The Odyssey
£14.99‘The Odyssey’ recounts the story of Odysseus’ return to Ithica from the Trojan war, where he encounters Athene, Poseidon, the Cyclops and others before he is reunited with his faithful wife, Penelope.
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One Whole Hippopotamus
£12.99Explore the early learning concepts of shapes, sorting, and parts of a whole with the latest addition to Carter Higgins’s playful trio of books, where visual and math literacy meet.
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Stableheart
£7.99Eleven-year-old Pres can’t remember a time before her mum gave her away. Now, she’s leaving behind her foster parents to go and live in the city with her eccentric Aunty Janelle. Here he discovers Stablehart, a riding stables in the heart of the city, and meets Hero, a bay pony who has his own secrets. Hero won’t let anyone touch him, let alone ride him. But Pres knows all about difficult pasts and together they’ll learn that sometimes to make a place a home, you have to let the past catch up with you.
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Immortal Consequences
£9.99AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!
I.V. Marie's thrilling dark academia debut set at a magical boarding school in purgatory. For fans of Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House, Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education.
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Tales of the Cobb Street Commandos
£7.99It’s 1941 and the Second World War has transformed London. All the adults are doing important things and playing their part. Jimmy and his friends want to be in the thick of the action, doing whatever they can to keep the East End safe. So they form a top-secret group called the Cobb Street Commandos. Houses become hidden headquarters for official CSC meetings. Abandoned warehouses turn into their personal training grounds. They create helmets from cardboard and training tools from old scraps of wood. They know how to be creative and are more than ready for battle. The only thing missing is a mission for them – until now, that is. Join Jimmy and his friends in action-packed adventures around the city as they raise money for Spitfire planes, train alongside soldiers and go on daring missions to meet the prime minister – Winston Churchill himself!
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How to Crack a Code
£7.99The second thrilling, mysterious and very, very funny CECILY SAWYER mystery, from the award-winning author of EINSTEIN THE PENGUIN.
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Robots Stole My Mum!
£7.99I was in the corner shop buying a comic. Dad was waiting outside. I’d just given my money to Mr Norman, the shop owner, when it happened. Mr Norman’s head exploded. Something VERY WEIRD is going on in the sleepy town of Cleeby. All the grown-ups are acting strangely. Sandy and his friend Arjan have a suspicion. They think the grown-ups have all been replaced by ROBOTS. And everything points to the evil boss of the local toaster factory, Tony’s Toasters! Together with a very friendly cyborg named Colin, Sandy and Arjan must save the day – and Sandy’s mum – and get home in time for tea!
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My Great Success and Other Failures
£7.99Jess’s cartoons are actually beginning to take off. A local comic store wants to use them in a campaign and she is in danger of becoming really rather famous (at school). This leads to some tensions with her friends. Why can’t people be happy for her? It’s not as if success is going to her head, or anything. Or actually that it’s anything like success at all.
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The Odyssey
£18.99Take a journey across the sea and follow the heroic, catastrophic, and sometimes downright gruesome tales of the Greek king Odysseus in this modern retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey. A story of trickery, lies, and perseverance, watch as Odysseus is tested to the limits by the Cyclops, sirens, and lots of meddling, angry gods.
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Maisie vs the Pyramids
£7.99When Maisie travels with her dad to the Pyramids to research his book, How to Break Codes, she thought they’d mainly be looking at hieroglyphs. But after being drawn into a race to discover a secret tomb, Maisie finds herself having to survive a scorpion attack, a sandstorm and a hot air balloon ride after becoming lost in the desert. With adventure at every turn, Maisie is in for a surprise as what she really discovers is another truth about herself. But is she ready to face it?
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Welcome to the School of Gods
£7.99Olly Morris, (mostly) normal kid, is living his (mostly) normal life when a Messenger to the Mighty Gods summons him to Gods School. There, Olly’s given a grumpy ‘mobile gnome’ named Jeff, told by immensely powerful and scatterbrained teachers he must pass a life-threatening exam – Or Else, and plunged into a class of unfriendly godlings. With no powers, no idea why he’s been chosen and a growing sense that nobody actually knows what’s going on, Olly can’t work out if this is the best or worst school in the universe.
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Runaway Horse
£7.99Ever since her parents sold her last horse, Tabitha has yearned for the chance to build that special bond with another. Now she finally has the chance to do this with Rusty, an ex-racehorse from her parents’ training stables. Even though Rusty is a handful to ride, Tabitha isn’t about to admit that she’s in over her head – not if it means her parents might take Rusty away. When the Paddock Grove gang enter a competition where they must navigate a complex route across unfamiliar moorland, Tabitha is determined to not let her control over Rusty slip.
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TrooFriend
£7.99Imagine having the perfect friend, one who never steals, lies or bullies. Now you can, with the TrooFriend 560, the latest in artificial intelligence! What can go wrong with a robot buddy? Especially one that’s developing human characteristics and feelings, and who has just run away with her human?
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Creepy Araminta
£7.99The portrait of a beautiful girl with tumbling red hair takes on sinister undertones in this unnerving tale from much-loved, multi-award-winning author Anne Fine.
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Taking the Reins
£9.99A Riders-inspired YA romance, perfect for fans of Hannah Grace, Jilly Cooper and Emily Henry.
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Fifteen-Love
£8.99A sweet, swoony friends to lovers sports romcom for fans of Lynn Painter, Jenny Han and Alexandra Moody.