Famous Classics for Girls: Heidi, What Katy Did & Black Beauty

Susan Coolidge; Anna Sewell; Johanna Spyri; Egmont UK Staff (Editor)

Three essential stories for girlhood reading, retold for young readers and collected in one lovely package   In Heidi, a little orphan girl is forced to live with her grumpy grandfather in a lonely hut in the Alps, and eventually comes to love her mountain life. Katie intends to be beautiful and good ...

Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon : Little Black Classic

Aesop

'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world that is harsh, pitiless and yet also eerily familiar. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Pe...

Carrying Albert Home

Homer Hickam

From the bestselling author of Rocket Boys-the basis of the movie October Sky-comes a long-awaited prequel. Big Fish meets The Notebook in this novel about a man, a woman, and their alligator. Big Fish meets The Notebook in this emotionally evocative story about a man, a woman, and an alligator that is ...

100 Things to Know About Space

Various

Space is a huge topic, but this friendly book breaks it down into bite-sized chunks, making it an accessible introduction for anyone who wants to find out about this fascinating subject. Highly illustrated, in a pictorial, 'infographics' style, with snippets of information about all aspects of space exp...

Damage vol 2 - Scorched Earth - New Age of Heroes

Robert Venditti; Diogenes Neves (Illustrator)

The metahuman tactical squad is hot on Avery's trail--what could go wrong when a bunch of bloodthirsty super-soldiers take on the rampaging monstrosity called Damage? Damage will have to join forces with a mysterious top military operative if he's going to outrun Colonel Jonas and her black-ops team. Fr...

The Investigators

Anthony Hill

A novel of high adventure, exploration, shipwreck and survival, based on the life of Matthew Flinders' cousin, fifteen-year-old midshipman John Franklin, by the award-winning author of Soldier Boy. 'Our discoveries have been great, but the risks and misfortunes many.'John Franklin always wanted to be a ...

Better than Happiness: The True Antidote to Discontent

Gregory Smith

Gregory Smith explains how after a decade living as a recluse in a rainforest he rejoined society and found something better than happiness - contentment. And how you can find contentment too if you just stop trying to be happy.How do you rebuild a broken life? Where do you begin? These were the questio...