Angela Thirkell The carefully observed separation of the old and the new social strata is upset when representatives of each come together in the sphere of Miss Bunting- the governess...

Judith MartinFor parents, stepparents, grandparents, teachers, psychologists, ice-cream vendors, and all others who must, however unwillingly, deal with children constantly, during working hours, or on weekends and holidays. The precocious...

Stephen FryMoab is my Washpot is in turns funny, shocking, tender, delicious, sad, lyrical, bruisingly frank and addictively readable.Stephen Fry's bestselling memoir tells how, sent to a boarding school 200...

Jay McInerney   "A Great Gatsby for the end of the century." -- The Baltimore SunJay McInerney's first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, helped bring about a revolution in contemporary...

Mr J

Derek LandyMeet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yeah. And dead.Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back – just in time to see their whole world get turned upside down.With Valkyrie...

Andy StantonThe fifth Mr Gum story is shamelessly hilariousGood evening. Do you like bears called Padlock? Course you do. Do you like hot-air balloons? Course you do. Do you like...

Andy StantonThe third side-splittingly funny book in a series for very brave readersWell, that old roo-de-lally Mr Gum and the hideous Billy William the Third are once more mucking things...

Andy StantonIt's hard to believe these books can get any funnier, but readers will be guffawing with glee as they read the fourth book about Mr Gum's evil escapadesCan it...

RS Surtees Soapy Sponge's ruthless pursuit of his passion for fox-hunting at the expense of others, brings him into contact with a Dickensian gallery of observed characters, from Dukes to...

Lee Goldberg Some people think Hawaii is paradise. But Monk knows that danger -- like dirt -- lurks everywhere. Look at Helen Gruber, the rich tourist who took a fatal...

Tom PerrottaEve Fletcher is floundering. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved, clueless only child has just left for college, Eve is slowly learning to contend with life on her own when,...