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Category: General Crime/Mystery | Reading Level: near fine
'A little beacon of pleasure...SUCH FUN!' KATE ATKINSON - THE FIRST BOOK IN THE GRIPPING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY TV PRESENTER RICHARD OSMAN In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on t ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
Margery Benson's life ended the day her father walked out of his study and never came back. Forty years later, abandoning a dull job, she advertises for an assistant. The successful candidate is to accompany Margery on an expedition to the other side of the world to search for a beetle that may or may n ...Show more
Category: Vegan & Vegetarian
The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in cooking over fire, with cooks all over the world seeking to get elemental in their cooking. But fire and smoke doesn't always have to be about hunks of meat. Chargrilling and barbecue are a fantastic way of getting the maximum flavour out of versa ...Show more
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Booker Prize Winner 2020. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abando ...Show more
Category: Picture and Board Books
Winner of the 2018 Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award for Best Picture Book of the YearA hugely entertaining animal ABC guessing game with stunning peep-through pages and fold-out flaps, by bestselling author Julia Donaldson and award-winning illustrator Sharon King-Chai. Now availabl ...Show more
Category: Vegan & Vegetarian
Flavour-forward, vegetable-based recipes are at the heart of Yotam Ottolenghi's food. In this stunning new cookbook Yotam and co-writer Ixta Belfrage break down the three factors that create flavour and offer innovative vegetable dishes that deliver brand-new ingredient combinations to excite and inspir ...Show more
Category: Thrillers
January, 1944. A bitter winter grips occupied France, where Marc Reece leads an SOE circuit facing deadly risks, operating in secret to sabotage the German war effort. But Marc has a second mission, secret from even his fellow agents - including Charlotte, the woman with whom he has ill-advisedly fallen ...Show more
Category: Non Fiction
Dangerous animals get a bad rap, but this beautifully illustrated encyclopaedia helps us appreciate the incredible features of some of our more hair-raising animal species. With more than sixty of the most deadly and dangerous animals from across the world to explore, every page of this beautifully ill ...Show more
Category: Non Fiction
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1945, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she w ...Show more
Category: Biographies
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
Category: Picture and Board Books | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real) is the charming story of a toy rabbit's quest to become real through the love of his owner. This short novel has been a favourite of children and their parents since 1922. Sayre Street Books offers the world's ...Show more
Category: Picture and Board Books
Your mind is like the sky. Sometimes it's clear and blue - but sometimes a raincloud thought comes along and makes everything seem dark. So what can we do about rainclouds? This beautiful picture book, written by child psychologist Bronwen Ballard and illustrated by award-winning artist Laura Carlin, sh ...Show more
Category: Travel Writing
Forty years ago, Tim Parks made the bel paese his home. Italian Life is his reckoning with his adopted country, an attempt to get to the core of it, to make sense of it, to fold others' stories in with his own experience - now that he is, in his own words, 'to some degree Italian' himself. The result i ...Show more
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Miss Marple Ser.
Agatha Christie's famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a ...Show more
Category: Italy | Reading Level: 5 Cooking
"When you have good ingredients, you don't have to worry about cooking. They do the work for you." - Lucia, 85 Inspired by the hugely popular YouTube channel of the same name,Pasta Grannies is a wonderful collection of time-perfected Italian recipes from the people who have spent a lifetime cooking for ...Show more
Category: Picture and Board Books | Reading Level: Children's - Kindergarten, Age 5-6
A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2011! A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist. Features an audio read-along! The bear's hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, wh ...Show more
Category: Non Fiction
In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island. From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people who hold clues to the south's famous character. Not ...Show more
Category: Classic Crime
'Superb' LEE CHILD. ****************************************** ENGLAND, 1930.Grieving widows are a familiar sight on London's Necropolis Railway. So when an elegant young woman in a black veil boards the funeral train, nobody guesses her true purpose. But Rachel Savernake is not one of the mourners. She ...Show more
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Reading Level: very good
When Dottoressa Donato calls the Venetian Questura, reporting that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague Commissario Claudia Griffoni know there is no time to waste. 'They killed him ... Bad money', are some of the siby ...Show more
Category: Middle East
FALASTIN is a love letter to Palestine, the land and its people; an evocative collection of over 110 unforgettable recipes and stories from the co-authors of Jerusalem, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook and SIMPLE. Travelling through Bethlehem, East Jerusalem, Nablus, Haifa, Akka, Nazareth, Galilee and the West ...Show more
Category: Non Fiction
A beautiful crossover book for all ages, this is the book natural-history illustrator Ben has wanted to read since he was a child. Simple text will provide an insight into these lesser-known birds and animals - some endangered and some less so - told from the perspective of a detail-obsessed illustrator ...Show more
Category: Baking, Bread, Desserts
In Modern Sourdough, Michelle Eshkeri reveals how mastering the art of sourdough baking can open up a world of sweet and savoury treats at home. Michelle opened Margot Bakery in a shop in East Finchley, London in 2016. An instant hit, it became an experiment in pushing the boundaries of what a lo ...Show more
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