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A thirteen year-old Golden Retriever with a taste for adventure (and bacon) Cosmo is a canine on a mission. He’s got to stop a break-up, protect his best friend Max, and bring everyone together again for one show-stopping, marriage-saving, dog-dancing finale. But when it comes to fixing families, it turns out life is more complicated than just learning the right steps. Stories as genuinely joyful as  I, Cosmo  don’t come along very often and our booksellers were instantly charmed by Carlie Sorosiak’s witty, moving tale of friendship and a family in crisis. A novel full of heart that has all the hallmarks of a modern classic. The story of one dog's attempt to save his family, become a star, and eat a lot of bacon. Cosmo's family is falling apart. And it's up to Cosmo to keep them together. He knows exactly what to do. There's only one problem. Cosmo is a Golden Retriever.

Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling Shatter Me trilogy, this book collects the final two companion novellas, Shadow Me and Reveal Me, leading up to the explosive final in the series - coming next year.  Shadow Me Juliette is still reeling from Warner's betrayal, and Kenji is trying to balance his friendship with her with his responsibilities as a leader of the resistance against the Reestablishment. Things get even more interesting when an unexpected person from Omega Point's past surfaces.  Reveal Me Readers are brought back to the Shatter Me world one last time before the final novel installment in the series hits shelves in 2020. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Victoria Aveyard and Leigh Bardugo.  Tahereh Mafi is the New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series which has been published in over 30 languages around the world. She is also the author of the ravely reviewed A Very Large Expanse of Sea. She was born in a s

Undoubtedly the most highly-anticipated book of 2019,  The Testaments  is the landmark sequel to Margaret Atwood’s seminal masterpiece,  The Handmaid’s Tale . Picking up ten years after its predecessor’s tantalisingly open-ended conclusion,  The Testaments  promises a new window into Atwood’s dystopian world, as seen through the eyes of three women of Gilead. Having previously won the Booker Prize with  The Blind Assassin ,  The Testaments  now sees Atwood become the fourth novelist to win the prize twice in its illustrious fifty year history. A luminescent novel, told with a piercing clarity, Evaristo’s panorama of modern black womanhood resounds with an astonishing diversity of voice and character as seen across a changing century. Tracking the lives and loves of a dozen British women through generations and social classes,  Girl, Woman, Other  weaves a distinctive, illuminating tapestry of modern British life. ‘This is a story for our times,’ comments the  New Statesman .

The Booker Prize 2019 Winners: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo It is our pleasure to confirm the joint winners of the Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood for her era-defining novel  The Testaments  and Bernardine Evaristo with the multi-voiced modern masterpiece  Girl, Woman, Other . Breaking the Booker Prize rules, this year’s shock dual win recognises two works of equal brilliance; works that speak passionately about women’s lives, both throughout history and today. "In the room today we talked for five hours about books we love. Two novels we cannot compromise on. They are both phenomenal books that will delight readers and will resonate for ages to come." PETER FLORENCE, CHAIR OF JUDGES Launched to widespread acclaim at our flagship Piccadilly shop, Margaret Atwood's bravura sequel to  The Handmaid's Tale  effortlessly combines a piercing critique of gender, oppression and authoritarianism with the

'What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.' - W.H. Davies Walking around London is one of life's great pleasures.  There is a huge amount that you can only see on foot - but sometimes it is hard to know where to look. Luckily, Christopher Winn, bestselling author of I Never Knew That About London, knows where all the hidden treasures are.  This book takes the reader on a series of stimulating original walks through different areas of central London, focusing on one particular period of history, the Victorian, so ubiquitous that we take it for granted, and yet so astonishing and so far reaching in its variety, imagination, ambition and detail.  Discover... ..the remarkable 300-foot bell tower at the Houses of Parliament you never knew was there.... ..the extraordinary fairytale house in Kensington where the Mikado was inspired... ..the best Victorian loos in the world near Old Street... ..a hidden chapel in Bloomsbury described by Oscar

The Faber Book of Beasts is a collection of many of the best poems in English about the creatures who share our planet.  The animal kingdom has prompted some of the liveliest and most enjoyable writing by poets, from Homer to our contemporaries.  Among the creatures gathered here, tame or wild; common or exotic, are mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, and others perhaps more fanciful than real. A zoologist's delight.  There is, too, a moral or philosophical purpose. As Paul Muldoon says in his introduction: 'We are most human in the presence of animals.' And it is just this sense of how our humanity is illuminated by the contemplation of bestial life that he has set out to celebrate.  The results are wonderfully rich and thought-provoking.

‘It used to be you who was impulsive,’ said Pan, ‘and me who kept holding you back. We’re different now.’ A boy and a boat, a girl and her dæmon, their stories inextricably bound. It is twenty years since the events of  La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One  unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford’s Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence. Now, in  The Secret Commonwealth , we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a child... The second volume of Sir  Philip Pullman ’s The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old, and her dæmon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions a world that they had no idea existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a

‘It used to be you who was impulsive,’ said Pan, ‘and me who kept holding you back. We’re different now.’ A boy and a boat, a girl and her dæmon, their stories inextricably bound. It is twenty years since the events of  La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One  unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford’s Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence. Now, in  The Secret Commonwealth , we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a child... The second volume of Sir  Philip Pullman ’s The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old, and her dæmon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions a world that they had no idea existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a