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Wuthering Heights
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal…
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Bill Bryson’s African Diary
Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. Kenya, generally regarded as the cradle of humankind, is a land of stunning landscapes, famous game reserves, and a vibrant culture, but it also has many serious problems, including refugees,…
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If He Had Been With Me
Autumn and Finn used to be inseparable. But then something changed. Or they changed. Now, they do their best to ignore each other. Autumn has her boyfriend Jamie, and her close-knit group of friends. And Finn has become that boy at school, the one everyone wants to be around. That still doesn’t stop the way…
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The Shortest History of Democracy
The roots of democracy stretch back beyond Athens to Syria-Mesopotamia and the Indian subcontinent, where citizens’ assemblies held privilege and power to account over 3,000 years before the French Revolution. In this timely and illuminating new global history, John Keane (‘one of the world’s leading political thinkers’ The Times) gets to the heart of a…
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
It’s not the journey that counts, but who’s at your side. Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner Satoru in the front seat of his silver van. Satoru is keen to visit three old friends…
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Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room was named as one of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’ and established Baldwin as one of the great American writers of his time. David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman,…
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Birdsplaining
In pursuit of moments of feeling ‘sharply alive’, confronting fear of the body’s betrayals, and roaming across Wales, Scotland, California and the Middle East, Birdsplaining is focused unapologetically on the uniqueness of women’s experience of nature and constraints placed upon it. Sometimes bristling, always ethical, it upends familiar ways of seeing the natural world.
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The Farm Table
Cook and eat your way to the good life with simple, seasonal recipes. First-generation farmer and chef Julius Roberts shares honest tales of farming life and easy, thoughtful dishes to reconnect us to nature and the seasons. Making the most of simple ingredients, The Farm Table is unfussy home cooking at its very best. A…
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Short Stories in Welsh for Beginners
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Welsh. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Welsh for Beginners will make learning Welsh easy and enjoyable. Short Stories in Welsh for Beginners has been written especially for students from high-beginner to low-intermediate…