"Two hours ago a young woman died in the Infirmary...she'd swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out..."Arthur Birling, a prosperous manufacturer, is holding a family dinner party to celebrate his daughter's engagement. Into this cosy scene intrudes the harsh figure of a police inspector investigating the suicide of a young working-class woman. Under interrogation, every member of the family turns out to have a shameful secret which links them with her death. Schools edition of An Inspector Calls For students aged 14-16 Suitable for students studying for GCSE English Literature qualifications from Pearson Edexcel, AQA, OCR and EduqasThe Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions.“An excellent, easy to use edition of a modern classic. Arrived promptly ready for the start of the new term; could not fault the product or service.” E Hughes, English Teacher at Abertillery Comprehensive 15 July 2014 Read more

Level: EYFS early years foundation stageSubject: EnglishHave fun learning lower case letters at home with this motivating wipe-clean book!This educational wipe-clean activity book is a fun and easy way to help children in preschool and reception build confidence with writing at home.Lots of practice opportunities to help children learn how to write letters.Wipe-clean pages and pen so that children can try the activities again and again.Motivating activities to help boost confidence. Read more

This Complete Revision & Practice book is a superb all-in-one guide to success in GCSE AQA English Language! It’s perfectly matched to the AQA requirements, with clear study notes and examples that explain every reading and writing skill. There’s also a huge range of practice on offer, including warm-up and exam-style questions for every topic. What’s more, we’ve included plenty of in-depth advice for the exams, including fully worked sample exams (Paper 1 and Paper 2) with graded answers to show students exactly what’s required for each grade. The book is rounded off with a full set of practice exams for students to try for themselves. There are also crystal-clear Knowledge Organiser pages to make revising the essentials as easy as possible. And we've included online videos that walk students through how to answer each question in the exam and score top marks!Plus, we’ve thrown in a free Online Edition that lets you read the entire book on a PC, Mac or tablet. When the book arrives, just use the unique code printed inside the cover to gain full access. Don't miss our Complete Revision & Practice book for GCSE AQA English Literature (9781782944133). Read more

*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD*Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of a book.'Nothing delights me more than a well-written and well-researched book that teaches you and never bores you' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research' Caitlin MoranImagine a world where...· Your phone is too big for your hand· Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body· In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured.If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you're a woman.From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media. Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half of the population, often with disastrous consequences. Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the profound impact this has on us all.Find out more in Caroline's podcast, Visible Women.'A book that changes the way you see the world' Sunday Times'Revelatory, frightening, hopeful' Jeanette Winterson Read more

Following on from the bestselling Read Write Inc. Phonics Flashcards, this second pack is a fun way to introduce more of the letters and sounds that make up words. The 55 cards include Set 2 and Set 3 Speed Sound cards and Green word cards, providing practice to support school learning. Accompanied by humorous illustrations and rhymes, the cards are colour-coded for an easy way to progress from Set 2 to Set 3. With clear guidance for parents throughout, this is a great way to support your child's next steps in getting ready to read. Read Write Inc., developed by Ruth Miskin, provides a structured and systematic approach to teaching literacy. It is used by more than a quarter of the UK's primary schools and is designed to create fluent readers, confident speakers and willing writers. Read more

Level: KS2Subject: English Reading ComprehensionSuitable for 2024 SATsTargeted SATs practice for every topic taught at school!When it comes to getting the best results, practice really does bring progress! Matched to the National Curriculum, this Collins Year 6 Reading Comprehension workbook is designed to improve comprehension skills. This book contains relevant, diverse and engaging texts including fiction, non-fiction and poetry and covering a range of styles and eras from well-known classics to modern authors.Using a repeated practice method that is proven to work, this book improves performance in school, as well as in tests and assessments. Questions are organised into levels of increasing difficulty while progress tests throughout check children’s understanding along the way. Children can record their own results too, supporting awareness and boosting confidence. A handy answer section is also included to ensure every child can succeed in Year 6. We’ve got a Year 6 Maths Targeted Practice Workbook (9780008175498) available as well. Read more

Level: EYFS early years foundation stageSubject: EnglishIntroduce young learners to first words with colourful pictures and words.These educational flashcards are a fun and easy way to help children in preschool, reception and Year 1 build confidence with reading at home.Includes:•31 word and picture cards•11 high frequency word cards• 7 rhyming and nonsense word activity cards•ideas for fun games to play with the cards•helpful guidance for parentsThe website shows the VAT inclusive price. The price before VAT is £6.66. Read more

This brilliant Targeted Question Book is packed with Reading Comprehension practice for Year 3 pupils! It contains fifteen engaging texts - including fiction, non-fiction and poetry - that cover a diverse range of styles and eras, from well-known classics to modern authors. Each text is accompanied by practice questions to help build pupils’ Reading Comprehension skills, and there are full answers at the back. There are also handy online extras, including a pupil progress chart. For more Year 3 Reading Comprehension practice, we also have a Book 2 (9781782946687) and challenging Stretch Book (9781789083507). Read more

This fabulous three-in-one Targeted Question Book is packed with essential Year 6 practice for grammar, spelling and punctuation ― all perfectly matched to the National Curriculum. There are notes and examples throughout the book to help children get started on each topic, and tick-boxes to keep track of how confident they're feeling. Complete answers are included in a cut-out-and-keep section for easy marking. If you prefer, the Grammar (9781782941224), Punctuation (9781782941262) and Spelling (9781782941309) sections of this book are available as separate Question Books. Read more

This Question Book is brilliant for helping Year 2 pupils perfect their grammar, punctuation and spelling! It's brimming with essential questions and activities, all fully up-to-date for the latest National Curriculum. There are hints and examples throughout the book to help children get started, and tick-boxes to help them keep track of how confident they feel about each topic. There are puzzles at the end of each section and complete answers are included at the back, so it's easy to check how they're getting on. Read more

Level: KS1Subject: EnglishAn engaging Handwriting activity book to really help boost your child’s progress at every stage of their learning! Including helpful questions and answers, this English book provides reassurance whilst supporting your child’s learning at home.Combining useful English practice with engaging, colourful illustrations, this Handwriting practice book helps to boost your child’s confidence and develop good learning habits for life. Each fun activity is designed to give your child a real sense of achievement.Included in this book:Questions that allow children to practise the important skills learned at schoolColourful activities that make learning fun and motivate children to learn at homeHelpful tips and answers so that you can support your child’s learning Read more

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic books that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.Dimensions: 117x77mm (Cards)A set of 43 phonics flashcards to support children who are using Little Wandle for Letters and Sounds Revised at school and the perfect tool to support phonics learning at home.The Little Wandle complete systematic synthetic phonics programme has been developed for schools by schools, and is fully validated by the Department for Education.For further advice and videos visit collins.co.uk/LittleWandleAtHome Read more

This brilliant Targeted Question Book is packed with Reading Comprehension practice for Year 4 pupils! It contains fifteen engaging texts - including fiction, non-fiction and poetry - that cover a diverse range of styles and eras, from well-known classics to modern authors. Each text is accompanied by practice questions to help build pupils’ Reading Comprehension skills, and there are full answers at the back. There are also handy online extras, including a pupil progress chart. For more Year 4 Reading Comprehension practice, we also have a Book 2 (9781782946717) and challenging Stretch Book (9781789083514). Read more

***THE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER, WITH NEW MATERIAL FOR THE PAPERBACK***THE REVEALING, DEFINING ACCOUNT OF THE DARK NETWORK THAT BROKE OUR COUNTRY.Something has gone really wrong in Britain.Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing. Our politicians seem most interested in their own careers, and much of the media only make things worse. We are living in a country almost unrecognisable from the one that existed a decade ago. But whose fault is it really? Who broke Britain and how did they do it?Bold and incisive as ever, James O'Brien reveals the shady network of influence that has created a broken Britain of strikes, shortages and scandals. He maps the web connecting dark think tanks to Downing Street, the journalists involved in selling it to the public and the media bosses pushing their own agendas. Over ten chapters, each focusing on a particular person complicit in the downfall, James O'Brien reveals how a select few have conspired - sometimes by incompetence, sometimes by design - to bring Britain to its knees.Instant Sunday Times bestseller, November 2023 Read more

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION'The Lean Startup changes everything.' - Harvard Business Review----------Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable.The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.Essential reading for any ambitious entrepreneur, The Lean Startup will teach you to identify what your customers really want. You'll learn how to test your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it's too late.With over a million copies sold across the globe, now is your time to think Lean. Read more

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing to date―a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance and self-acceptance.A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag.Central to RuPaul’s success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world’s largest television franchises, RuPaul’s ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and super mogul.Yet that adaptability has made him enigmatic to the public. In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known.Stripping away all artifice, RuPaul recounts the story of his life with breath taking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental mother, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history.Here in RuPaul’s singular and extraordinary story is a manual for living―a personal philosophy that testifies to the value of chosen family, the importance of harnessing what makes you different, and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly.If we’re all born naked and the rest is drag, then this is RuPaul totally out of drag. This is RuPaul stripped bare.RuPaul's book 'The House of Hidden Meanings' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2024-03-25. Read more

Standard hardback editionThe most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864.Highlights from this year's edition include Gideon Haigh on the men's Ashes, former England captain Mike Brearley on the captaincy of Ben Stokes, Jonathan Liew on the departure of Stuart Broad, Michael Collins on English cricket's equity problem, as well as articles by Ebony Rainford-Brent, Emma John, Harry Pearson, Sir Hilary Beckles and many more of the world's best sportswriters.As usual, Wisden includes the thought-provoking Notes by the Editor, the famous Cricketers of the Year awards, and the authoritative obituaries. And, as ever, there are reports and scorecards for every Test, together with forthright opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records."There can't really be any doubt about the cricket book of the year, any year: it's obviously Wisden." Andrew Baker in The Daily Telegraph@WisdenAlmanack Read more

**A Sunday Times, Economist, Prospect and Financial Times Book of the Year****SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**AI. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. QUANTUM COMPUTING. Everything is about to change. This is the only book you need to understand this new world.From the ultimate AI insider, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, part of Google.'Fascinating, well-written, and important' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens'Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing' Stephen Fry'An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times' Bill GatesSoon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy.None of us are prepared.As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies.In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side and the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?This ground-breaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes 'the containment problem' - the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies - as the essential challenge of our age.'A stunning book by a man at the very centre of the AI revolution' Rory Stewart'Essential reading' Daniel Kahneman‘Confused by the current furore about AI? This book is a good place to start…’ Financial Times, Books of the Year 2023**A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, Sept 2023** Read more

‘A riveting read that skips along at pace. Illuminating and concerning, it lifts the lid on the tawdry world of Westminster powerbroking’ Tim Shipman, The TimesYOU THINK YOU LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THE ELECTED ARE CHOSEN BY THE PEOPLE.THINK AGAIN.When Boris Johnson came to power in 2019, he did so with the largest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher. Rewriting the political map, he united a party and shattered Labour’s fabled red wall. And yet, just three years later, he was ousted by the same members who had once greeted his leadership so rapturously.What had gone so wrong?The Plot is the seismic, fly-on-the-wall account of how the saviour of the Conservative Party became a pariah. Told with unparalleled access, from multiple inside sources talking with astonishing candour, it reveals the shocking truth about powerful forces operating behind the scenes in the heart of Westminster and those who became the architects of a Prime Minister’s downfall.This is the story of a damning trail of treachery and deceit fuelled by an obsessive pursuit of power, which threatens to topple the very fabric of our democracy. Read more

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. Held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London and across the UK, it is one of the strongest brand names in the music world and attracts a glittering array of artists and orchestras from the UK and around the world. Whether you're a first-time visitor or an experienced Prommer, watching at home or listening on radio or online, the BBC Proms Guide is an excellent companion to the festival, which you can treasure and return to in years to come. Filled with concert listings and articles by leading writers, the BBC Proms Guide offers an insight into the performers and repertoire, as well as thought-provoking opinion pieces about music, musicians and music-making. Read more