Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months late...
Variations on a musical theme by a striking range of authors, among them Flaubert, Turgenev, Proust, Nabokov, Katherine Mansfield, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Amit Chaudhuri, Bernard MacLaverty and...
German Romantic poetry is both fluid and formed, and it is full of song: the poems themselves are often intrinsically lyrical, and many of them inspired some of the best-known musical compositions ...
In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees complain of heada...
Agnes is sent to wait out her final months on the farm of district officer Jón Jónsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderer in their midst, the fa...
Now a classic feminist text, Jane Eyre was the first of Charlotte Brontë’s novels to be published, in 1847. Like her sister Emily’s Wuthering Heights, which it matches in power, Ch...
The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and...
Duggee and the Squirrels are learning all about dinosaurs! What did they feel like?Touch a BUMPY Tyrannos-Roly Rex, a FUZZY Betty-Saurus, a SCRATCHY Happy-Gator, a SOFT Norrie-Dactyl an...
The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major featur...
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, D...
The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling's heroically faithful 'Garm', Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a 'yaller dog' and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull ...
In Lord Byron's lifetime, details of his travels were widely known through poems set in different countries, ranging from his homes in Scotland and England, through Europe and the Middle East, to t...
A friend and contemporary of Richard Wright and James Baldwin - and every bit their equal - Chester Himes was the acclaimed author of literary novels, stories and essays, as well as the classic cri...
Peppa and her friends are singing their favourite nursery rhymes at playgroup.This chunky tabbed board book is the perfect introduction to classic nursery rhymes.Sing along ...
The shocking true story of the breathtaking rise and collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, written by the prize-winning journalist who first bro...
Walk through the daffodils and uncover the secrets of spring in this seasonal lift-the-flap non-fiction book.Filled with bite-sized nature facts and over 40 flaps to lift, young explore...
Duggee and the Squirrels are having a dressing up party to celebrate Enid's birthday - but what will everyone dress as?Lift the flaps to join in the adventure and earn your dressing up ...
Help Little Bunny to say goodnight to the forest in this gentle, interactive bedtime board book.This gentle, rhyming story follows Little Bunny as he hops through the forest and travels...
Join Peppa and George and piece together five funny jigsaw scenes!This brilliant book comes with FIVE huge Peppa jigsaw puzzles. Join Peppa and George in five fun scenes packed with bug...
Duggee and the Squirrels are getting ready for bed in this brilliant tabbed board book.Follow the steps and prepare for bedtime - get squeaky clean in the bath, have a cosy cuddle with ...