A Lincolnshire village on a glorious summer`s morning in 1940. Following Dunkirk, the fate of the whole war will soon rest with the RAF & their desperate effort to win the Battle of Britain. If they fail, Hitler`s next step will be invasion. And as the scene comes to life before us over the next six months, this shadow of war will not disappear. From the pub to the church, struggling single mother to the lady of the manor, the paper boy to a traumatised bomb disposal volunteer, this superb jewel of a novel portrays a community of people & weaves together their stories with passion, betrayal, intrigue & suspense. There Was a Time is a triumph of the storyteller`s art. ...

There is a young fellow named Mick Who`s adapted the old limerick To cover, with mirth The whole history of Earth & what made its characters tick. There Was An Old Geezer Called Caesar is 100 lively & humorous limericks that take us back to before the beginning of time itself & right up until yesterday evening when you were probably making your dinner. Covering everyone`s favourite history lessons (and a few suprising ones too!), Mick Twister has cleverly raided the tomes of the past, picked at the bones of the world`s greatest figures, moments & events & condensed the most complex of human activities into five funny rib-tickling lines for your amusement. Who ever said that history was boring, had clearly never read this book! Word count: 15, 000 ...

There was an old giant who swallowed a clock. He had such a shock when he swallowed that clock! But then he swallows his knitting to muffle the clock, & swallows some moths to munch through his knitting! Will he ever stop? With a riotous rhyming text from Becky Davies (The Three Little Pugs & the Big Bad Cat & Old Mac Dino had a Farm) this hilarious retelling of the classic nursery rhyme, There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, is brought to life with peep-through pages & quirky illustrations from Elina Ellis. ...

A rolling stone may gather no moss, but it d oes gather some funny stories. Read about Nigel Barley takin g a monkey to the movies in Cameroon, Donna Marazzo trying t o use a high-tech Italian toilet, & Richard Sterling eatin g fried bugs in Burma. ' ...

Nobel-prize winner Francois Mauriac`s masterpiece is Therese Desqueyroux, the story of a complex woman trapped by provincial life. First published in 1927, this astonishing & daring novel has echoes of Madame Bovary & has recently been made into a ravishing film starring Amelie actress Audrey Tautou. Therese Desqueyroux walks free from court, acquitted of trying to poison her husb&. Everyone knew she`d tried to do it, but family honour was more important than the truth. As she travels home to the gloomy forests of Argelouse, Therese looks back over the marriage that brought her nothing but stifling darkness, & wonders, has she really escaped punishment or is it only just about to begin? Francois Mauriac was born in Bordeaux in 1885. He left his university studies to devote himself to writing, & published a collection of poems, Les Mains jointes (Clasped Hands), in 1909. He married in 1913 & the following year was mobilized to serve in the First World War with the Auxilliary Medical Squad in Thessalonica. Mauriac`s major literary breakthrough came in 1922 with a novel called Le Baiser au lepreux (A Kiss for the Leper). His most famous work, Therese Desqueroux, appeared in 1927 & has been made into a film twice: first in 1962, with Emmanuelle Riva in the lead role, & more recently in 2012, in a version starring Audrey Tautou. In 1933 Mauriac was elected a Member of the French Academy & in 1952 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in Paris in 1970. ”A great novel.. .the brilliance of its structure & the elegance of its prose never fail to take my breath away”. (Beryl Bainbridge). ...

Poor Mouse! A bear has settled in his favourite chair & that chair just isn`t big enough for two. Mouse tries all kinds of tactics to move the pesky Bear but nothing works & poor Mouse gives up. Once Mouse has gone, Bear gets up & walks home. But what`s that? Is that a Mouse in Bear`s house?! ...

Poor Mouse! A bear has settled in his favourite chair & that chair just isn`t big enough for two. Mouse tries all kinds of tactics to move the pesky Bear but nothing works & poor Mouse gives up. Once Mouse has gone, Bear gets up & walks home. But what`s that? Is that a Mouse in Bear`s house?! Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2016 ...

Small dragon.. .big trouble! When Eric finds a tiny dragon nestled among the beansprouts in his Friday night takeaway, he thinks it`s a free toy. But Pan the Mini-Dragon is very real indeed
- & he`s about to get Eric into a whole heap of trouble... How is Eric going to explain the trail of devastation caused by one creature not much bigger than a spring roll? A hilarious new series for fans of Jeremy Strong & Compton Valance.
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There`s a house inside my Mummy Where my little brother grows, or maybe it`s my little sister No-one really knows. A gentle & tender story of a little boy waiting for his little brother or sister to arrive. Told with humour & a simple rhyming text, this is the perfect picture book for all expectant brothers & sisters! ...

Have you ever collected coupons from a cereal box? Maybe you were saving them up for a book or a toy. Well, when Dan & his brother decide to collect 100 coupons so that they can have their very own lion, they assume the task will be easy enough. How wrong can you be?! A wildly wacky story where anything can happen, There`s a Lion in My Cornflakes brings together bestselling author Michelle Robinson & award-winning illustrator Jim Field for the very first time, with hilarious results. ...