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The bizarre beasts, incredible places, and peculiar phenomena featured in this mind-blowing compendium are not just really weird - they're really real. This wacky book explores our world's most exciting oddities. Did you know there's a plant that eats mice? Or that you can dip your toe in a rainb...

Join Bluey and count down the 12 days of Christmas in this tabbed board book.

Treehouse is getting festive! With lots of Christmas laughs at every level in 'The 156-Storey Treehouse', from the worldwide bestselling series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. They've added 13 new levels, including a wishing well, a world-record breaking level, a super-stinky stuff level and ...

Thirteen-year-old Adam has made a lot of mistakes in his life, but this has to be the biggest. Thanks to a MASSIVE fight with his little brother Callum, the mysterious and magical computer algorithm Popularis Incrementum has exploded - and accidentally transported them both to a completely differ...

In 'Big Beacon', Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the odds. TWICE. Using an innovative 'dual narrative' structure you sometimes see in films, 'Big Beacon' tells the story of how Partridge heroically rebuilt his TV career, rising like a phoenix from th...

When an American Airlines plane explodes in the sky, detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson are first on the scene. They don't hear the gunfire. At first. It soon becomes clear that the plane was taken down by a rare, stolen machine gun. The list of people who could operate the weapon is short. A...

More than 250 trivia questions for curious minds! What is the largest butterfly known in the world? What is the purpose of a shell? Which fox lives in the Sahara? Find out in this quiz book, packed with questions and facts about animals. Challenge yourself, your family, and friends with awesome q...

A visual celebration of the huge variety of dogs found across the world, from those you already know and love to those that may surprise you. As the book takes the reader on a journey around the world, it reveals dogs with the most important jobs, breeds with unusual features, record-breaking dog...

The Baddies are the meanest ghost, witch and troll in the land. They adore being bad and fight over who is the nastiest. When a little girl moves into a nearby cottage, the Baddies can't wait to scare her out of her wits, but will they succeed?

My toes tingle with excitement. It's ballet class today! Snowflakes are falling softly outside when Thomas and his friends arrive at Mr Elliot's dance studio. Prancing and whirling and twirling around the room, the boys and girls perfect their steps - first and second position, pliés, curtsies a...

Here are the seven rules to follow to realise your true purpose in life - distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone. The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest paid movie star. The...

This text introduces children to the thrilling mythological beasts from ancient civilisations. Discover 23 stories accompanied by beautiful, colourful illustrations. Through the incredible storytelling you can learn about fantastic creatures such as the Japanese baku, which had the power to devou...

The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daught...

A beautifully illustrated celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-colour photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive.

Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her wellbeing - and each has met an untimely end. Her remaining relatives are the elusive Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at Thorn Grove, an estate both glittering ...

The Door of No Return, on the island of Goree off the coast of Senegal, is where millions of Africans last touched their home continent's soil, before they were transported to slavery in the Americas. When French naturalist Michel Adanson travels to Senegal in 1749, he hears the story of a woman ...

In a remote village overshadowed by a gruesome legend and ancient superstitions, who can say what's real, what's not, and what should stay buried deep inside your head? Set in the depths of rural Lancashire as a community marks the 400th anniversary of the Long Byrne witches' deaths, 'The Black A...

Eleanor Bennett won't let her own death get in the way of the truth. So when her estranged children - Byron and Benny - reunite for her funeral in California, they discover a puzzling inheritance. First, a voice recording in which everything Byron and Benny ever knew about their family is upended...