Welcome to the Common Criminals' Club, a new cosy murder mystery series for middle-grade and teen readers, full of doodles, danger and devious criminals - if you love Robin Stevens, Katie Kirby, Derry Girls, or The Mysterious Benedict Society, step right up: here's your next reading obsession!This is the story of how we . . .- Discovered a dead body- Launched an investigation- Battled mean girls, feral bats, and nearly destroyed our three-year friendship al...

This volume reorients visual anthropology beyond its historically Western vantage point through a collaborative, cross-cultural editorship. With contributions from anthropologists with cultural connections to the Indian subcontinent, it presents contemporary ethnographic practice as it unfolds across both analogue and digital media. It examines representation across multiple forms – from film and photography to social media ethnography, immersive virtual and augmented realities, and the em...

In twelve short texts written between 1984 and 2006, here is Annie Ernaux at her most incisive and intimate, presenting readers with yet another new experience of the razor’s edge of the author’s sensibility, this time in the form of brief works of fiction or nonfiction.In “Hotel Casanova,” the title story of this collection, Ernaux describes a series of hotel-room trysts with a man who holds no interest for her other than sexually, just after her mother is admitte...

**WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Celebrate Annie Ernaux with this stunning collection of interviews, critical analyses, and 24 unpublished writings offering insight into her life, writing style, thoughts, and influence.Drawings, photos, handwritten manuscripts, and other visual materials make this a beautiful keepsake for new and longtime fans.**Magisterial in scope and size, Annie Ernaux: Writing, The Other Life was compiled and edited by Pierre-Louis Fo...

Botanica Fantastica brings to life the astonishing fictional plant creations of some of the world's favourite authors and creators.Featuring over 100 illustrations, specially drawn by artist Emma Tudor-Bloch to visualise these species as if real, this book will combine expert analysis of these iconic creations and the worlds they inhabit, as well as exploration of the real-life species that inspired the authors. From Middle Earth and Hogwarts to Buffy ...

A delightful rhyming story featuring everyone's instantly lovable character, Noni the Pony the nicest pony any child could ever hope to meet! from the phenomenal and much-loved author Alison Lester.Would you like to meet Noni? She's the friendliest pony. She lives on a farm overlooking the sea and has a lot of fun with the alphabet as she plays with her best friends, Dave Dog and Coco the Cat.Alison Lester's books are favourites with children and adults all...

'I keep telling you, it's different this time. Bad luck, but not this time. We'll be unshackled. Start again.'Where do you turn when you've got £100,000 of credit card debt and a £400,000 mortgage? For Colin, the answer is simple: fake your death in a canoeing accident in the North Sea. But as his 'widow' Deborah enacts a complex plan to secure his life-insurance payout, the lies begin to take their toll…Inspired by real events, All At Sea is a witty and t...

During an almighty rainstorm, Vera Shrimp discovers she has a remarkable gift. She can read raindrops, each one having soaked up an emotion from those the water has come into contact with.But as her family disintegrates, Vera's extraordinary ability takes on a darker and more urgent significance.Part science lesson, part story-telling, The Soaking of Vera Shrimp is a poignant and playful solo show about love, grief and never giving up.Alison Carr's play was...

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Feature.When Marcelo Rubens Paiva was 11 years old, his father was tortured to death by the Brazilian dictatorship. 25 years later, his mother, Eunice, helped usher into law a way for the families of the regime’s victims to finally have their deaths formally acknowledged, and allow them to seek compensation. In between, the unspooling of Brazilian democracy, and then the terrors and everydayness of life under the dictato...

This text introduces and explains all aspects of systemic anti-cancer therapy, from pharmacology to administration and beyond, providing the underpinning knowledge to support completion of the UKONS SACT competency passport.Written by experienced practitioners and lecturers, this concise book:• critically analyses how the pharmacological properties of anti-cancer drugs and their role at various stages of the cell cycle impacts on their administration;• examines the ...

This richly illustrated volume evokes the early history of the US postal system with 130 new full-color images of artifacts and historical documents from the Smithsonian's National Postal MuseumTravel back to the postal system’s humble origins in colonial America with Routes to a Nation, which traces the development of the post from trans-Atlantic communication through the Revolutionary War and follows its growth as the nation expanded through the 18th and...

Penned by superstar graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang, the eighth and final volume of this hilarious genre-bending series brings Clash of Clans to sensational life!When King Bernard announces tryouts for the all-new Jazzypickelton Cucumbers squad, E.M.M.A., a P.E.K.K.A. who has spent her life making pancakes, seizes her chance to achieve her dream. But when she tries to show her moves at the tryouts, she doesn’t move. It’s almost as if she can’t move. It turns out E....