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Age :8-11 Spectron, the Sea Ghost City, is in danger! The wicked Professor has unleashed another of his menacing Robobeasts. Can Max and his friend...

Age :5-8 Mollie and Peter have a wonderful Wishing-Chair which they keep in their playroom at the bottom of the garden. While they are at Boarding ...

Age :6-9 After 15 fearsome years on the page, Horrible Histories are coming to the small screen - with all the nasty bits intact. In this book read...

Age :9+ Meet Skulduggery pleasant detective, magician, warrior. Oh yes, and dead.You've seen it all before some bad guy wants to bring about the en...

Hard Times: For These Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the soci...

Queenie Jenkins can't cut a break. Well, apart from one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That's definitely just a break though. Definitely not a ...

One million dollars – that's what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant r...

This short novel distilled the essence of glamour and illusion of a generation during the early part of this century. Everyone took advantage of Ja...

Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been ...

One million dollars – that's what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant r...

With a new preface by the author Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novels strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Hellers cla...

Some People Have Dreams That Are So Outrageous That, If They Were To Achieve Them, Their Place In History Would Be Guaranteed. But What If One Man ...

At the time of his death from cancer on 1 March 2001, journalist and broadcaster John Diamond had completed six chapters of what was to be an uncom...

With a cast of characters that covers the whole spectrum of London life, from the grotesque nouveax riches Veneerings to the poverty-stricken Betty...

Its just another day in the life of an average kid. If you are Alex Rider, that is. A con artist has realized there is big money in charity the big...

Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing t...

A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesnt understand. Until he begins to read to her...

In Consequence Of A Number Of Stunning Catastrophes, Arthur Dent Is Surprised To Find Himself Living In A Hideously Miserable Cave On Prehistoric E...

Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two, where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler, and win the war. March 1943...

It was 1882 when Antoinette Giry, Maitresse du Corps de Ballet at the Paris Opera House, took her small daughter to the funfair at Neuilly. And the...

It is the summer of 1921 and eight year old Lucy Gault stays Close to the glens and Woods above Lahardane - The much loved house that her family is...

Lady Chatterley's Lover has been notorious since it was written. Banned for 30 years it was published unexpurgated, by Penguin Books in 1960 and im...

Cubicle farms are full of enemy combatants begging to be taken out.' WIREDAchieve clandestine ends practically and inexpensively with Desk Wars - p...

Smollett's lively rendition of Cervantes's epic burlesque attempts to catch the feeling and tone of the Spanish original - a comic novelist's homag...