When Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, aged just 40, a shocked world mourned the loss of its most visionary fashion designer. McQueen had risen from humble beginnings as the younge
A magnificent, large-format guide to the human body, featuring ingenious lift-up flaps. Discover the mysteries of the human body in this magnificent book. Cleverly designed, annotated lift-up flaps allow you to explore the wonders hidden beneath our skin as never before.Four large-scale figures unfold to illustrate the muscles, nerves, circulatory system and skeleton in meticulous detail. You will also see inside our organs, digestive system, limbs, head and brain, and follow the development of a baby from foetus to birth. Full of facts and fun, this is an exceptional overview of the amazing human body.
'This story will steal up your spine, slip beneath your skin, and stick to you like honey.' -- Samantha ShannonThe Hollow sisters - Vivi, Grey and Iris - are as seductively glamorous as they are mysterious. They have black eyes and hair as white as milk. The Hollow sisters don't have friends - they don't need them.They move through the corridors like sharks, the other little fish parting around them, whispering behind their backs. And everyone knows who the Hollow sisters are. Because one day the three Hollow sisters simply disappeared.And when they came back, one month later, with no memory of where they had been, it was as if nothing had changed. Almost nothing, Apart from, for example, the little scar that had appeared in the hollow of their throats ... and a whispering sense that something is not quite right about them, despite (or maybe because of) the terrible passion to be with them that they can exert on anybody at will...A thrilling, twisting, novel that is as seductive and gl
Zoe, Jennifer and Nadia are three women with nothing in common. Except for the man who wants to kill them. He sends them terrifying letters, full of the intimate details of their lives - and promises
Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. In Beneath the Skin, f
"Nicci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition." (Sophie Hannah). Zoe, Jennifer and Nadia are three women with nothing in common.
They are three very different women: Zoe, the pretty blond schoolteacher . . . Jenny, the former hand model turned model mother and wife . . . and Nadia, the irrepressible free spirit who entertains a
`I was gripped immediately - perfect for fans of Into the Water by Paula Hawkins' KATERINA DIAMOND, author of THE TEACHER `Gripping, immersive, horribly believable' SANJIDA KAY, author of BONE BY BONE
Meanings Beneath the Skin: the Evolution of African-Americans traces cultural and psychological transformations among Black people in America from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. By exploring
Set on the sinister Courcy Island, The Skull Beneath the Skin is a thrilling murder mystery. Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacular comeback in a production of The Duchess of Malfi, to be played i
Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-t
