Category Archives: Accessories
Moone Boy: The Fish Detective
Successful film and TV star, Chris O` Dowd, collaborates with friend and screenwriter Nick Vincent Murphy in Moone Boy 2, the second in this hilarious, illustrated series.
Bear and Hare: Snow!
It`s snowing …and Hare loves snow! He sets out to show his friend Bear just how much fun it can be with an action-packed whirlwind of winter activities. From building a snowman to hurling snowballs, Hare`s having a great time — but Bear doesn`t seem so sure. Maybe a sledge, a steep slope and an
Tidy
Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Picture Book Award 2017From the creator of Meerkat Mail and Dogs, comes a very funny rhyming woodland story about the perils of being too tidy.Pete the badger likes everything to be neat and tidy at all times, but what starts as the collecting of one fallen leaf escalates and
The Girl, the Bear and the Magic Shoes
A glittering magical adventure about a girl, a bear and some very special shoes from the bestselling creators of What the Ladybird Heard and Sugarlump and the Unicorn.When Josephine leaves the shoe shop after buying some new running shoes, she hears an unusual sound – Click-click! Click-click! A bear with a backpack is following her!
Mobile Library
Twelve-year-old Bobby Nusku is an archivist of his mother. He catalogues traces of her life and waits for her to return home. Bobby thinks that he`s been left to face the world alone until he meets lonely single mother Val and her daughter Rosa. They spend a magical summer together, discovering the books in the
Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony
There are musical goings-on at Ghastly-Gorm Hall and a spooky mystery for Ada Goth to solve in Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony, the fourth book in the Costa Children`s Book Award winning Goth Girl series by Chris Riddell, Children`s Laureate 2015-2017.Lord Goth is throwing a music festival at Ghastly-Gorm Hall, with performances from the
All This Has Nothing to Do with Me
`Set to be one of the coolest novels of the year` Stylist When journalist `MS` interviews the mysterious `XX` for a job at her magazine, she hires him straight away – because he`s gorgeous. As one date leads to another, her obsession spirals. MS finds herself writing letters to Facebook (to see if XX can
The Butcher Boy: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Ross Raisin A modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker prize. When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent. Francie Brady is
The Sea of Adventure
A mysterious trip to the desolate Northern Isles soon turns into a terrifying adventure when Bill is kidnapped! Marooned far from the mainland on a deserted coast, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, Jack and Kiki the parrot find themselves playing a dangerous game with an unknown enemy. Will they escape with Bill and their lives?
The Mountain of Adventure
Surely a peaceful holiday in the Welsh mountains will keep the children out of trouble! But the mystery of a rumbling mountain soon has them thirsty for more adventure. Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, Jack and Kiki the parrot are determined to explore the mountain and uncover its secret, but first they must escape from a pack
The River of Adventure
A river cruise through ancient desert lands becomes a mysterious adventure when Bill disappears! While Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, Jack and Kiki the parrot are desperately searching for Bill, they become trapped beneath a forgotten temple where no one has set foot for 7,000 years. What dangers lurk within, and will they ever escape?
Bethlehem: A Christmas Poem
Bethlehem is normally a quiet little town on the edge of the desert. But tonight, as dusk falls, there is a sense of something special in the air. An inn packed with revellers, shepherds sprawled on the grass, animals in their stables: everything will be changed when a bright star bearing news arrives in the
Freckle Juice
Andrew wants freckles. He wants to be like Nicky Lane, who has millions of them. If he had freckles like Nicky, then his mother would never notice when his neck was dirty. He wouldn`t have to wash and he`d never be late for school. So when Andrew hears about the secret recipe for freckle juice,
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the
Naming Jack the Ripper: New Crime Scene Evidence, A Stunning Forensic Breakthrough, the Killer Revealed
In 2007, businessman Russell Edwards bought a shawl believed to have been left beside the body of the fourth victim, Catherine Eddowes. He knew that, if genuine, the shawl would be the only piece of crime scene evidence still in existence. It was the start of an extraordinary seven-year quest for Russell as he sought
Early Starters: My Day
Rod Campbell, the creator of DEAR ZOO, has been a trusted name in early learning for over 30 years and Macmillan is proud to publish EARLY STARTERS, his major new series for toddlers. Every book in the series supports the learning and discovery of a key theme and uses carefully selected novelty elements to encourage
A Nest of Vipers
A Nest of Vipers is the twenty-first novel in Andrea Camilleri`s irresistible Inspector Montalbano series.Quite a family, you had to admit! A nest of vipers might be a better description . . .On what should be a quiet Sunday morning, Inspector Montalbano is called to a murder scene on the Sicilian coast. A man has
The Divine Comedy
โ€Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain …I had spent all this time – the greater part of a lifetime – preparing my instrumentsโ€ The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James`s new translation – his life`s work and decades in
Rasputin: The Biography
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE Nearly a century after his murder, Rasputin remains as divisive a figure as ever. Was he really a horse thief and a hard-drinking ruffian in his youth? Was he a a devout Orthodox Christian, or was he in fact a just a fake holy man? Are the stories
Wild Food: A Complete Guide for Foragers
Wild food is all around us, growing in our hedgerows and fields, along river banks and seashores, even on inhospitable moorland. In this definitive book, hundreds of these plants are clearly identified, with colour photography and a detailed description. Roger Phillips also gives us fascinating information on how our ancestors would have used the plant
