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Boy Underwater

by Adam Baron ...

SELECTED AS WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTHSHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE AWARDA heart-breaking, heart-warming novel for everyone of 10 and older – this book will probably make you cry, and will definitely make you laugh.Cymbeline Igloo (yes, really!) has NEVER been swimmingNot ever. Not once.But how hard can it be? He’s Googled front crawl and he’s found his dad’s old pair of trunks. He’s totally ... Read more

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SELECTED AS WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTHSHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE AWARDA heart-breaking, heart-warming novel for everyone of 10 and older – this book will probably make you cry, and will definitely make you laugh.Cymbeline Igloo (yes, really!) has NEVER been swimmingNot ever. Not once.But how hard can it be? He’s Googled front crawl and he’s found his dad’s old pair of trunks. He’s totally
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This Wonderful Thing

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From the author of bestselling and Carnegie-nominated debut BOY UNDERWATER comes a moving and hilarious novel for 10+ readers about friendships, family secrets, mystery – and life-changing hidden treasure…Jessica is playing with her family at the river when she finds a dirty, bedraggled teddy bear in the water.She has no idea that it will change everything, forever.Meanwhile, Cymbeline comes home ... Read more

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From the author of bestselling and Carnegie-nominated debut BOY UNDERWATER comes a moving and hilarious novel for 10+ readers about friendships, family secrets, mystery – and life-changing hidden treasure…Jessica is playing with her family at the river when she finds a dirty, bedraggled teddy bear in the water.She has no idea that it will change everything, forever.Meanwhile, Cymbeline comes home
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The Ultimate Military Literature Compendium: 40 Must-Reads

Forty Essential Works on Strategy, Warfare, Technology, Ethics, and Military Thought

by J. Duncan Campbell, O. O. Ellis, E. B. Garey, Charles John Ffoulkes, Richard Francis Sir Burton, Aaron A. Warford, Dion Williams, United States. Department of Defense, Anson Mills, John Hewitt, Albert Frederick Calvert, Robert C. Richardson, William H. Waldron, Lionel Decle, R. Coltman Clephan, George Leonard Cheesman, William Llewellyn Adams, CÃ©sar Lecat baron de Bazancourt, Harold L. Peterson, Carl R. Maag, Steve Rohrer, H. G. Wells, National Atomic Museum, William Surtees, Victor Appleton, Plattsburgh Barracks, Thomas Wilhelm, Antoine Henri baron de Jomini, H. W. Halleck, Clough Williams-Ellis, Amabel Williams-Ellis, J. F. C. Fuller, Carl von Clausewitz, E. D. Swinton, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq, James Anson Farrer, James P. Wade, Harlan Ullman, Stanley C. Johnson, RenÃ©-Louis-Jules Radiguet, Leslie Vickers, AndrÃ© Laffargue ...

The Ultimate Military Literature Compendium: 40 Must-Reads maps the intellectual, technological, and imaginative history of warfare through forty influential texts. Its selection ranges from strategic theory, battlefield observation, and institutional history to memoir, popular fiction, and speculative narrative, revealing military writing as both a practical discipline and a cultural archive. ... Read more

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The Ultimate Military Literature Compendium: 40 Must-Reads maps the intellectual, technological, and imaginative history of warfare through forty influential texts. Its selection ranges from strategic theory, battlefield observation, and institutional history to memoir, popular fiction, and speculative narrative, revealing military writing as both a practical discipline and a cultural archive.
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The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads

A 70-Work Anthology of Comic Dissent, Social Critique, and Satirical Tradition

by Molière, St. John Hankin, Elizabeth F. Guptill, Petronius Arbiter, Anthony Trollope, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Carlyle, George Gibbs, Richard Head, Francis Kirkman, Herman Melville, Maria Edgeworth, Marietta Holley, Anatole France, Nelson Lloyd, Voltaire, Samuel Brunt, Archibald Marshal, Gilbert Knox, H. H. Sir Bashford, P. G. Wodehouse, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Love Peacock, William Carlos Williams, Terry Southern, Hilaire Belloc, Iris Barry, C. M. Westmacott, Desiderius Erasmus, I. J. Potter, Montague Glass, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Elkanah Settle, Samuel Pordage, Bernard Mandeville, James Thomson, G. W. Foote, Marie Corelli, William Herman, Mark Twain, Ingersoll Lockwood, Jonathan Swift, T. Smollett, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, Bertram Gayton, George S. Schuyler, Eugen Richter, Walter Harte, Aristophanes, Bill Nye, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Bridges, James Bramston, Ambrose Bierce, Franklin P. Adams, John Hervey Baron Hervey, An M. D., Frank Chapman Bliss ...

The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads maps satire's remarkable durability from classical invective and Roman social comedy to Enlightenment irony, Victorian caricature, modernist experiment, and twentieth-century absurdism. Its selections traverse dramatic farce, mock-heroic prose, utopian fantasy, political allegory, comic essay, parody, and epigrammatic wit. Canonical assaults on hypocrisy, ... Read more

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The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads maps satire's remarkable durability from classical invective and Roman social comedy to Enlightenment irony, Victorian caricature, modernist experiment, and twentieth-century absurdism. Its selections traverse dramatic farce, mock-heroic prose, utopian fantasy, political allegory, comic essay, parody, and epigrammatic wit. Canonical assaults on hypocrisy,
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Re-Learning The Obvious

by Adam Baron ...

What if the most effective principles for sustainable performance are not new at all - but qualities we once used naturally?Re-Learning the Obvious explores what professionals, leaders, and high-performers can regain by observing how children think, act, recover, and connect. Children ask questions without fear of looking uninformed. They learn through experimentation, move before overthinking, ... Read more

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What if the most effective principles for sustainable performance are not new at all - but qualities we once used naturally?Re-Learning the Obvious explores what professionals, leaders, and high-performers can regain by observing how children think, act, recover, and connect. Children ask questions without fear of looking uninformed. They learn through experimentation, move before overthinking,
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It Was You

by Adam Baron ...

Series Book 4 - A Billy Rucker Crime Thriller
A killer creeps ever closer to PI Billy Rucker in this crime thriller with "plenty of twists and genuine literary quality" from the author of SuperJack ( Time Out ).As she walks home from work, Josephine Thomas is brutally attacked and left to die. Billy Rucker had known her briefly, and he soon hears about the tragedy. At the request of Jo's distraught colleague, he agrees to look into the murder ... Read more

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A killer creeps ever closer to PI Billy Rucker in this crime thriller with "plenty of twists and genuine literary quality" from the author of SuperJack ( Time Out ).As she walks home from work, Josephine Thomas is brutally attacked and left to die. Billy Rucker had known her briefly, and he soon hears about the tragedy. At the request of Jo's distraught colleague, he agrees to look into the murder
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Some Sunny Day

by Adam Baron ...

A funny and incredibly moving new novel of our times by one of the most talented children’s book authors working today, perfect for fans of Wonder, Frank Cottrell-Boyce or The Boy at the Back of the Class.Cymbeline Igloo is BORED. Bored of home learning, bored of lockdown, bored of not being able to DO anything. And to make things even worse, his mum accidentally gave away his favourite football ... Read more

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A funny and incredibly moving new novel of our times by one of the most talented children’s book authors working today, perfect for fans of Wonder, Frank Cottrell-Boyce or The Boy at the Back of the Class.Cymbeline Igloo is BORED. Bored of home learning, bored of lockdown, bored of not being able to DO anything. And to make things even worse, his mum accidentally gave away his favourite football
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You Won’t Believe This

by Adam Baron ...

From the author of bestselling debut Boy Underwater comes another moving, hilarious novel of friendship and family secrets, which shows that people are people, no matter where they’re from.BOY UNDERWATER WAS SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE AWARD, AND SELECTED AS WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH.Here’s something you won’t believe: someone is doing TERRIBLE things to Mrs Martin, Cymbeline Igloo’s ... Read more

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From the author of bestselling debut Boy Underwater comes another moving, hilarious novel of friendship and family secrets, which shows that people are people, no matter where they’re from.BOY UNDERWATER WAS SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE AWARD, AND SELECTED AS WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH.Here’s something you won’t believe: someone is doing TERRIBLE things to Mrs Martin, Cymbeline Igloo’s
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Hold Back the Night

by Adam Baron ...

Series Book 2 - A Billy Rucker Crime Thriller
An unputdownable crime thriller from the author of Shut Eye. "Rucker is an intelligent, reflective hero, a man well worth keeping an eye on." —Donna Leon, New York Times–bestselling authorIt's the hottest summer since 1976 and a teenager, Lucy, has gone missing. Billy Rucker is asked to investigate.Luck seems to be on Billy's side. While working on another case in Camden Town, Billy is sure he ... Read more

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An unputdownable crime thriller from the author of Shut Eye. "Rucker is an intelligent, reflective hero, a man well worth keeping an eye on." —Donna Leon, New York Times–bestselling authorIt's the hottest summer since 1976 and a teenager, Lucy, has gone missing. Billy Rucker is asked to investigate.Luck seems to be on Billy's side. While working on another case in Camden Town, Billy is sure he
... Read more

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SuperJack

by Adam Baron ...

Series Book 3 - A Billy Rucker Crime Thriller
A footballer can't outrun the truth in this non-stop crime thriller from the author of Hold Back the Night. "Baron is a writer to watch." — The Sunday TelegraphOnly hours after meeting footballer Jack Draper—"SuperJack" to his adoring fans—Billy Rucker is standing over the naked and brutalized body of a girl called Alison. A girl who, it appears, was Jack Draper's mistress.Jack had wanted Billy to ... Read more

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A footballer can't outrun the truth in this non-stop crime thriller from the author of Hold Back the Night. "Baron is a writer to watch." — The Sunday TelegraphOnly hours after meeting footballer Jack Draper—"SuperJack" to his adoring fans—Billy Rucker is standing over the naked and brutalized body of a girl called Alison. A girl who, it appears, was Jack Draper's mistress.Jack had wanted Billy to
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It Was You

by Adam Baron ...

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Series series Billy Rucker Series
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11 hours 6 min

There is someone on the streets of London who will stop at nothing to make a point... As she walks home from work one night, Josephine Thomas is brutally attacked and left to bleed to death. Billy Rucker had known her, briefly, and he soon hears about the tragedy.At the request of Jo's distraught colleague, he agrees to look into the murder. As he begins his tentative enquiries, things move ... Read more

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There is someone on the streets of London who will stop at nothing to make a point... As she walks home from work one night, Josephine Thomas is brutally attacked and left to bleed to death. Billy Rucker had known her, briefly, and he soon hears about the tragedy.At the request of Jo's distraught colleague, he agrees to look into the murder. As he begins his tentative enquiries, things move
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Shut Eye

by Adam Baron ...

Series Book 1 - A Billy Rucker Crime Thriller
"Classy and able thriller, with crunchy London backgrounds . . . An agile and ingenious plot . . . (The) forecast for the series is excellent." — Literary ReviewA married airline pilot lies dead in his London flat—a shattered champagne bottle left protruding from his abdomen.Film footage shows Teddy leaving Heathrow with an unidentified man. What secrets is he hiding?Ex-cop turned private ... Read more

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"Classy and able thriller, with crunchy London backgrounds . . . An agile and ingenious plot . . . (The) forecast for the series is excellent." — Literary ReviewA married airline pilot lies dead in his London flat—a shattered champagne bottle left protruding from his abdomen.Film footage shows Teddy leaving Heathrow with an unidentified man. What secrets is he hiding?Ex-cop turned private
... Read more

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