Percys Park Secret Path
£7.99Celebrate thirty years of Percy the Park Keeper and his animal friends with this funny story in the classic series from award-winning author and illustrator Nick Butterworth!
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Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
£11.99On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. The man was a spy. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying. Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever.
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All The Lives We Never Lived
£10.99‘In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman’ – so begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who is driven to rebel against tradition and follow her artist’s instinct for freedom. Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis have come to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, two strangers arrive in Gayatri’s town, opening up for her the vision of other possible lives. What took Myshkin’s mother from India to Dutch-held Bali in the 1930s, ripping a knife through his comfortingly familiar environment? Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, Myshkin comes to understand the connections between anguish at home and a war-torn universe overtaken by patriotism.
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(Not) All Your Fault
£7.99Maya and Rose won’t talk to each other. Even though they are sisters. Not since the accident. Maya is running wild, and Rose doesn’t know what to do. Now Maya and Rose have to go away together on a week-long school journey. But will the trip – and a life-threatening adventure – fix their relationship, or break it for good?
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Mr Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets: Book 2
£7.99Follow Mr Penguin and Colin as they crash land on a snowy mountain. Will they be able to solve the mystery of the missing pets? What are the strange noises coming from the abandoned fortress? And will Mr Penguin conquer his fear of flying? Find out in the second Mr Penguin book with plenty of slapstick humour, mystery and adventure.
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Convenience Store Woman
£9.99Keiko has never really fitted in. At school and university people find her odd and her family worries she’ll never be normal. To appease them, Keiko takes a job at a newly opened convenience store. Here, she finds peace and purpose in the simple, daily tasks and routine interactions. She is, she comes to understand, happiest as a convienience store worker. But in Keiko’s social circlel it just won’t do for an unmarried woman to spend all her time stacking shelves and re-ordering green tea.
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Football School Star Players: 50 Inspiring Stories of True Football Heroes
£7.99What made Pele the greatest player of all time? How did Nadia Nadim flee from Afghanistan and end up playing for Manchester United? Who was the Liverpool player who invented the world’s most popular football boot? This collection of fifty biographies brings together the the incredible true stories of the game’s greatest legends who changed the world of football.
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The Silence of the Girls
£9.99When her city falls to the Greeks, Briseis’s old life is shattered. She is transformed from queen to captive, from free woman to slave, awarded to the god-like warrior Achilles as a prize of war. And she’s not alone. On the same day, and on many others in the course of a long and bitter war, innumerable women have been wrested from their homes and flung to the fighters. The Trojan War is known as a man’s story: a quarrel between men over a woman, stolen from her home and spirited across the sea. But what of the other women in this story, silenced by history? What words did they speak when alone with each other, in the laundry, at the loom, when laying out the dead?
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My Year Of Rest And Relaxation
£10.99A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
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I Who Have Never Known Men
£9.99Staff Pick!
Allanah Says…
Harpman has crafted a short but poignant tale that hauntingly blends a bleak atmosphere with hope. Women imprisoned underground escape only to find an abandoned world, but they chase life and love despite it all. This is a story that lingers with you.
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Deep underground, 39 women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there and only vague notions of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl – the fortieth prisoner – sits alone and outcast in the corner. But soon she will show herself to be the key to the others’ escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above.
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WC Workbook Simple Spelling
£6.99Help your child lay the foundations for good literacy with this fun and effective wipe-clean workbook with dry-wipe pen.
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The Titanic Detective Agency
£6.99Bertha is excited to be on RMS Titanic’s maiden voyage, but she quickly realises some passengers are not what they seem, and she determines to unravel the mystery onboard.
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The Secret Seven Collection 2
£12.99Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven – everyone’s favourite detective club! This fantastic bumper collection contains Secret Seven books 4-6, with illustrations by Tony Ross.Book 4: Secret Seven on the Trail (first published in 1952)Something mysterious is going on at Tigger’s Barn, and the Seven are intrigued. When Jack overhears a strange conversation, it’s time for the Seven to leap into action …Book 5: Go Ahead, Secret Seven (first published in 1953)What exactly is the sinister-looking man up to and why does he want to get George into trouble? Will the Seven get to the bottom of the mystery before it’s too late?Book 6: Good Work, Secret Seven (first published in 1954)A car is stolen and Peter and Janet are the only witnesses. But have the Seven got themselves too deep into a mystery that is beyond their powers to solve?These timeless stories are perfect for young fans of mystery, adventure or detective series.
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British Museum: So You Think You’ve Got It Bad? A Kid’s Life
£8.99A kid’s life in ancient Egypt might sound like fun with all the cool pyramids and glorious sunny weather, but actually it was rather tough! In this hilarious book, written by award-winning author Chae Strathie, children will learn exactly how difficult life really was, from dodging Deathstalker scorpions and cleaning up cow dung, to fetching water from the well, eating roast hedgehog and being slammed in the stocks for being naughty at school! Probably the first book about ancient Egypt that involves bubble wrap and skateboards!
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Magic Painting Animals
£6.99Dip the brush in the water and sweep it across the black and white pages to fill the animals with colour in this interactive immersion in the exotic variety of the animal kingdom.
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Clifftoppers: The Arrowhead Moor Adventure
£7.99For Aiden, Chloe, Ava and Josh, holidays at their grandparents’ cottage mean wild beaches, no curfew, Bella the dog, and most of all – adventure! A treasure hunt at a stately home takes a suspicious turn when the cousins discover a jewel heist unfolding around them. But how can they take down a gang of clever thieves when all they’ve got is their bikes and a very risky plan? By being braver, smarter, and sneakier than the villains they’re chasing.