Lose yourself in the magical & mesmerising story from Cecelia Ahern of how tomorrow can change what happens today. Sometimes tomorrow has to start today! Tamara Goodwin has always lived in the here & now never giving a second thought to tomorrow. Until a travelling library arrives in her tiny village bringing with it a mysterious large leather-bound book locked with a gold clasp & padlock. What she discovers within the pages takes her breath away & shakes her work to its core. ...

This is a book about universes. It tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einsteins famous theory of relativity describes a series of entire universes. Not many solutions to Einsteins tantalising universe equations have ever been found but those that have are all remarkable. Some describe universes that expand in size while others contract. Some rotate like a top while others are chaotically unpredictable. Some are perfectly smooth while others are lumpy. Some permit time travel into the past. Only a few allow life to evolve within them; the rest if they exist remain unknown & unknowable to conscious minds. Here in The Book of Universes we are confronted with the most fantastic & far-reaching speculations within the entire realm of science. ...

Ever wondered why you never see dinosaurs in the zoo? Or how big a dino poo is? & when dinosaurs made noise what did it sound like? This book answers a wide range of questions that children ask about dinosaurs & provides supporting fun-filled facts. Appealing artworks help explain the answers allowing children to build up their knowledge in a fun & gentle way. ...

Ever wondered what your body does when you are asleep? Or why people snore? & what happens to food once it has been eaten? This book answers a wide range of questions that children ask about the body & provides supporting fun-filled facts. Appealing artworks help explain the answers allowing children to build up their knowledge in a fun & gentle way. ...

Step inside the mind of Peter Kay... Its here he wrestles with the size of his Uncle Nobheads rocket ponders his nanas misuse of her iPod & reflects on a childhood spent cavorting around his bedroom clad only in his mothers leotard whilst clutching his fathers shovel. These peculiar outlooks bring to life the unique world of Peter Kay like never before. The Book Thats More Than Just a Book
- Book invites you into a world of suspect characters & awkward situations. Here you will meet Peters family their friends some familiar faces & some completely unexpected ones. Chock full of brand new material & crammed with photographs & illustrations creating one of the funniest books youre ever likely to read.
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It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier & will become busier still. By her brother's graveside Liesel Meminger's life is changed when she picks up a single object partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook left there by accident & it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books & words as Liesel with the help of her foster father learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings the mayor's wife's library wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement Liesel's world is both opened up & closed down. The Book Thief is a story about the power of words & the ability of books to feed the soul. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. ...

HERE IS A SMALL FACT
- YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.
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Its just a small story really about among other things: a girl some words an accordionist a Jewish fist fighter & quite a lot of thievery.. . Narrated in the all-knowing matter-of-fact voice of Death witnessing the story of the citizens of Molching: When nine-year-old Liesel arrives outside the boxlike house of her new foster parents at 33 Himmel Street she refuses to get out of the car. Liesel has been separated from her parents
- Kommunists
- for ever & at the burial of her little brother she steals a gravediggers instruction manual which she cant read. It is the beginning of her illustrious career. In the care of the Hubermans Liesel befriends blond-haired Rudy Steiner her neighbour obsessed with Jesse Owens & the mayors wife who hides from despair in her library. Together Liesel & Rudy steal books
- from Nazi book burning piles from the mayors library from the rich people for whom her fostermother does the ironing. In time they take in a Jewish boxer Max who reads with Liesel in the basement.. By 1943 the Allied bombs are falling & the sirens begin to wail. Liesel shares out her books in the air-raid shelters. But one day in the life of Himmel street the wail of the sirens comes too late.. .A life-changing tale of the cruel twists of fate & the coincidences on which all our lives hinge this is also a joyous look at how books can nourish the soul. Its uplifting ending will make all listeners weep.


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Each new title from Herve Tullet invites children to travel further into an intensely creative interaction with the book itself. Previously Imagine" " The Scribble Book" & " The Colouring Book" brought a whole new sense of anarchic fun to childrens activity titles. Now " The Book with a Hole" blasts a hole through the middle of the book itself. Sometimes the Hole is an eye the reader can look through sometimes it is a mouth & the readers fingers make the teeth! The next minute it is a plate (with food drawn by the reader on a sheet of paper behind the book) an obstacle to jump across or a saucepan. Its crazy! Its a Book with a Hole! Packed full of Tullets zany drawings & inventive ideas this is bound to enchant children of all ages." ...

Detective Miles Jensen is called to the lawless town of Santa Mondega to investigate a spate of murders. This would all be quite ordinary in those rough streets except that Jensen is the Chief Detective of Supernatural Investigations. The breakneck plot centres around a mysterious blue stone
- The Eye of the Moon
- & the men (and women) who all want to get their hands on it: a mass murderer with a drink problem a hit man who thinks hes Elvis & a pair of monks among them. Add in the local crime baron an amnesiac woman whos just emerged from a five-year coma a gypsy fortune teller & a hapless hotel porter & the plot thickens fast. Most importantly how do all these people come to be linked to the strange book with no name? This is the anonymous ancient book that no one seems to have survived reading. The Book With No Name" is a fast-paced cinematic page-turner shot through with black humour which will hold you rapt from its intriguing opening to the dramatic climax."

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