On Two Feet and Wings - One Boy's Amazing Story of Surv...
I was not aware that I was crying until I saw the tears hit ...
Hidden - Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten. How One Boy...
From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author ...
Hidden - Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten. How One Boy...
From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author ...
Illegal - A graphic novel telling one boy's epic journe...
This is a powerful and timely story about one boys epic jo...
The Reason I Jump - one boy's voice from the silence of...
The No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. Writt...
A War in Crimson Embers - Book Three of the Crimson Emp...
FIVE VILLAINS. ONE MISSION. A WAR AGAINST DEVILS. Warrior q...
Iguana Boy Saves the World With a Triple Cheese Pizza
One boy. One disappointing superpower. Can Dylan tame a bunc...
Operation Boy Band - Frankie Fox, Girl Spy Book 2
Junior Griffin agent Frankie Fox is undercover on her second...
Flames Of War - Battle Of El Alamein: War In The Desert...
El Alamein is your introduction to the exciting world of Fla...
One Boy's War
Of Fortunes and War - Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
The list of female war reporters is long and distinguished. But the great-grandmother of them all was Clare Hollingworth Mail on Sunday Unputdownable Alexander McCall Smith One of the most unforgettable journalists I have ever met Chris Patten She was a pioneer Kate Adie OBEA NEW EDITION WITH EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE CLARE HOLLINGWORTH FAMILY ARCHIVELegendary journalist Clare...
A Time to Remember - Book One in the the gripping, uplifting Rivenshaw Saga set at the close of World War Two
The first book in a heartwarming new Lancashire-based series by beloved and bestselling saga writer Anna Jacobs, set at the end of World War Two. 1945 the war in Europe is over. It should be a time of utter joy and celebration.Most women cant wait for their men to return, but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire, Judith Crossley fears having her husband back in the house. Hed grown ...
Broken Nation - Australians in the Great War
Winner of the 2014 Prime Ministers Literary Award for Australian History.If you read only one book about Australias experience of World War I . make it Broken Nation, an account that joins the history of the war to the home front, and that details the barbarism of the battlefields as well as the desolation, despair, and bitter divisions that devastated the communities left behind. Maril...
Charlie and the War Against the Grannies
I didnt want Mrs Cyclopolos to explode. I just wanted a paper round. My name is Charlie Ian Duncan. I will be 12 on 2 February. I have written this history of my war with the grannies because I need everyone to know that I didnt mean for Mrs Cyclopolos to blow up. I just wanted a paper round. When I say my war with the grannies, I really mean the war I waged alongside my best friend Hils...
Operation Boy Band - Frankie Fox, Girl Spy Book 2
Junior Griffin agent Frankie Fox is undercover on her second mission, visiting an international kids robotics competition in Scotland. Shes investigating the evil Alliances robot army when she discovers something even more terrifying: the worlds number one boy band, Band of Brothers, is brainwashing kids to serve the Alliance! To crack this case, Frankie will need to solve puzzles, deprogr...
Dolls of War
In 1941, eleven-year-old Macy James lives near the Oregon coast with her father, the director of a small museum. Miss Tokyo, one of fifty-eight exquisite friendship dolls given to America by Japan in 1926, is part of the museums collection and one of Macys most treasured connections to her mother, who recently passed away. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, many of Macys neighbors deman...
Good Muslim Boy
Good Muslim Boy tells the story of Osamah Samis journey from Iran during the Iraq war to the suburbs of Australia and his quest to fit into his new life whilst trying to stay a good Muslim boy. In turns comic and tragic, Osamahs story explores the universal truths of growing up, falling in love, marriage, family and following ones dream; whilst also telling the immigrants story of straddli...
One Boy's War
Sixteen-year-old Sydney is overwhelmed by the excitement of the 1914 recruitment campaigns and the bravado of men leaving for the Great War. Bursting with enthusiasm, he runs away to join up, but soon finds himself a long way from home in a frontline trench where reality and the rats begin to bite. Told through Sydneys optimistic letters home and his journal, this is his honest portrayal o...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
The first book in a new series that will explore Australias role in the Great War.From the earliest days of the Great War, Australians volunteered to fight in the air warfares newest arena, and one that would transform the nature of military operations. In the squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps and with Britains flying services, Australian airmen fought in campaigns that spanned the...
War and Peace
War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleons war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoys view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoys...
One Crowded Hour
One Crowded Hour is the bestselling biography of one of the worlds greatest combat cinecameramen and an extraordinary Australian. First published in 1987, One Crowded Hour remains a must-read for aspiring photographers, cinematographers, journalists and war buffs. For over twenty years, from the early 1960s, Neil Davis brought enduring images of the horror of modern war directly from the battle...
Destined for War - Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason is Thucydidess Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, the historian Thucydides explained- It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled...
War Storm
VICTORY COMES AT A PRICE. Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cals betrayal nearly destroyed her. Now determined to protect her heart-and secure freedom for Reds and newbloods like her-Mare resolves to overthrow the kingdom of Norta once and for all . . . starting with the crown on Mavens head. But no battle is won alone, and before the Reds may rise as one, Mare must side with the bo...
The Tank War - The British Band of Brothers - One Tank Regiment's World War II
From the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw them serve in Africa as part of the Desert Rats, before returning to Europe for the Normandy landings. Wherever they went, the notoriety of the Filthy Fifth grew they revelled in their reputation for fightin...
Illegal - A graphic novel telling one boy's epic journey to Europe
This is a powerful and timely story about one boys epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout. From Eoin Colfer, previously Irish Childrens Laureate, and the team behind his bestselling Artemis Fowl graphic novels. Ebo: alone.His sister left months ago. Now his brother has disappeared too, and Ebo knows it can only be to make ...
Vampire War Trilogy - Books 7 - 9
The nightmare continues
Vampire War Trilogy comprising: Hunters of the Dusk, Allies of the Night and Killers of the Dawn. Join Darren Shans descent into the darkness. the nightmare continues . Vampire War trilogy is a three-in-one bind-up comprising: Hunters of the Dusk, Allies of the Night and Killers of the Dawn. Join Darren Shans descent into the darkness. HUNtERS OF tHE DUSK Darren Sh...
Bearers Of The Black Staff - Legends of Shannara: Book One
***50 MILLION TERRY BROOKS COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD*** THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES IS NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES Terrys place is at the head of the fantasy world Philip Pullman Five hundred years have passed since the devastating demon-led war that almost exterminated humankind. Those who escaped the carnage were led to sanctuary by the boy saviour known as Hawk: the gypsy morph. But now, the ...
The Proud Tower - A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914
The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it.Barbara W. TuchmanThe fateful quarter-century leading up to the World War I was a time when the world of Privi...
Hidden - Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten. How One Boy Overcame the Odds.
From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author comes the poignant and shocking memoir of Cathys recent relationship with Tayo, a young boy she fosters whose good behaviour and polite manners hide a terrible past. Tayo arrives at Cathys with only the clothes he stands up in. He has been brought to her by the police, but he is calm, polite, and very well spoken, and not at all like...
Iguana Boy Saves the World With a Triple Cheese Pizza
One boy. One disappointing superpower. Can Dylan tame a bunch of hyper iguanas and come up with a masterful plan to save the WORLD? Yeah, probably
but hes going to need a MASSIVE cheese pizza. Perfect for fans of Tom Gates, Future Ratboy and My Brother is a Superhero. Dylan has wanted a superpower for as long as he can remember, especially since his brother and sister have got really cool o...
War God: Nights of the Witch - War God Trilogy Book One
A young girl called Tozi stands at the bottom of a pyramid, waiting to be led to the top where her heart will be cut out
Pepillo, a Spanish orphan who serves a sadistic Dominican friar, is aboard the Spanish fleet as it sails towards Mexico
This is the epic story of the clash of two empires, two armies and two gods of war. Five hundred desperate adventurers are about to pit themselves agains...