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Au milieu du potager vit une insatiable gourmande : Grace a une passion dévorante pour les choux. Un jour, un chou qui présente un embonpoint peu ordinaire se met à trembler et à crier. Alertée par cet inquiétant remue-ménage, la limace trouve, plantées au milieu du chou, deux petites jambes potelées.

Barnabé le Scarabée est un grand artiste. Il peint les rois et les reines du jardin des drôles de petites bêtes. Mireille l'Abeille veut absolument que Barnabé fasse son portrait mais celui-ci est beaucoup trop occupé. Ce qu'il préfère, c'est peindre les fleurs.

Mireille et Benjamin sont affolés : ils viennent de découvrir, sous les rosiers du jardin, une soucoupe volante et un extraterrestre! Leurs cris provoquent un vent de panique. La reine des abeilles organise le combat! Heureusement, Roméo le crapaud reconnaît le petit bonhomme vert... C'est Léonard... Ce n'est qu'un gentil petit têtard!

Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of her more famous brother Henry VIII, is the single most important Tudor figure of this era that historians have consistently overlooked. Married at thirteen to the charismatic James IV of Scotland, a man more than twice her age, she would learn the skills of statecraft that would enable her to survive his early death, and to construct a powerful position in her adopted country of Scotland as she dealt with domestic issues as well as navigating international relations with England and France.

1936. Anglo-Breton translator Annie Wrenne is working in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War breaks out. Annie becomes a nurse on the front line, but after falling in love with a patient, she ends up pregnant - and abandoned - by a man she thought she knew. Annie passes the rest of the war in a haze, her only consolation her relationship with mysterious Republican fighter Carlos Ortega. Annie finds herself caught up in Ortega’s world, a web of intrigue, which leads to her recruitment into MI5.

From the whistling languages of La Gomera in the Canary Islands and the Hmong people in East and Southeast Asia, to the wars and clashes in Sri Lanka and the conservation efforts in Hawaii and New Zealand, Rare Tongues draws attention to how language and culture are becoming increasingly homogenous, and what we risk losing as a result.

'A fascinating alternative history covering 2,500 years and a geographical span from Japan to California' NEW STATESMAN 'A revelation . . . The tale of each carpet as Armstrong tells it is untidy and tragic and comical all at once' TESSA HADLEY On the saddles of warlords, draping the walls of...

The brand-new, sizzling novel from the bestselling author and Sunday Times bestseller Lies, seduction and secrets await under a Spanish sun… When Camille Fontaine arrives in sun-drenched Majorca, she's running from a shattered love affair. But even amongst the palm trees and golden sands, she...

Brought to you by Penguin. In the heat of summer, the past can become hazy. . . For twenty years, Nina Drayton has told herself that she must have seen her sister, Tamara, being murdered by the family babysitter – Josie Jackson. That she doesn’t remember it because she was five, and amnesia...