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Warning! You are about to enjoy poetry!
If you are one of the few people left in the world who has not seen the wonderful animated video for Tim Minchin's Storm I recommend you set a little time aside. Please be aware Tim does use a small amount of potentially offensive language.
Tim's much loved pro-reason rant is now a beautifully illustrated book. Storm is in stock and shipping now so grab your copy today!
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This is truly one for the hugest of Game of Thrones fans! Living Language: Dothraki is a full guide to learning conversational Dothraki. Wonder no longer how you would survive among the ranks of the nomadic horselords!
Living Language: Dothraki is written by David Paterson who was responsible for creating a full, coherent language for the HBO production of George R.R. Martin's much loved series.
Check out Paterson's talk for TED in which he discusses language and the strange craft of language creation.
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Check out the trailer for James Frey's Endgame: The Calling. This book kicks off a trilogy that is guaranteed to be the next big thing. Endgame has its mysterious tendrils in a Google Niantic-created augmented reality game for mobile devices and the movie is already in the works.
The book itself contains clues that can lead one lucky (or clever) reader to a real world prize! The real details are enough of a secret that the advance reader copies contain fake puzzles. There goes my head start!
Our first shipment quickly sold out but we are expecting more stock any moment now. Place your order to join the hunt!
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Set to be one of the hugest sports books of the year is Playing It My Way, the auto-biography of the man Brian Lara calls “the greatest cricketer of all time”.
Tendulkar has achieved that rare level of sportsmanship in which he has become both an international star and a hero in his native India. He has been awarded the highest of accolades at home and triumphed to an unprecedented degree at the crease.
One of the most gifted and entertaining batsmen to have played international cricket, he scored more runs and made more centuries than any other player in history – in both Tests and ODIs. He made his first Test century at the age of 17, at the age of 36 he became the first player to make a one-day double century and in 2012 he scored his 100th international hundred. With India he won the World Cup in 2011 and reached the top of the world Test rankings in the same year. In 2013, he retired from cricket after playing his 200th and final Test in front of his home crowd in Mumbai.
"I knew that agreeing to write my story would need me to be completely honest, as that’s the way I have always played the game. It would require talking about a number of aspects I have not shared in public before.
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Video Games Day celebrates popular video games that have taken the world by storm. From Atari to Nintendo to Xbox, video games have changed the way kids and adults play and now represent one of the largest and fastest growing entertainment industries today.
We think it's a really great excuse for enthusiasts to take a day to play favourite games with mates, but it's also a time to reflect on how much an impact video games have had on our lives, and even an opportunity for non-gamers to give something new a try!
To celebrate we thought we'd pick out our favourite video game themed items available in the jungle that we don't want you to miss out on…
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Towards the end of last year we saw the release of the wonderful and moving Quake Dogs, a beautifully presented collection of canine tales following the Christchurch earthquakes. Now Craig Bullock's beautiful photography is set to return with the forthcoming release of Quake Cats.
Quake Cats promises to be every bit as heartwarming as it's predecessor but this time with its lens on the feline inhabitants of Christchurch. Each true-tale is accompanied by Craig Bullock's characteristically engaging photography.
You can expect to see some cute and resilient companions among these stories.
Quake Cats is releasing October 3rd so pre-order yours today!
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Book to movie adaptations are incredibly popular at the moment. We'd like to highlight a few that have yet to come out this year!
1. If I Stay
Everybody has to make choices. Some might break you. For seventeen-year-old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough, but they're all about a future full of music and love, a future that's brimming with hope. But life can change in an instant.
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With the announcement of Stephen King's new book Revival – we're counting down our current Top 5 Stephen King Books Of All Time!
5. The
Stand
A chilling look at a post-civilisation earth. When a man crashes his car into a
petrol station, he brings with him the foul corpses of his wife and daughter. He
dies and it doesn't take long for the plague which killed him to spread across
America and the world.
4. IT
The classic that introduced the world to a nightmare clown…They were seven
teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men
and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness.
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We are being spoiled for choice in 2014, loads of amazing musicians are
bringing out some stellar biographies, check out our top choices in this
Top 5 Music Books of 2014!
You listen to their music, you love their style – and now we get to look
behind the curtain into their lives.
1. The Universal Tone – Carlos Santana – Due 6th November
In the realm of guitar gods, Carlos Santana stands alone for what's come to be called his “universal tone” – both the fact that you can recognise a Santana song from just one note and that Santana is famous for his belief that music and soul are interconnected. This is a long awaited memoir from an incredibly influential musician!
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A global sensation that has enraptured the world, Frozen has engaged children in fantastic ways.
We have loads of really great Frozen books to continue the obsession, the gorgeous Frozen golden book as well as the Frozen Junior Novelisation for older readers.
Colour like crazy with The Frozen Chunky Crayon Book – and go sticker mad with Disney Frozen: Ultimate Sticker Book !
If you love Frozen you'll love our full range of books!