Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War. Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least Once. Once I escaped from an orphanage to find Mum & Dad. Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house. Once I made a Nazi with a toothache laugh. My name is Felix. This is my story. Once is the first in a series of children's novels about Felix a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust from Australian author Morris Gleitzman
- author of Bumface & Boy Overboard. The next books in the series Then Now & After are also available from Puffin.
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Remember the faery stories you were told as a child? Tales of tiny magical winged beings & elves wicked witches & goblins. Demons.. . What if one day you found out they were true? What if when you became an adult you discovered they were all based on fact? What if you met the fantasy & it was all so very real? That's what happened to Thom Kindred. The wonders were revealed to him. But so were the horrors for not far behind the Good there always lurks the Bad. & the Bad had designs on Thom. The Bad would show him real evil. He would see the hellhagges & the demons. He would be touched by perverted passion. & corruption. & he would encounter his own worst nightmare. The Bad would seek to destroy him. & only the magic of the little beings would be able to help him. Once James Herbert's masterful novel of erotic love & darkest horror will take you to a realm where fantasy & reality collide where faerytales really can come true. ...

Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis a gunner who in later life recorded in this well-written candid & perceptive memoir the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago. As an impressionable teenager fired with national pride he was eager to join the army & fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of the Second World War & started a journey that would take him through fierce fighting in the Western Desert the deprivation suffered in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp & a daring escape to join the partisan forces in the Appenines. His story is an honest & moving memoir of the horror of warfare but it also reveals the surprising triumphs of the human spirit in times of great hardship. Ellis's self-deprecating humour skilfully counters the harsh realities related in a personal recollection of a war that claimed so many young lives. ...

Singapore has one of the highest execution rates per capita in the world. Its government claims that only the death penalty can deter drug dealers from using their country as a transport hub-but this hard-hitting investigation reveals disturbing truths about how & when the death penalty is applied. Including in-depth interviews with Darshan Singh-Singapore's chief executioner for nearly fifty years-and chilling accounts of high-profile cases including the execution of Australian Nguyen Van Tuong this is an horrific expose of the gross abuse of human rights. When this book was first published in Asia in July 2010 UK journalist Alan Shadrake was arrested & tried then sentenced to jail-for daring to put the Singapore justice system in the dock. This revised & updated edition covers Shadrake's arrest & his ongoing campaign against the death penalty as he prepares for his appeal."" ...

Voyager Classics
- timeless masterworks of science fiction & fantasy. A beautiful clothbound edition of The Once & Future King
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Vayl is the CIAs top assassin. A master of black ops he has never failed. Hes also a 291-year-old vampire. Assigned to protect Vayl if such a formidable creature can be said to require protection is Jasmine Parks
- Jaz to her friends. But Jaz has got problems
- & not just the run-of-the-mill ones youd expect from someone whose job consists of putting her life on the line for an undead assassin. She hasnt had sex in god knows how long so Vayls almost overpowering vampire charisma is making it increasingly difficult for her to keep their relationship.. .professional. Her personal life is a long line of missed birthdays & Christmases & lies & excuses to her family. & then theres that other thing: the blackouts. See theres times that Jaz cant account for & things that happen in those times that Vayl
- not to mention the CIA
- may not appreciate. & if they find out Jasmine knows it wont just be her contract thats terminated.. .



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After a tragic accident scarred her body & destroyed her dreams Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity & learn a persons darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude...until creatures of the night kidnap her forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress call to the worlds most infamous vampire... Vlad Tepesh inspired the greatest vampire legend of all
- but whatever you do dont call him Dracula. Vlads ability to control fire makes him one of the most feared vampires in existence but his enemies have found a new weapon against him
- a beautiful mortal with powers to match his own. When Vlad & Leila meet however passion ignites between them threatening to consume them both. It will take everything that they are to stop an enemy intent on bringing them down in flames.

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Can you imagine what it would be like to be swept off your feet by a royal prince to live a charmed life in the marble palaces of an oil-rich nation
- & then to watch your fairy-tale romance turn into a nightmare of Islamic superstition isolation betrayal & abuse? What would you do if you managed to escape your life of torment
- & then your children were kidnapped by their own father? This is what happened to Jacqueline Pascarl. In Once I Was a Princess" Jacqueline recounts her part in this controversial headline-grabbing international drama with heart-rending honesty."

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Once in a Blue Moon is the story of one man's never-ending affair with Manchester City. Be it playing watching or managing Steve ' Worthy' Worthington's life in football has never been easy. Having suffered an almost fatal road accident in the week before his ninth birthday any aspirations for global stardom as a player were crushed beneath the wheels of a speeding Triumph Spitfire in 1971. As a spectator he fared no better. Over the years Manchester City & England addicts have experienced many disappointments
- most of which he was there to see. As manager of his beloved Sunday League club Lee Athletic success was a word used only on the odd occasion when he persuaded his team to turn up sober & in time for kick-off. But two things that have always kept him going were his love of the local ' Indie' music scene & an ability to find humour during the darkest of times. Join him in a vivid journey that takes you into the beating heart of 1960s & '70s working class Manchester: through five decades of football (and a bit of cricket) music & people in the eyes & ears of an everyday bloke who turned constant failure into final triumph.
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Set in 1970s Manchester Once in a House on Fire tells the true story of three sisters & their mother a close-knit & loving family forced to battle with poverty abuse & the effects of depression. Beautifully written & deeply inspiring with a new afterword by Andrea Ashworth it is a book that will stay with its readers for ever. ' This is a brilliant book. Brilliantly written brilliantly thought brilliantly remembered.. . Ashworth has written an extraordinary memoir; the only pity is that she had to live it to make it' Scotsman ' Enchanting & thrilling.. . As a chronicle of northern working-class life in the seventies & eighties.. .it would be hard to better this book. It is extremely moving.. . It is also at time surprisingly & gratifyingly very funny' Tim Lott The Times ' Full of energy wit & a child's wide-open gaze.. . Andrea Ashworth escaped the fire to write a remarkable book' Blake Morrison Independent on Sunday ...