A. J. Liebling, born in Manhattan in 1904, joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles to the magazine throughout his lifetime, on subjects ranging from food to boxing and France to horse racing. As a war correspondent during the Second World War, he reported from France, England and Algeria, and participated in the Normandy landings. In later life he married the writer Jean Stafford, his third wife. He died in 1963.

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A. J. Rosen is an author of YA fantasy and is known as @agatharoza on Wattpad.

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A. O. Scott has been a film critic at the New York Times since 2000. His writing has appeared in many other publications, including the New York Review of Books, Slate, the New Yorker and the Nation. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2010, Scott is currently Distinguished Professor of Film Criticism at Wesleyan University. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. 
 
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A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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A. T. Williams won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013 for his book A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa. He lives in Warwickshire.

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Dubbed ‘The new queen of spy fiction’ by the Guardian newspaper, and ‘the real thing’ by the Washington Post, A.C. 'Ava' Glass is the CWA Dagger-shortlisted author of Alias Emma (The Chase), The Traitor and The Trap. The Traitor was a 2023 Richard and Judy Bookclub pick. Alias Emma was a Barnes and Noble book of the month. A former crime reporter and communications consultant, for five years Ava worked closely with spies. Her time in that world fascinated her, and the people she met back then inspire every book she writes.

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Arthur Edward Waite was the designer and co-creator of the now famous Rider Waite Tarot deck. 
 
An American-born British poet and scholarly mystic, his strong interest in all esoteric matters - divination, magic, Kabbalism, alchemy and Freemasony - led to him penning a number of books. These include the Key to the Tarot, The Book of Ceremonial Magic and A New Encyclopedia of Freemasony.

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A.E. Warren is the author of the Tomorrow's Ancestors series, which consists of Subject Twenty-One, The Hidden Base, The Fourth Species and The Final Rising. 
 
After spending eight years working as a lawyer, she began to write in the evenings and early mornings as a form of escapism from life in a very small cubicle with lots of files. She self-published her first novels in her spare time, which were picked up by Del Rey UK which is the science fiction/fantasy imprint of Penguin Random House. 
 
 She is an avid reader, occasional gamer and fair-weather runner. She lives in the UK with her husband, daughter and hopefully, one day, a wise border terrier named Austen.

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A K Benedict writes crime and speculative fiction in a room filled with clowns, mannequins and Doctor Who figures. Her first novel, The Beauty of Murder, was nominated for an eDunnit award and is in development for a major 8-part TV series by Company Pictures. Her second, Jonathan Dark or The Evidence of Ghosts, came out in February 2016. She's written Torchwood audio dramas for Big Finish and her short stories have featured in anthologies including Great British Horror and Best British Short Stories. She lives in St Leonards-on-Sea with her dog, Dame Margaret Rutherford.

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A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards – including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.

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A.M. Ellis is a speculative fiction author and lover of everything steeped in myth and mystery. Her stories often lean into diverse voices, not only in her identity as a Black woman, but in exploring neurodivergence and mental health. A proud introvert and nostalgic gamer, she lives in Maryland, USA, with her husband and three children. Angelica is also the author of Hunt A Killer, a PERFECT SCORE novel, under the pen name A.M. Ellis, which she wrote as an IP for Scholastic in the US.

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A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.

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A.B.C. Merriman-Labor was a barrister, writer and munitions worker born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1877. His published works include A Series of Lectures on the Negro Race and The Story of the African Slave in a Nutshell. He also edited two editions of the Handbook of Sierra Leone. He arrived in the UK in 1904 to study law. In 1907, he organised a centenary commemoration of the abolition of the slave trade in Westminster Abbey. He later embarked on an 'entertainment-lecture' tour called Life and Scenes in Britain, travelling across thousands of miles of West, South West and Central Africa, which he expanded on to create Britons Through Negro Spectacles.

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Aabria Iyengar is an American actress and author.

Aabria Iyengar

Aaliya Jaleel is a freelance illustrator, designer, and visual development artist, currently majoring in Animation at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is also the illustrator of Under My Hijab and Muslim Girls Rise. You can visit her online at www.aaliyamj.com.

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Aaron Allston

After more than fifteen years of experience as a clinical psychotherapist, Dr Aaron Balick has taken the amazing insights from psychology and psychotherapy out of the consultation room and made them accessible to the wider world. 
 
He has been an ‘agony uncle’ for many years for both CBBC and BBC Radio 1, as well as on television, including BBC Worldwide, BBC 3 and BBC Learning.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready--a global organizational transformation and coaching practice--that helps companies large and small adopt new forms of self-organization and dynamic teaming. Clients include Johnson &amp; Johnson, Microsoft, Lloyds Bank, Citibank, Boeing, Mailchimp, Airbnb, Dropbox, and charity: water. 
 
He is also the founder of Murmur--a SaaS startup that helps teams scale culture through the magic of working agreements. The Murmur platform will allow every team on the planet to define and share their ways of working. 
 
Dignan is the author of Brave New Work (2019) and Game Frame (2011), co-host of the Brave New Work podcast, and a friend to misfit toys.

Aaron Dignan

Aaron Edwards is a senior lecturer in defence and international affairs at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, specialising in terrorism and counter-insurgency. He is the author and editor of several books, including Defending the Realm: The Politics of Britain’s Small Wars Since 1945, and has lectured all over the world on aspects of national and international security. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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Babies see first of all in black and white, and in bright, high contrast colours such as yellow and red. This padded cloth book includes simple images, black-and white illustrations and a touch-and-feel on every spread to help develop a baby's eyesight and engage their senses, making this the perfect first book for children.

Baby Touch: My First Book: a black-and-white cloth book

Young babies will love snuggling up with this soft, padded cloth book - with a different touch-and-feel pair of ears poking out from every page! Helping to stimulate developing senses, this is a perfect very first book for children. 
 
Baby Touch is an innovative and award-winning range that provides a sensory feast for babies, stimulating their growing minds and active senses through bold, colourful and playful illustrations and baby-friendly text.

Baby Touch: Ears

A touch-and-feel cloth book

Young babies will love snuggling up with this soft, padded cloth book - with a different touch-and-feel tail poking out from every page! Helping to stimulate developing senses, this is a perfect very first book for children. 
 
Baby Touch is an innovative and award-winning range that provides a sensory feast for babies, stimulating their growing minds and active senses through bold, colourful and playful illustrations and baby-friendly text.

Baby Touch: Tails

The award-winning, best-selling Baby Touch series is back with a sleek and playful design. 
 
Say night night to all the animals, plants and vehicles as your baby gently winds down to sleep. With touch-and-feel patches and star-shaped peep-through holes, this beautiful book is ideal for young children from birth upwards and the perfect soothing bedtime book.

Baby Touch: Night-Night

Baby Touch: Opposites is a bold, bright board book perfect for little hands to explore. With touch-and-feels on every double page, this book helps to stimulate your baby's senses as well as gently helping to teach first key opposites such as big and small, quiet and loud, and up and down.

Baby Touch: Opposites

Baby Touch: Feelings is part of Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series, designed to help stimulate a baby's senses from birth. Encouraging interaction and play, the Baby Touch books are lots of fun for the very youngest babies, as well as toddlers. 
 
With high-contrast colours and a touch-and-feel on every double page, Baby Touch: Feelings stimulates your baby's senses while introducing them to different feelings and emotions.

Baby Touch: Feelings

The award-winning, best-selling Baby Touch series is back with a sleek and playful design. 
 
This colourful, carousel playbook is specifically designed to engage and entertain babies during their daily tummy time sessions, helping to encourage movement and develop neck strength. Fold it out and let your baby explore the immersive world full of high-contrast colours, stimulating touch-and-feels and peepo holes.

Baby Touch: Tummy Time

Baby Touch: Hello Daddy is part of Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series, designed to help stimulate a baby's senses from birth. Encouraging interaction and play, the Baby Touch books are lots of fun for the very youngest babies, as well as toddlers. 
 
With exciting touch-and-feels and high-contrast colours, Baby Touch: Hello Daddy helps to stimulate your baby's senses as they discover all sorts of babies and their daddies.

Baby Touch: Hello, Daddy!

Baby Touch: Happy Birthday! is part of Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series, designed to help stimulate a baby's senses from birth. Encouraging interaction and play, the Baby Touch books are lots of fun for the very youngest babies, as well as toddlers. 
 
Baby Touch: Happy Birthday! is a bold, bright board book perfect for little hands to explore on their birthday! With a touch-and-feel on every double page, it helps to stimulate your baby's senses as well as teaching first words.

Baby Touch: Happy Birthday!

Baby Touch: Happy Christmas! is part of Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series, designed to help stimulate a baby's senses from birth. Encouraging interaction and play, the Baby Touch books are lots of fun for the very youngest babies, as well as toddlers. 
 
Baby Touch: Happy Christmas! is a bold, bright board book perfect for little hands to explore during their very first festive season! With a touch-and-feel on every double page, it helps to stimulate your baby's senses as well as teaching first words.

Baby Touch: Happy Christmas!

The award-winning, best-selling Baby Touch series is back with a sleek and playful design. 
 
In the first few years of life, babies' vision is still developing. They see first of all in black and white, and in bright, high contrast colours such as yellow and red. Designed to develop babies' eyesight, this book of friendly farm animals will stimulate vision from birth. With clearly-defined simple images that even the youngest children will respond to, it provides a fun multi-sensory experience. 
 
Includes black and white patterns throughout to help focus a baby's attention and concentration.

Baby Touch: Animals: a black-and-white book

The award-winning, best-selling Baby Touch series is back with a sleek and playful design. 
 
In the first few years of life, babies' vision is still developing. They see first of all in black and white, and in bright, high contrast colours such as yellow and red. Designed to develop babies' eyesight, this book of large, friendly faces will stimulate vision from birth. With clearly-defined simple images that even the youngest children will respond to, it provides a multi-sensory experience that will help focus a baby's attention and concentration. 
 
Wave to mummy, daddy, the animals, the sun, the flower... and who's that in the mirror?

Baby Touch: Faces: a black-and white-book

Baby Touch: Colours is part of Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series, designed to help stimulate a baby's senses from birth. Encouraging interaction and play, the Baby Touch books are lots of fun for the very youngest babies, as well as toddlers. 
 
Baby Touch: Colours is a bold, bright board book perfect for little hands to explore. With a big touch-and-feel on every double page, it helps to stimulate your baby's senses as well as gently helping to teach first colours such as red, blue, green, yellow and purple.

Baby Touch: Colours

Baby Touch: Numbers is a bold, bright board book perfect for little hands to explore. With touch-and-feels on every double page to help count the friendly animals, it helps to stimulate a baby's senses as well as gently helping to teach the numbers 1 to 5.

Baby Touch: Numbers

Baby Touch: Shapes is part of Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series, designed to help stimulate a baby's senses from birth. Encouraging interaction and play, the Baby Touch books are lots of fun for the very youngest babies, as well as toddlers. 
 
Baby Touch: Shapes is a bold, bright board book perfect for little hands to explore. With a big touch-and-feel on every double page, it helps to stimulate your baby's senses as well as gently helping to teach first shapes such as square, circle, triangle, star and rectangle.

Baby Touch: Shapes

Baby Touch: Words is a bold, bright board book perfect for little hands to explore. With a big touch-and-feel on every double page, it helps to stimulate your baby's senses as well as gently helping to teach first key words such as mummy, daddy, dog and teddy.

Baby Touch: Words

The award-winning, best-selling Baby Touch series is back with a sleek and playful design. 
 
Babies and toddlers will love this interactive touch-and-feel tab book from Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series. Use the animal-shaped tabs to turn the pages and find and name the friendly animals. Have fun feeling the furry panda, the stripy tiger and more! 
 
A perfect first-word book for all young baby and toddler fans of animals.

Baby Touch: Animals Tab Book

The award-winning, best-selling Baby Touch series is back with a sleek and playful design. Completely re-illustrated, with updated text and a contemporary new feel, each book's touch-and-feel areas stimulate a baby's developing senses while encouraging interaction and play between parent and child. 
 
With large touch-and-feels, bright pictures and gentle, baby-friendly text, this series will stimulate growing minds and active senses from birth upwards.

Baby Touch: Peekaboo

Parent and child can explore the world together with this multi-sensory book from the innovative Baby Touch range. This bright and bold book features flaps to lift, holes to peep through and fabrics to touch, all perfectly designed for first discovery and experience. 
 
Completely re-illustrated, with updated text and a contemporary new feel, this book will stimulate a baby's developing senses while encouraging interaction and play between parent and child. Ideal for babies and toddlers from birth upwards.

Baby Touch: Playbook

The award-winning, best-selling Baby Touch series is back with a sleek and playful design. 
 
Babies and toddlers will love this interactive touch-and-feel tab book from Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series. Use the vehicle-shaped tabs to turn the pages and find and name the different bright vehicles with your baby, from cars and trains to helicopters and diggers. There are big, stimulating touch-and-feel areas to stroke and talk about on every page - which wheel feels bumpy? Which window feels shiny? 
 
A perfect first-word book for all young baby and toddler fans of 'things that go'.

Baby Touch: Vehicles Tab Book

If your baby loves Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch books and apps, they're guaranteed to enjoy these entertaining music tracks, created especially for young babies. Each of the ten bespoke instrumental tunes is designed to engage and soothe babies from birth, and is fun for parents to listen to as well! Perfect for long journeys or quiet time at home.

Baby Touch: Baby Bop!

This bright and bold buggy book is perfect to keep the baby on the move entertained. Each spread features happy faces baby can smile at and on the very last page a mirror for baby to 
see themselves. This beautiful book is part of the innovative and award-winning Baby Touch range, designed to stimulate growing minds in the developmental stages from birth. Perfect for parent and baby to enjoy together.

Baby Touch: Hello! Buggy Book

A Private Thriller

A series of children's modern classic novels by renowned 20th century children's writers. All the titles in this series have the A Puffin Book logo, contemporary-style covers, and child-friendly endnotes.

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Detective Aidan Waits is a troubled junior detective haunted by his past. Facing an uncertain future, and disconnected from his history, DC Waits and his partner, Detective Inspector Peter 'Sutty' Sutcliffe work on Manchester's streets to uncover the city's worst criminals among the grime of the underworld.

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Air Ministry Survival Guide

Alan Partridge on the BBC

Aldrin Adams Adventure

Alec Devlin

Alex Craft

Alex Cross

Alex Delaware

Alex vs Axel

Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar

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