Elisabeth BeresfordThe Wombles have just gratefully returned to their burrow on Wimbledon Common. They had needed to leave because heavy lorries thundering up and down the nearby road had threatened...

Rosalind MilesMen dominate history because they write it. This book offers a reappraisal which aims to re-establish women's importance at the centre of the worldwide history of revolution, empire, war...

Emma DonoghueAn eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story.Set in...

Michael GurianOffers practical and effective guidelines for channeling boys' natural aggression, competitiveness, and sense of tribe and initiation into productive, disciplined behavior, and explores the relationships necessary to male development.Published...

Melissa Bank   Six years after her amazingly successful debut, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Bank rewards her fans for their patience with The Wonder Spot, a...

Roald Dahl Seven stories of fantasy and fun by the fantastic Roald Dahl.The Boy Who Talked With Animals - in which a stranded sea turtle and a small boy have...

Harlan Coben Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had...

Beryl CookBeryl Cook, OBE (10 September 1926 – 28 May 2008) was a British artist best known for her original and instantly recognisable paintings. Often comical, her works pictured people...

John IrvingThis is the life of T.S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother...

Aleksandar Hemon The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--showcases Aleksandar Hemon's celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story...

David WalliamsA spectacularly funny feast of all things Walliams for super-fans, new fans and anyone who likes laughing out loud a lot. In glorious colour throughout!Welcome to the World of...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a two book set.Clifton FadimanClifton Fadiman can remember to this day the wonder that he felt as a child when he opened a book and found...