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A revelatory new history of the ancient world told through its seven greatest monuments, by bestselling author and TV historian Bettany Hughes

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Packed with 150 beautifully illustrated stickers, this book celebrates the art of the tattoo. The designs range from the traditional to the contemporary, covering all the key styles and motifs. Discover hearts, sailors, pin-ups, skulls, roses, swallows as well as new and surprising compositions, all in the Munden Brothers'' signature style. Complemented by fascinating text by Nick Schonberger on the origins and meaning of familiar symbols and styles.

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When a small group of enthusiasts rebelled against the increasing commercialisation of the rave scene, converting a derelict meat store in London into a venue seemed the only option to stay authentic. The meat store became and remains a cathedral for undiluted dance music with a global following.    This book celebrates Fabric's phenomenal impact on club culture over the past quarter of a century. Using oral history, photography, archival ephemera and club night artwork, 25 Years of Fabric tells the story of the misfits and visionaries who made it happen, the curators and resident DJs who kept the pure beats pulsing, and the devotees who filled the floor week after week, year after year. Through highs, lows and a campaign against enforced closure, Factory stands tall as an independent, resilient international cultural icon.

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Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe collects the extraordinary output of Vivien Goldman from 1975 onwards; spanning a time when punk burnt its scalding flame to scorch our musical earth and clear it for new genres, like post-punk and hip-hop. One of only a handful of women writing in the Golden Age of music journalism, Vivien was the first, most elegant and passionate chronicler of reggae, funk, free jazz and Afrobeat; a pioneer when music was a wild frontier business, lawless and exhilarating, with new epiphanies emerging as the counterculture mutated.The sheer breadth of pieces here is overwhelming, from early encounters with Brian Eno, Robert Wyatt and Can; to rebels like Britain''s first she-punks, The Raincoats and The Slits; covering British groups like the Sex Pistols, The Clash and Aswad; America''s Public Enemy, Curtis Mayfield and George Clinton; and Jamaica''s Lee ''Scratch'' Perry and Dennis Brown. They rub up against contemporary profiles of New York''s

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FIVE FAIRYTALES. NINE KINGDOMS. ONE PRINCE.''This is not your Disney fairy tale. It is much, much better'' WILDER''S BOOK REVIEW''Brilliantly subverts the classic fairy tale'' ONE CHAPTER MORE''Loads of fun... Pinborough repositions Snow White as a feminist icon'' THE INDEPENDENTWhat if everything you thought you knew about the Grimms'' fairytales was wrong?Imagine a land brimming with magic, a wicked queen, a charming prince, and a poisoned apple...Welcome to the story of Snow White, retold as it always should have been.Poison is the third instalment in this British Fantasy Award-winning world teeming with dragons, witches, and werewolves by No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Sarah Pinborough.Newly revised, rejacketed, and relaunched with a brand-new prequel and sequel, the Tales from the Kingdoms series is your next dark fantasy romance obsession.<

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The brand new heart-pounding historical adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Jack West Thrillers and creator of #1 Netflix action sensation INTERCEPTOR

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EVEN ANGELS HAVE THEIR DEMONS . . .PARIS, CHRISTMAS 2021. After a heart attack, Mathias Taillefer wakes up in hospital with a stranger at his bedside. The mysterious girl reveals herself to be Louise Collange, a volunteer who has come to play the cello for patients. When she finds out Mathias is a cop, she asks him to take charge of a very special case. Her mother, a former ballerina at the Paris Opera Ballet, died last year after falling from her balcony, and Louise has a hunch she was pushed. Though hesitant at first, Mathias agrees to help her, sending them both headfirst into a deadly chain of events. And at the centre of it all, a woman named Angélique, whose angelic intentions may not be all they seem . . .Feverous, surprising and uplifting, Musso''s newest novel is a labyrinth of emotions where nothing is certain from one page to the next.PRAISE FOR THE ICONIC BESTSELLER GUILLAUME MUSSO:''THE FRENCH SUSPENSE KING'' NEW

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Rosie Redbrush, a travel agent working for Wanderlust Wishes travel agency, is someone who sells holidays but never takes them. At twenty-nine, she lives a quiet, comfortable life in the town she grew up in. But then, just a few days before Christmas, a problematic customer tricks Rosie into becoming a tour guide for a group of ten disgruntled old-age pensioners in Venice! And suddenly, Rosie''s quiet life is thrown into disarray. Escorting an elderly group through the streets of Italy''s most romantic city is hard enough, but throw in a neurotic aquaphobe, an accidental Santa race, a regrettable selfie, and a missing backpack, suddenly Rosie finds herself extremely lost in Venice, without a penny or a passport to her name.Rosie can''t go home. And as she travels Italy looking for a solution, what she doesn''t expect to find are a loving family, a group of eclectic new friends, and the possibility of true love in the most unlikely of places...The gorgeous

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''Inspiring, uplifting and full of heart'' - Annie Lyons 1916, Scotland.Five years after leading a strike at the sewing factory, newly pregnant Ellen is rushed off her feet at the Clydebank Clothing exchange, the heart of the community. Ellen is missing her husband James who is away with the Royal Navy, and worried about how to make ends meet. She desperately wants to confide in her best friend Sadie. However, Sadie is hiding a heart-breaking secret of her own which places strain on their friendship.Ignoring concerns from her sister Sadie, seventeen-year-old Rachel has signed up as a munitions worker at the former sewing factory in Clydebank. Together with the other women nicknamed ''the munitionettes'' she finds fun and friendship as they start a local football team.When Ellen is forced to return to the factory to earn money for her growing family, she clashes with Sadie, who is angry about the working conditions. Sever

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Does a duck roar? Does a dog hiss? In this box you’ll find 25 animals and birds, and 25 cards showing the sounds they make. Match them up so the duck can quack and the lion can roar again! Have fun making the sounds and learning about the calls and cries of the animal kingdom – and when you’ve matched all the cards, you can turn them over and use them again to play a memory game.

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Can the nation's favourite village keep calm and carry on? The second in the popular saga series that follows the lives of Emmerdale's much loved families during World War I and beyond.

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The Short Story of Science is a new introduction to the complete subject of science. Covering 60 key experiments, from Archimedes' investigations of buoyancy to the discovery of dark matter, and then linking these to the history of science, as well as to the key theories and methods, the book simplifies and explains all the key breakthroughs.Accessible and concise, generously illustrated throughout, and with all the essential information presented without jargon, readers are given all the tools they need to enjoy the fascinating history of scientific knowledge.

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For the irrepressible self-starters and skilful navigators, the conscientious leaders and highly focused organisers, discover a notebook that understands you.As well as blank and lined pages for your own lists, notes and thoughts, this beautiful, design-led notebook features a dedicated section in the back written by a personality psychologist to help you to better understand your personality type and maximise your potential.Part of the Note to Self: Personality Notebooks series. Other titles include Dreamer and Disrupter.

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CLEVER AND CONTEMPORARY ILLUSTRATIONS - 50 witty illustrations by Baltimore-based illustrator, designer and educator George WylesolTHE PERFECT GIFT - Design-led, high-spec illustrated product for maximum gifting potentialLEARN ABOUT ART, YOUR WAY - These portable cards can be taken with you everywhere and encourage the development of a highly personal approach to artTEXT BY ART EDUCATOR - Accessible ideas for learning about art from practicing art educatorDISCOVER THE SERIES - Collect the series with mindfulness-based Ways of Tuning Your Senses, and wanderlust-whetting Ways of Travelling, also by Laurence KingTransform your relationship to art with 50 illustrated prompts. Rethink how you see - each card offers a different way of looking at anything from graffiti to sculpture, painting to tapestry. Have a fresh encounter with whatever artwork comes your way.

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Love dogs but wish you knew more about them? Brush up on your canine companions using these quiz cards and you'll be leading the pack in no time.Fun and easy to play with all the family players will enjoy guessing dog breeds, then turning over the card to discover the answer and reveal extra trivia questions.The beautiful, sturdy box contains 64 cards.Which is taller, a Great Dane or an Irish Wolfhound? Where do Border Terriers come from? This family game is the perfect treat for dog lovers and fans of Dog Bingo.

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Come on an amazing journey across the ocean, steering your ship to avoid the legendary monsters in this fun new take on snakes and ladders. Magical and mysterious, the water monsters of myths and legends are notoriously elusive, but watch out when they rear their heads as they could send you right back to the start! The booklet reveals their secrets and includes short retellings of the most fantastical tales. From Nessie the Loch Ness Monster to Te Wheke of New Zealand, welcome to the watery world of myths and legends! A fun and easy-to-play snakes and ladders game for children and families, suitable for age 6+ Features fun facts on all the weird and wonderful sea monsters from around the world: steer your ship around them to avoid going under! Complete with counters shaped liked ocean-exploring ships, this game can be enjoyed by two to six players Includes a booklet full of short retellings of Mythical sea monsters and their fa

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'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a sequence of four internationally-acclaimed epic novels of immigrant life in early-twentieth century New York. The second novel in the internationally acclaimed six-volume sequence which began with MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM. Ira Stigman, now an adolescent in 1920s New York, is on the rack. All his friends seem to be paragons of achievement and sophistication, while his own life bears the taint of an impoverished immigrant background. Work on the trolleycars and selling soda at Yankee Stadium introduces him to an underworld of corruption and petty thieving, and all his choices seem to be the wrong ones. Worst of all, within his own family exists a temptation so dark that it has corroded Ira's very soul. A DIVING ROCK ON THE HUDSON is fearless in its depiction of a young man in the lower depths, yet in its glimpses of redemption it offers hope with the power of literature as a force for comprehension and forgiveness.'The literary comeback of the century' Vanity Fair 'As unquenchably vibrant with life as the immigrants whose existence it commemorates' Sunday Times 'A dynamic and moving event . . . a stirring portrait of a vanished culture . . . a poignant chapter in the life-drama of a unique American writer' Newsweek 'Although it is sixty years since a new novel by Mr Roth last hit the bookshelves, it has been worth the wait' The Economist 'Fresh and touching' Wall Street Journal 'A precision of detail which brings the sounds from the tenements, the heat of the sidewalk steaming off the pages' Sunday Express 'A meticulous evocation of a now-distant episode of the American experience' New York Times Book Review Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Complete Novels includes 1) A Star Shines Over Mt. Morris Park 2) A Diving Rock on the Hudson 3) From Bondage 4) Requiem for Harlem.

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Find out who’s top dog with this beautifully illustrated set of cards. Does a retriever need more grooming than an Irish setter? Has a terrier got a keener nose than a German shepherd? Is a poodle faster than a spaniel? With 6 categories and 30 dogs to choose from, you’ll have hours of fun playing Best in Show.

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Best-selling: A new product from best-selling photographer Gerrard Gethings, (Do You Look Like Your Dog, 2018)and best-selling author Greg Bailey, (Alright Darling, 2018) Spot the similarities between the people and their drag personas - can you match the day-to-day faces with their fabulous constructed characters? Celebrates the incredible transformation of drag with striking before/after photographs, and celebrating inclusion within the Drag community Boxed Gift featuring 25 artists in before and after looks across 50 cards, packaged within a stylish foiled box Includes a booklet with text about each artist. Some currently featured in Ru-Paul's Drag Race.Featuring:Courtney ActJoe BlackLawrence ChaneyAwhoraBimoniCrystal (UK Drag Race season 1 contestant)Minerael WatersCybil WarCazelionBaby LameFreida SlavesLick Von DykeMiss JakeMocha Drag QueenDaisy PullerTete BangVanity MilanHolestarLuke SkylaKyran ThraxOre-HoSigi MoonlightTaste My CaramellePrinx SilverPair up the queens and kings with their out-of-drag looks in this fabulous new card game.It is much harder than you think, as the transformation is so complete! 50 cards depict stunning before and after photos of the glamorous drag transformation, and texts by Greg Bailey of Alright Darling are included in the accompanying booklet to give an insight into the incredible character creations and the people behind the make-up.Play as a memory game with the cards face down for an added level of difficulty. Collect the most pairs to win! This is the perfect gift for fans of Drag Race.

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Do you ever wish you had a photographic memory? Imprint 25 classic photographs on your mind by matching the two halves of the image and piecing together the history of photography in the process. Featuring 25 world-famous photographers, from Anna Atkins to Martin Parr, this unique new memory game is a perfect gift for fans of photography and art.MATCH IT: A fun, simple game of matching pairs. In the format of a classic memory game, this unique photographic memory game will have you piecing together famous artworks!BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED: Discover 50 cards imprinting 25 classic photographs on your mind by matching the two halves.EASY TO PLAY: Easy to understand instructions make it possible to start playing right away.HIGHEST QUALITY: Includes a full colour booklet with information on all 25 world-famous photographers from Anna Atkins to Martin Parr and many moreGIFTS: The perfect gift for photography and art fans or simply people wanting to get to know photographers work more.Other Match It games available from Laurence King Publishing include: You Callin' Me a Cheetah?, Who Did This Poo?, Twins Memory Game, Pick a Flower, Match These Bones, Match a Mummy, Match a Leaf, Dogs & Puppies, Cats & Kittens, Do You Look Like Your Dog?, Do You Look Like Your Cat?

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Learn how to make stylish dried floral designs that will last longer than freshly cut bouquets.Do you adore having flowers around the house but they always seem to wilt and fall to pieces as soon as you place them in water? No longer! Join the trend of DIY drying and create stunning bouquets that will outlast fresh cuts while still adding that soft, romantic floral touch.Expert florist Carolyn Dunster breathes new life into the age-old art of growing, drying, and displaying blooms in ways that will bring a chic, natural vibe to any room. Whether you are looking for elegant DIY bridal arrangements or trying to add a little bohemian flair to a room's décor, there are dried designs that will complement every aesthetic and occasion.Written for a new, younger audience that is just discovering the art of drying flowers and from a popular British botanical stylist with a penchant for urban gardening, this book is a modern spin on a classic craft. For those who are concerned with environmental impact, dried flowers are also gaining popularity as a more sustainable approach to floristry.Dried flowers are perfect for:DIY bridal bouquets and table arrangements Stylish home décorSprucing up your place of business in an affordable, low maintenance wayThis book is an ideal purchase for anyone wanting to get started with the art of growing and drying flowers. Learn how to grow your own stems and the best combinations of colour and texture to create floral sculptures that breathe new life into any space in any season.

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'Never does that old maxim "the harder I practice, the luckier I get" ring truer.' - Matt StuartStreet photography may look like luck, but you have to get out there and hone your craft if you want to shake up those luck vibes. Matt Stuart never goes out without his trusty Leica and, in a career spanning twenty years, has taken some of the most accomplished, witty and well-known photographs of the streets.From understanding how to be invisible on a busy street, to anticipating a great image in the chaos of a crowd, Matt Stuart reveals in over 20 chapters the hard-won skills and secrets that have led to his greatest shots. He explains his purist and uniquely playful approach to street photography leaving the reader full of ideas to use in their own photography. Illustrated throughout with 100 of Stuart's images, this is a unique opportunity to learn from one of the finest street photographers around.

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Match the dinosaurs with their skeletons in the latest in our best-selling range of memory games.In Match these Bones, reunite the dinosaurs with their skeletons, learning about your favorite species and how they were discovered. Read fascinating facts from the included educational booklet as you play, from which dinosaurs had feathers (and how this shows they evolved from birds) to what those spikes on triceratops'' skulls are really for. Everything we know about dinosaurs today comes from the discovery of bones and fossils. Dinosaurs are a perennial favorite with children so it''s the perfect game to buy for dinosaur experts or future paleontologists!Match these Bones is a follow up to the best-selling matching and memory games including:Match a Pair of BirdsMatch a TrackMatch a MummyYou Callin'' Me a Cheetah? Match a LeafButterfly WingsCelebrity Love Match

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Bring some stardust to your card table with 54 of the most influential movie directors and stars, arranged into four suits.Hearts = Romance, Clubs = Drama, Diamonds = Crime, Spades = Sci-fi Includes illustrations of all the big names, from Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles to Sofia Coppola and Samuel L. Jackson - plus two jokers: Wes Anderson and Charlie Chaplin.

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Why DO people look like their dogs? Is it shared personality traits, an expression of self-love, or do they grow together over time like old married couples? This book explores the intense bonds we develop with our dogs, which are far from only skin, or even fur, deep. 50 photos by renowned animal photographer Gerrard Gethings present insightful and fun depictions of dogs and their humans, and humorous texts are included in the booklet to provide clues about these 25 people and their furry best friends. The book also includes behind the scenes photos and an interview with the photographer.

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Corvids play an outsize role in the human imagination. We keep ravens in towers, emblazon rooks on banners, find crows in the constellations and make sure to salute solitary magpies. We also see our own behaviour mirrored in this diverse family of birds, who are tricksters and thieves as well as problem-solvers and gift-givers. This beautifully designed book showcases the visual and literary life of the corvid, from Norse legends to Game of Thrones. It includes beautiful and darkly seductive photographs and paintings as well as texts and poems in which they play a starring role and information about the traits that make them so intriguing to us.

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Get crazy with The Wild Bunch! This discard game, based on Crazy Eights, will have you up to your ears in lions, monkeys, wombats and whales as you try to get rid of your cards before anyone else. The deck features animals instead of numbers so kids of any age can understand and play, and there are loads of exciting action cards to change things up: play the crab to reverse direction, or the kangaroo to skip over the next player!

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Rediscover the wonder of travel, wherever you find yourself. See the world with fresh eyes with these exciting and unusual suggestions. Whether you’re heading halfway around the globe or just stepping out your front door, Ways of Travelling will take you somewhere new.

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Containing 5 puzzles (each made up of 3 pieces), this attractively boxed set is the perfect gift for early learners.A seed sprouts, and then becomes a flower. It's raining, the sun comes out, and then a beautiful rainbow appears! Young children will delight in the charming, colourful illustrations while learning simple stories and logical sequences with these three-piece jigsaws.Telling a simple story about the natural world, each puzzle measures 25.5 x 8.5 cm, so doesn't require much room to complete. Introduce jigsaws in a simple, fun way while also developing your toddler's creative thinking, sequencing skills and dexterity.ALSO AVAILABLE: My First Story Puzzle Animals ISBN:9781786275875

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Containing 5 puzzles (each made up of 3 pieces), this attractively boxed set is the perfect gift for early learners.An egg becomes a chick, and then a hen. A caterpillar forms into a chrysalis and then emerges as a beautiful butterfly! Young children will delight in the charming, colourful illustrations while learning simple stories and logical sequences with these three-piece jigsaws.Telling a simple story about animals in the natural world, each puzzle measures 25.5 x 8.5 cm, so doesn't require much room to complete. Introduce jigsaws in a simple, fun way while also developing your toddler's creative thinking, sequencing skills and dexterity.ALSO AVAILABLE: My First Story Puzzle Nature ISBN:9781786275899

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Be guided and inspired by the world's richest and most powerful people with this creative set of oracle cards. Need to get your cash flow moving? Angela Merkel's guidance is at hand. Stuck in your search for the next big idea? Steve Jobs might have your answer. Pick a card and let 50 gurus of material success guide you through any life, career, and business dilemma.Meet the Oracles:•⊂Beyoncé•⊂ Michael Bloomberg•⊂ Deepak Chopra•⊂ Ellen DeGeneres•⊂ Walt Disney•⊂ Bill Gates•⊂ Arianna Huffington•⊂ Kim Kardashian WestDiscover the other card decks in the Oracles series, including the bestselling Art Oracles, Fashion Oracles, Love Oracles, and Music Oracles.

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These Cards will Change Your Career offers 50 pieces of bite-sized but practical advice by an expert in the field. Get the cards and get your career back on track!This new series of self-help cards begins with advice on how to improve your working life. Feeling unfulfilled in your present job? Want to make the most out of your creativity but don't know how? Not sure where to go next?

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Since the birth of photography, photographers have been taking images of the earth from the air – with spectacular visual results. Celebrating over 150 years of these incredible images, this book tells the fascinating story of how these pictures were created and the photographers that have propelled image-taking to bold new heights. Taking advantage of the amazing sense of perspective that aerial photography offers, this incredible collection of images also offers a unique overview of the events, challenges, and changes of the past 150 years of human history.

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Introduce a macabre yet groovy edge to your next card game with these 54 playing cards featuring the bright, quirky and eye-catching illustrations of Ricardo Cavolo. Day of the Dead imagery is increasingly popular outside of Mexico. Swap your poker face for a smiling skull!

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Add a touch of class to your poker table with some of the most exciting literary figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. Fifty-four writers have been chosen from the following categories: Modern, Mid-Century, Postmodern, Contemporary. Marcel George's stunning watercolour portraits of writers of fiction – including Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, Roberto Bolaño and Zadie Smith – ensure that even if you don't win you're in good company.

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Drag is transformation, communication, and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is the plat du jour. This fearless book observes this increasingly complex world by exploring drag's journey – from the surprising, to the sophisticated, to the utterly bizarre – through the twentieth century and up to the present day. With witty text, dazzling photography, and corralled into thematic chapters, this is the first flamboyant and poignant survey of drag culture. Drag is not just for fabulous queens and drag enthusiasts, but for anyone interested in gender fluidity and the culture surrounding it. Simon Doonan is a former drag queen who impersonated Queen Elizabeth. A veteran in the fashion industry, he has won every fashion award on Earth including the CFDA Award. Today, Simon is the Creative Ambassador for Barneys New York and a judge on the NBC television show Making It, co-hosted by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman.

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Will you survive the game of Mafia? Two teams compete in this delightfully deadly party game. Based on the classic role-playing strategy game, it’s kill or be killed as innocent city folk pit their wits against a mob of ruthless international gangsters. Engage in a tangled web of intrigue, subterfuge, wild accusations, protestations of innocence and bluffing. Includes 24 street character cards, crime-scene notepad and definitive game guide with rules, case files, tactical tips and ideas for advanced play.

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Piece together the Paris of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters and discover the people and places that helped create the modern world in this 1000 piece art jigsaw puzzle. Raise a glass with Édouard Manet at the Folies Bergères. Take a front row seat for the Can-Can with Henri de Toulouse Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge. Get to the point with Georges Seurat on the banks of the Seine. And catch Edgar Degas sketching the ballerinas of the Paris Opera.

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Who had the most commercial success in their lifetime, Ernest Hemingway or Agatha Christie? Whose work has the most adaptations, F. Scott Fitzgerald or Franz Kafka? Who courted the most scandal, Colette or James Joyce? Pit 32 of the world's greatest modern writers against each other with these beautifully illustrated cards. An ideal gift for the book lover in your life.

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Test your knowledge of the ever-shifting world of celebrity romance with this beautifully illustrated memory game, featuring 25 famous couples to match up. To play, simply place the cards face down and see if you can remember where their current or former love interest is located. Beware – some people have dated several others, but the backgrounds will join up when you've found the right match. Collect more pairs than your opponent to win! An accompanying booklet reveals the stories and scandals behind the love matches, making this an ideal gift for all fans of celebrity gossip.

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Match the cats and kittens of 25 breeds from around the world in this beautifully illustrated memory game. To play, simply place the cards face down and see if you can remember where the mother cat and her kitten are located. Collect more pairs than your opponent to win! With all kinds of breeds included – from the British Shorthair to the Siamese, and from the Maine Coon to the hairless Sphynx – this fun and educational game will appeal to cat lovers everywhere.

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The Short Story of Photography is a new and innovative introduction to the subject of photography. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key photographs from the first experiments in the early ninteenth century to digital photography. Accessible and concise, the book explains how, why and when certain photographs really have changed the world. It demystifies technical jargon, giving readers a thorough understanding and broad enjoyment of photography since its creation.

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Journey through dream-like forest scenes and encounter real and fabulous creatures in this gorgeous new colouring book by Daisy Fletcher, creator of Birdtopia. Beginning in a woodland world of otters, badgers, foxes and deer, the pages gradually transport you deeper into a flower forest, a magical environment populated with rare and mythical animals such as caracals, muntjacs and ibex. Colour your way through exotic and wonderful plants – Candy Cane Sorrel, Passion Flowers and giant Cacti – and you may even discover the fabled unicorn.

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The Short Story of Art is a new and innovative introduction to the subject of art. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to contemporary installations, and then links these to sections on art movements, themes and techniques. The design of the book allows the student or art enthusiast to easily navigate their way around key periods, artists and styles. Accessible and concise, it simplifies and explains the most important and influential concepts in art, and shows how they are connected. The book explains how, why and when art changed, who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and whether they matter. It demystifies artistic jargon, giving readers a thorough understanding and broad enjoyment of art.

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Can you remember Dirty Harry's weapon of choice? Or the type of flower given to Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games? Does a severed horse's head mean anything to you? Or what about a pair of glistening shoes with magical powers? Film magazine Little White Lies dares you to test your mental agility and pop cultural prowess with the Movie Memory Game, an illustrated card game for the movie lover in your life. Includes 50 cards and a guide to the 25 movies.

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Over 100,000 copies sold! So you've got an Instagram account, you're posting pictures, but your follower count has flatlined. Read This If You Want to Be Instagram Famous holds the answers to fixing up your feed and finding thousands of new followers. Packed with the essential secrets of the hottest Instagrammers around, the book features tips covering photographic techniques, captioning, codes of conduct, kit and managing your account. Put the advice into practice and soon you too will be hailed as an Instagram icon. Read This If You Want to Be Instagram Famous is part of the internationally-bestselling ‘Read This’ series, which has sold over half-a-million books worldwide and has been translated into over 20 languages. Coming soon: Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing People by Selwyn Leamy (September 2019) More titles in the ‘Read This’ series: Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll (9781780673356) Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of People by Henry Carroll (9781780676241) Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places by Henry Carroll (9781780679051) Use This if You Want to Take Great Photographs: A Photo Journal by Henry Carroll (9781780678887) Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing by Selwyn Leamy (9781786270542) Use This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing by Selwyn Leamy (9781786274052) Read This if You Want to Be a Great Writer by Ross Raisin (9781786271976) Read This if You Want to Be Instagram Famous edited by Henry Carroll (9781780679679)

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No clichés. No cheese. No camera-club jargon. From the author of the best-selling ‘Read This’ series, this introduction covers all aspects of photographing places, including landscapes, cityscapes, architecture and interiors. Whatever your camera, whatever your interest, whatever your level, this indispensable guide gives you all the essential techniques and demystifies the work of acclaimed photographers. Packed with practical tips and iconic images, this accessible book will arm you with the know-how you need to take meaningful pictures of the places that matter to you most. Featuring 50 master photographers, including Alec Soth, Martin Parr, Robert Adams, Todd Hido, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Julius Shulman, Rinko Kawauchi, Thomas Ruff, Tim Hetherington and Joel Sternfeld. Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places is part of the internationally-bestselling ‘Read This’ series, which has sold over half-a-million books worldwide and has been translated into over 20 languages. Coming soon: Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing People by Selwyn Leamy (September 2019) More titles in the ‘Read This’ series: Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll (9781780673356) Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of People by Henry Carroll (9781780676241) Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places by Henry Carroll (9781780679051) Use This if You Want to Take Great Photographs: A Photo Journal by Henry Carroll (9781780678887) Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing by Selwyn Leamy (9781786270542) Use This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing by Selwyn Leamy (9781786274052) Read This if You Want to Be a Great Writer by Ross Raisin (9781786271976) Read This if You Want to Be Instagram Famous edited by Henry Carroll (9781780679679)

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