The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever . . .Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacc
When Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time, to bury his father on his family’s land near Lahore, he exchanges his uncertain life in Sheffield for a road that leads to the mountains of Kashmir
Angela Carter meets Edgar Allen Poe in this mesmerizing spine-tingler from the talented author of The Icarus GirlHigh on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the loss of Lily, moth
Fairytale romances end with a wedding. The fairytales that don't get more complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neith
A fantastic collection of poems for the very young from an acknowledged master of rhyme.Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum is packed with all sorts of poems and rhymes including a sequence of number rhymes, action
It's June 2011. Stick and Mac are a couple of months shy of eighteen; summer's approaching and they're about to leave their north Manchester estate for the beaches of southern Spain. But the night bef
Everything you need to know about World War II.Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgust
The third novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years Trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 1987. A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm; a place
The breakout second novel from the award-winning author of Bed, for fans of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and Little Miss Sunshine.
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly differe
Take a trip into space with Zoe and Beans!Zoe is hanging her pants out to dry one day, when... whoosh! A big gust of wind blows her and Beans up, up, up into space - along with the washing line full o
