Jasper Fforde Jasper Fforde's time-traveling and fiction-jumping detective Thursday Next is an international hit with fans and critics. Beginning with The Eyre Affair, a Book Sense Top 76 Pick, Thursday's...

Eoin Colfer "And Another Thing ..." will be the sixth novel in the now improbably named "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator,...

Louis de Bernieres When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes...

Jeff Kinney The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wnats her son to put down the...

Created by Matt GroeningPainstakingly assembled and rigorously organized by that master of clutter, Matt Groening, this is not another mini-jumbo, hard-to-read, abbreviated compendium in that seemingly endless series of discourses...

Stella Gibbons   'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm...'Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything...

Chosen by Helen PaibaThis bright and varied selection of wonderfully entertaining stories by some of the very best writers for children is perfect for reading alone or aloud—and for dipping...

David Sedaris In David Sedaris’s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris’s collection of essays...

Etgar Keret Long a household name in Israel, where he has been declared the voice of his generation, Keret has been acknowledged as one of the country's most radical and...

VS Naipaul Naipaul’s breakthrough novel is a marvellous comic tale of a Trinidadian of Indian descent striving to improve his lot. Continually making big plans for himself he constantly finds...

Joseph Heller   Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—books of all time. In recent years it...

Wendy Cooling   This brilliant collection is re-issuing with a gorgeous, brand-new cover look. Children will be spellbound by the amazing characters in this fabulous collection - a greedy king,...