The Spy Who Loved Castro - How I was recruited by the C...
Few can say theyve seen some of the most significant momen...
Higgledy Piggledy the Hen Who Loved to Dance
A delightful farmyard story full of energy and fun from Fran...
The Boy Who Loved Math - The Improbable Life of Paul Er...
With a simple, lyrical text and richly layered illustrations...
The Dragon Who Loved Me
Something in the Blood - The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
An essential examination (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth. In this sumptuous (Publishers Weekly) portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire (Time). A fascinating character whose own anxieties and ...
The Camel Who Crossed Australia
Third in Jackie Frenchs Animal Stars series, featuring the animals who contributed to historys most famous events. the story of the famous Burke and Wills expedition
as it has never been told before the humans called him Bell Sing, but to the other camels he is known as He Who Spits Further than the Wind. transported from the mountains and deserts of the Northwest Frontier (p...
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton A mans brain is a bomb, he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A mans brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Sym...
The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water
Meet a most unusual crocodile! Everybody knows that crocodiles love water, but this little crocodile is different. He doesnt like water at all. In fact, he prefers climbing trees! But it can be lonely when youre the odd one out, so the little crocodile tries his best to change. But being wet isnt for everyone and a shiver soon becomes a cold and the cold becomes a sneeze, a very hot sneez...
The Dragon's Teeth - Book 9
At last, Troy seems within reach for Atticus the Storyteller, who has been travelling through the ancient world, gathering new friends and stories to share. Now he needs a ship which isnt easy, so hes heard. But luckily, he soon finds a willing captain and in return for a story or two secures his safe passage. Among the stories in THE DRAGONS TEETH are the tales of two of the greate...
The Boy Who Set Sail on a Questionable Quest
Princess Lois has been kidnapped by Anatoly the Handsome, who wants to marry her. Cue damsel in distress to be rescued by none other than our own heroic Blart. He sets out on the good ship The Golden Pig with Olaf the innocent who believes what everyone says all the time and Kupverstich the Strange an explorer-come-scientist whose ingenious explanations for the natural world have one ...
The Dragon Reborn - Book 3 of the Wheel of Time
Epic in every sense Sunday Times The third novel in the Wheel of Time series one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published. The Land is One with the Dragon and the Dragon is One with the Land. The Shadow lies across the Pattern of the Age, and the Dark One has turned all his power against the prison that binds him. If it fails he will escape and nothing w...
The Boy Who Cried Vampire - A Graphic Novel
In Transylvania, a boy cries
vampire! Young Ion is bored by life in the village. So to spice things up, the imaginative prankster runs false vampire drills, much to the annoyance of the villagers. But one night, a shadow passes by Ions window. This time its no joke. Its a REAL vampire! Have all of Ions fibs come back to bite him, or can the boy find a way out of this batty situation? In ...
The Viscount Who Loved Me
1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, Londons most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And, in all truth, why should he When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better . . . Lady Whistledowns Society Papers, April 1814But this time the gossip columnists have it wrong. Anthony Bri...
The Man Who Listens to Horses
Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer-an American original whose gentle Join-Up® training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been handled and persuade that horse to accept a bridle, saddle, and rider in thirty minutes. His powers may seem like magic, but his amazing horse sense is based o...
The Man Who Was Thursday - Green Popular Penguins
G.K. Chestertons 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes Thursday, one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council. He soon learns, ho...
Kumiko and the Dragon's Secret
From the author of the Aurealis-winning Kumiko and the Dragon Kumiko and the Dragons Secret continues the fantasy adventure of Kumiko, a young Japanese girl who is guarded by the dragon, Tomodo. In this sequel to the beautifully written Kumiko and the Dragon, danger surrounds Kumikos family as the sinister shadow catchers kidnap Kumikos sister, Arisu, seeking to absorb the dragons magi...
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye - Continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO LIVES ON. The fifth in the Millennium series that began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo the global publishing phenomenon. Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force: Sentenced to two months in Flodberga womens prison for saving a young boys life by any means necessary, Salander refuses to say anything in her own defence. She has more important things on he...
The Puppy who was Left Behind
A brand new tale in the Animal Stories series from best-selling author, Holly Webb. The Puppy Who Was Left Behind is the 25th book in Holly Webbs Animal Stories series, a must for any puppy loving, Holly Webb fan. Anna and her new puppy, Fred, go to spend time on her grandparents canal boat during the summer holidays. Anna loves the boat, and so does Fred, but her grandparents have a black ...
The Man Who Loved Children
All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollits children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road
Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the childrens adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny becomes a geyser of ra...
Doctor Who - The Doctor Who Book of Whoniversal Records
The Doctor Who Book of Whoniversal Records is a celebration of the greatest and strangest achievements from the brilliant, impossible world of Doctor Who. Bursting with firsts and bests both human and alien from the biggest explosion in the universe to the first human to time-travel; from the longest fall through space to the shortest life-form that ever lived this book will answer all...
The Cow Who Climbed a Tree
Tina isnt like the other cows. She believes that the sky is the limit, that everything is possible. But her sisters arent convinced and when Tina tells them she has climbed a tree and met a dragon, they decide that her nonsense has gone too far. Off they go into the woods to find her
and soon discover a world of surprises! A richly atmospheric, thoughtful and funny picture book from rising...
Terrified - The heartbreaking true story of a girl nobody loved and the woman who saved her
Terrified tells the emotionally devastating but ultimately uplifting story of Vicky, a little girl who arrives on Angelas doorstep unwanted and unloved after suffering years of emotional abuse at the hands of her mother. Desperate never to return home, Vicky is haunted by many demons and waking nightmares. This book tells the moving story of Angelas determination to set Vicky free. PRAISE FO...
The Way of the Dragon (Young Samurai, Book 3)
June 1613. Japan is threatened with war and Jack is facing his greatest battle yet. Samurai are taking sides and, as the blood begins to flow, Jacks warrior training is put to the ultimate test. His survival and that of his friends depends upon him mastering the Two Heavens, the secret sword technique of the legendary samurai Masamoto Takeshi. But first Jack must recover his fathers pri...
The Girl Who Wasn't There
A brand new story of friendship and ghostly mystery from one of the best-loved UK writers for girls. Maisies dad has a new job as live-in caretaker of a Victorian secondary school. Finding it hard to make friends, things change when Maisie tells her new classmates about something strange she saw the night before a girls face in the window of a gothic tower. T...
Mr Wumble and the Dragon
One day Mr Wumble goes out looking for adventure. Hes tired of sitting at home being poor good-for-nothing Mr Wumble and would like to find a dragon to fight or a princess to save, even though he knows that stern Mrs Wumble would be much better at the job than he would. Soon hes swept away in a plane to a princess whos eager to save Fairyland from a huge fire-breathing dragon. Will Mr Wumble...