Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith star in a compilation from the smash hit BBC TV series‘This is a local shop for local people. There’s nothing for you here!’Welcome to Royston Vasey! Your visit coincides with:· Herr Lipp’s German exchange visit!· Papa Lazarou’s freak show!· A nosebleed epidemic!In a selection of episodes from Series Two of the award-winning black comedy, Reenie and Vinnie are in charge ...

It's been forty years since Tiwan's father Iko convinced a dragon to save their village. Now the dragons are back, and they want Tiwan's help in a war against an enemy in their world's oceans. But she's just a child, so what could she do? The dragons threaten to invade the humans' world if they lose the war. Tiwan reluctantly agrees to go on a spying mission for them, even though she risks being lost in the dragons' world forever.

A hilarious and heart-warming tale for children and grown-ups of all ages.What Simon wanted for his seventh birthday was a set of action figures from Planet Patrol, his favourite cartoon. What he got was a tatty second-hand teddy bear.What Simon doesn't know is that the teddy bear is alive and can do magic.What the bear doesn't know is that he's not as good at magic as he thinks he is.When the bear tries to grant a wish for Simon, everything goes wrong, and ...

The Last Dragonrider is a prequel to the other Dragonrider books.The Dragonriders of the Nuhysean Army fly huge gliders, the closest they can get to the legendary creatures they were named after.In the middle of a brutal civil war, a young Dragonrider called Neeru discovers some mosaics in a ruined temple that could upend everything they thought they knew about the dragons... and themselves.Neeru soon learns that some of her leaders would rather the discove...

A time-travelling biologist is stranded when a giant fish eats her homing beacon...Two ancient beings create a new star to make themselves worthy in the eyes of their ancestors...The curator of the oldest museum in the galaxy finds out the truth behind its most famous exhibit...These are just a few of the tales that await you in Racing the Storm and Other Stories, a collection of thirteen short science fiction stories - some thought-provoking, some poignant, some ju...

Teacher Iko has a problem with pirates: they keep raiding his village, taking whatever they want. Dusty documents in the archives suggest a last-chance solution: summon a dragon to destroy them. Of course everyone knows dragons don't exist, so Iko is as surprised as anyone else when the summoning works.The dragon refuses to help - his race were once slaves to humans, and he has no desire to become one himself. But in answering the summons, he created a magical bond between himself ...

A hilarious and heart-warming tale for children and grown-ups of all ages.What Simon wanted for his seventh birthday was a set of action figures from Planet Patrol, his favourite cartoon. What he got was a tatty second-hand teddy bear.What Simon doesn't know is that the teddy bear is alive and can do magic.What the bear doesn't know is that he's not as good at magic as he thinks he is.When the bear tries to grant a wish for Simon, everything goes wrong, and ...

After their adventures in Elangir, Raltarn and his comrades on Silver Dolphin begin the voyage home to Asdanund. Raltarn hopes that his share of the treasure will be enough for a dowry for his fiancée Shanu. The warship Glorious has gone ahead with a cargo of magical weapons that might help to win the long war against Nuhys. Disaster strikes Glorious, and the only survivor refuses to say what happened.Halfway home, they discover they're too late. The war is over, and Asdanund is no...

Captain Tagahra of the Kyer Altamar Watch has a lot of missing people to find. He doesn't expect one of them to be a wizard who's escaped from the city's prison, leaving a dead priest in his place. He learns the disappearances might be part of a plan by the evil God Zorian to take control of the city, and his orders are to help with the defences. But how do you defend against something you don't believe in?The wizard Adramal is racing home to Kyer Altamar to fight Zorian. She drank...

Pemberton is a yellow, fuzzy Labrador Retriever-and he wants nothing more than to meet this "forever family" he's been hearing about!As a puppy, Pemberton is taken from his mother and brought to a puppy mill, where he desperately misses the comfort of being loved and cared for. When he's rescued by local shelter workers, he finds himself in a foster home for other dogs like him. While the older labs, Gus and Churchill, help Pemberton come out of his shell, he still longs to find a h...

When apprentice wizard Adramal leaves home, her plan is to complete her training at a new school. But she soon finds herself caught up in bigger and more dangerous events than she could have imagined. She'll have to catch a murderer, rescue a village from plague, and find her way into a secret magical well - while staying ahead of a God who wants her dead and keeping her ever-more complicated love life on track. Meanwhile, Lelsarin, the immortal being who lives in Adramal's head, has her o...

Apprentice wizard Adramal is now a detective with the City Watch. But someone wants her dead - during a routine investigation, she is poisoned, and only her magic and quick thinking save her life. Her father suspects followers of the evil god Zorian are to blame. He insists Adramal leave for the island kingdom of Salmar, beyond Zorian's influence, while the Watch investigates. The Salmarian priests trick her into revealing herself as a wizard, and sentence her to death for practising magic...