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Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, all three parts of the epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, in one paperback. Features the definitive edition of the text, fold-out flaps with the original two-colour maps, and a revised and expanded index.
Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring – the ring that rules them all – which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.
In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as the Ring is entrusted to his care. He must leave his home and make a perilous journey across the realms of Middle-earth to the Crack of Doom, deep inside the territories of the Dark Lord. There he must destroy the Ring forever and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.
Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy has touched the hearts of young and old alike.
This single-volume paperback edition is the definitive text, fully restored with almost 400 corrections – with the full co-operation of Christopher Tolkien – and features a striking new cover.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and
our little life Is rounded with a sleep.' Magical and dreamlike in
its tone, Shakespeare's The Tempest begins with a storm of epic
proportions and a shipwreck. Banished from Italy, Prospero lives on
a remote island with his daughter. Using his magic, he vows to seek
revenge on the injustice dealt to him by his brother, but in doing
so, Shakespeare questions the difficulty of distinguishing 'men'
from 'monsters', and the realities of justice.
All your favorite Pokemon game characters jump out of the screen
into the pages of this action-packed manga! A stylish new omnibus
edition of the best-selling Pokemon Adventures manga, collecting
all the original volumes of the series you know and love. The
conclusion of the original Pokemon Adventures! Professor Birch
sends Ruby and Sapphire to help Emerald find the Wish Pokemon
Jirachi. But first there are fierce Pokemon battles to fight in the
Battle Dome Tournament! Then, Professor Oak sends Gold and Silver
to help rescue Red, Yellow, Blue and Green-who have all been turned
to stone! Along the way, Gold and Silver must battle a fearsome
creature that Archie, the former leader of Team Aqua, wished into
existence using the powers of the Wish Pokemon Jirachi that Ruby
and Sapphire found! Collects the original Pokemon Adventures 28
& 29!
Far from Terra, the XVIth Legion continue in the Great Crusade as
the 'Sons of Horus'. Putting the debacle with the interex behind
him, the Warmaster has become more withdrawnas he struggles to deal
with the jealousy of his brother primarchs, and increasingly relies
on the council of his advisors as he plans each new campaign. Noble
captain Garviel Loken harbours misgivings about the clandestine
ways adopted by many of his brethren, but when the Legion is sent
to reconquer the moon of Davin, it is clear that Horus has a
personal stake in the matter which may have clouded his judgement.
With dark forces rising against them, have the pimarch and his
warriors been drawn into a trap?
Perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan, Jessica Redland and Kate Forster.
Do you believe in Christmas miracles? Holly is looking for a
change. There has to be more to life than the long hours she works
as an editor in New York City, despite what everyone says. What she
doesn't expect when she leaves the city behind is to meet Mitch, a
recluse who's hiding more than she realises. Mitch spends his days
hidden away in a little log cabin in Inglenook Falls, where he owns
a Christmas tree farm. He speaks to people only when necessary, so
when Holly falls into his life, he's not sure how to react. All he
knows is that something needs to change if he wants to get his life
back on track. Along with friends Cleo and Darcy, Holly is
determined to bring joy back to Mitch's life, but will he
appreciate their interference? And when a business proposition
throws everything up in the air, will it do more harm than good?
Curl up this festive season in a snow-covered log cabin surrounded
by Christmas trees and find out whether miracles and second chances
really do happen. *Please note this is a re-release of Christmas
Miracles at the Little Log Cabin, previously published by Helen J
Rolfe* Praise for Helen Rolfe's heartwarming stories: 'Beautiful,
magical and incredibly moving' The Writing Garnet 'It's a book
version of a Hallmark movie' Amazon Reviewer 'A warm romantic
feel-good read' Goodreads Reviewer 'The perfect festive romance'
Jessica's Book Biz 'What a wonderful festive read!' Goodreads
Reviewer
'If Emma Murray writes it, I want to read it. Hilarious!' Cathy
KellyBrand new from the bestselling author of Time Out and The
Juggle. When her husband David announces he's been offered a job in
New York, Saoirse is thrilled. The glamour of the big city, the
shopping, the culture, not to mention the free Manhattan apartment
and business class air fare - what's not to like? There's just the
small matter of making it work for their daughter, five-year-old
Anna, who isn't so keen to leave her friends and school behind. The
Big Apple in the middle of summer isn't quite the holiday Saoirse
envisaged, and with David away with work, New York apartment sizes
on the miniscule side, and the pace of life faster than the sleepy
London suburbs, solo ex-pat parenting pushes Saoirse to her limits.
And as the pressure builds and 'faking it till she makes it' isn't
cutting it, there's only one thing for it - Saoirse and Anna need a
new plan, and 'Winging It' might be their best option... Emma
Murray returns with this laugh-out-loud funny, compulsively
page-turning adventure about parenting, travelling, and finding
your tribe - on both sides of the pond. Praise for Emma Murray:
'With wit, brio and fabulous humour, Emma Murray again delivers a
page-turner about travel, parenthood, trying to fit in and finding
your own tribe. If Emma Murray writes it, I want to read it.
Hilarious.' Cathy Kelly 'A fabulous series full of laughter, witty
observations' Jessica Redland 'Emma Murray's writing is so deft:
rib ticklingly funny and also heartbreakingly poignant at times
that the reader is swept along with Saoirse and her cast of
supporting characters as they navigate their increasingly hectic
lives.' Fay Keenan 'Emma tells it how it is with real honesty, and
it made me laugh out loud.' Janet Hoggarth 'Witty, fun,
beautifully-written. Very highly recommended. Excited to see what
comes next from Emma Murray.' Jessica Redland Readers loved Emma's
first book Time Out: 'Compelling, Uplifting and so very relatable.
The characters are superbly written, and I really hope we get to
read more from Saoirse.' 'I really related to the Saoirse, the main
character in this book. I loved her humour, her insecurities, her
strengths, her flaws and of course most importantly how she formed
a fantastic friendship over a morning bottle of Prosecco.' 'Emma
Murray has written a 5-star 'how-to' book on being part of the
village ... 'it takes a village to raise a child' but it also takes
that village to raise up a mom!' 'A fabulous read that had me
hooked and also made me feel glad that my children were born prior
to the arrival of Facebook and social media. But a refreshing read
and one I would definitely recommend.'
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Alice Alone
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On the day that her youngest child leaves home, Alice Hatton
discovers two disturbing truths in a matter of hours.The Empty Nest
cliche is true. And she does not love her husband Peter at all. Now
in her fifties, Alice is appalled to realise that she is no longer
considered her own person, but is instead defined by her
relationships - mother to her adult children, wife to her husband.
Horrified by the thought of spending another thirty years with
Peter in their North London suburb, Alice decides to take matters
into her own hands. What follows is a triumphant and liberating
breaking of all the rules. But when Alice must cope with loss for
the second time in as many years, she discovers what even the most
apparently 'respectable 'woman is capable of. Join Amanda
Brookfield as she revisits her first novel, Alice Alone, and
rediscover how she got her well-deserved reputation for writing
about women's lives with humour and honesty. Includes a brand new
foreword from the author. Praise for Amanda Brookfield: 'An
engaging, emotionally-charged and intriguing story' Michelle Gorman
No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so
perceptively as Brookfield.' The Mirror 'Unputdownable. Perceptive.
Poignant. I loved it.' bestselling author Patricia Scanlan on
Before I Knew You 'If Joanna Trollope is the queen of the Aga Saga,
then Amanda Brookfield must be a strong contender for princess.'
Oxford Times What readers are saying about Amanda Brookfield: 'I
felt so involved in this story that I found myself thinking about
it a lot during the day. A fantastic read. Gripping, moving,
characters you care about, highly recommend.' 'Packed with
suspense, (I actually held my breath during some of the scenes) and
full of relatable characters, this book will draw you in from the
first page. Highly recommend.' 'The tension builds on every page,
the characters, as always with this author's books, are drawn
beautifully. I couldn't put it down and am looking forward greatly
to Amanda Brookfield's next offering hopefully before too long!'
'Brookfield is undoubtedly one of Britain's foremost chroniclers of
human relationships. It goes without saying that this novel is
another page turner - guaranteed to make you read the last 50 pages
before sleep, even though you know you have an early start in the
morning - but it is much, much more.'
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of its publication in 1858,
Paternoster has produced the first ever annotated edition of
Phantastes, George MacDonald (1824-1905). A great
nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy, his works
influenced C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. I
do not write for children, MacDonald once said, but for the
childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. . Described
by MacDonald as 'a faerie romance for men and women', Phantastes
tells the tale of Anodos, a young man who one morning wakes up to
find himself in the dreamlike landscape of faerie. Through the
landscape he must travel, facing malevolent tree-spirits and
fighting giants, dogged all the time by his shadow-self and
eventually reaching a climactic act of valour, self-sacrifice and
redemption. On his journey he is inspired by a mysterious white
lady, befriended by knights and given strength by the 'old woman
with the young eyes'. Phantastes is a tale about selfishness and
self-sacrifice, pride and humility, about friendship and fear.
Above all it is a novel about death - good death - death which is
really the start of life.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic in scope, its
worldbuilding as intricate as filigree,THE FINAL STRIFE sings of
rebellion, love, and the courage it takes to stand up to tyranny'
Samantha Shannon, bestselling author of THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE
TREE The Empire rules by blood Red is the blood of the elite, of
magic, of control. Blue is the blood of the poor, of workers, of
the resistance. Clear is the blood of the servants, of the crushed,
of the invisible. The Aktibar - a set of trials held every ten
years to find the next Ember rulers of the Empire - is about to
begin. All can join but not just anyone can win; it requires great
skill and ingenuity to become the future wardens of Strength,
Knowledge, Truth and Duty. Sylah was destined to win the trials and
be crowned Warden of Strength. Stolen by blue-blooded rebels she
was raised with a Duster's heart; forged as a weapon to bring down
from within the red-blooded Embers' regime of cruelty. But when her
adopted family were brutally murdered those dreams of a better
future turned to dust. However, the flame of hope may yet be
rekindled because Sylah wasn't made to sparkle, she was born to
burn. And it's up to her whether she rules the empire or destroys
it.
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Madame Bovary
(Paperback, New edition)
Gustave Flaubert; Translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling; Introduction by Roger Clark; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at
Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Castigated for
offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed
to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination
came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters.
For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished
quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth-century
successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look
forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction. Flaubert's
protagonist in particular has never ceased to fascinate. Romantic
heroine or middle-class neurotic, flawed wife and mother or
passionate protester against the conventions of bourgeois society,
simultaneously the subject of Flaubert's admiration and the butt of
his irony - Emma Bovary remains one of the most enigmatic of
fictional creations. Flaubert's meticulous approach to the craft of
fiction, his portrayal of contemporary reality, his representation
of an unforgettable cast of characters make Madame Bovary one of
the major landmarks of modern fiction.
The murder of a college professor has its roots in the Cold War:
the new Oxford Dogwalkers mystery from award-winning YA writer
Annie Dalton. Shortly before Christmas, Professor James Lowell is
found brutally attacked in his rooms at Walsingham College, where
Anna Hopkins works as an administrator. Baffled as to why anyone
would wish to harm such a gentle, scholarly man, Anna discovers
that Lowell had a connection with her fellow dogwalker, Isadora
Salzman, who knew him as an undergraduate in the 1960s, a co-member
of the so-called Oxford Six. It turns out that Isadora has been
keeping a surprising secret all these years. But someone else knows
about Isadora's secret: someone who has sent her a threatening,
frightening letter. Could the attack on Professor Lowell have its
roots in a 50-year-old murder? And who is targeting Isadora and the
surviving members of the Oxford Six? Anna, Isadora and Tansy, the
dogwalking detectives, make it their business to find out.
Quirke's pathology department, set deep beneath the city, is his
own gloomy realm: always quiet, always night, and always under his
control. Until late one evening after a party he stumbles across a
body that should not be there - and his brother-in-law falsifying
the corpse's cause of death. This is the first time Quirke has
encountered Christine Falls, but the investigation he decides to
lead into the way she lived and died uncovers a dark secret at the
heart of Dublin's high Catholic network; one with the power to
shake his own family and everything he holds dear. 'A superb
stylist . . . His control and pacing cannot be faulted, and the
final outcome is almost unbearably moving . . .You're in for a
treat' Michael Dibdin, Guardian 'Succeeds sensationally . . . An
absorbing plot, beguiling characters and evocative settings . . .
His pacing is impeccable' Marcel Berlins, The Times 'A gripping,
beautifully crafted thriller . . . A one sitting-read, an all-night
enticement' Scotsman
'Full of Hoffman's bewitching and lucid prose and vivid characters,
The Book of Magic is ultimately about the very human magic of
family and love and actions that echo through generations... it
casts a spell' -Matt Haig THE STUNNING, UNFORGETTABLE CONCLUSION TO
THE BELOVED PRACTICAL MAGIC SERIES For centuries, the Owens family
has been cursed in matters of love. When beloved aunt Jet Owens
hears the sound of the deathwatch beetle, she knows that it is a
signal. She has finally discovered the secret to breaking the
curse, but time is running out. She has only seven days to live.
Unaware of the family's witchcraft lineage and all it entails, one
of the young sisters of the new Owens generation has fallen in
love. As the curse strikes once again, her love's fate hangs in the
balance, spurring three generations of Owens to venture back to
where it all began and use their gifts to break the spell that has
marked all their lives. But doing so threatens to destroy
everything the family has fought so hard to protect. How much will
they give up for the greatest gift of all? 'This page-turning
Atlantic-crossing caper is, above all, a paean to family love...
These fast fairytales for grown-ups are full of enchanting comfort
- more escapist than curse' -Sunday Times 'A satisfying tale
springs from a slow beginning, packing in escapist fable,
real-world savvy and incidents galore' -Mail on Sunday
'Delightfully witchy... Alluring on its own, it's also a satisfying
end to a timeless saga' -New York Times Book Review PRAISE for
ALICE HOFFMAN 'Beautiful, harrowing, a major contribution to
twenty-first century literature' Toni Morrison 'I am still reeling
from The Dovekeepers - from the history Alice Hoffman illuminates,
from the language she uses to bring these women to life. This novel
is a testament to the human spirit and to love rising from the
ashes of war. But most of all, this novel is one that will never be
forgotten by a reader.' Jodi Picoult 'In her remarkable new novel,
Alice Hoffman holds a mirror to our ancient past as she explores
the contemporary themes of sexual desire, women's solidarity in the
face of strife, and the magic that's quietly present in our
day-to-day living. Put The Dovekeepers at the pinnacle of Hoffman's
extraordinary body of work. I was blown away.' Wally Lamb 'Alice
Hoffman takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel
extraordinary things.' Amy Tan 'Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the
gentle touch of an angel' Joseph Heller 'Oh, what a book this is!
Hoffman's exploration of the world of good and evil, and the
constant contest between them, is unflinching; and the humanity she
brings to us - it is a glorious experience.' Elizabeth Strout
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Fairy Tale
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Stephen King
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High jinx on the high seas Buy three volumes of "One Piece" for the
price of two
High jinx on the high seas Buy three volumes of "One Piece" for the
price of two
R to L (Japanese Style).
Follow the beginning of Luffy's search for the greatest treasure in
the world... one guy alone in a rowboat, in search of the legendary
"One Piece." Three volumes of One Piece for the price of two
(Contains volumes 4,5,6).
As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of the
Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power
to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim
again Now Luffy, with the help of a motley collection of pirate
wannabes, is setting off in search of the "One Piece," said to be
the greatest treasure in the world...
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