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  • Brighton Rock

    £11.99

    Graham Greene’s powerful novel of good, evil and adolescent rebellion.

  • Our Man In Havana

    £10.99

    Graham Greene’s blackly comic espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.

  • Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger

    £5.99

    Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled artificial-almost-intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival – this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy.

  • T’choupi – Pot

    £7.80
  • Shark Lady

    £11.99

    At 9 years old, Eugenie Clark developed an unexpected passion for sharks after a visit to the Battery Park Aquarium in New York City. At the time, sharks were seen as mindless killing machines, but Eugenie knew better and set out to prove it. Despite many obstacles in her path, Eugenie was able to study the creatures she loved so much. From her many discoveries to the shark-related myths she dispelled, Eugenie’s wide scientific contributions led to the well-earned nickname ‘Shark Lady’.

  • Swing Time

    £9.99

    Two girls dream of being dancers – but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It’s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, ‘Swing Time’ is a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them.

  • The Princess In Black

    £6.99

    Stopping monsters is no job for dainty Princess Magnolia. But luckily Princess Magnolia has a secret – she’s also the Princess in Black, and stopping monsters is the perfect job for her!

  • Adventures Dog Man Bk 1 Do Not Feed Out

    £9.99

    Dr Dilbert Dinkle started his career as an ordinary, everyday evilgenius/inventor/bank robber. But when he awakens one day transformedinto a walking, talking puddle of pee, he vows to destroy everytoilet in town. Will the devious Dr Dinkle and his connivingcat, Petey, ruin restrooms for the rest of us?

  • The Underground Railroad

    £10.99

    Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead’s razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can.

  • Little Red

    £8.99

    A darkly comic retelling of the classic fairytale, Little Red Riding Hood.

  • Hiccup How To Train Your Dragon

    £7.99

    Hiccup Haddock Horrendous III was a truly extraordinary Viking hero. The warrior chieftain and awesome sword fighter was known as ‘the Dragon Whisperer’, on account of his power over these terrifying beasts. But it wasn’t always like that, and this is the story of his rise to fame, in his own words.