Amelia and Sam are on a new animal adventure! There's something wrong with their friend Izzy's bunny rabbit. She seems very sad and she keeps escaping from her hutch. Can Amelia and Sam work out what's wrong with her? Or will the little bunny get into big...
In The Spotty Holiday, Billie has lots of fun things planned for her visit to Grandma's. But when Billie wakes up covered in spots, will her holiday have to be cancelled?
In The Perfect Present , Billie is bursting with excitement. It is Christmas tomorrow! She knows her presents must be hidden somewhere. A bit of peeking won't hurt, will it?
The Maniacal Badger has arrived, and he's determined to take over the Woods! Wasn't that Monkey's plan? This cannot happen! What japes await in this brand-new adventure, when Bunny and Monkey team up to beat this new menace?! They've never managed to work...
Isadora is special because she is different. Her mum is a fairy and her dad is a vampire and she's a bit of both. Isadora has been invited to a sleepover, which is always fun, but this time it's even more exciting because she will be staying at her mermaid...
A special bumper-length audiobook with two stories in one! Amelia and Sam love helping out at Animal Ark vets, especially when they get to look after adorable kittens! But when Amelia cat-sits troublesome kitten Luna, the little cat causes a big problem ......
Billie and the Secret Mystery Club are investigating their most serious mystery yet. Someone has taken something from the principal's office at school! Who would have done such a terrible thing? And when one of Billie's friends becomes a suspect, will Billie...
In The Pocket Money Blues, Billie is saving up for a special toy, and Jack is helping her do jobs. But what will happen when Jack wants to spend the money on something else?
In The Big Sister, Billie can't wait for the new baby to arrive. She's even going to give it her favourite teddy! But what will happen when her parents go to hospital without her - and Billie's teddy goes missing?
Yvette lives in Axe Falls - a town of disappearances, terrifying visions and unusual events. In Axe Falls, myths of the deadly blue-back spider are whispered. Everyone's heard about the painful bites, agonising screams, grotesque disfiguration and even...
Candlenut's famous fragrance houses have fallen victim to a string of robberies, and Batthew's beloved home, Olfactory, is the latest target! When Olfactory's entire collection of perfume recipes are stolen by a mysterious burglar, Batthew and Lavender must...
It's Dragon New Year, a week-long, once-in-a-lifetime event, and Ava and Jack can't wait to celebrate with Graun and Fafnine! There'll be picnics, parties, a bonfire and - best of all - a majestic fireworks display. But with two naughty dragons on the loose,...
In The Hat Parade, Billie really wants to win the school hat parade. She has made lots of amazing hats! But when Billie gets stuck in bed with a horrible cold, will her hat parade plans be ruined?
When Amelia and Sam start taking riding lessons, they meet a homeless rescue pony named Ginger and a big horse named Walnut who keeps throwing off his riders. The only thing that seems to calm Walnut down is the gentle Shetland Pony. Can Amelia and Sam find a...
In The Night Fright, Billie loves hanging out with Rebecca's older sisters. They make her feel so grown-up! But is Billie grown-up enough to handle the scary movies they like?
After the annoying baby twins demolish the fort Cass has built in the sitting room, she has the great idea of building a proper fort outdoors that can be the Bubble Street Gang's clubhouse. Lex's granny suggests the perfect spot at the back of Mr McCall's...
Billie B Brown is off on a cuddly animal hospital adventure! But what happens when there are no bandages left?
Billie and her friends dare each other to explore the spooky house at the end of the street. They are sure it's haunted. Sooo scary! But if anyone can handle ghosts, it's Billie B Brown!
In The Best Party Ever, Jack's whole class is coming to his birthday party. It's going to be awesome! But what will he do when his best friend is too sick to come?
When Amelia and Sam find an abandoned baby tawny owl, they help nurse it back to health. But without its mum, the owlet won't survive very long in the wild ... can a famous television presenter staying in the village to cover the annual garden show help them...
Jack has found some insect eggs in his backyard. He can't wait for them to hatch. But what's inside?
When Tiddlywink the pixie gets trapped inside a cursed puzzle cube, every attempt to free him fails. All hope now rests on the shoulders of five brave heroes, who must journey all the way to the mysterious Distant Desert for answers before the sands of time...
Amelia is starring as Dorothy in her school production of The Wizard of Oz and her friend Sam's puppy, Mac, is playing Toto. Amelia is busy with rehearsals, but still finds time to help her drama teacher's tiny terrier, Oscar. Will doggy paddling in the...
Sarah lives in Axe Falls - a town of mysterious disappearances, terrifying visions and unusual events. Sarah is used to being the odd one out. She lives on a boat, makes up tall tales, loves ghosts and will do almost anything to prove they exist. But when...
Amelia and Sam love helping animals. But when they find an injured fox, they have to find new home for a whole fox family. Can they find the perfect place for the cute cubs, safely away from danger?
In The Grumpy Neighbour, Billie has kicked her new soccer ball over Grumpy Gertie's fence. Her friends say Gertie will never give it back. Can Billie find a way to befriend Gertie and get her ball?
Isadora is special because she is different. Her mum is a fairy and her dad is a vampire and she's a bit of both. When Isadora's mum comes down with the fairy flu, Isadora wants to be the best nurse that she can be. Determined to make her mum feel better, she...
In The Bravest Kid, Jack hurts his ankle and he tries really hard not to cry. He's not a baby! Surely he can be braver than that?
In The Extra-special Group, Jack finds spelling hard. He has to go to a special spelling group. But what if the other kids make fun of him?
When a poorly pup comes into Animal Ark vets, no one knows who his owner is, and he needs an operation. Can Amelia and Sam use a TV dog show to raise the money in time?
In The Baby Bird, Billie has found a baby bird. She really wants to look after it! But is Billie the right person for the job?
Cass and her best friends, Lex and Nicholas, are the Bubble Street Gang! They investigate crimes, solve mysteries and have brilliant adventures. They've even got their own secret clubhouse. The gang need money and quick, and they have some super-genius ideas...
In The Second-best Friend, Billie knows she has always been best friends with Jack. But now Rebecca wants to be her best friend! Who will Billie choose?
In Emerald and the Magic Shell, Emerald goes on a camping holiday with her mum, stepdad King Auster and stepsister Delphine. But it isn' t like the camping trips Emerald used to take with her dad when she was little. King Auster uses his magic shell at every...
Helia has served as the Sage of Hope for the Great Library of Tomorrow for centuries. She is one of the chosen few who embody and protect the values of humanity across the numerous realms of Paperworld, which are connected within the Library itself via magical...
Melbourne, 1927. The summer flowers smell like Christmas the night Zara Dickins meets Harry Holt. Zara is wearing a dress she has designed and made herself. White organdie over a short black slip, with black embroidery and a crimson taffeta sash. It is party...
'No one likes death. It just happens to be our business.' Nobody who meets Dr Jack Cuthbert forgets him. Tall, urbane, brilliant but damaged, this Scottish pathologist who works with Scotland Yard is the best the new DCI has seen. But Cuthbert is a man who...
A woman goes out for groceries. She never comes back. And the man demanding answers just might be the one hiding the truth. Detective Bonnie Hunter is supposed to be taking a break. After a domestic violence call-out ended in tragedy, she's sidelined, angry -...
The President of the United States is up for re-election. Her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer? A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the football star-turned-political...
Cordelia would be happy to never set foot in Wilder Hoo House again. When Cordelia's late ex-husband unexpectedly leaves the cottage in her name, she wonders if it is one last cruel joke from beyond the grave. Determined to quickly sell up and bury the...
England, May 1945. Monkshill Park School for Girls seems a world away from the violence that engulfed Europe during World War II. Yet its lonely, decaying grounds have witnessed a murder. Annabel Warnock, a teacher with a secretive past, left for the holidays...
Shy and stammering Meg Burton-Smythe has spent the whole of her life living on the fringes of local society. She's more comfortable with her daydreams than she is with people. But when a dashing, golden-haired hero rides to her rescue one morning, she dares to...
Once a sworn enemy of all monsters, Anita is now the human consort of both Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire, and Micah, the leopard shapeshifter. Not quite as human as she once was, she is consumed by both their hungers - desires that must be sated time and...
A young woman stumbles onto an outback road at night, and is caught in the headlights of an approaching car. Who is she? Nobody knows, and she has lost the ability to speak. She is rushed to hospital and then exposed to the glare of the TV cameras. This is how...
Oliver is Declan's type on paper. But what about off-screen? For boxer Declan King, his performance on the UK's #1 reality show, Summer of Love, will be the hardest of his life. To win, he must convince five million viewers he's looking for the right girl. In...
In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland's far North, black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic's Mission. When Ivy Koopundi and her mother arrive at the...
This is a story about marriage. It is also a story about life and love and happiness and the absence of happiness and what we need to do to find it again. It's a story about hope, baking, making music, lemon trees, painting, love, divorce, dogs, the families...
The bigger the star, the harder they fall. Johnny Klein, fallen '80s pop icon, thinks life is finally on the up. He's basking in the luxury of the French Riviera - hoping his worst days are behind him. But when a man falls from a window to his death in London,...
The Mistress of the Ritual has been chosen. Centuries ago, a kingdom was torn apart by old magik long forgotten. It caused a rift separating the lands into one of peace and one of torment. Now, as the latest in the line of guardians, Tábalainthe has been...
Newly widowed beauty entrepreneur Vivi Savidge's 40th birthday is fast approaching, and she plans to celebrate it at the Palazzo Stellina, a historic former convent in the foothills of the Italian Alps run by disgraced chef Marco Bianchi and his elderly...
Celebrated children's author and illustrator Annie Blunt has had a dreadful year. Her husband was killed in a tragic accident, then one of her children's books ignited a major scandal. Desperate for a fresh start, she moves with her young son Charlie to a...
Boys' homes, borstal, jail, stealing, then jail again - and again. That's been life for Jube and Sonny. One Pakeha, the other Maori, only vaguely aware of life beyond pubs and their hopeless cronies. Then, one night out stealing, the two small-time hoods...
Lucrezia takes a deep breath as her childhood home comes into view, nestled between the rolling Tuscan hills. Now her father has died, she is finally able to return. But her sisters never knew the reason she was sent away, so will they welcome her back?...
Irish newsreader Isolde Malone has a face many would recognise; in fact, she can't walk through the streets of Dublin without bumping into a horde of fans, all of whom want their picture taken with the darling of broadcast journalism. She's living a dream life...
1854, Edinburgh. Respectable faces hide private sins. Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven's emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change. Sarah needs no...
'I couldn't put Rock the Boat down! Olivia Harvey is my new favourite author' Kirsty Greenwood, author of The Love of My Afterlife A sizzling, sexy summer read for all fans of BELOW DECK and Emily Henry Hope and Adam are newbie crew members on the luxury yacht...
Jenny sits in the same seat on the same train every week, seeing familiar faces come and go. Until a chance encounter shatters her world. Sixteen years ago, Jenny survived a traumatic ordeal that left her best friend, Susie, missing and presumed dead. The...
Dolly Tomkins has always known what it is to live hand to mouth. In the mean streets of a Salford struggling under the mantle of the Great Depression, the only one making a decent living is the talleyman. Though Nifty Jack has a money bag where his heart...
Michael Bennett says a prayer every time he witnesses a death. In his line of work, it happens too often. But lately he's attended so many police funerals that his deepening sadness is crossing into the zone of suspicion. Bennett must find the person...
Cairo, 1980s. Tarek's whole life is laid out for him. A doctor like his father, he has taken over the family medical practice, married his childhood sweetheart and is well respected in society. When he opens a clinic in a disadvantaged area of the city, he...
The first mission to Europa - Jupiter's enigmatic moon - has landed, and humanity's darkest fears are about to awaken. For years, mankind has speculated that this frozen world harbours a hidden ocean twice the size of all Earth's oceans combined - an ocean...
Homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene. But nothing can prepare her for the shock of recognition - the victim is Warren Jacobi, Lindsay's former partner who rose to chief of police. A top detective until the end, Jacobi managed to...
1942, Amsterdam. The Nazi occupation has shattered the lives of inseparable best friends Hannie and Sonja. The canals and rainy cobbled streets they once strolled down are now patrolled by soldiers day and night, who arrest people at will and beat those who...
Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of legendary horror author Vincent Taylor, famous not only for his novels, but for being the prime suspect in the brutal slaying of his siblings. On the...
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Mayfair, 1910. At the age of 90, Florence Nightingale is frail and no longer of sound mind. After a celebrated career as a nurse, writer and statistician, she now leads a reclusive existence. One summer evening she is astonished to receive a visitor - a young...
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A romantic and heartwarming holiday novella from USA Today bestselling author Ali Brady. This year, Christmas and Hanukkah come together-and for two neighbors stranded in a snowstorm, one magical night could change everything. Please note: While this may seem...
Brought to you by Penguin. Award-winning writer Abir Mukherjee is back with another brilliant mystery novel in the Raj-era Wyndham and Banerjee series. *A SUNDAY TIMES BOOKS OF 2021 PICK* Calcutta, 1923 When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home,...
The 20th anniversary edition of the iconic book that takes parents into the mysterious world of boys. THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF A PARENTING CLASSIC How do you raise boys to men in a world where trouble beckons at every turn? How do you make sure...
Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the original...
From Charles Portis, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of True Grit, The Dog of the South is a novel about a husband on a crazy road trip pursuing his runaway wife. Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off...
With an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd details that comprise your average American, Charles Portis brings to life Jimmy Burns, an expatriate American living in Mexico. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing preColumbian artifacts. Now he makes a...
Charles Portis's quintessential comic masterpiece centers on Lamar Jimmerson, leader of the Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis. Stationed in France in 1917, Jimmerson comes...
Norwood, Charles Portis's first novel, displayed right out of the gate the wit, style, and singular voice that made him one of our great American writers. Out of the Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, the Grand Ole Opry, and girls who want "to live...
Year 6 goes to Hollywood! Head to Tinseltown in this hilarious and heart-warming adventure by bestselling, award-winner Frank Cottrell-Boyce. The Blockbusters! is fabulously illustrated in black and white throughout by Steven Lenton. When new boy Rafa and his...
Do you hate winter? Do you dread it getting dark at 4 pm? Do you find our endless grey skies, drizzle and biting cold tough to deal with? Dr. Kari Leibowitz can help. When psychologist Kari Leibovitz moved to the Norwegian town of Tromsø, 200 miles north of...
Never Ever Ex-agent Eva Rae Thomas is on the run. The past month, she has done things she never knew she was capable of while hunting for her kidnapped daughter. Eva Rae has risked everything: her career, her newfound love, her freedom. She's looking for the...
Multi-million-copy best-selling author Willow Rose's new mystery series ensnares ex-FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas in some confounding murder cases. Mystery, love, and action - this series has it all. All books in this boxset were instant number-one best-selling...
A shocking confession. A prolific killer. A legal minefield. Mark Bauer and Allee Smith thought defending James Innis on a simple charge would be straightforward. But when he confesses to a murder, it's clear that this case will be anything but easy. Bound by...
Washed-up, small-town lawyer Marko Bauer already has enough on his plate. And with his latest case, he may have bitten off more than he can chew. Defending Allee Smith's cousin on what appear to be run-of-the-mill drug charges, Marko quickly discovers that the...
A missing child ... a tainted witness ... Jensen's darkest case yet ... 'Dark deeds and deep secrets abound in Heidi Amsinck's Copenhagen. A white-knuckle ride into hell.' – IAN RANKIN 'Amsinck's Copenhagen-set crime series is reliably excellent.' – MAIL ON...
As the long summer holiday stretches ahead, with her older sister more interested in boys, her mother disappearing on long walks and her father, beer in hand, watching the cricket, the youngest in the family often finds herself alone. At the beach, she meets...
Award-winning writer Lemn Sissay explores the idea of uniqueness across different aspects of his life 'Creative, surprising - and unique' The Telegraph If you Google 'Lemn Sissay', all the results will be about him - he's the only person in the world with that...
Heartbroken after the loss of her fiancé, Fern travels to her aunt's house in Italy to find peace and solace. There, overcome by the beauty of the landscape and consumed by a history she finds fascinating, she is catapulted into the life of the beautiful but...
Erin O'Byrne returns to Ceann Mara, her family's remote property on the Darling River, seeking peace after a painful marital breakup. Camping by the tranquil billabong, she hopes the solitude of the Australian bush will help her heal. While exploring the land,...
In the spring of 1990, we return to Champton, where the characters we've come to love are all aflutter as a glamorous Hollywood movie takes over Champton House as its set location. As the actors and extras hired from the village don their farthingales, gowns...
Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried mother, it could have been very different, and she is happy. But when new maid, Susie, arrives at the Beach Hotel, it isn't long before sparks fly. Susie begins...
When the body of a baby is found wrapped in a swan's wing deep in the woods, archaeology professor and expert consultant Carla James is brought in to assist on the case. The unusual burial must signify something, but what exactly is unclear. Meanwhile, a...
Bruno Courreges is chief of police of the lovely Dordogne town of St Denis. One autumn morning he comes across an abandoned car parked near a local beauty spot. Inside is a dead woman, Monique, an apparent suicide resulting from depression. But there are...
1940 finds Adam Southey in a mood of bitter resentment: he cannot join up because he is lame. But at the school where he is teaching, the headmaster, Sam Cooke, is a brilliant scientist. And Adam suddenly finds that the battleground is not the only place to...
Moreish digs into the unseen triggers, secret influences and mysterious motivations hovering above the table every time we get peckish. Explore the impact of words in menu construction alongside the power of comfort food; why the first bite is not always with...
A mysterious invitation leads to a secret society of time travellers and a perilous mission into the past in this poignant and powerful new novel. Troubled ex-journalist Luke Seymour discovers an incredible untapped talent after being recruited by The...
On a warm July evening, Sylviane Rochas scatters her mother's ashes in New York and lets the changing wind blow her to the French seaside town of Marseille. For the first time in her life, Vianne holds the future in her own hands. Charming her way into a job...
On the eve of Elaine Southey's 21st birthday, Ivan Sweet has been found dead in his flat in the basement of the Southeys' historic north London home. A slick charmer to some of the tenants and a loathsome young scoundrel to others, his death doesn't draw out...
Sarah Willis longs to free herself from the expectations of a privileged upbringing, while Winston Keller can't afford the luxury of a dream. Despite their differences, the pair are drawn together in a whirlwind romance that defies the boundaries of class. But...
January 1953. Eight years on from the most destructive conflict in human history, the Cold War enters its deadliest phase. An Iron Curtain has descended across Europe, and hostilities have turned hot on the Korean peninsula as the United States and Soviet...
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"Twelve-year-old orphan Lainey attends a prestigious boarding school with dreams of a new start, but a chain of events leads her to Switzerland in search of a trailblazing female scientist."--Publisher's description.
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