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Fiction
Emperor of Gladness
By Vuong, Ocean
90.0090.00
Dispatched by Magrudy Warehouse
Estimated delivery between 3-7 days
Description
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic' Guardian 'Some of the most beautiful writing I've experienced in my lifetime' Oprah Winfrey READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS: 'Read it slowly. Let it wreck you. Then read it again' 'I feel like I lost part of my soul to this book' 'I would give it 6 stars if I could' 'Sad and funny, devastating and quietly celebratory' 'A masterwork of compassion and complexity' College dropout Hai doesn't know how to face the future until a chance meeting with elderly widow Grazina changes his life. One summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond. When Hai takes a job at a diner to support himself and Grazina, his fellow workers become the family he didn't expect to find. United by desperation and circumstance, and existing on the fringes of society, together they bear witness to each other's survival. This is an unforgettable story of unexpected friendship and how far people go to find a second chance. 'The first millennial Great American Novel' ArtReview 'His most vivid, ambitious work yet' Dazed 'This stunning book moved me so much' CAITRIONA BALFE 'A poetic, dramatic and vivid story' COLM TOIBIN
Non-Fiction
Story of a Heart
By Clarke, Rachel
66.0066.00
Dispatched by Magrudy Warehouse
Estimated delivery between 3-7 days
Description
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, NEW SCIENTIST, AND PROSPECT 'What a book . . . The perfect book' Chris Evans on Virgin Radio 'Profoundly moving and at the same time wildly inspiring' Rob Delaney 'Rachel Clarke's finest book yet' Financial Times 'The best narrative non-fiction I've read in years. Rachel Clarke has written a profound piece of investigative journalism and wrapped it up in poetry' Christie Watson 'This is THE MOST BEAUTIFUL and riveting book: written with such humanity, empathy and knowledge, such tact and drama and eloquence. Vital reading, lifelong revelation' Laura Cumming This is the unforgettable story of how one family's grief transformed into a lifesaving gift. With tremendous compassion and clarity, Dr Rachel Clarke relates the urgent journey of a young girl's heart and explores a history of remarkable medical innovations , stretching back over a century and involving the knowledge and dedication not just of surgeons but of countless physicians, immunologists, nurses and scientists. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER DEAR LIFE AND BREATHTAKING, A MAJOR TV DRAMA
Children's Fiction
Glorious Rivals
By Barnes, Jennifer Lynn
78.0078.00
Dispatched by Magrudy Warehouse
Estimated delivery between 3-7 days
Description
*Discover the ADDICTIVE, ROMANTIC and TWIST-FILLED series that has sold millions of copies around the world* FIVE PLAYERS REMAIN. Seven Players arrived on Hawthorne Island to play a billionaire's game. Now only five remain, and the race to the finish line is on. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE AT STAKE. The heat turns up on the competition - and between the players - and it becomes increasingly clear that no one will emerge from the Grandest Game unscathed. BUT SO ARE HEARTS - AND LIVES. For there are no coincidences. Everyone is a liar. And someone is watching . . . THE GAME IS ON. Praise for the Inheritance Games series: 'IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN' Buzzfeed 'ONE OF THE GREATEST SERIES IN RECENT HISTORY' Cosmopolitan.com 'The ROMANCE in this book?! . . . So beautifully woven in with the glorious riddles.' 'TWIST AFTER TWIST, I was up all night trying to figure out the puzzles, I love it!' 'PHENOMENAL' 'I felt like I was on a ROLLERCOASTER, gasping and silently screaming.' *Reading all of the Inheritance Games world novels? The ideal reading order is: The Inheritance Games, The Hawthorne Legacy, The Final Gambit, The Brothers Hawthorne, Games Untold, The Grandest Game, and Glorious Rivals. *Looking for more unputdownable reads from Jennifer Lynn Barnes? Check out The Debutantes duology (Little White Lies, Deadly Little Scandals), The Fixer duology (The Ruling Class, Lessons in Power), and The Lovely and the Lost.
Children's Non-Fiction
What If... You Didn't Make Snot?
By Young, Emma
60.0060.00
Dispatched by Magrudy Warehouse
Estimated delivery between 3-7 days
Description
"I don't know anyone who can take complex scientific concepts and make them more accessible, stimulating and fun than Emma Young. It is truly a kind of genius." - Bill Bryson ---- Find out the answers to 33 crazy and laugh-out-loud questions with science author Emma Young. Prepare to learn all about the human body, from blood vessels to the brain and nerves to nutrients, in this engaging question-and-answer book. What If You Didn't Make Snot? is not your usual science book. Children aged 7-9 will be drawn into each topic with one of 33 amusing questions that are guaranteed to make kids think about anatomy in a whole new way. Author Emma Young explains the answers with humour and plenty of science facts that kids will be racing to share with friends and family. This human body book for children offers: Fun and engaging content by science author Emma Young. 33 laugh-out-loud questions with key science Prepare to learn all about the human body, from blood vessels to the brain and nerves to nutrients, in this engaging question-and-answer book. What If You Didn't Make Snot? is not your usual science book. Children aged 7-9 will be drawn into each topic with one of 33 amusing questions that are guaranteed to make kids think about anatomy in a whole new way. Author Emma Young explains the answers with humour and plenty of science facts that kids will be racing to share with friends and family. This human body book for children offers: Fun and engaging content by science author Emma Young. 33 laugh-out-loud questions with key science facts are woven into the answers. A mix of photography and cartoon-style illustrations that bring the questions to life. Curriculum-aligned and age-appropriate material about the human body for children. Children can dip in and out of bite-sized information on each page, filled with attention-grabbing photography and quirky illustrations. Even reluctant readers will find this human body book entertaining, as they find out the answers to the wacky, bizarre and gross questions.
