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...

Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren – he felt sure of it. So did his brother Hazel, for Fiver’s sixth se...

Having got rid of their human master, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But as a clever, ruthless elite among...

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, h...

When Dan and Una stage a performance of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in a fairy ring, they are astonished by the appearance of Puck in person. He ex...

The Lightning Thief, written by Rick Riordan, is the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and can be purchased from Amazon site...

In How to Live for Change and Change for Life, renowned self-help guru John Gray turns his successful healing advice to how we live in modern times...

Smaug Certainly Looked Fast A, When Bilbo Peeped Once More From The Entrance. He Was Just About To Step Out On To The Floor When He Caught A Sudden...

In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric E...

Three volumes in one! A prestige treatment of Inoue’s epic samurai series with bonus content, color pages, storyboard samples and more!Real-life fi...

Eisner-award nominated creator Takehiko Inoue’s critically acclaimed take on the life of Miyamoto Mushashi. Transcends the potential of what manga ...

Real-life figure Miyamoto Musashi was the most celebrated samurai of all time. The quintessential warrior-philosopher, Musashi authored A Book of F...

A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children’s team in this small-town love story in the ve...

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commenta...

Tamara Goodwin has always lived in the here and now, never giving a second thought to tomorrow. Until a traveling library arrives in her tiny villa...

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...

The second thrilling, chilling installment in Anthony Horowitz's bestselling Gatekeepers series.   Matt thought his troubles were over when he clos...

Lyra lies sleeping in a cave near a rainbow, drugged into unconsciousness by her mother, Mrs Coulter, whose love for her daughter closely rivals he...

Ann Thompson is Professor of English Language and Literature and Head of the School of Humanities at King's College London. She has edited The Tami...

A President's affair to remember soon becomes a nightmare he wishes he could forget in James Patterson's gripping new stand-alone thriller. As he s...

Lena Adams has spent her life struggling to escape her past. She has only unhappy memories of Reece, the small town which nearly destroyed her. She...

This book comprises two novels, "Reading Turgenev" and "My House in Umbria", which evoke the landscapes of Ireland and Italy, respectively. The sto...

Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. You can't tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's not easy being a half-blood these days....

The Help is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett.Enter a vanished and unjust world:...

Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia's sense of honour for centuries. In New York a mob boss is assassinated...