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Errol loves gardening, but he doesn’t have a proper garden. Although his home is full of beautiful plants, he longs for an outdoor space where he can grow things. A chance discovery leads to a solution, but Errol can’t do everything on his own. Luckily, help is near at hand. A heart-warming and inclusive tale about how one small boy’s dream of a garden unites a diverse community in a positive and enriching experience for everyone.Part of CLPE's 'Corebooks' Selection.

Errol loves gardening, but he doesn’t have a proper garden. Although his home is full of beautiful plants, he longs for an outdoor space where he can grow things. A chance discovery leads to a solution, but Errol can’t do everything on his own. Luckily, help is near at hand. A heart-warming and inclusive tale about how one small boy’s dream of a garden unites a diverse community in a positive and enriching experience for everyone.Part of CLPE's 'Corebooks' Selection.

**PREORDER THE BRAND NEW COLLECTION MORE NOW**THE INSTANT NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES HARDBACK BESTSELLERTHE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK BESTSELLER FOR OVER 20 WEEKSWhat do you want when no one is watching?What do you want, when the lights are off?What do you want, when you are anonymous?'Want makes for addictive reading . . . compelling' Guardian'I just loved reading it. It’s exceptional' Fearne Cotton, Happy Place'An empowering project' Stylist'Extremely sexy . . . Want is the horny manifesto your TBR list will thank you for' CosmopolitanIn this groundbreaking book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous sexual fantasies of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous submission). They are all extraordinary: full of desire, fear, intimacy, shame, satisfaction and, ultimately, liberation. From dreaming about someone off-limits to conjuring a scene with multiple partners, from sex that is gentle and tender to passionate and playful, from women who have never had sex to women who have had more sex than they can remember, these fantasies provide a window into the most secret part of our minds. Want reveals how women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally themselves.

**PREORDER THE BRAND NEW COLLECTION MORE NOW**THE INSTANT NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES HARDBACK BESTSELLERTHE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK BESTSELLER FOR OVER 20 WEEKSWhat do you want when no one is watching?What do you want, when the lights are off?What do you want, when you are anonymous?'Want makes for addictive reading . . . compelling' Guardian'I just loved reading it. It’s exceptional' Fearne Cotton, Happy Place'An empowering project' Stylist'Extremely sexy . . . Want is the horny manifesto your TBR list will thank you for' CosmopolitanIn this groundbreaking book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous sexual fantasies of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous submission). They are all extraordinary: full of desire, fear, intimacy, shame, satisfaction and, ultimately, liberation. From dreaming about someone off-limits to conjuring a scene with multiple partners, from sex that is gentle and tender to passionate and playful, from women who have never had sex to women who have had more sex than they can remember, these fantasies provide a window into the most secret part of our minds. Want reveals how women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally themselves.

** NOW A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY SERIES FROM HBO AND SKY **WINNER OF THE GOOD READS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018The masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the serial rapist turned murderer who terrorised California for over a decade - from the late Michelle McNamara.I'll Be Gone in the Dark offers a unique snapshot of suburban West Coast America in the 1980s, and a chilling account of the wreckage left behind by a criminal mastermind. It is also a portrait of one woman's obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth, three decades later, in spite of the personal cost.Updated with material which takes in the extraordinary events that followed its initial publication, Michelle McNamara's first and last book is a contemporary classic - humane, haunting and heroic.

From the revolutionary author on female sexuality and liberation'A clever, compassionate woman... Women need people like Friday to write the script for them' Sunday Times'Nancy Friday - guru to a generation of feminists' Daily MailNancy Friday's sexually and socially empowering international bestsellers My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers revealed that women possess erotic imaginations at least as inventive and powerful as those of men.First published in the 1990s, Women on Top looks at a new generation of women and asks: what are women's sexual fantasies today? How have they responded to the changes brought about by feminism, and the sexual freedom it provided?In a world wallpapered with erotic images, but which still denies them full sexual freedom, women are more determined than ever that they'll be 'nice girls' no longer. Explicit, iconoclastic, often shocking, these erotic stories - angry, lustful, tender and dark - blow apart the old social and sexual taboos. Nothing is forbidden.Praise for Nancy Friday'What Friday's book revealed was that, for some of us, the sex we have in our head may be more stimulating than the physical nuts and bolts of any coupling ... unconstrained by assumed social conventions, self-consciousness or ... provocative ... revolutionary.' Gillian Anderson in Want

A HUSBAND. A LIAR. A KILLER . . . The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller'Utterly gripping and unpredictable' 5***** Reader Review'Suspenseful and compulsive with twists galore' 5***** Reader Review'You won't be able to put it down' 5***** Reader Review'Absolutely brilliant' Claire Douglas, bestselling author of The Couple at No 9_______Louise wakes up. Her head aches, her mouth is dry, her memory's fuzzy. But she knows she's done something bad.She rolls over towards her husband, Niall.But it's not Niall lying beside her. In fact, she's never seen this man before.And he's not breathing . . ._______'Full of corkscrew twists' Daily Mail'Brilliantly done' Harriet Tyce'Gripped me from the first page' Erin Kelly'Fast-paced but never rushed, with clues and twists to keep you absolutely hooked from the first page to the last' Jane Casey'Clever, pacy, well-written and utterly gripping' C.L. Taylor'A killer premise, razor-sharp writing, and twists to die for . . . Easily her best yet' Chris WhitakerPraise for Gytha Lodge:'A novel that literally makes you hold your breath then gasp out loud' VAL MCDERMID'What a marvel! A corkscrew-twisty, knife-sharp thriller' A.J. FINN, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window'An engaging tale of lust, rivalry and murder' Sunday Times'Brilliantly formed characters and a twisty, clever plot had me turning pages well past my bedtime' HEIDI PERKS, bestselling author of Now You See Her

Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west....

THE INSTANT NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES HARDBACK BESTSELLERTHE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK BESTSELLER FOR OVER 20 WEEKSWhat do you want when no one is watching?What do you want, when the lights are off?What do you want, when you are anonymous?'Want makes for addictive reading . . . compelling' Guardian'I just loved reading it. It’s exceptional' Fearne Cotton, Happy Place'An empowering project' Stylist'Extremely sexy . . . Want is the horny manifesto your TBR list will thank you for' CosmopolitanIn this groundbreaking book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous sexual fantasies of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous submission). They are all extraordinary: full of desire, fear, intimacy, shame, satisfaction and, ultimately, liberation. From dreaming about someone off-limits to conjuring a scene with multiple partners, from sex that is gentle and tender to passionate and playful, from women who have never had sex to women who have had more sex than they can remember, these fantasies provide a window into the most secret part of our minds. Want reveals how women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally themselves.

**PREORDER THE BRAND NEW COLLECTION MORE NOW**THE INSTANT NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES HARDBACK BESTSELLERTHE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK BESTSELLER FOR OVER 20 WEEKSWhat do you want when no one is watching?What do you want, when the lights are off?What do you want, when you are anonymous?'Want makes for addictive reading . . . compelling' Guardian'I just loved reading it. It’s exceptional' Fearne Cotton, Happy Place'An empowering project' Stylist'Extremely sexy . . . Want is the horny manifesto your TBR list will thank you for' CosmopolitanIn this groundbreaking book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous sexual fantasies of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous submission). They are all extraordinary: full of desire, fear, intimacy, shame, satisfaction and, ultimately, liberation. From dreaming about someone off-limits to conjuring a scene with multiple partners, from sex that is gentle and tender to passionate and playful, from women who have never had sex to women who have had more sex than they can remember, these fantasies provide a window into the most secret part of our minds. Want reveals how women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally themselves.

There’s so much to do and see in the garden!What shall we plant? How do we make compost? How can we help the pollinators?Gardening encourages physical activity and healthy eating in children. It stimulates the senses and supports cognitive development, while teaching children to understand and nurture the living world around them.

There’s so much to do and see in the garden!How can we look after the plants? What can we pick? What are the bugs doing?Gardening encourages physical activity and healthy eating in children. It stimulates the senses and supports cognitive development, while teaching children to understand and nurture the living world around them.

There’s so much to do and see in the garden!What shall we pick? What can we make with the harvest? How can we help the bugs?Gardening encourages physical activity and healthy eating in children. It stimulates the senses and supports cognitive development, while teaching children to understand and nurture the living world around them.

There’s so much to do and see in the garden!What shall we pick? What can we make with the harvest? How can we help the bugs?Gardening encourages physical activity and healthy eating in children. It stimulates the senses and supports cognitive development, while teaching children to understand and nurture the living world around them.

There’s so much to do and see in the garden!How can we tidy? What can we do indoors? How can we look after the wildlife?Gardening encourages physical activity and healthy eating in children. It stimulates the senses and supports cognitive development, while teaching children to understand and nurture the living world around them.

The colourful lives of the three divas who made Debussy's Mélisande their own.Debussy's Mélisande examines the colourful lives of Georgette Leblanc, Mary Garden and Maggie Teyte, and their involvement with Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, illustrating the prejudices and difficulties women singers of their era faced. The three women presented here were not only remarkable for the resilience and initiative they had to develop, but also for their willingness to adapt themselves to the opportunities offered by the emergingtechnologies of recording, radio and film. It is also the story of the background to the opera's creation, and the frequently stormy relationships between the author of the original play (Maeterlinck), the composer, director, conductor and performers. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Debussy, opera, French music and theatre, Maeterlinck, and those interested in women's studies and biography. Gillian Opstad read Modern Languages at Somerville College, Oxford after which she taught for a number of years in Buckinghamshire and Bristol. She has been actively involved with music both at university and since. This, her first book, is a result of her particular interest in French music, especially that of Debussy.

Just across the River Thames from St Paul’s Cathedral stands an old and elegant house. Over the course of almost 450 years the dwelling on this site has witnessed many changes. From its windows, people have watched the ferrymen carry Londoners to and from Shakespeare’s Globe; they have gazed on the Great Fire; they have seen the countrified lanes of London’s marshy south bank give way to a network of wharves, workshops and tenements – and then seen these, too, become dust and empty air.Rich with anecdote and colour, this fascinating book breathes life into the forgotten inhabitants of the house – the prosperous traders; an early film star; even some of London’s numberless poor. In so doing it makes them stand for legions of others and for a whole world that we have lost through hundreds of years of London’s history.

Gillian Avery, historian of children's books and novelist whose first book THE WARDEN'S NEICE has become a modern classic of children's literature, has made a very personal selection of favourite poems. If children like them as much as she does, then (she says) they will stay in the mind long after their readers have grown out of childhood. Her taste is for the Augustan rather than the Romantic writers, but her choice of over two hundred and fifty pieces ranges widely, from ballads to Ted Hughes, from Ben Jonson to Noel Coward. The illustrations are taken from the books of natural history made by Thomas Bewick, the celebrated English wood engraver.

The famous stage-designer Ivan Bilibin was a self-taught artist who was lucky enough to be offered the commission of a lifetime at the very start of his career. In 1899 the Department for the Production of State Documents asked this young Russian artist to illustrate a series of fairy tales, a task that took him four years to complete and inspired his finest work, reflecting his deep love for his country and his passionate interest in its national dress and wooden architecture. This, with ten other traditional tales, make up the collection for which all Bilibin's original artwork has been faithfully reproduced. Gillian Avery has provided a retelling of the texts which admirably complements Bilibin's distinctive illustration, itself rooted in the stylized forms of Russian folk and medieval art.

Just two years after the extraordinarily successful publication of LITTLE WOMEN and GOOD WIVES, Louisa Alcott's brother-in-law died, leaving two sons. She immediately decided to write a sequel to provide for her sister and nephews, and LITTLE MEN, published in 1871, became a tribute to her father's theories of education. The story is set in Plumfield, a school run by Jo and her German husband, Professor Bhaer, and they follow the precepts of Grandpa March in cultivating the little mind - 'not tasking it with long hard lessons, parrot-learned, but helping it to unfold as naturally and beautifully as sun and dew help roses bloom'. The different ways in which the children, good and bad, respond to this kind of nurturing make up the episodes of the novel which instantly proved as popular as its predecessors, selling 42, 000 in the first year after its publication.