expands our hearts and invites in a little more humanity.’ Val Emmich, author of Dear Evan Hansen  ...

When Bunny, Monkey and friends discover that all of existence is a virtual reality simulation, life gets a little bit crazy! Bunny declares himself The Woods’ Magical Protector, Pig becomes a superspy, Weenie grows some serious muscles . . . but just what nefarious...

Genius inventor Skunky has just designed a brand-new creation . . . a robot called Metal Eve! She needs to learn everything there is to know about life, so it's probably not the best idea that she's surrounded by Bunny, Monkey, Weenie, Pig and...

Monkey and the gang are on a hunt to find Bunny after he mysteriously disappeared...On their search, they'll be bamboozled by Old Bunny, Neanderbunny, the mysterious Shadow Bunny and the always confusing Not Bunny. Will they ever find their faithful friend? It's a rollicking...

A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time , following a cat through his nine lives in Edinburgh, moving through the ever-changing city and its inhabitants over centuriesEarly morning, 1902. At 7/7 Marchmont Crescent, Eilidh the...