A family reunited on a holiday of a lifetime . . . what could possibly go wrong?
WOMAN & HOME BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR and A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The perfect escape novel for our troubled times.' PATRICK GALE It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. She is going to travel to the other side of the world to search for a beetle that may or may not exist.
Grab your crayons, pencils and pens, and get ready for a brilliant colouring adventure with Peppa! Peppa dives under the sea, flies high in the sky and even zooms to the moon in these fun activities. Fans of Peppa with love these easy-to-colour pages, filled with lovely family scenes!
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.
Robert Service's The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age. Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change.
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against that great city, to which they will lay siege for ten whole and very bloody years. It is Zeus, the king of the gods, who triggers war when he asks the Trojan prince Paris to judge the fairest goddess of them all.
