The Holocaust is an attempt to explain the inexplicable - the systematic murder of millions of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. It includes facsimile ...
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a treeless, wind-battered island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with t...
Beauty is more than skin deep.'The natural world is awash with colour, but we are only seeing half the story. If we could see things as animals do, our world would become unimaginably b...
Illumen Hall is a boarding school of tradition and achievement.But tragedy strikes when the body of a student is discovered on the beach - and on her back is an elaborate tattoo of a ma...
In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice.What followed became legend.Throughout the l...
In sixteen extended talks with Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explains why the 'war on drugs' is really a war on poor people; how attacks on political correctness are attacks on ...
The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a ReturnThe intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the great-grandaughter of Iran's last emperor, Satrapi bears witness to a ...
Epic in its scale, A Dangerous Fortune tells of the dramatic highs and lows of the wealthy Pilaster family from the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett.A Tragic ...
The BRAND NEW laugh-out-loud, fully-illustrated Diary of a Wimpy Kid book from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney! A global phenomenon with 250 million copies of the series sold worldw...
Poo! Most of us don’t really like to talk about it. In fact, many of us would probably rather it didn’t exist at all, or at least if it must exist could it not be more pleasantly fragra...
What happens to those girls who go missing? What happens to the Zoe Nolans of the world?'In the early hours of Saturday, December 17th, 2011, Zoe Nolan, a 19-year-old Manchester Univers...
In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of the universe, leaving a super-void. What could be the culprit? A super massive blac...
'Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan' - Sunday ExpressSnuggle up and escape with Jenny Colgan to the beautiful island of Mure this winterOn the tiny Scottis...
Tara Carver seems to have the perfect life. A loving mother and wife, and a business woman who runs her own company, she's the sort of person you'd want to live next door to, who might even become ...
Practise English with Ladybird Readers, a series of Graded Readers for young learners of English as a foreign or second language. Designed for children aged 3-11, this list offers traditional tales...
A new edition of Orwell’s timeless dystopian classic, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. TaylorSince its first publication in 1949, Orwell’s devastating expose...
Baby Touch: Numbers is a bold, bright board book perfect for little hands to explore. With touch-and-feels on every double page to help count the friendly animals, it helps to stimulate a baby's se...
'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!'This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future courtesan in Paris, her days are filled with cigars, lobster, lac...
'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging ...
As the no-ship Ithaca flees through space, the heroes of HUNTERS OF DUNE finally meet the Enemy who followed the violent fanatics, the Honored Matres, back to their universe. The thinking machines ...