Dork Diaries

Red Dirt Diaries - Blue's News

Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestads much-loved RED DIRT DIARIES, now with amazing new covers! Ages: 8-12 Blue Weston is on a mission! â Shes starting Hardbake Plains first ever newspaper with Mat and Ben â Shes determined not to like her new teacher, the Colonel â And shes trying to convince Miss McKenzie to come back from Scotland But despit...

The Raqqa Diaries - Escape from Islamic State

Remarkable . . . rare, intimate . . . Samer is an understated hero of our time. Anthony Loyd, The Times A clarion call to all of us that we should not give up. Somewhere there is a voice in the wreckage. Michael Palin This is brutal non-fiction, plainly and urgently told. Robin Yassin-Kassab, Guardian The simple act of bearing witness is one of the most powerful human responses avai...

Dork Diaries - Crush Catastrophe

Nikki Maxwells adventures continue in the twelfth instalment in the bestselling DORK DIARIES series! Now with over 30 million copies in print worldwide! In Nikkis newest diary, its the countdown to the end of the school year, and Nikkis juggling some big questions about how shell spend her summer. Shes also facing an unexpected crush catastrophe theres a new kid interested in ...

Dork Diaries - Crush Catastrophe

Nikki Maxwells adventures continue in the twelfth instalment in the bestselling DORK DIARIES series! Now with over 30 million copies in print worldwide! In Nikkis newest diary, its the countdown to the end of the school year, and Nikkis juggling some big questions about how shell spend her summer. Shes also facing an unexpected crush catastrophe theres a new kid interested in ...

Gin O'Clock - Gin O'clock: Secret diaries from Elizabeth Windsor, HRH @Queen_UK [of Twitter]

IN 2012, THE DIAMOND JUBILEE YEAR, HER MAJESTYS DIARIES ARE OPENED AT LAST ***Offering insight from the top on all the major events of 2012, including the two Royal weddings, the phone hacking scandal, and the Duke of Edinburghs tarts and vicars-themed 90th birthday party.*** Had a quick run-through of the opening ceremony. One wanted to call it The Empire Strikes Back but it was gen...

Red Dirt Diaries

Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestads much-loved RED DIRT DIARIES, now with amazing new covers! Ages: 8-12 Blue Westons life is spiralling out of control. Her parents are sending her to boarding school next year. Her mad twin brothers are building pig chariots in the back shed. Her best friend has been abducted by zombies and replaced with a boy-crazy tween. ...

Cake Pop Crush - A Wish Novel

Alice Ramirez has always loved baking. Her family owns Say It With Flour, the small bakery in town. And Alis specialties are cake pops: delicious confections on a stick. But Alis sweet life turns sour when a sleek coffee shop opens across the street, giving her bakery a run for its money. The owners son, Dane McGuire, is Alis age, and he loves to bake too. Plus, hes annoyingly cute. Wh...

Red Dirt Diaries - Blue About Love

Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestads much-loved RED DIRT DIARIES, now with amazing new covers! Ages: 8-12 Im going to be a bridesmaid. Mat, Lynette and me. Long, pink shiny dresses and flowers in our hair. Leading Miss McKenzie down the aisle to disaster. I think Im going to puke When Blues favourite teacher announces shes engaged, Blue thinks she must have lost h...

The Kitchen Diaries

Following the success of `Real Food and `Appetite, this is the tenth book from Nigel Slater, the award-winning food writer and author of the bestselling autobiography, `Toast. `The food in The Kitchen Diaries is simply what I eat at home. The stuff I make for myself, for friends and family, for visitors and for parties, for Sunday lunch and for snacks. These are meals I make when I stop...

Sammy Feral's Diaries of Weird - Dragon Gold

Eleanor Hawken worked as a childrens book editor for many years and was part of the team that established the Bath Festival of Childrens Literature. Her popular childrens series Sammy Ferals Diaries of Weird chronicles the hilarious adventures of a boy who spends his time with the furry and ferocious tenants of the zoo his family runs. Sammy couldnt be more excited when two pandas arriv...

Dork Diaries - Puppy Love

When the animal shelter Brandon volunteers at is too full to take a litter of abandoned puppies, Nikki decides to look after them until the shelter has more room. Simple. Theres only one slight problem her parents wont allow dogs in the house so Nikki has to hide them at home and take them to school in secret. But with seven puppies to hide, things are going to get messy Is Nikkis plan g...

The Motorcycle Diaries

The film tie-in edition of the established modern classic. In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on La Poderosa, the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Che Guevara. Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these are Ches diaries full of disasters and discoveries, high drama, low comedy and laddish imp...

Mao's Great Famine - The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962

An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of Chinas Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the Peoples Republic of China.Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the co...

Nikki Maxwell is not popular, in fact Nikki Maxwell is the opposite of popular; shes a total dork! But Nikkis hoping that by moving to a new school she might just stand a chance of making some friends and leaving her old lame-ways in the past. But life is never that simple! Follow Nikkis life through sketches, doodles and diary entries as she starts her new school, battles with her mum for a...

Dork Diaries - Drama Queen

TOTAL DISASTER!!! Mean girl MacKenzie has stolen Nikkis diary! What if she tells everyone Nikkis totally secret thoughts?! But reading Nikkis diary isnt the only thing MacKenzies interested in. Get ready for Dork Diaries with a twist as MacKenzie takes over and tells all about her GLAMFABULOUS life! What does the queen bee really think about Nikki and her dorky friends? The brand NEW i...

Dork Diaries - Dear Dork

When Nikki Maxwell discovers that her arch-nemesis, Mackenzie, has started writing a gossip column for the school newspaper shes worried that Mackenzie might be about to reveal some secret info about Nikkis crush, Brandon, that she knows he wont want the whole school to find out about. To keep an eye on what Mackenzies up to, Nikki decides to join the newspaper too, and somehow ends up wor...

Dork Diaries - Holiday Heartbreak

Its the biggest dance of the year and Nikki Maxwell is hoping her crush, Brandon, wants to be her date. But time is running out. What if he doesnt want to go with her? Or worse what if he ends up going with Mackenzie?!! In the sixth book in the blockbuster Dork Diaries series now with more than 8 million copies in print join Nikki, Chloe and Zoey as they tackle the topic of love, Dor...

Dork Diaries

Nikki Maxwell is not popular, in fact Nikki Maxwell is the opposite of popular; shes a total dork! But Nikkis hoping that by moving to a new school she might just stand a chance of making some friends and leaving her old lame-ways in the past. But life is never that simple! Follow Nikkis life through sketches, doodles and diary entries as she starts her new school, battles with her mum for...

Palestine Diaries - The Light Horsemen's Own Story, Battle by Battle

Culminating with the cavalry charge at Beersheba on 31 October 1917, Palestine Diaries is the story of Australias Light Horsemen of WWI, told in their own brutally honest words day by day, battle after bloody battle. One hundred years after that now-legendary battle widely considered the last great cavalry charge Dr. Jonathan King argues that the breathtaking achievement of the 4th Lig...

Dork Diaries - Pop Star

Let the spotlight showdown commence Nikki Maxwells school is holding a talent competition and Nikki cant wait to start practising dance moves with her BFFs, Chloe and Zoey, and impressing Brandon, her crush, with her singing skills! But then Nikki finds out that her arch-nemesis, MacKenzie, is entering the contest too, and shes determined to steal the limelight from Nikki and her friends. ...

Cringe - Toe-Curlingly Embarrassing Teenage Diaries, Letters and Bad Poetry

Who among us hasnt suffered from the trauma of adolescence? Of great loves gained and lost all in a day and friendships forever destroyed only to be rekindled the following Monday morning? And which of us can honestly say that we dont have a secret collection of diaries, poems and crazed love letters stashed somewhere, a cringeworthy, but touching reminder of how simple it all was once? Wel...