Category Archives: Accessories
The Trees
A compulsive, mesmerising and wildly imaginative novel in the vein of Pan`s Labyrinth and Station Eleven from the award-winning author of The Girl with Glass Feet There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute
Harry Potter and the Philosopher`s Stone
Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter magic! This gift edition hardback, presented in a beautiful foiled cloth slipcase decorated with brand new line art by Jonny Duddle, is the perfect introduction to Harry Potter. Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive.
The Awesome Body Book
How long are your intestines? How many mites live in your eyelashes? Do all adults wear clean underwear? And much more! Find out disgusting, hilarious, weird and wacky facts about your body with this awesome book!
Because You`ll Never Meet Me
Ollie and Moritz are two teenagers who will never meet. Each of them lives with a life-affecting illness. Contact with electricity sends Ollie into debilitating seizures, while Moritz has a heart defect and is kept alive by an electronic pacemaker. If they did meet, Ollie would seize, but turning off the pacemaker would kill Moritz.
Snow Penguin
In the frozen Antarctic, one curious little penguin decides to explore the ice and the snow and the sea. On his travels he sees two blue whales, a family of sea lions and a whole school of orca, but soon Penguin starts to miss his own family. Sometimes coming home is the best adventure of
Chu`s Day at the Beach
Chu, the little panda with the BIG sneeze, is BACK – and this time he`s going to the seaside! Like all pandas, Chu LOVES the seaside. There are seagulls and rock pools and ice cream. Chu will have a lovely day, and with all that sea, sand and sun, what could possibly go wrong?
Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Hello there! Are you sitting comfortably? Are you sure? Have you found the perfect snuggle-up-and-lose-yourself-in-a-book place? Somewhere comfy, NOT itchy-fuzzy? Somewhere quiet, NOT buzz-buzzy? You have? Great! Unfortunately the little chap in this book isn`t having quite as much luck as you are …Join one small book lover`s search for the perfect place to sit
Harraga
In a crumbling colonial mansion besieged by slums in the old quarter of Algiers, Lamia lives a life of self-imposed isolation, communing only with her ghosts by day, working as a paediatrician by day. Her family are dead, but for her beloved brother Sofiane, who has become a harraga – one of those who risk
The Song from Somewhere Else
Frank doesn`t know how to feel when Nick Underbridge rescues her from bullies one afternoon. No one likes Nick. He`s big, he`s weird and he smells – or so everyone in Frank`s class thinks. And yet, there`s something nice about Nick`s house. There`s strange music playing there, and it feels light and good and makes
Modernity Britain: 1957-1962
David Kynaston`s history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain and through the growing prosperity of Family Britain`s more placid 1950s. Now Modernity Britain 1957-62 sees the coming of a new Zeitgeist as Kynaston gets up close to a turbulent era
Wolfish Stew
There once was a rabbit, his name was Grey he went to the woods to pick berries one day …Grey, the hero of our story, has heard stories about Blue; a stinky mean old wolf who wants to eat little Grey in his Wolfish Stew. So, to keep from being caught Grey sticks to the
There`s a Lion in My Cornflakes
Have you ever collected coupons from a cereal box? Maybe you were saving them up for a book or a toy. Well, when Dan and his brother decide to collect 100 coupons so that they can have their very own lion, they assume the task will be easy enough. How wrong can you be?! A
Kiss it Better
Every day has its ups and downs Sometimes you giggle, sometimes you frown. But the thing to remember, the secret, is this …Everything feels better with the help of a KISS. If you`ve scraped your knee, or fallen out with your best friend, a kiss can make everything better. And kisses aren`t just for children,
Someone
Longlisted for the National Book Award 2014 Someone begins on the stoop of a Brooklyn apartment building where Marie is waiting for her father to come home from work. It is the 1920s and in her Irish-American enclave the stories of her neighbours unfold before her short-sighted eyes. As the years pass Marie`s own history
Take Back the Skies
Catherine Hunter is the daughter of a senior government official on the island of Anglya. She`s one of the privileged – she has luxurious clothes, plenty to eat, and is protected from the Collections which have ravaged families throughout the land. But Catherine longs to escape the confines of her life, before her dad can
John le Carre: The Biography
Over half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le Carre a worldwide, bestselling sensation, David Cornwell, the man behind the pseudonym, remains an enigma. He has consistently quarried his life for his writing, and his novels seem to offer tantalizing glimpses of their author – but in the
You Can`t Take an Elephant on the Bus
You can`t take an elephant on the bus …It would simply cause a terrible fuss! Elephants` bottoms are heavy and fat and would certainly squash the seats quite flat. Never put a camel in a sailing boat, or a tiger on a train, and don`t even THINK about asking a whale to ride a bike
The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff
This laugh-out-loud book is bursting with lists, facts, jokes and funny true stories all about silly people, silly animals, silly inventions, silly names and much more. Discover The Great Stink, the man who ate a bike, a girl really called Lorna Mower and a sofa that can do 87mph. Find out about famous pranks, crazy
Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil
It is the 1960s and Canon Sidney Chambers is enjoying his first year of married life with his German bride Hildegard. But life in Grantchester rarely stays quiet for long. Our favourite clerical detective soon attempts to stop a serial killer who has a grievance against the clergy; investigates the disappearance of a famous painting
Araminta Spook: Gargoyle Hall
When Araminta throws cold water over her best friend, Wanda, to disperse a crowd of panicked bats, it`s decided Araminta has been `helpful` one too many times, and she is packed off to boarding school. On arrival, Araminta is surprised to discover that Gargoyle Hall makes her home, Spook House, seems positively cosy. Strange moans
