When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe, of course, is our own. And Roundworld is Earth. As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow, we follow the story of our universe from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the internet and beyond
Read the book that inspired the full-length animated feature produced by the legendary Studio Ghibli and directed by Goro Miyazaki. Not every orphan would love living at St. Morwald's Home for Children, but Earwig does. She gets whatever she wants, whenever she wants it, and it's been that way since she was dropped on the orphanage’s doorstep as a baby. But all that changes the day Bella Yaga and the Mandrake come to St. Morwald's, disguised as foster parents.Earwig is whisked off to their mysterious house full of invisible rooms, potions, and spell books, with magic around every corner. Most children would run in terror from a house like that . . . but not Earwig. Using her own cleverness—with a lot of help from a talking cat—she decides to show the witch who's boss. A young middle grade novel by World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement–winner Diana Wynne Jones, beautifully and humorously illustrated in black and white by Caldecott Medalist Paul O. Zelinsky.“I would like to declare Diana Wynne Jones an international treasure," Neil Gaiman, Newbery Medal–winning and best-selling author
Brooke en Julian hebben het prima samen in New York. Zij heeft twee banen, waarvan ze kunnen rondkomen en hij timmert aan de weg als muzikant. Maar als Julian na een tv-optreden door een groot platenlabel wordt benaderd neemt hun leven een radicale wending.Al snel bevinden ze zich in een compleet nieuwe wereld: dinertjes in de duurste restaurants, te gast bij de meest exclusieve feesten, op en neer reizen naar de hipste clubs van LA en overnachtingen in het ultieme celebrity-hotel Chateau Marmont.Maar Julians roem leidt er ook toe dat zij slachtoffer worden van meedogenloze paparazzi. Is hun relatie sterk genoeg om alle bizarre roddels en bemoeienissen te overleven? Brooke wordt gedwongen om te kiezen: vluchten of vechten
Casting on ... It starts almost by accident: the women who buy their knitting needles and wool from Georgia's store linger for advice, for a coffee, for a chat and before they know it, every Friday night is knitting night. Finding a pattern ... And as the needles clack, and the garments grow, the conversation moves on from patterns and yarn to life, love and everything. These women are of different ages, from different backgrounds and facing different problems, but they are drawn together by threads of affection that prove as durable as the sweaters they knit. The Friday Night Knitting Club - don't you want to join?
Meet JackJack Rossiter. I'm twenty-seven years old, single, and live with my best mate Matt. And single is good, single is fun. Meet AmySometimes in my darker moments I've thought about applying to go on Blind Date. 'She's gorgeous, she's from London, come in Amy Crosbie!' (Wolf whistling and applause.) Actually it's a bit of a worry.