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First Language Acquisition takes a comprehensive look at where and when children acquire a first language. It integrates social and cognitive approaches to how children analyze, understand, and produce sounds,...

The English tongue has never tasted more delicious than in the mouth of Stephen Fry: his chokingly brilliant sesquipedalian prose is like a shaft of sunlight through the drizzle of...

'A glorious debut' - SUNDAY EXPRESS'An affectionate homage to classic murder mysteries' - DAILY MAIL'Recommended reading for a long winter night' - GUARDIANA snowstorm. A country house. Old friends reunited.It's...

Freya is an ordinary girl living in modern Britain, but with a twist: people still worship the Viking gods. One evening, stuck with her dad on his night shift at...

In The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Steven Pinker looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are....

12 year old Mary's beloved grandmother is near the end of her life. Letting go is hard - until Granny's long-dead mammy appears. Her ghost has returned to help her...

The first book in the bestselling and multi award-winning SLATED trilogy.Kyla's memory has been erased,her personality wiped blank,her memories lost for ever.She's been Slated.The government claims she was a terrorist,...

Ender and Valentine Wiggin: brother and sister whose lives have shaped history. Valentine is 'Demosthenes', whose subversive, incendiary writings fight the monstrous power of Starways Congress, masters of the Hundred...

No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' Mail on SundayThe 26th outing for the Highland's most famous PC: Hamish Macbeth In the south of Scotland, residents get their...

A strange piece of graffiti daubed on the window of a north London restaurant is the catalyst that propels Alfie Flowers into an intriguing mystery involving the mysterious Nomads' Club,...

'Literally blown away! Just when you think nothing can surprise you, I'm still in shock from the twist!' Netgalley reviewer, 5 stars ___ School should have been the safest place......

Case Histories is Kate Atkinson's first foray into crime fiction, and introduces the popular Jackson Brodie, who returns in One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started...

Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in...

The exciting first book in a brand new fictional trilogy about the most important events in the history of the Order of the Knights Templar. The Templars represent a widely...

From the mind that brought you Schott's Original Miscellany comes a collection of vital irrelevance and uncommon knowledge surrounding the worlds of food and drink. Schott's Food And Drink Miscellany...

Paddington makes an amazing discovery after being stung by a bee - that without bees there would be no marmalade! Being a very polite sort of bear, he wants to...

Lucky and unlucky people often encounter similar situations and setbacks in life. But the way they view and think about the circumstances differs, as does the way they deal with...

Rory Gallagher is a hero and icon of rock music. He inspired guitar players from The Edge to Johnny Marr, Slash to Gary Moore, Johnny Fean to Philip Donnelly, Declan...

A snappingly new novelty book series with lots of fun animals and sliders to push, pull and jiggle.With simple rhyming text, things to push pull and spin, and brilliant illustrations...

Skulduggery Pleasant is dead. Valkyrie Cain is cool. Omen Darkly is neither. A lot has changed. Roarhaven is now a magical city, where sorcerers can live openly. Valkyrie Cain has...

The final adventure in the bestselling bookwandering series for readers aged eight to twelve The Pages and Co. series comes to a thrilling end in this perfect final instalment. When...

'Sebestyen reminds us once again why he is one of the best historians writing today' ANDREW ROBERTS, author of Churchill: Walking with DestinyIn the years after the First World War,...

THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVELWINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024Dancing is the one thing that can solve Stephen's problems.At Church with his family, the shimmer of Black...

From mega-factory floors, engineering laboratories and seaports to distribution hubs, supermarkets and our own homes, embark on an eye-opening guided tour through the world of manufacturing and its transformational influence...

Book 8 in the acclaimed Rugby Spirit series. Eoin Madden and his friends are back at school and it looks like it will be a fun year with new subjects...

Over fields, turn giant wheels.Press buttons, bright and BIG!CHUG-BEEP-BEEP and SPRINKLE! VROOM!There's so much soil to dig.It's time for little ones to become busy farmers for the day, carrying out...

One of the bestselling language dictionaries of all time. The first in our exciting range of new-look Collins Gem dictionaries, the Collins German Gem Dictionary is still the indispensable small...

On 9 April 1953 an attractive twenty-one-year-old woman went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her body was found washed up on a neglected beach at...

James Bond meets The Thomas Crown Affair in a spellbinding tale of international intrigue and suspense. Tom Kirk. The world's greatest art thief. Jennifer Browne. An FBI agent desperate for...

Christmas is coming to the picturesque Cotswold countryside, and the days are merry and bright at the Slocombe house. Thea's daughter Jessica has come to stay, much to her stepdaughter...

The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of 'The Northern Clemency'. Hanmouth: a quiet, picturesque English seaside town. But behind closed, Georgian front doors and the within the artisan...

When a new NASA satellite detects evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound...

When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she...

*****THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*****'The fantasy novel that every fantasy reader has been waiting for'Jay Kristoff'Long Live Evil is a glorious, swoon-worthy villain romance. What a delicious read'Tasha SuriA...