1896. Tirzah, Louisa and Polly are best friends who've left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. Polly is teaching in an orphanage. Louisa is looking for a rich husband at the London Season. And Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters, they share their hopes, their frustrations, their dramas ... and their romances. Can these three very different young women find happiness?
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The highly acclaimed novel, now in paperback! SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA is an incredibly funny and poignant twenty-first-century coming-of-age, coming-out story - wrapped in a geek romance - from debut author Becky Albertalli.
Get ready to become obsessed with K-culture. This is the ultimate guide to the Korean way of life.
Korean culture is taking over our beauty routines, our homes, our playlists and our TVs. Here, for the first time, this beautiful book brings together everything you ever wanted to know about the Korean way of life.
Ever since the sudden deaths of his parents, seventeen-year-oldHugh has developed a serious preoccupation with endings. Andwhen he discovers that high-school outcast Olivia Moon can't die,things start to get a little complicated ...
Gender identity and gender roles in society are major themes throughout the novel, which features notes of Asian folklore and culture threaded through and alongside the fantastical, adventurous, action-packed plot line. Pirates, mermaids, witchcraft, Japanese-inspired cultural and folkloric themes and rituals, and anti-imperialist world-buildingsomething to appeal to any and all fantasy-lovers.
<p>The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling gothic fantasy horror, perfect for Halloween</p>
<p> <strong>A gorgeous new fantasy horror - a book about stories and fairy tales with family and love at its dark heart...</strong> </p>