The world's most famous travelling reporter learns the secret of the Unicorn When Tintin stumbles across a model ship at the Old Street Market he buys it as a gift for his friend Captain Haddock But this isn't just any old model ship it's the Unicorn Built by one of Haddock's ancestors it holds a clue to finding the treasure of a notorious pirate Join the most iconic character in comics as he embarks on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical & political events & thrilling mysteries Still selling over 100000 copies every year in the UK & having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson in 2011 Herge's The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children & adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th ...

Frankenstein meets The Shadow of the Wind in a Gothic thriller set in the diabolical city of fin-de-siecle Barcelona Daniel Amat has left Spain & all that happened there behind him Having just achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University & an even more advantageous engagement the arrival of a letter
- a demand
- stamped Barcelona comes like a cold hand from behind He arrives back in that old labyrinthine & near-mythic city a few days before the great 1888 World Fair amid dread whispers of murders
- the injuries reminiscent of an ancient curse & bearing signs of the genius 16th century anatomist Vesalius Daniel is soon pulled into the depths of the crime & eventually into the tunnels below Barcelona where his own dark past & the future of science are joined in a terrible venture
- to bring the secret of Vesalius to life Gothic & gripping this historical thriller makes of Barcelona a diabolical character
- emerging out of the dark into a new electrical age aflame with spirit superstition & science Published in eighteen countries Jordi Llobregat's bestselling first novel mixes a passionate setting & cryptic mystery into a genre-crossing phenomenon




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Geronimo isn&t the only world-famous adventuring journalist from New Mouse City; introducing his fabulous sister Thea! The Thea Sisters are five fun lively students at Ratford College on Whale Island who want to be real live journalists just like their hero Thea Stilton Between classes & friendships love & small fits of jealousy they&re finding college life is really exciting! In " The Secret of Whale Island" it&s the start of the new school year & the students have arrived at Ratford College Every year at this time the whales move off the coast of Whale Island but this time a savage killer whale threatens the peace Meet the Author Thea Stilton was born in New Mouse City Mouse Island She is a special correspondent for The Rodent&s Gazette Mouse Island&s most famouse newspaper which is edited by her famouse brother Geronimo Stilton A graduate of the prestigious Mouseford Academy Ms Stilton is a visiting professor of journalism at Mouseford today She is also the author of numerous mystery novels based on the exciting lives of her friends & former students the Thea Sisters In her spare time Ms Stilton loves to travel & go on fabumouse adventures ...

Percy the Park Keeper is in for a surprise in this funny story from highly-regarded bestselling author-illustrator Nick Butterworth

Includes:: a fabulous fold-out maze It's a beautiful spring morning & a perfect opportunity for Percy to trim the overgrown maze The animals decide to have some fun hiding on the stone lion in the middle of the maze to surprise Percy But the suprise is on them when they fall asleep & Percy finding them hides behind the statue & pretends his voice is the lion's telling them to wake up Percy has unravelled some string through the maze to help him find the way out but the squirrel thinking he is helping has wound the string into a ball Help Percy & his friends find the way out of the park guiding them through the fold-out maze at the back of the book

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The last of John le Carre's espionage novels to feature his most enduring & well-loved character George Smiley & a gripping feat of narrative brilliance The Secret Pilgrim is published in Penguin Modern Classics with an afterword by the author The Cold War is over & Ned has been demoted to the training academy He asks his old mentor George Smiley to address his passing-out class There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth
- perhaps the last the students will ever hear As they listen Ned recalls his own painful triumphs & inglorious failures in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg & from Israel to Cambodia He asks himself Did it do any good? What did it do to me? & what will happen to us now? In this final Smiley novel the great spy gives his own humane & unexpected answers If you enjoyed The Secret Pilgrim you might like le Carre's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold also available in Penguin Modern Classics' Consummate & enthralling' Observer
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'A gripping read for those still pining for GONE GIRL' Elle's top five beach reads The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago The caption says 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM' Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place Now she's sixteen & she's shown up outside his squad room with a photograph & a story Even in her exclusive boarding school in the graceful golden world that Stephen has always longed for bad things happen & people have secrets The previous year Christopher Harper from the neighbouring boys' school was found murdered on the grounds & today in the Secret Place
- the school noticeboard where girls can pin up their secrets anonymously
- Holly found the card Solving this case could take Stephen onto the Murder squad But to get it solved he will have to work with Detective Antoinette Conway
- tough prickly an outsider everything Stephen doesn't want in a partner & he will have to find a way into the strange charged mysterious world that Holly & her three closest friends inhabit & disentangle the truth from their knot of secrets even as he starts to suspect that the truth might be something he doesn't want to hear From the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times & New York Times bestseller In the Woods The Secret Place is a searing novel of psychological suspense


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The Kingdom of Izzambard is in trouble Big trouble Griselda the Master Clockmaker has stopped time & released her mechanical birds to spread chaos & misery They spy on anyone who might believe in the old ways of magic & laughter & the whole kingdom lives in fear Brother & sister Leo & Ella Leggit are clever enough & brave enough to stop Griselda & her birds
- they just don't know it yet But when a magical train puffs into their lives driven by the mysterious Bartholomew Buckle all that changes Will Leo & Ella be able to bring magic back to Izzambard once again & get home in time for fish fingers? Hop on board The Secret Railway to find out!
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In a magical kingdom far far away it's up to a small group of secret rescuers to keep magical creatures safe from the grasp of the evil Sir Fitzroy & to keep passing on the secret challenge to new girls Poppy sells candles in the streets of beautiful Penlee & she has a wonderful secret; she knows there is a magical scarlet fox family living in the town park When Sir Fitzroy & his brutish soldiers march into town & demand that all magical creatures be captured & taken away Poppy must help the foxes escape But the youngest fox is too small to run with his family & he hasn't yet mastered his powers! Can Poppy hide him from the soldiers & help him find his family before Sir Fitzroy can carry out his terrible plan? ...

The sixth title in this brilliant series for 7 readers full of adventure magic & friendship Grace loves living in the tropical village of Cala Sands it has a gorgeous beach & the sun always shines She especially likes to swim with the magical sea ponies that live in the warm clear waters around the bay Grace wishes more than anything that she could talk to the ponies
- especially the pretty pony with the sparkling eyes & rainbow tail! When Sophy & Maya arrive & tell Grace that magical creatures all over the kingdom are in terrible danger Grace knows she has to protect the precious sea ponies Cruel Lady Cavendish is sailing out into the ocean to catch them in a huge net so Grace Maya & Sophy stow away on her ship But will their rescue plan work? & will Grace ever get her magical speaking stone & be able to speak to her favourite sea pony?
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In a magical kingdom far far away it's up to a small group of secret rescuers to keep magical creatures safe from the grasp of the evil Sir Fitzroy & to keep passing on the secret challenge to new girls The beautiful forest that Emma lives in is home to the star wolves Each evening the wolves' magical song makes the stars appear in the sky One autumn day Emma rescues a star wolf pup from a trap She begins a search for the little pup's family But mean Lord Hector is trying to catch all the star wolves
- he hates magical creatures & has a horrible potion to prevent the star wolves from singing Can Emma rescue the star wolf pack from Lord Hector before the stars stop shining at night?
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