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In a bid to expand its worldwide reach and entertain and inform readers on a truly global scale, China Daily launched its Global Edition newspaper on Jan 2, 2019.The Global Edition highlights China’s values and international viewpoint, and includes in-depth reports and multi-media offerings that ...

Some secrets are worth keeping. Others might cost you everything. When DI Fraser Brodie arrives at the scene to find the body of a local mechanic mutilated, a chill runs down his spine. It's the most brutal killing the Isle of Lewis has seen in decades - since Fraser's own twin brother was impris...

Often a small and seemingly insignificant event can change the course of our lives.Not long after starting a new job, Neil meets Chrissie. Romance soon blossoms and together they move to a lavish flat in Edinburgh. Everything seems to be falling into place perfectly.But an innocuous, throw-away c...

What would it be like to live in the future? Or to go back in time? Or to be a cat? Or a blood cell? What would happen if a monster ate every letter of the alphabet?In this extraordinary collection of brand new poems, beloved writer and former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen will make you laugh...

THE OFFICIAL STORY OF THE EXCITING THIRD PADDINGTON MOVIE, PADDINGTON IN PERU!Marmalade sandwiches at the ready! Paddington is off on an awfully big adventure with the Browns to visit his Aunt Lucy in Peru. But when he gets there, he discovers that she has gone on a mysterious quest into the jung...

Blackburn, 1947. In the tiny front parlour 14-year-old Laura Blake watches her beloved father die. But not before he tells her she will make something of her life. Laura never forgets his words. Yet her path to success proves to be a rocky one. Forced to trundle a cart around the back streets, se...

John and Elizabeth Gould sailed into Australia on a cold spring day in 1838 prepared for the most astonishing adventure of their lives. They had crossed three oceans from their London home to find the treasures of Australia's birdlife and showcase them to the outside world.Elizabeth had fallen pr...

In Flanders fields, young Martens knows his family's story, for it is as precious as the faded poem hanging in their home. From a poor girl comforting a grieving soldier, to an unexpected meeting of strangers, to a father's tragic death many decades after treaties were signed, war has shaped Mart...

Young Michael Morpurgo always loved the small painting of a boat hanging on Aunty Iris’s wall. But all she would ever say about it was that her beloved Alfie had painted it and given it to her years ago – before he’d left for France during World War II and had never come back.Michael decides to t...