The second novel from exciting, young novelist Nick Laird - an artful meditation on love and life in contemporary London.
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A classic gift edition of best-loved Percy the Park Keeper stories. Percy the park keeper loves to spend time with his animal friends, even though his work in the park keeps him very busy. The animals often need Percy's help, and he is always there to lend a hand. Read about what happened when a chilly fox needed warming up, or when a dirty badger was offered a bath. Find out how Percy helped an unhappy hedgehog hold a balloon, or a squirrel find her lost acorns. Laugh along as the animals take charge whilst Percy is unwell – with unexpected results! Learn all about Percy, his friend the mole and his friend the owl, in their special tales. Find out where Percy's favourite spot in the park is, what colour the owl likes best and all about the mole's secret friend. Enjoy these stories and more in this classic treasury edition.
An innovative and incredibly useful guide to the Bible, giving new insights into the life and times of the people, places, events and culture of the Bible. A truly distinctive pocket guide to the Bible, bringing together Nick Page’s quirky and informative style with imaginative layouts bringing new depth and variety to help you understand the key people, places and events of the Bible. The Bible can often seem hard to understand and by combining a handy format with real information and tackling difficult subjects with a light touch, this book makes it possible to understand it all in a new way. Contents include:Introducing the BibleKey PassagesThe Bible Book by BookThe Life of JesusMaps and placesPeople (and other beings)History and Real LifeWhere are they now?
From the much-loved, witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies, idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought. Nick Cohen comes from the Left. While growing up, his mother would search the supermarket shelves for politically reputable citrus fruit and despair. When, at the age of 13, he found out that his kind and thoughtful English teacher voted Conservative, he nearly fell off his chair: 'To be good, you had to be on the Left.' Today he's no less confused. When he looks around him, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, he sees a community of Left-leaning liberals standing on their heads. Why is it that apologies for a militant Islam that stands for everything the liberal-Left is against come from a section of the Left? After the American and British wars in Bosnia and Kosovo against Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansers, why were men and women of the Left denying the existence of Serb concentration camps? Why is Palestine a cause for the liberal-Left, but not, for instance, China, the Sudan, Zimbabwe or North Korea? Why can't those who say they support the Palestinian cause tell you what type of Palestine they would like to see? After the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington why were you as likely to read that a sinister conspiracy of Jews controlled American or British foreign policy in a liberal literary journal as in a neo-Nazi rag? It's easy to know what the Left is fighting against – the evils of Bush and corporations – but what and, more to the point, who are they fighting for? As he tours the follies of the Left, Nick Cohen asks us to reconsider what it means to be liberal in this confused and topsy-turvy time. With the angry satire of Swift, he reclaims the values of democracy and solidarity that united the movement against fascism, and asks: What's Left?
The wonderful sequel to Albert le Blanc, from the highly-regarded creator of the Percy the Park Keeper books. Albert le Blanc’s friend, Sally the toy hippo, has been bought by a little girl. Every day, they walk past the shop and Sally gives Albert a wink, as he sits in the window. Albert waves back and wonders if he will ever be chosen as a child’s best friend. The, one day – disaster! Sally tumbles out of the girl’s rucksack and is snatched away by a stranger before anyone can stop them. Stuck inside the toy shop, not daring to move, it seems there is nothing Albert can do to help his friend… Will there be a happy ending for Sally? And, will there ever be a happy new home for Albert?
2,000 of the most entertaining, brain-teasing, football questions ever. How will you score? With 200 themed quizzes ranging from the very easy to the very hard, there's something to challenge kids and adults alike. Whether you're swotting up for your local pub quiz or just want to show off your footie trivia to your mates, The Sun Football Quiz Book is the book for you. Covering all aspects of the sport from the Premiership, the lower divisions, the FA Cup, football in Europe, the Champions League, the World Cup, England stars and legends past and present to Irish, Scottish and Welsh Football, there are plenty of questions to keep even the most knowledgeable of football fans guessing.
The selling secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Selling.Includes how to:• Pitch your product to meet the needs of your customer• Use body language to build rapport• Negotiate and close the deal•
A very funny, energetic, wonderfully engaging novel about where we're from and where we'd like to get to...
Find out all about teeth in this photographic information book – from baby teeth and adult teeth to using them and cleaning them. Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations.Text type: A simple non-fiction bookChildren can re-cap the stages of the book on pages 14–15.Curriculum links: Science: Ourselves
A comprehensive and clear guide for those looking to improve their English grammar for use in the workplace. If you are required to use English at work but feel you need to build up your grammar, Collins’ new Business Grammar & Practice is the perfect solution. Well-known Business English experts Nick Brieger and Simon Sweeney guide the user through 72 units to explain the structure of the English language. Examples of real usage are followed by a simple but thorough explanation of each grammar point. Then, a range of practice exercises cement your understanding. All of the sample sentences are taken from the COBUILD corpus. This ensures that you don’t learn artificial language – instead you get to grips with the vocabulary and structures that are used in the business world around the globe today. Work through the book from start to finish for a comprehensive course in intermediate grammar, or pick and choose the topics of most interest to you. Topics covered:• Main tenses (presents, pasts, futures, conditionals)• Auxiliaries and modals• Active vs. passive voice• Verb irregularities• Sentence and clause types• Nouns• Adjectives and adverbs• Determiners (articles, pronouns, demonstratives…)• Prepositions CEF level: B1–B2 ALSO AVAILABLE: Collins Business Grammar & Practice: Pre-Intermediate
Write clearer business documents more efficiently This brand new self-study book is the ideal way for business people to refine and perfect their written English. It is aimed particularly at executives who communicate in written English frequently or work in foreign or multinational companies. Collins English for Business is a new series of self-study skills books which focus on the language you really need to do business in English – wherever you are in the world. Each title includes tips on how to communicate effectively and how to communicate inter-culturally. Other titles in the series: Speaking and Listening. Powered by COBUILD – using the real language of business EnglishContents: Twenty 4-page units featuring key areas, such as Getting the Right Tone, Linking Ideas, Writing Quickly and Simply, Dealing with Difficult Issues and Editing the Language.Each unit contains:- Exercises focused on written texts, vocabulary or key structures- Grammar tips- Key phrasesReference section with key phrases for written documents is included at the end of the book.
Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level We use oil every day – whether on the bus to school or writing with a pen. But where does it come from? What impact is our use of it having on the environment? What will happen when we run out completely? Explore the answers to these questions in this detailed information book, with stunning photographs and clear diagrams. Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.Text type: A non-chronological report.Curriculum links: Geography: Improving the Environment, Citizenship: Choices.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Discover what the nose does and how it helps you to breathe, smell, keep out dirt and get better when you are ill. Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.Text type: A simple non-fiction bookPages 14–15 provide an opportunity for children to recap the story.Curriculum links: science, PSHEThis book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
The uncompromising Nick Cohen exposes the reality behind the freedoms we enjoy in the book that won Polemic of the Year at the 2013 Political Book Awards.
The 12-week plan for men to get into the best shape of their life. Burn fat, build muscle and get that ideal body.
Build your childâ??s reading confidence at home with books at the right level
Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level In 1940, the skies over Britain were the scene of furious fighting between the aeroplanes of the RAF and the German Luftwaffe. Technology played a role in every aspect of the battle: from code-breaking computers and radar to faster, more agile fighter planes. Find out how technology helped to turn the tide of the battle. Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.Text type: information textCurriculum links: history, science, geography
Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. We have hunted them for thousands of years and scratched their icons into our mythologies. They simultaneously fill us with waves of terror, awe and affection – yet we know hardly anything about them. Whales tend to only enter our awareness when they die, struck by a ship or stranded in the surf. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-like creatures into animals that move like fish, breathe like us, can grow to 300,000 pounds, live 200 years and roam entire ocean basins. Yet despite centuries of observing whales, we know little about their evolutionary past. Palaeontologist Nick Pyenson takes us to the ends of the earth and to the cutting edge of whale research as he searches for the answers to some of our biggest questions about these graceful giants. His rich storytelling takes us deep inside the Smithsonian’s unparalleled fossil collection, to frigid Antarctic waters, and to the arid desert of Chile, where scientists race against time to document the largest fossil whalebone site on earth. Spying on Whales is an illuminating story of scientific discovery that brings readers closer to the most enigmatic and beloved animals of all time.
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A powerful, thought-provoking novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended from one of our finest authors
A hilarious story in the 9-million-copy best-selling classic series from highly regarded author Nick Butterworth! Percy the park keeper and his animal friends are playing hide-and-seek in the park. The fox has found a great hiding place in Percy’s workshop but when he falls into a pot of Very Strong Glue, he soon finds himself springing into an embarrassingly sticky situation! Is there anything his friends can do to help? Includes a surprise fold-out scene! Percy and his animal friends have delighted readers around the world for over thirty years!