The Treason Game tells the story of Lina, who is infatuated with Tyler, a handsome medieval knight avatar in her favourite MRPG. She wants to be a games artist and gets an internship at MediaCity UK, where the boss, Aron Taylor, bears an uncanny resemblance to her fantasy lover. He worked on The Treason Game in the US, so Lina is convinced he is the man behind Tyler. But the road to adulthood is a bumpy ride for Lina, with a repressive, religious motherwho hates video games and her best fr...

A collection of twenty-eight literary parodies. Find out why Just William got no anti-social behaviour order. Discover how The Great Gatsby really made his millions. Learn from Mrs Danvers' diary why Rebecca was so wicked. Uncover the real truth about Dr Jekyll. Why was Dorian Gray so ugly? All will be revealed as Viv Doyle pays tribute to books she has enjoyed reading, as a child and an adult.

A comical-historical-fantastical novel for Juveniles of all ages.Mark 77 hails from another planet: the one the Creator made before this one. He lands on earth in 777, when King Offa rules Mercia, and despite his alien appearance wins the hand of Offa's daughter, which is only the start of his troubles. The Astromancer, Taliesin, helps him with his Maths, and eventually discloses the secret of mixing fire and water. But when the new Firewater replaces beer and mead as the tipple of...

A Fantasy novel for 8-12 year-oldsGwen, a Welsh girl, meets a strange half-human called Perewulf in the forest, who asks her to help him save his red dragons from extinction. She takes home the last egg, and when the dragon hatches she calls him Prince.Perewulf tells Gwen that Prince must be mated with an English green dragon, to save the race. She flies off on Prince's back and meets Dane, a boy who works at a dragon stud run by an evil man, Logar.Prince falls into...

Twins CHRIS and TINA are visiting their great-grandparents in Manchester while their Mum is having a baby. GRAMPS discovers nanodot.com where a webmaster called MORDANT WITT lets them download weird plastic dots containing microscopic robots (nanobots) that will clean the house and even make grumpy Gran look young again. Unfortunately these effects do not last.Tina buys a makeover doll called Maxine from the nanodot mall, and they are given a peculiar furry pet, but both of these r...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE'Utter BRILLIANCE . . . I absolutely LOVED it!' MARIAN KEYES'An absolute knock-out… Dolly’s voice feels like your very favourite friend’ TAYLOR-JENKINS-REID'Witty, touching without ever being sentimental ... Hugely enjoyable' DAVID NICHOLLS__________________________________________________He ...

Introducing Geralt the Witcher - revered and hated - who holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in the bestselling series that inspired the Witcher video games and a major Netflix show.Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers and lifelong training have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin.Yet he is no ordinary killer: he hunts the vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.But not everythin...

The girl's stuck in a tower. The boy's stuck in a castle. There are two sides to every story....Rapunzel is having the ultimate bad day. She's been stolen by a witch, may have a ghost for a roommate, and doesn't even have a decent brush for her hair.Prince Benjamin's got it pretty tough, too. His father wants him to be more kingly, his mother wants him to never leave her sight, and his cousin wants to get him into as much trouble as possible (possibly with a troll)....

Soon to be a major film directed by Coky Giedroyc and starring Ladybird's Beanie Feldstein as Johanna Morrigan and Game of Thrones's Alfie Allen as John KiteMy name’s Johanna Morrigan. I’m fourteen, and I’ve just decided to kill myself.I don’t really want to die, of course! I just need to kill Johanna, and build a new girl. Dolly Wilde will be everything I want to be, and more! But as with all the best coming-of-age stories, it doesn’t exa...

I bet you think you know this story.You don't. The real one's much more gory.From Jack in the Beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Bears to Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs, wicked beasts, brazen crooks and a ghastly giant star in these hilarious nursery rhymes with BITE!The text in this edition of Revolting Rhymes was updated in 2022 for young independent readers.

‘A delicious Christmas delight’ – Sunday Times bestseller Katie FfordeThe perfect Christmas romance for fans of Karen Swan.Tilly Hunter has fabulous friends, her dream job as a make-up artist with a prestigious opera company and Felix, her kind and caring husband to be. It looks set to be the most perfect Christmas yet!But when a monumental blunder forces her to work closely with new IT director Marcus Walker, it's not only the roast chestn...

Geralt the Witcher races to find his missing ward, Ciri, in this fourth novel in the bestselling Witcher series that inspired the blockbuster video games and the fourth season of the hit Netflix show.The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life.But the net around her is closing. Geralt, the Witcher, has as...