**Don't miss MAKING A KILLING, the new DI Adam Fawley thriller, OUT NOW**-THE *INSTANT* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *THE FIRST EVER STAND-ALONE FROM AUTHOR OF THE DI ADAM FAWLEY MILLION-COPIES-SOLD SERIES***A Financial Times Best Book of 2023****A Guardian Best Crime and Thriller book of 2023**‘This devilishly clever, ground-breaking novel will keep y...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘A lasting work of social history’ THE TIMES‘A genuinely new history of our nation’ DAN JONES‘This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history’ SPECTATORFROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE’S WORKDid you know that there are more penises than women...

The United States themselves are, essentially, the greatest poem’ said Walt Whitman. Here are the much-loved examples of the free spirit of America in all its glory.

Four plays by the award-winning Italian playwright and innovator Luigi PirandelloLuigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer and winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature. In the first performance of Six Characters in Search of an Author**,** an enraged Rome theatre audience yelled abuse at the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello and chased him out of the theatre. Since then, the play has gained iconic status as a piece...

ONE BODY. SIX EXPERTS. CAN YOU SOLVE THE CASE BEFORE THEY DO?Mega-bestselling British crime novelist Cara Hunter makes her big American debut with a wholly immersive thriller like none you've seen before: written as the teleplay of a true-crime documentary, it has the reader puzzling away, reviewing photos, maps, coroner's reports and other evidence as they read. The exciting multi-narrator audiobook features five actors telling the story f...

The World’s Worst Children 2, from Children's author David Walliams.If you thought you had read about the World’s Worst Children already, you’re in for a rather nasty shock. The beastly boys and gruesome girls in this book are even ruder, even more disgusting and WORSE than you could ever imagine!This gorgeous collection of ten stories will make you snort with laughter and thank your lucky stars that you don’t know anyone like Gruesome Griselda or Fussy Frankie in real life...

The World’s Worst Monsters, from Children's author David Walliams.You’ve met the world’s worst children, the world’s worst parents, the world’s worst teachers and the world’s worst pets – but are you ready for the world’s worst monsters?If you don’t like ghosts, ogres, zombies, vampires, aliens, werewolves or mummies, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK.

The hilarious and action-packed middle grade adventure from beloved comedian and bestselling author Paul O’Grady.Unbeknownst to anyone, somewhat-unhappy and never-quite-fitting in 10-year-old Eddie Albert can speak to animals, including his pet dog Butch, his hamster and his two goldfish (who claim they were once pirates). But when Eddie is sent to stay with his eccentric aunt in Amsterdam, he discovers that she too has this gift…So begins a breathless cosmopolitan comic cr...

The World’s Worst Teachers, from Children's author David Walliams.Think your teachers are bad? Wait until you meet this lot. These ten tales of the world’s most splendidly sinister teachers will have you running for the school gates.Dr Dread teaches science and is half man, half monster! And watch out for the always furious Miss Seethe – she’s on a detention rampage!

The World’s Worst Children 3, from Children's author David Walliams.Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your bookshelf, 10 more horrendously hilarious stories about the absolute worst children ever! From ten-year old Hank and his endless pranks on his poor, long-suffering family, to Tandy and her titanic tantrums – this brand new collection is the perfect companion to World’s Worst Children books 1 and 2 and an ideal gift for the worst children in your life!This...

The Creature Choir, from Children's author David Walliams.There’s more than one star of the show… In fact, there’s a whole choir of them!Warble the walrus LOVES to sing.Unfortunately, she is not very good at it! And when her atrocious warbling causes an avalanche, the other walruses leave her all alone.But when you SING like no-one is listening, SOMETIMES, they start to hear you…

The World of David Walliams: The World’s Worst Children 1, 2 & 3, from Children's author David WalliamsTHE WORLD’S WORST CHILDRENAre you ready to meet the World’s Worst Children? Five beastly boys and five gruesome girls!Like Sofia Sofa – a TV super-fan so stuck to the sofa that she’s turning into one!Or Dribbling Drew – a boy whose drool gets him into trouble on a school trip!And not forgetting Blubbering Bertha – a girl wh...