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Baby Touch: Colours is part of Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series, designed to help stimulate a baby's senses from birth. Encouraging interaction and play, the Baby Touch books are lots of fun for the very youngest babies, as well as toddlers.Baby Touch: Colours is a bold, bright board book perfect for little hands to explore. With a big touch-and-feel on every double page, it helps to stimulate your baby's senses as well as gently helping to teach first colours such a...

On the day she gives birth to her first child, Claire's husband James tells her he's been having an affair.Left with a beautiful baby and a broken heart, she decides to go back to basics . . . and runs home to Mum and Dad.But it's not the sanctuary she'd been hoping for. Juggling her family's drama and the demands of a baby, Claire desperately misses the way things were. So when James gets back in touch, eager to put things right, Claire faces a choice.Will she forgive and fo...

After Charlie Hudson’s classmate goes missing in the forest she is determined to find out what happened and starts to suspect the mysterious newcomer, Elias Everhart.With his piercing eyes and sharp wit, Charlie knows he has a secret. More than one. What she doesn’t know is that those secrets will lead her to a place she never imagined: a world made of magic, gods, and monsters - and a first love fated to fall apart.Truths and temptations lurk in the darkness, and for Charlie...

Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of her life – an emptiness once filled by love.So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and his mentor Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is ready to look at her life anew. Compelled to embrace change, she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious ...

The man was leading an aimless life, time passing, one big blank.His girlfriend has perfectly formed ears, ears with the power to bewitch, marvels of creation. The man receives a letter from a friend, enclosing a seemingly innocent photograph of sheep, and a request: place the photograph somewhere it will be seen. Then, one September afternoon, the phone rings, and the adventure begins. Welcome to the wild sheep chase. 

A classic English word book to help children learn key vocabulary, with one hundred everyday words illustrated in busy scenes and with labelled pictures. Colourful illustrations by Stephen Cartwright provide lots to look at and talk about, and there’s a little yellow duck to find on each double page. An essential word book for preschoolers and children learning English as a second language - readers can also listen to every word read by a native English speaker at the Usborne...

Urodziłam się, żeby zabić króla i zakończyć rządy terroru, zanim naprawdę się zaczną. Jednej rzeczy Mare Barrow jest pewna: że jest inna. Jej krew jest czerwona – to kolor pospólstwa – ale jej Srebrna zdolność, moc kontrolowania błyskawic, zmieniła ją w broń, nad którą dwór królewski chce przejąć kontrolę. Ścigana przez Mavena, mściwego Srebrnego króla, Mare postanawia odnaleźć i zwerbować innych Czerwono-Srebrnych wojowników, żeby dołączyli do rebelii. Sama jednak l...

I.V. Marie's thrilling dark academia debut set at a magical boarding school in purgatory where some fates are worse than death … For fans of Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House, Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education.Welcome to Blackwood Academy: a boarding school located on the fringes of the afterlife.No one knows why they end up at Blackwood; but when they enter the school's arched gates the only way out is to be chosen for the Decennial – a series of ma...

‘The best kind of book: the one you didn’t know you were craving until it appeared … self-interrogative, intricately perceptive. I absolutely inhaled it’ JIA TOLENTINO‘A very richly interesting exploration of a complex subject. Begona Gómez Urzaiz tells the stories with such intelligence and wit and generosity’ TESSA HADLEY‘Fascinating … I suspect there are many, many other mothers who are going to inhale TheAbandoners’OBSERVERWhen it comes to children: a man leaves, a woman ...

A propulsive novel about music, coming of age and the cost of fame, for fans of Megan Abbott and Daisy Jones and the Six.'The secrets simmer in this atmospheric, powerful novel' KATIE BISHOP'You won't be able to put it down' RUFI THORPETHIS IS MY STORY. NOT MY DEAD BEST FRIEND'S STORY.Dylan Read, the legendary country pop star, has spent fifteen years learning to craft the perfect good-girl image. But Dylan is privately haunted by the loss of her best friend Kelsey, who went ...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?Counting is an innovative, erudite, world-wrapping journey through humanity’s marvellous ability to impose numbers on things. Acclaimed historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh draws on stories from the Stone Age to cyberspace in pursuit of the elusive, fascinating, endlessly diverse history ...

Ten stunning Shakespeare retellings from the master storyteller, with an introduction by Benedict Cumberbatch Featuring re-tellings of ten of Shakespeare’s plays, and beautifully written with Michael Morpurgo’s warm, accessible and inimitable style, this wonderful collection offers a new generation of readers the chance to discover the magic of Shakespeare – the perfect introduction to the Bard and an unmissable book for children. Stunningly illustrated throughout with contri...

The key to developing your sixth sense is your imagination. Unlock the power of imagination and you open yourself to a world of new possibilities. When most people think of a sixth sense, they tend to think of an intuitive power. After consideration, it becomes apparent that what we call 'intuition' is not only a mental facility but also a super-sense, the cumulative power of all the senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. As we all possess intuition, we are therefore...

What if changing the way we breathe can change the way we live? Breathing is perhaps the biological process to which we pay the least attention - but it's the most fundamental. Noticing and controlling our breathing sits in the overlapping section of a Venn diagram between mindfulness and yoga, between science and the spiritual, and chiefly between high-minded theory and practical solutions. Breathing - unlike many forms of complementary therapy - requires no special equipmen...

There was only one woman who could set me free.But I would rather set myself on fire than ask Sloane Walton for anything.Lucian Rollins is a lean, mean vengeance-seeking mogul. Determined to erase his abusive father’s mark on his family name, he spends every waking minute pulling strings and building his empire. The more money and power he gains, the safer he feels.Except when it comes to one feisty small-town librarian.Although they are bonded by a dark secret from the past ...

Dive into the eerie allure of the supernatural with this compact collection of uncanny trivia and spooky quotes. From historical hauntings to modern-day mysteries, this book offers a compelling insight into the mysterious world of the paranormal. Perfect for dipping into on a dark, stormy night, it explores ghostly apparitions and inexplicable phenomena from around the world.Whether you're a seasoned ghost hunter or a curious sceptic, this little book is sure to captivate and...

The last word in luxury, sophistication and romance, Tiffany & Co. has dazzled shoppers since its beginnings in nineteenth-century New York. From Breakfast at Tiffany's to collaborating with Beyoncé, and with celebrity fans including Elizabeth Taylor and Lady Gaga, Tiffany & Co. has taken its glamorous jewellery from Fifth Avenue to the world. Featuring over 100 stunning images - including the breathtaking Tiffany Diamond, jewel-encrusted brooches and the iconic blue box - ac...

Copenhagen has a reputation for its incredible food and drink scene, inspiring galleries and, most importantly, the city's unmistakable style. Little Book of Copenhagen Style is packed with stunning imagery of notable fashion-forward residents, runway looks from the city's favourite labels and inspiring locations across the capital. Discover some of Copenhagen's finest fashion exports from key classics like Stine Goya and Ganni to streetwear staples like WoodWood and Soulland...

THE NEXT SENSATION FROM THE AUTHOR OFI WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MENThere’s a voice in Aline’s head: a voice that wants out.Brash, boisterous and sexually adventurous, this voice seems to be the antithesis of Aline, a prim literature professor for whom each day promises to be as quiet and conventional as the last.That is until, after thirty-five years of imprisonment, her alter ego breaks free.Taking on a life of his own, Orlanda – Aline’s second self – slips into the taut, rugged...

Robert Langdon returns in Dan Brown's brilliant new thriller, THE SECRET OF SECRETS, available for pre-order now.The bestselling continuation of global phenomenon THE DA VINCI CODE, featuring symbologist Robert Langdon.The Capitol Building, Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon believes he is here to give a lecture. He is wrong. Within minutes of his arrival, a shocking object is discovered. It is a gruesome invitation into an ancient world of hidden wisdom.When L...

Inspector Maigret is known for his infallible instinct, for getting at the truth no matter how complex the case, but when someone starts killing women on the streets of Montmartre, he finds himself confounded. In the sweltering Paris summer heat, with the city in a state of siege, Maigret hatches a plan to lure the murderer out.Translated by Siân Reynolds

Katie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job, and a super-cool Instagram feed.OK, so the truth is that she rents a tiny room with no space for a wardrobe, has a hideous commute to a lowly admin job, and the life she shares on Instagram isn't really hers.But one day her dreams are bound to come true, aren't they?Until her not-so-perfect life comes crashing down when her mega-successful boss Demeter gives her the sack. All Katie's hopes are shattered. S...

Ostatni tom mrocznej trylogii bestsellerowej zagranicznej autorki!Nie mam żadnych zasad moralnych i jestem całkowicie pozbawiony uczuć.Zaszedłem tak wysoko tylko po to, by zdobyć władzę.Nikt i nic nie zdoła mnie powstrzymać przed osiągnięciem celu. A przynajmniej do tej pory taki był plan.Teraz moim jedynym pragnieniem jest odzyskać należącą do mnie kobietę Sasha sądzi, że wszystko między nami skończone, ale to dopiero początek.Jest moją kochanką. Partnerką. Żoną.I jest tylko...

The international bestseller. Our families shape who we are. From the circumstances of our conception and the family structure we are born into, to the expectations placed upon us and the love we receive, we are formed by our social and familial network.So if we want to truly know ourselves – to find out why we falter, to explain our anxieties, our repeated relationship patterns – we must look beyond our own lives and discover the secrets, unprocessed losses, and limiting bel...