From the first flush of love, through courtship and vows of eternal fidelity, to serving the writs and drowning your sorrows, 'The Nation's Favourite Love Poems' will meet all your romantic requiremen
Titch is the youngest and smallest in his family. His brother Pete and his sister Mary have bigger bikes, kites that fly higher, and instruments that make bigger noises. But when Titch plants a tiny s
Edward Lear's popular poem is accompanied by Ian Beck's gloriously atmospheric illustrations, full of humour and tenderness this is a thoroughly enchanting book.
The story of Lily Dale, the last of the Barsetshire novels and illustrating the psychology of love, is one of Trollope's gentlest and least satirical novels but also shows his characteristic understan
Whether a beautiful gift for the Dahl fan or a stunning introduction to Roald Dahl's work; this superb hardback is jampacked with complete picture tales, as well as excerpts from longer stories, poetr
Originally published in 1902, a novel which takes passionate love as its central theme and focuses on a young woman with a terminal illness whose last gesture will serve either as a deed of selflessne
"Bedtime!" said the Mother. "NO!" said the Baby. The Baby wants to stay up all night, so he revs up his car and sets off on an adventure. Before long, he finds himself all alone in a sleepy land. But
A lavish volume of heart-warming verse dedicated to one of Shirley Hughes's most endearing characters - Alfie's little sister, Annie Rose. The gentle rhymes and beautifully detailed illustrations capt
Warm and witty, direct and droll, the sharply funny Pam Ayres has been amusing and entertaining her many fans for more than 30 years since her first television appearance on Opportunity Knocks. Her hu
An epiphany to late-flowering love, this novel holds out the subversive promise that you can have what you wish for: you may just have to wait. Set on the Colombian coast during the early part of this
What can Lizzie do when big-headed Jake challenges her to a race in space? She's got to beat him. But Jake has a super-duper, deluxe new spaceship that runs on special fuel. . . Zoom to Pluto and back
Summer 1999. Russia stands on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the
A highly inventive and very funny animal fantasy set in a land where humans have vanished, leaving the realm in the paws of the animals…Life for a weasel – under the heavy paw of the vicious stoat rul
The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan. A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his
A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has
