BOOKS

When the NSAs invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletche...

Jane Eyre remains one of the most widely read of English Classics. In this novel, Charlotte Bronte invented a romantic tale of passion and thrill a...

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isnt on it - even though...

Distant lands, the beautiful gardens of splendid palaces, the sea, the jungle and its beasts, even the desert, are the exotic settings for these st...

A new star-studded adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic Little Dorrit for BBC1 starts this November.The 15-part serial was adapted by highly accl...

The very first Famous Five adventure, featuring Julian, Dick, Anne, not forgetting tomboy George and her beloved dog, Timmy! Theres a shipwreck off...

Danny Thinks The World Of Huis Father, But Imagine His Surprise When He Finds Out He\'s Been Breaking The Law Even Grown -ups Bend Breaking The Law...

The rule would be this: whatever George saw, if it was runny or powdery or gooey, in it went . . ."George Kranky's grandma is a grouch. She's alway...

Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ways and means of maggot fa...

Terry was born in Sunderland, England, in 1946 and now lives in County Durham, in the North-east of England.   Terry's father (Billy) was a butcher...

Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it ...

Why aren't glass eyes really made of glass? What would make the worst stink bomb ever? How would you make your own toothpaste?

The next title in the hugely successful series to get a marvellous make-over. With a bold new cover look and a heap of extra horrible bits at the b...

Bloody Scotland tells you all about the battling, bravehearted Scots, from the despeaate days of the dark Ages to the terrible 20th Century.

In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in Africa. 'They did not think for one moment that t...

History with the nasty bits left in! Can you imagine life without television, road signs and bananas? Or only having enough clothing coupons to buy...

Find out about powerful priests, weird warriorsand the cunning Conquistadors, in this book which provides the foulest facts about Motecuhzoma, Cuah...

A brilliant collection of four stories about this favourite character. Wickedly subversive, hilariously funny and bang up to date, Horrid Henry¿s f...

New look for this backlist classic favourite, read by Roald Dahl, himself. Boggis, Bunce and Bean are just about the nastiest and meanest three far...

Late one night, you and your friends decide to visit the annual carnival and though it's not open yet, you sneak in anyway. This is a big mistake a...

History with the nasty bits left in! Wicked Words tells you some fascinating and funny facts about the incredible English language and its horrible...

This is the story of how a boy called Bob meets a blobfish fish called Blob… And so begins a funny and heartwarming story of a very unusual friends...

Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timothy. Together they are THE FAMOUS FIVE - Enid Blyton's most popular adventure series. All 21 titles also av...

This complete, line-by-line Macbeth translation makes the language of Shakespeares play more modern while preserving the metrical rhythm, complexit...