Alison Steadman stars in this full-cast adaptation of the much-loved Mrs Pepperpot storiesMrs Pepperpot lives in a cottage in the countryside with her husband, but she has a big secret: She shrinks to the size of a pepperpot – and she can talk to animals!In these five magical stories, hear Mrs Pepperpot swim through the snow, ride on a cat and seek the help of a talking horse. There’s big trouble for the little heroine at a Christmas market and whe...

The smash-hit international bestseller A Read With Jenna book club pick Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction'Best read of the year' THE TIMES'Books as fun as this one are few and far between' GUARDIAN'Sharp, funny and a joy to read' OBSERVERPhoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel in Rhode Island wearing her best dress and least comfortable...

**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PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Celebrate Annie Ernaux with this stunning collection of interviews, critical analyses, and 24 unpublished writings offering insight into her life, writing style, thoughts, and influence.Drawings, photos, handwritten manuscripts, and other visual materials make this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...

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...

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...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Celebrate Annie Ernaux with this stunning collection of interviews, critical analyses, and twenty-four previously unpublished writings offering insight into her life, writing style, thoughts, and influence.Magisterial in scope and size, Writing, the Other Life was compiled and edited by Pierre-Louis Fort and was first published in France by Éditions de L'Herne in 2022, a few months before Annie Ernaux received the N...

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 spine-tingling Tudor ghost story from Alison Weir, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series.I sit there frozen, unable to move, wondering if she will reappear. Either the house really is haunted, or I'm seeing things that aren't there . . .Oxfordshire, the present day. Lucy is grieving the loss of her mother. In the depths of her heartbreak, she is invited to stay with her aunt, the custodian of a grand historic house.

A emotional romance from Alison RobertsOne tiny baby. Two guarded hearts. A second chance at familySmoke, danger and split-second decisions are all in a day’s work for firefighter Jason Halliday. But nothing has prepared him for the tiny baby abandoned at the station doorstep…or the devastating truth that little Megan is his daughter. Suddenly the confident, capable hero is thrown into a world of midnight feeds, fragile hopes and fears he can’t fight with...

A spine-tingling Tudor ghost story from Alison Weir, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series.I sit there frozen, unable to move, wondering if she will reappear. Either the house really is haunted, or I'm seeing things that aren't there . . .Oxfordshire, the present day. Lucy is grieving the loss of her mother. In the depths of her heartbreak, she is invited to stay with her aunt, the custodian of a grand historic house.

FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WEDDING PEOPLEOn a bright summer evening in 1990s Connecticut, fourteen-year-old Emily Vidal stands on her parents' lawn, watching the adults arrive. Her mother is hosting a lavish birthday party for her father, even though he is about to leave her for another woman.Adrift between her feuding parents and eccentric neighbours, Emily is closer than she knows to the choices and heartbreaks that will de...

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...