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Jiggy is horrified to hear that his parents have signed him up for a reality TV show called Kid Swap. He is to move in with another family and ever...

Age :8-13 Four Goosebumps Graphix tales by master of horror R. L. Stine are adapted into full-color comics and feature a brand-new Slappy story by ...

Battle fearsome beasts and fight evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up.The Evil Wizard Malv...

Age :8-13 Tick, tick, tick, tock. Once you've wound some things up nothing can stop them . . .It is a cold winter's night when Karl enters the Whit...

Age :8-13 Captain Underpants #09: Captain Underpants And The Terrifying Return Of Tippy Tinkletrousers

Some of Agatha Christie’s earliest stories – including her very first – which show the Queen of Crime in the making…A macabre recurring dream … rev...

Agatha Christie’s ingenious murder mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Chris...

A beautiful heiress is fatally poisoned in a West End restaurant…Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty pla...

A healthy young man dies in his sleep, despite the ringing of eight separate alarm clocks…Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; s...

A mysterious stranger appears at a New Year’s Eve party, becoming the enigmatic sleuthing sidekick to the snobbish Mr Satterthwaite…So far, it had ...

Agatha Christie’s disturbing 1960s mystery thrillerGipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it ...

Jane Austen, a renowned English novelist of the nineteenth century, crafted timeless tales that continue to captivate readers to this day. Her grea...

Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this tour de force featuring more than 100 characters - some heroic, some diabolical - ...

Set in Maine, this story concerns Bobbi who has developed telepathic powers. A spaceship landed at the bottom of her garden and when it is uncovere...

Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy h...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. Within those years was crowded a variety of activity and creative work that ...

The book that redefined travel writing' GuardianBruce Chatwin sets off on a journey through South America in this wistful classic travel bookWith i...

In The Hidden Chimp, Professor Steve Peters explains in a simplified way the neuroscience of the developing mind and how some unhelpful and destruc...

His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: The Needle. He is Henry Faber, a coldly professional killer and Germany's most feared deep-cover agent in...

An alternate cover edition can be found here . Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monaste...

Translated by Michael J. Oakley The Aeneid is Virgils Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Romes legendary origins from the ashes of Tr...

William Lowell Kane And Abel Rosnovski, One The Son Of A Boston Millionaire, The Other A Penniless Polish Immigrant - Two Men Born On The Same Day ...

This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the...

Father Brown, One Of The Most Quirkily Genial And Lovable Characters To Emerge From English Detective Fiction, First Made His Appearance In The Inn...

Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature’s greatest detective team as they investigate some of their best-known cases.SHERLOCK H...

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can es...

There’s more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel…An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime t...

As the Orient express crosses Europe, it seems to draw a trail of lust, murder, revolution and intrigue from Ostend to Constantinople ..

THINNER - the old gipsy man barely whispered the word. Billy felt the touch of a withered hand, gentle on his cheek. Billy Halleck, prosperous if o...

At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can s...

In each of these tales Margaret Atwood deftly illuminates the single instant that shapes a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters ...

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead...""This is a record of hate far more than...

Cats Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engu...

If you're holding this book in your hand, then you've already changed your life. Are you still waiting for your ship to come in? Looking for the re...

A collection of short stories featuring the ‘heart specialist’, Parker Pyne.Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life c...

Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE WHITBREAD (NOW COSTA) BOOK OF THE YEAR1...

We may unweave the rainbow, but we put together something far more beautiful' More and more frequently, science is accused of promoting an arid and...

The No. 1 hardback bestseller, King's spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about music, the powerful bond between two people, addiction, relig...

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford where, a ...

An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home…Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrie...

`It is hoped that we are not destined to see very much more of each other, Mr Carleton! You arouse in me an almost overmastering desire to give you...

Ever since its first publication, John Gray's relationship classic, MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS has held its place at the top of the in...

Six Four . The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no listener could predict. For five days in January 1...

Set In An Unnamed Caribbean Seaport, Garcia Marquez's Extraordinary Love In The Time Of Cholera (1988) Relates One Of Literature's Most Remarkable ...

From the impish to the brilliantly comic, Vikram Seth's animal fables in verse can (like Diwali sweets) be enjoyed by young and old alike. Familiar...

A full-length Hercule Poirot novel, adapted from Agatha Christie’s stage play by Charles Osborne Sir Claud Amory’s revolutionary new formula for a ...

The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. Ho...