Here is Moominpappa's promised life story - from the days when he was abandoned in a newspaper parcel on the doorstep of a Moomin orphanage, to when he ran away to see the world and met Moominmamma.więcej »
It all begins on a hot day in June, and a volcano dropping black ash on Moominmamma's washing. A crack appears in the ground, and Moomintroll's toothbrush slips straight down into it! When a great ...więcej »
Soon to be MOOMINVALLEY, a MAJOR ANIMATED SERIES on SKY ONE starring Taron Egerton and Rosamund Pike!'They seem to grow in wisdom and delight every time I read them' - Philip Pullmanwięcej »
They can't have moved away without saying a word!' Winter is coming, and the Fillyjonk, the Hemulen, Toft, and Mymble, are all waiting in Moominvalley to see the Moomins return home. Winter doesn't...więcej »
Greg's dad Frank is determined to make his son less wimpy, and comes up with all manner of manly activities. Greg manages to avoid them all, until military academy is mentioned, and Greg realises h...więcej »
Before Charlie, before the Chocolate Factory, comes a story of invention and imagination . . .Ever since he was a child, Willy Wonka had dreamed of making chocolate and sharing it with ...więcej »
A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, ANIMAL FARM is perhaps the most celebrated twentieth-century English satire after the same writer's NINETE...więcej »
Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRU...więcej »
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121 180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome in a.d. 161 and Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever writ...więcej »
James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in June 1904. It is considered to be one of the most important wo...więcej »
Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg re...więcej »
Peter Rabbit is off to visit his friend Squirrel Nutkin! On his way, he comes across many familiar friends and asks all sorts of questions about their homes . . . Will Peter find out he and his fri...więcej »
Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Eliz...więcej »
When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he’d written ‘Good luck and happiness’. And when her great-grandso...więcej »
*A very special version of the book with amazing bonus content! Read the original before you experience the incredible story of Wonka before the Chocolate Factory, coming autumn 2023*Gr...więcej »
The second book in the global bestselling, laugh-out-loud, fully-illustrated Diary of Wimpy Kid series - now available with a special movie tie-in cover to coincide with the original animated movie...więcej »
"I am Malala, a girl from Pakistan who wants to make the world a better place for all" Meet Malala. She is a daughter, a sister, a writer, an activist and an inspiration to people a...więcej »
"On a hill above the valley there was a wood. In the wood there was a huge tree. Under the tree there was a hole. In the hole lived Mr Fox and Mrs Fox and their four Small Foxes. ....więcej »
Chosen as one of BookTrust and Supernanny Jo Frost's Best Bedtime Reads for Newborns.This gentle bedtime story, which has lulled generations of children to sleep, is the perfect first b...więcej »
A comet is speeding towards Earth - will it destroy everything and everyone? Moomintroll decides to find out. So, with Sniff, he sets off on an expedition to ask the Professor if a comet is really ...więcej »
