Created by Jim Davis the Garfield comic strip now appears in 2 570 journals worldwide & is read by some 263 million people around the globe making it... The world's most widely syndicated comic strip in history as recorded by Guinness World Records. Here are the latest two new titles in this bestselling series which now boasts sales of almost 7 million copies. Each title contains over 120 daily strips...not yet seen in book format. ...

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing & reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. It's a dreadful shock for Horrid Henry when Perfect Peter is born & despite his best
- or worst
- efforts he can't manage to get rid of him. As Peter gets bigger Henry gets crosser adn crosser but the day comes when Henry inadvertently finds himself saving Peter & discovers that its rather nice to be a hero.

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It's Christmas in Aberystwyth & a man wearing a red-&-white robe is found brutally murdered in a Chinatown alley. A single word is scrawled in his blood on the pavement: ' Hoffmann'. But who is Hoffmann? This time Aberystwyth's celebrated crime-fighter Louie Knight finds himself caught up in a brilliant pastiche of a cold-war spy thriller. From Patagonia to Aberystwyth Louie trails a legendary stolen document said to contain an astonishing revelation about the ultimate fate of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid but he's not the only one who wants it. A bewildering array of silver-haired spies has descended on Aberystwyth all lured out of retirement by one tantalising rumour: Hoffmann has come in from the Cold. Louie Knight who still hasn't wrapped up his presents just wishes he could have waited until after the holiday. ...

'I feel my story had to be told. So much evil was done there was a voice inside me shouting Justice".' With no one to confide in Kathy suffered in silence as she was battered by her father & molested by local boys. At the age of eight she was torn from her family & incarcerated in a series of Catholic homes. When she was sent to a psychiatric unit she suffered terrifying electric- shock therapy & further cruelty at the hands of her supposed carers. After ending up in a Magdalen laundry she fell victim to sexual abuse & gave birth to baby Annie just weeks before her fourteenth birthday. " Don't Ever Tell" is Kathy's harrowing account of her ruined childhood & of her subsequent fight for justice." ...

Here's the thing about covert operations: the really bad things always happen when you least expect them. The enemies don't give you a heads-up. & they never let you stop to put on comfortable shoes. A spy-in-training Cammie Morgan has a cover for every occasion. But what happens when she is forced to lose her cover to save her best friend Macey? Cammie & her friends are determined to hunt down the group that threatens to tear their secret sisterhood apart. This time it's personal. ...

When the driver leaves the bus temporarily he gives the reader just one instruction: Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!" But boy that pigeon tries every trick in the book to get in that driving seat: he whines wheedles fibs & flatters. Will you let him drive? Told entirely in speech bubbles this is a brilliantly original book." ...

Alexandra Fuller was the daughter of white settlers in 1970s war-torn Rhodesia. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a memoir of that time when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. Fuller tells a story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature & loss; & of her family's unbreakable bond with a continent which came to define shape scar & heal them. In wry & sometimes hilarious prose she looks back with rage & love at an extraordinary family & an extraordinary time. Like Frank Mc Court Fuller writes with devastating humour & directness about desperate circumstances.. .tender remarkable' Daily Telegraph A book that deserves to be read for generations' Guardian Perceptive generous political tragic funny stamped through with a passionate love for Africa.. .[ Fuller] has a faultless hotline to her six-year-old self' Independent This enchanting book is destined to become a classic of Africa & of childhood' Sunday Times Wonderful book.. .a vibrantly personal account of growing up in a family every bit as exotic as the continent which seduced it.. .the Fuller family itself [is] delivered to the reader with a mixture of toughness & heart which renders its characters unforgettable' Scotsman Her prose is fierce unsentimental sometimes puzzled & disconcertingly honest... it is Fuller's clear vision even of the most unpalatable facts that gives her book its strength. It deserves to find a place alongside Olive Schreiner Karen Blixen & Doris Lessing' Sunday Telegraph ...

Welcome to the hilarious diary of seventeen-&-a-half-year-old Remy Louise Bennet NVQ GCSE (Eng lang A) (Wannabe) WAG! Remy is fed up with her life. She's convinced that being a trainee beautician would be fine if it wasn't for Kara (aka the Feminazi) constantly looking down her nose at her. That living at home would be OK if she didn't have her warring parents to contend with (and if her elder sister Malibu wasn't quite such a boy-magnet). & that her social life would be a dream if only she could score a footballer. Then Remy does score a footballer: a hot one at that. But it turns out to be the start of a whole new set of troubles... It features stylish reissue of the popular Pride & Premiership" complete with new title. Michelle is an ex-soap star chart-topping pop diva & popular TV celebrity." ...

This is a great reissuing of a classic children's die-cut picture book to tie in with Nick Sharratt's position as official illustrator for World Book Day 2006. Don't put your finger in the jelly Nelly You might upset a jellyphant. With a larger format & the best covers yet this reissue will ensure the continuing longevity of Jelly Nelly"." ...

In Africa only food runs...and there's nothing you can outrun!" In the tradition of Bill Bryson a new writer brings us the lively adventures & wit of an African safari guide. Despite that fact that "I had none of the qualities you would expect of a rugged bush man...I'm markedly uncoordinated can't repair vehicles or understand how they work I don't like guns & sweat profusely when nervous or excited..which is exactly how watching animals makes me feel" Peter Allison works as a top safari guide in the Okavango Delta. In this oasis of wetland in the middle of the Kalahari desert rich with wildlife he caters to the whims of his wealthy clients he often has to overcome the impulse to run as far away from them as he can as these tourists are sometimes more dangerous than a pride of lions! Full of outrageous-but-true tales of the people & animals he has encountered
- the half-naked missing member of the British royal family; the squirrel that overdosed on malaria pills; the monkeys with an underwear fetish; & last but by no means least " Spielberg" the video-obsessed Japanese tourist
- Allison's hilarious stories reveal his good-natured scorn for himself as well as others. Allison's humour is exceeded only by his love & respect for the animals & his goal is to limit any negative exposure by planning trips that are minimally invasive
- unfortunately it doesn't always work out that way as he & his clients discover to their cost when they find themselves up to their necks in a hippo-infested watering hole! Full of essential wisdom like " Don't run whatever you do" & "never stand behind a frightened zebra" (they are prone to explosive flatulence when scared!) this is a wonderful & vivid portrait of what the life of a safari guide is really like."


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