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Penguin Bloom by Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive


Penguin Bloom is a story of how compassion, friendship and family can come from unexpected places. This plucky little magpie reminds us all that, no matter how lost, fragile or damaged we feel, accepting the love of others and loving them in return will help to make us whole.


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More Moaning by Karl Pilkington


In his search for the answers to life's big questions, Karl has therapy in Tokyo to try and reduce the size of his head, he spends time in California with a man and his five wives, in New York he tries his hand at painting with his own vomit and travels to Berlin to have his future predicted by a blind man, via his bum cheeks. 

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Timekeepers by Simon Garfield


Timekeepers is a vivid exploration of the ways we have perceived, contained and saved time over the last 250 years, narrated in the highly inventive and entertaining style that bestselling author Simon Garfield is fast making his own. As managing time becomes the greatest challenge we face in our lives, this multi-layered history helps us tackle it in a sparkling new light.


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Letters of Note compiled by Shaun Usher

Letters of Note

Shaun Usher

'Letters of Note is quite literally the most enjoyable volume it is possible to imagine. Every page is a marvel.' The Spectator.Read an extract.

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Weak Messages Create Bad Situations by David Shrigley

Weak Messages Create Bad Situations

David Shrigley

'Shrigley mines a mordant, scatological seam, conjuring up the dark tradition of British humour that threw up Tony Hancock and Chris Morris', The Times Read an extract.


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Timekeepers by Simon Garfield

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Orphans of the Carnival

'Tender and shocking . . . [Julia] has an intrepid taste for adventure and a stoical endurance of adversity', Guardian

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Gold from The Stone by Lemn Sissay

'His name is magic, his poems are songs on the street', Independent

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