Category Archives: Accessories
The Great Cat Conspiracy
The New Cat keeps bringing dead things into the house as presents for Tom. When he brings in the head of the vicar`s very expensive Koi Carp and the Vicar makes Mum pay GBP200 for a replacement, Anna`s Dad is so cross he locks the New Cat out of the cat-flap. Tom argues for the
The Worst Princess
Once upon a time, in a tower near you, Lived a sad princess; the Princess Sue. โ€Some day,โ€ she sighed, โ€my prince will come, But I wish he`d move his royal bum.โ€ But when Princess Sue`s prince finally does arrive, he`s not quite what she had in mind. Find out how the feisty princess escapes
Burptastic Body Book
Why are bogies green? Are boys smellier than girls? Does everybody fart – even teachers? Dirty Bertie – the boy with nose-pickingly revolting habits – is back! Join him as he tours the human body to discover the weird, wonderful and plain yucky things happening right under our noses. From bad breath, smelly sweat and
Thatcher`s Britain
Britain`s first female prime minister remains a political figure of almost mythical proportions. Margaret Thatcher divided a political nation, became a cultural icon, and was the longest-serving prime minister of the twentieth century. Her period in government coincided with extraordinary changes in British society and in Britain`s place in the world. Thatcher`s Britain tells the
The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl
โ€Maybe the earth will continue to spin, and the stars won`t implode for a bazillion more years, but I know, with a certainty my stupid brain has done its best to ignore, that this moment – right here, with the people I love most – is not going to last.โ€ Alba is facing one of
Norman Mailer: A Double Life
Norman Mailer was one of the most famous writers of his generation. People who have never read a word that he wrote know who he was because of his fame as a novelist or journalist, or his notoriety because of his womanising, his rivalries with other writers, his appearances on television, his political outspokenness and
I`ll be Home for Christmas
The UK`s top Young Adult authors join together in this collection of new stories and poems on the theme of home. Contributors include: Tom Becker, Holly Bourne, Sita Brahmachari, Kevin Brooks, Melvin Burgess, Katy Cannon , Cat Clarke, Juno Dawson, Julie Mayhew, Non Pratt, Marcus Sedgwick, Lisa Williamson and Benjamin Zephaniah. GBP1 from the sale
The Intelligent Woman`s Guide: To Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism
As a Fabian and lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of our lives. Family affections and relations between the sexes were perverted by it. From Parliament to eduction our institutions were โ€corrupted at the root by pecuniary interestโ€. Idealism, integrity and piecemeal attempts at political reform were all
Star Struck!
A fantastically funny series from Alan MacDonald and David Roberts, creator of Dirty Bertie. Angela Nicely is already well known to fans of Dirty Bertie after he struggled to escape her clutches in Kiss!, and now she has her very own series! Angela is sure to delight young readers, with her larger-than-life personality and her
Childhood Memories and Other Stories
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left only a few other pieces of fiction when he died prematurely at the age of sixty. Childhood Memories and Other Stories, here presented in a new translation by Stephen Parkin and including previously deleted
And Then We Ran
A road-trip story about following your dreams and embracing the unexpected. Megan knows what she wants out of life and she intends to get it, whatever her parents say. Elliott has given up on all his plans for the future – but then Megan bursts into his life with a proposal that could change it
Seven Days In The Art World
Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. Sarah Thornton`s shrewd and entertaining fly-on-the-wall narrative takes us behind the scenes of the art world, from art school to auction house, showing us how it works, and giving us a vivid sense of
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary from Hitler`s Last Birthday to Ve Day
Swansong 1945 chronicles four significant days in the last three weeks of WWII: 20 April, Hitler`s last birthday; 25 April, when American and Soviet troops first met at the Elbe; 30 April, the day Hitler committed suicide; and 8 May, the day of the German surrender. Side by side in these pages, we encounter the
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will
Do we have free will? It`s a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fixed early on by a mixture
My Italian Bulldozer
When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers his hired car is nowhere to be found. With no record of any
The Banner of the Passing Clouds
The extraordinary narrator of The Banner of the Passing Clouds is born on the day Stalin dies and is given his name – Iosif Dzhugashvili – by a hospital official. He becomes convinced that Stalin, freed from the constraints of an old and finished body, has found a new dwelling place within his chest, behind
Under the Udala Trees
One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma`s father is killed and her world is transformed forever. Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another young lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. Theirs is a relationship that will shake the foundations of Ijeoma`s faith, test her resolve and
Undermajordomo Minor
Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a compulsive liar and a melancholy weakling. When Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, forbidding castle of the Baron Von Aux he meets thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and a puppy. He
The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century
A profound and delightful jeu d`esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions
The Day of the Owl
In the piazza, a man lies dead. No one will say if they witnessed his killing. This presents a challenge to the investigating officer, a man who earnestly believes in the values of a democratic and modern society. Indeed, his enquiries are soon blocked off by wall of silence and vested interests; he must work
