Children's / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories

  • Dexter Procter

    £7.99

    It was clear from an early age that Dexter Procter was different. He started speaking at four seconds old. By the age of three, he had 87 A-levels, from Afrikaans to Zoology. And by ten, he was working as a paediatrician at Lilydale General Hospital. Despite a loving but annoying family and a couple of good friends (Rupi and Otto), Dexter’s always struggled to fit in. Add to this a mortal enemy (Dr Drake) and a major problem at his old school (all the teachers struck down with awful diarrhoea) – will Dexter be able to save his job, save the school and find his place in the world? (Spoiler alert: yes!).

  • The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science

    £7.99

    From beloved Saturday Night Live alum Kate McKinnon comes a madcap new adventure about three sisters, a ravenous worm, and a mysterious mad scientist.

  • The Wildest Dreams Bookshop

    £8.99

    The SWOONY summer rom-com for fans of Lynn Painter and book lovers everywhere!

  • Robin Hood Aged 10 3/4

    £7.99

    Lonely at school, Charlie prefers to escape into a world of books. But when she finds herself on the other side of the library in a completely different world, she must embark on a quest to save the people of the forest from the dastardly Sheriff who looks a lot like her mean teacher. There might just be some friends to help her on the way.

  • How to Be a Viking

    £7.99

    This is a story about a little Viking who cannot fit in. Unlike his dad, Stoick the Vast, Hiccup is tiny, thoughtful and polite and scared of almost everything – especially of going to sea for the very first time. But go he must. So who will save the day when everything goes wrong aboard ship and all the big Vikings lose their cool?

  • Who’s Funny?

    £7.99

    A cute dinosaur book with felt flaps to lift and a surprise mirror ending.

  • The blockbusters!

    £12.99

    Hilarious and heartwarming adventure by bestselling, award winner Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Gorgeously illustrated in black and white throughout by Steven Lenton.

  • Birdy Arbuthnot’s year of ‘yes’

    £9.99

    1960 is knocking on the door, and 18-year-old Margaret ‘Birdy’ Arbuthnot, presently of Surbiton, wants more than her current existence in the dull suburbs. She wants to live – in capital letters! Could Soho, with its bright lights and dark corridors, hold the key to a life more novel-like and less. Surrey? (Even if Mummy thinks it is a square mile of vice, full of men with overly shiny shoes.) At the cusp of the new year, Birdy resolves to only say ‘yes’ to everything for the next 12 months. She can’t possibly realise that her biggest ‘yes’ will launch her directly into the London orbit of the aristocratic Mannering family, and transform her life into one worth writing novels about.

  • Sputnik’s guide to life on Earth

    £7.99

    An uplifting, funny adventure of family, faith and a very annoying alien from master storyteller and UK Children’s Laureate 2024-2026 Frank Cottrell Boyce, with illustrations throughout by Steven Lenton.

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