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Why is the sea salty? How far away is space? Why can't I tickle myself? Why can't we live forever? Children ask the most interesting and challenging questions. But how...

An unforgettable trip to the further shores of lust, snobbery and adultery, Summer Things is the best new, best-selling comedy by one of Britain's funniest novelists. With a whirlwind plot...

Since A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME scientists have been in the midst of a revolution in cosmology. Gradually, astronomers and physicists are answering questions that have plagued mankind since prehistory-...

She was a hopeless tooth fairy. A troublesome trainee tooth fairy . . . When Jessica loses her first tooth, Granny tells her to watch out for a trainee tooth...

A novel by the author of "Closed Circle". While out walking Robin Timariot encounters a woman, with whom he has an unforgettable conversation. On his return home, Timariot discovers the...

Three guys from the Briar Academy fencing team went up to the cliff that night for a hazing ritual--but only two came back alive. Now Luke's best friend, Hayden, is...

In a terrifying future world, four girls must depend on each other if they want to survive. Now that best friends Louisa, Rosie, Evelyn, and Maddie know the truth --...

Dive deep into the vivid underwater world of Dark Life! The oceans rose, swallowing the lowlands. Earthquakes shattered the continents, toppling entire regions into the rising water. Now, humans live...

Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to...

The acclaimed author of The Music of the Spheres works literary alchemy in this latest novel set in 1609 London, where the quest to turn lead into gold drives men...

An original retelling of a classic Taoist tale. Once upon a time, there was a tiny grain of sand. Its life was rather boring, until one day it made a...

The latest addition to the laugh-out-loud series of picture books by award-winning author Huw Lewis Jones and illustrator Ben Sanders, in which the naughty antics of a truly terrible piece...

The hero of our story loves his birthday present: a plant he names Ivy. But little does he know, Ivy is a high-maintenance sort of plant, one who requires special...

Her ccollected ideas and notes from a year's gardening, written by a gardener ofinternational repute

Another magical, funny and fabulously illustrated story from the authors of FERGUS CRANE and THE EDGE CHRONICLES. Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather...

Geography with the gritty bits left in! Does geography grind you down? Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and tongue-twisting terms? Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as...

When Rinki's neighbours are pig-napped from their village he's determined rescue them, even if it means a treacherous quest through the forest...But it's not long before Rinki crosses paths with...

Geography with the gritty bits left in! Does geography grind you down? Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and crazy contour lines? Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons...

This is the diary of 12-year-old Kitty Lumsden, the daughter of Bloody Tower diarist, Tilly Middleton, who now lives with her family near the Thames, not far from her old...

You've probably heard of Alexander the Great. He's dead famous for marching a huge army halfway across the world, conquering loads of countries, and just being generally great. But have...

Geography with twice the gritty bits! Dive into the murky waters and scream as you peer over the edge of a roaring waterfall. Defy death by tucking into a poisonous...

You've probably heard of a few pirates...Horrible Henry Morgan and his flaming fire ships; Awful Anne Bonny and her flaming temper; and Barmy Blackbeard and his - er - flaming...

When she finds the key to a secret passageway leading out of the walled city of Bridewell, twelve-year-old Alexa realizes her lifelong wish to explore the mysterious forests and mountains...

Olly Christie and Josh Welles are on an archaeological dig in Egypt, with Olly's father who is searching for the first of the Talismans of the Moon - the Tears...

Bryn Mancini was born under a lucky star. As he celebrates his silver wedding, he rejoices in a beautiful wife, handsme grown-up children and the house of his dreams overlooking...

Back in 1988, a young author emerged onto the crime scene with a fresh and inspiring New York crime series starring a young aspiring film-maker - Rune. The series quickly...

Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timothy. Together they are THE FAMOUS FIVE - Enid Blyton's most popular adventure series. All 21 titles also available as audiobooks! In book eighteen,...

Hungry Hyena steals Fish Eagle's dinner and sets off a chain of events which leads to the hyenas reaching for the moon ... with disastrous results. This is the story...

1922, Tokyo Harry Niles is a 'wild child', an American boy in a strange country, ignored by his missionary parents. So Harry begins to lead his own life in the...

History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins: they succeeded in changing the world, and the world has repaid them by enshrining their names. But what of those others...

Deep in an Arizona mountain, the world's largest supercollider will probe what happened at the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself. The brainchild of Nobel laureate Gregory North...

This title is set in Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman...

A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible, fascinating story to tell - the true reason...

France, 1254. On a mountain high in the Pyrenees, the monastery of St Lazarus is a forbidding place. Behind its ramparts and battlements, heretical acts are said to take place....

PAN CLASSIC CRIME - WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT GODDARDIt all started because of Girija Krishnan's lifelong dream - to operate his own bus company. When he discovered an abandoned...

Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three white officers. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by the fighting...