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This is a follow up to ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’, which won the 1998 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. Harry Potter is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and this year promises to be just as eventful as the last.
The holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can’t wait for the start of term. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School and there are spells to be learnt and potions to be brewed, but there are other events on the march that Harry is not expecting.
Harry Potter lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt and Uncle’s house. He is bullied by them and his spoilt cousin, and lives a very unremarkable life. But then Harry is transported to a world of magic and excitement.
A chilling novel that pays twisted homage to Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’. Newly reissued with an introduction from Neil Gaiman.
‘A visual delight’ The Times
‘A splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London’ Sunday Times
First published in 1908, ‘The Old Wives’ Tale’ affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters – shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia – over the course of nearly half a century.
The Number One New York Times Bestseller!
Included in BookTrust’s 100 Best Books for Children
Debut author Drew Daywalt and international bestseller Oliver Jeffers team up to create a colourful solution to a crayon-based crisis in this playful, imaginative story that will have children laughing and playing with their crayons in a whole new way.
The Borrowers have lived in the secret places of quiet old houses; behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. They owned nothing, borrowed everything, and thought human beings were invented just for their use. Until one of the Borrowers made friends with a human.
In this novel Charles goes searching for his lost father through a wrinkle in time with his sister Meg and friend Calvin. They find themselves on an evil planet, where all life is ruled by a huge, pulsating brain known as IT.
This is the tale of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a friendly spider, saved her pig, Wilbur, from the usual fate of nice fat little pigs.
The Trials are over. But something has happened that no one at WICKEDhas foreseen: Thomas has remembered more than they think. Andthe truth is more dangerous than anyone could have imagined …
Thomas was sure that escape from the maze meant he would get hislife back. But no one knew what sort of life they were going backto. The earth is a wasteland with people driven mad by an infectionknown as the Flare. Instead of freedom, Thomas must face anothertrial. He must cross the Scorch to once again save himself andhis friends.
When Thomas arrives in the Glade, a walled encampment at the centreof a bizarre maze, all he remembers is his first name. But he’snot alone. Like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why they’re there,or what’s happened to the world outside. All they know is thatevery morning when the walls slide back, they will risk everythingto find out.
Pilgrim was the codename for a world class and legendary secret agent. When NYPD Ben Bradley tracks down Pilgrim, neither man can imagine the terrifying journey they are about to begin, as what begins as an unusual and challenging murder investigation leads them into a direct collision course with the dark forces of jihadist terrorism.
