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A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol. Andy knew everybody (from the cultural commissioner of New York to drug-driven drag queens) and everybody knew Andy. His studio..

There aren't many stories about naughty rabbits. That's because rabbits usually know how to behave themselves. But not this one. This is the story of a very naughty little rabbit who becomes quite fat after sneaking under a gate, and stumbling into a huge vegetable patch. This is the story of Peter ..

Identifying different parts of the body is one of the first things young children learn to do. This book reinforces and expands this vital skill. Sharing it will help children understand the similarities and differences between themselves and their favourite characters. The simple text is enhanced b..

Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition featur..

Soups from the garden, bisques from the sea, famous fish stews from Provence and Normandy, the real French crunchy bread, meats, vegetables and desserts in variety, all accompanied by step-by-step instructions and superb illustrations.Mastering the Art of French Cooking: volume 2 is as the Daily..

Join Peter Rabbit as he goes in search of his favourite munchy, crunchy food, and meet his hungry friends along the way. Press the sound button on each page to hear the characters munch and crunch as they eat their favourite lunch. Can you guess what Peter Rabbit's favourite is?..

Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment.He must travel deep into the heart o..

June the first, a bright summer's evening, a Monday...And into the busy, bustling homes at 66 Star Street slips, unseen, a mysterious visitor. As the couples, flatmates and repentant singletons of No 66 fall in and out of love, clutch at and drop secrets, laugh, cry and simply try to live, no on..

An ancient treasure stolen by Xerxes the Great . . .Discovered by Napoleon Bonaparte . . .The clues to its hidden location lost until now . . .Adventurers and treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are on a wild-goose chase. Up to their waists in the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Maryland, they'r..

‘The horror, whatever it was, had not yet entirely spoiled that marvellous beauty’In Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, so enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a ..

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral justice is comically inverted in 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime..

The final heart wrenching episode at St Vladimir's Academy.It All Comes Down to Now.The Queen is dead and the Moroi world will never be the same.Rose Hathaway is awaiting wrongful execution and there exists only one man who can stall this terrible fate. Rose must look to both Dimitri and..