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Are you obsessed with football and want to know how to make it your future? Well now you can! Football isn't just about becoming a pro. In fact, there are hundreds of people that help make magic on the pitch, whether it's the architect who designed the stadium, the coder who created your favourit...

Davie Perdue was a cop. Now he is homeless, by choice, living in limbo in one of the largest cemeteries in Europe. He’s not a missing person, because nobody is looking for him in the London that he’s left or in his Scottish home town where he’s hiding. When someone goes into the cemetery alive an...

‘Ms Lennox wore skin- tight Lycra and the muscles in her bottom were so taut they hardly wobbled at all. I can’t really blame Dad for fancying her. I just wish he hadn’t shacked up with one of my teachers.’ Fifteen-year-old Danny is embarrassed by his dad’s affairs, worried about his mum’s drink...

Two years ago, I tore her world apart. Now, I'm going to make her my best friend. A psychological thriller from Claire Allan.

Books take us on journeys that we can all share and give us the power to go anywhere! This picture book will inspire a love of reading in any child! Celebrate all different types of books in a story that encourages children to read whatever, however and wherever they choose.

July 1940 - as Tarn struggles to come to terms with the loss of her beloved brother in the chaos of the British retreat at Dunkirk, she and her friends scour the hills around their Lake District home, watching for any signs of the long-dreaded Nazi invasion. But as the war drags on, with little g...

Former stand-up comic Juno Mulligan has been suffering a serious sense-of-humour failure. Not only has she lost the love of her life, but she's having to relocate to the (admittedly idyllic) village of Inkbury to watch out for her elderly mum, who she's genuinely worried might be marrying a wife-...

Years have passed since the clash of shieldwalls echoed across the land. The Saxons are now the lords of Britain. And yet the bards still sing of Arthur - 'In our darkest time, when we need him most, shall he come again'. Yet old Beran has no love of bards' songs. Nor of people, unless they are p...

Chump the chimpanzee was always being silly. He would make rude noises from BOTH ENDS, pick his nose with his little toe, and eat the skins of bananas, hurling out the tasty part inside. NASA's scientists thought he'd be the PERFECT chimp to send into space. Little did Chump know that he had been...

'If she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? That summer, the air was electric between us as we transmitted our feelings to each other across three countries'. Elsa M. Anderson is a classical piano...

Becky Lawson's life has been shattered. When she discovered her husband, John - a trusted policeman - was a monster, she reported him. But her faith in the system was crushed when it didn't lead to any charges or consequences. Now, John lives freely with a new girlfriend and her young daughter, w...

In this follow up to 'Glow', illustrator Jennifer N.R. Smith takes us on a breathtaking tour of the planet's most astonishing natural phenomena - from explosive volcanoes and geysers to dancing lights in the night sky. The Earth may seem solid and stationary but deep beneath its surface it is con...

Berlin, 1943. Ava Müller is a proud supporter of the German war effort, working for Joseph Goebbels alongside her father, a high-ranking official in the Reich. With her sister Hanna, a nurse, braving bombing raids to save lives, they are a model Nazi family. Until Ava discovers her parents and H...

We all know that midlife women are often hit the hardest of all health-wise, sandwiched between bringing up our families, juggling work and caring for ailing parents. But whatever stage or age you are there is hope and many ways to take back control of your health - physical, mental and emotional...

Humanity has taken to the stars, using faster-than-light travel to reach distant planets and new worlds. But in the far reaches of the galaxy, John Grant will discover a planet of humans who believe he has travelled not only through space to find them, but time. On Apis, the mysterious Fermi appe...

An illustrated compendium of mind-bogglingly random facts you won't be taught in school.

It's autumn in Harrow, but something is changing in the town besides the season. Because in that town there is an orchard, and in that orchard grows a new sort of apple: strange and beautiful, with skin so red it's nearly black. Take a bite of one of these apples and you will you will become stro...

Whether you are a new mother, just thinking about it, or already trying to combine a career and children, working motherhood can sometimes seem like an impossible balancing act. In this book, Tobi Asare, shares her hard-won wisdom and advice on how to make working work for you, covering everythin...

Imogen Clark wakes up on her 16th birthday to find her parents dead at the breakfast table, along with a message from their killer. Detectives Jazzy Solanki and Annie McQueen join the investigation, but the more they discover, the more Jazzy suspects that the killing is a twisted message for her....

Just when Daisy thought she had canal life understood, Theo, her primary go-to for all of her boating questions has left Wildflower Lock, not to mention the budding romance that has been steadily growing. Not one to sit and wallow, Daisy takes matters into her own hands. Who said long-distance re...