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Poor Pongo Twistleton must endure his sixty-year-old Uncle Fred once a year. But this year, mischievous Uncle Fred has gone too...

The guns are silent. The dead are not.
1919. On the battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent....

Which is more dangerous, a secret or a lie?

Poppy has a secret.

It was a whirlwind romance. And when Drew, caught up in...

Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient...

A man is blown up in a high-security prison.
A major drugs baron comes under attack.
A massacre takes place in a dark...

Lucy Harper has a talent for invention...

She was nine years old when her brother vanished in the woods near home. As the only...

In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than...

A howling wind, a thunderstorm, the beating sun – it’s with the elements that nature shows its true force and wonder.

In...

No parent, teacher or nursery group should be without this classic treasury. There are songs, rhymes and games for every...

In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971,...

Patterson... , Паттерсон...

Liz and Laurie are mother and daughter, but they couldn't be more different.

Laurie is a free spirit whose creative career is...

'The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew . . . The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.'

Time is a resource....

The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he lyrically describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of...

When sixteen-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast, she is terrified by what lies ahead of her. All she knows...

Man or Monster?
Anne Rice reinvented the vampire legend.
Discover what she's done with the werewolf myth.
After a brutal...

Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and...

One of the most celebrated works of classic literature for children, The Wind in the Willows follows Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger...

Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's Wild Party, a lost...

Two strangers meet on a bus along a dusty road in rural France. Tati is a tough, work-worn widow, who runs the farm her late...

In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother,...

America is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it...
Thomas Cale - the world's most dangerous yet reluctant...

When you're dead, you're dead. When you're gone, you're gone.
Unless, of course, you're not.
And that's where I come...

Originally built to house the workers of Victorian London, Balaklava Street is now an oasis in the heart of Kentish Town and ripe...

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a...

'There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation.'

In this tale drawn from...

Boston, 1980

Ada Sibelius is twelve years old and home-schooled. Her days are spent in a lab with her father David, a computer...

An engaging comedy of love, The Two Gentlemen of Verona deals with the conflict between friendship and romance, and features one...

'There's a trick to time. You can make it expand or you can make it contract. Make it shorter or make it longer…'
Some moments...

A brand new collection of short stories from the incredible Sir Terry Pratchett.

This deluxe collector's edition comes in a...

A nice house, a carefree life, a doting husband, a best friend who never leaves your side. What more could you ask for? There's...