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Lightweight, compact, distinctively styled, and now, electric: The Brompton isn't the only folding bicycle—or even the first. But everyone who has been on one will enthusiastically testify to its marvelous design (virtually unchanged over decades) and the particular joy of riding it. Will Butler-Adams, CEO of Brompton Bicycles, has been at the company for twenty years. Initially, he worked as an engineer for Andrew Ritchie, the bike's brilliant inventor and the business's founder, before taking the helm in 2008.

Feeling the pressure of inner-city life, and drawn by a strange calling, Elena Lees walks away from everything and keeps on walking. She unhooks in nature and her extraordinary adventure across Europe unfolds, upturning her world and her understanding of what it means to be alive.

This guide offers a step-by-step plan that helps parents cultivate daily routines so that they can turn life with toddlers into a mutually rich time of curiosity and learning.

At the start of her fourth audiobook, our blue-haired heroine is selling soup with her Sparrow Scout friends at the Winter Festival fayre. Soon, however, she's tackling mischievous Yule Lads, battling mechanical bell-ringers, taking on a hungry ogre and trying to reunite a couple across the decades.

In her second audio adventure, Hilda and her mum have settled into their new home and our heroine is trying to fit into this new and very different way of life. Trolberg is vast and unfamiliar, and school's not much better, but as she makes a new feathered friend, Hilda soon starts to uncover some surprising secrets which unsurprisingly lead to some wonderful, magical adventures.

In her third audio outing, Hilda has been newly initiated into the Sparrow Scouts and now she's ready to earn some badges, and perhaps even make some human friends. Yet a dark, menacing creature is threatening Trolberg, and only our blue-haired heroine can get to the bottom of what it wants.

The fourth installment of the popular Lemonade War series! Siblings Jessie and Evan Treski have waged a lemonade war, sought justice in a class trial, and even unmasked a bell thief. Now they are at opposite ends over the right to keep secrets... Evan believes some things (such as his poetry)...

When I find myself face-to-face with Lucifer, I realize what he wants from me could annihilate Hell and Earth. I would do anything for those I love, but with the fate of the world resting on my shoulders, I’m not sure I can stop him from destroying us all.

Fast ein Jahr ist seit der Rebellion vergangen, und die Menschen haben sich aus der Versklavung durch die Vampire befreit. Jack hat die Palaststadt verlassen, um fernab von Zuhause, in den Randgebieten, dafür zu sorgen, dass die neuen Gesetze eingehalten werden. Doch ihn quälen die Trauer um die Opfer der Rebellion und die dunklen Erinnerungen an die brutalen Auseinandersetzungen.

Daisy Turner has worked at Buchanan’s Family Jewellers since the day she finally escaped her troubled home. With a unique talent for matching the perfect piece of jewellery to any romantic milestone, she painstakingly polishes each stunning creation every morning and safely locks them away each night, longing for the day she’ll have a love story to call her own... But everything changes one day in December when the owner announces she is retiring. She will leave the shop to whichever of her three sons creates the perfect piece of Christmas jewellery for Daisy.

This first novel in The Deptford Trilogy introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross but who is destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As we hear Ramsey tell his story, we begin to realize that, from childhood, he has influenced those around him in a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious way.

Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as a modern classic, Robertson Davies' acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. World of Wonders, the third book in the series after The Manticore, follows the story of Magnus Eisengrim - the most illustrious magician of his age - who is spirited away from his home by a member of a traveling sideshow, the Wanless World of Wonders.

Down a winding lane lined with honeysuckle and wild flowers, there’s a beautiful orchard beside the rushing River Wye. There, in a little farmhouse in the furthest corner, a young woman has a difficult and life-changing decision to make... Life on Appleyard Farm is all Freya Sherbourne has ever known. Having spent her childhood playing between the blossom-heavy apple trees, Freya can’t imagine calling anywhere else home. But times have been hard since her father’s sudden death, and now that she’s being forced to put the farm up for sale, her world is about to come crashing down.

He helped you move on... Until you discovered what he did. Louisa Adams has done her best to hold herself together in the years since she lost her husband in a car accident. But each morning she wakes up alone is more painful than the last. She hopes moving into the crumbling seaside guest house her daughter just bought in Devon will help put what’s left of her broken family back together... There, Louisa is offered a final chance to save her career by writing an article on a local sand artist, Isaac.

A story of the strained friendship between a self-important tractor and an old worn-out bulldozer as Trevor comes to terms with being on a farm instead of being in a nice shiny tractor showroom.

Journey into a lawless land and take its toughest trials in this official Minecraft novel! All of Cecelia Alao’s friends call her Cece. All one of them. But she and Therese are so close that one friend is all Cece needs. Both at school and in their shared Minecraft world, Cece and Therese are...

On the face of it, women's sport is on the rise, garnering more attention and grassroots involvement than ever before. However, the truth is that in many respects progress is stalling, or even falling back. Sharron Davies is no stranger to battling the routine sexism the sporting world. She missed out on Olympic Gold because of blatant doping among East German athletes in the 1980s, and has never received justice. Now, biological males are being allowed to compete directly against women under the guise of trans 'self-ID', a development that could destroy the integrity of female sport.

With the death of beloved Queen Enelya and the world in mourning, Giselle has disappeared, accused of murdering her mother. Hidden away in the enchanted forest to fend for herself, she finds herself at the wrong place at the right time. An old acquaintance offers a hand in not only finding Giselle’s friend, but also to help clear her name and take back what is rightfully hers.

Atticus, der tyrannische König und Vater von Braith und Jack, wird von Menschen und Vampiren wegen seiner Gnadenlosigkeit und Brutalität gefürchtet. Doch wie ist aus dem offenen jungen Mann, der er einst war, dieser kaltblütige Herrscher geworden? Mit fünfundzwanzig Jahren ist Atticus der letzte Erbe der mächtigsten Vampirfamilie und lebt unter dem Dach seines Vaters. Dort führt er ein Leben in Luxus und voller Privilegien, bis er Genny begegnet, einer jungen Vampirfrau aus einfachen Verhältnissen.

What is the mysterious Grotlyn? What sort of creature could it be, scuttling across the town, frightening everyone in its path? And why has it stolen PC Vickers' knickers?A mysterious rhyming tale about things that go bump in the night for ages four and up, from picture book superstar Benji Davies, winner of Oscar's First Book Prize 2014 and Sainsbury's Children's Book of the Year 2015. Perfect for fans of Oliver Jeffers and Jon Klassen.