Category Archives: Travel Guides
Baby`s First Jailbreak
Queues at Baby Frank`s famous zoo are dwindling and there`s only one person responsible… Meet Baby Bruce. He`s greedy, fame-hungry and he`s opened up a rival zoo nearby. The problem is, all the animals at Baby Bruce`s zoo are unhappy. What`s Baby Frank to do? Face his nemesis and stage an epic baby jail break,
The Wanderers: The West Country Trilogy
The beautiful, questing second novel in Tim Pears` acclaimed West Country trilogy. Two teenagers, bound by love yet divided by fate, forge separate paths in pre-First World War Devon and Cornwall Lonely and grieving for her exiled best friend, thirteen-year-old Lottie feels a prisoner. Her only solace is her study of the natural world around
Sour Heart
Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut FictionA Guardian, Nylon, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Vulture and Shelf Awareness Book of the Year 2017`Relegate anything else you`re reading – there is no other book to be seen with now` The Times`Obscene, beautiful, moving` New Yorker Centred on a community of immigrants precariously balanced on the edge
The House on Half Moon Street
“Enthralling, exciting, extraordinary and utterly convincing. Everything a great book should be2 Sarah Hilary”Wonderfully atmospheric, each page carries the whiff of sulphur and gaslight” RedEveryone has a secret… Only some lead to murder. Introducing Leo Stanhope: a Victorian transgender coroner`s assistant who must uncover a killer without risking his own futureWhen the body of a
How to Resist: Turn Protest to Power
An inspiring and practical set of seven principles to enact lasting change in our communities.`This book is for people who are angry with the ways things are and want to do something about it; for people who are frustrated with the system, or worried about the direction the country is going. Maybe they`ve been on
Travelling in a Strange Land
`One of Ireland`s great novelists` Roddy Doyle `Wrings the heart` Bernard MacLaverty `A mighty book` Frank McGuinness `Extraordinary, raw and moving a chronicle of pain and powerlessness as could be written` Lisa McInerneyThe world is shrouded in snow. With transport ground to a halt, Tom must venture out into a transformed and treacherous landscape to
Baby`s First Bank Heist
Move over, Bonnie and Clyde, because there`s a new criminal mastermind in town … Baby Frank! Baby Frank`s parents say that he can`t have a pet – `Pets are for older kids`, `Be happy with your teddy`, `They cost too much to keep` – which leaves Baby Frank with a BIG problem because he REALLY
The Lonely Christmas Tree
A gorgeous gift book to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas – a perfect gift for any Christmas stocking.A lonely tree stands on the cold, frosted hillside gazing at the other trees sparkling in the village below. How it longs to be with them! Then suddenly out reaches a warm friendly hand, and with a
The Kite Runner: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Kite Runner, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listThe first of the defeated kites whirled out of control. They fell from the sky like shooting stars with brilliant, rippling tails, showering the neighbourhood.Amir and Hassan grow up together in Kabul. Amir in the beautiful house
Hop Little Bunnies
There are lots of sleepy animals to wake up in this bouncy, energetic picture book. Lift the flaps, then hop with the little bunnies, cheep with the chicks, baa with the lambs and mew with the kittens.An interactive book, full of non-stop fun, based on the popular nursery rhyme `Sleeping Bunnies`. This is full of
The English Patient: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The English Patient, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listA small cargo plane will come down to land, slipping from the level of the horizon. It tips its wings within desert light and then sound stops, it drifts to earth.The final curtain is closing on the
Meet the Planets
Zoooooooom! We`re off on an exciting space adventure in our rocket to meet all the planets of the solar system.Join in with the rhymes and spot all the smiley-faced, friendly planets, from shimmering Saturn to mighty Mars. Little ones will have a blast (and be back in time for bed!) in this striking, read-aloud, story-led
The Little Friend: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Little Friend, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listThe sunlit rails gleamed like dark mercury, arteries branching out silver from the switch points; the old telegraph poles were shaggy with kudzu and Virginia creeper and, above them, rose the water tower, its surface all washed
Restless: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Restless, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listShe continued her cross-examination and watched Romer`s pleasure grow; he was enjoying this, she saw, and his enjoyment began to anger her. This wasn`t some pastime, some idle flirtation – her brother was dead.Eva Delectorskaya, a beautiful Russian emigree
The Song of Achilles: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Song of Achilles, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listThe god touches his finger to the arrow`s fletching. Then he breathes, a puff of air – as if to send dandelions flying, to push toy boats over water. And the arrow flies, straight and silent,
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listSaville`s corpse, already stiff, was laid on a table beneath the kitchen window; upstairs the shape of his sleeping self was still indented on the sheets and pillow of the cot.On a summer`s morning in
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
The cult book by Edward Gorey ‘“ the genius who inspired Tim Burton, Neil Gaiman and Guillermo Del Toro`The Gashlycrumb Tinies` is a rhyming alphabet unlike any other: melancholy, strange and quite phantasmagorically witty. A is for AMY who fell down the stairsB is for BASIL assaulted by bearsC is for CLARA who wasted away…
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listThe woman within the mirror drew nearer. For a moment she appeared directly behind it and they could see the elaborate embroidery and beading of her gown; then she mounted up upon the frame as
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World Activity Book
Join some of the world`s most inspiring women in this must-have activity book based on Kate Pankhurst`s bestselling book Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, full of fun and utterly inspiring activities and over 200 stickers. Write your own stories with Jane Austen, lead a fashion revolution just like Coco Chanel and design your
Last Train to Hilversum
Despite the all-pervading influence of television ninety per cent of people in Britain still listen to the radio, clocking up over a billion hours of listening between us every week. It`s a background to all our lives: we wake up to our clock radios, we have the radio on in the kitchen as we make
