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Did you know that early versions of football were played by the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Chinese? Or that Christiano Ronaldo once leapt nearly 3 metres into the air in order to head the ball into the goal? Find out all about football positions, moves, equipment, teams, stadiums and more in ...

If anything in this book doesn't quite ring true, you'd better start believing! This irresistible page-turner will keep your eyes popping and your jaws dropping from start to finish. Did you know that Earth could fit inside Jupiter more than 1000 times? Can you believe the Eiffel Tower would fit ...

Cleo and her unicorn friends are having fun dancing, prancing and swishing their tails in the magic forest, until - oh no! - their noise wakes the big, scary GIANT. But not all is what it seems - and a FE FI FO FUM turns quickly into friendship!

Bird is looking for her best friend Bee. She searches high in the sky and deep underground - she can't find Bee anywhere - but who else will she meet along the way?

The 'Queen of Herbs' uses her 40 years of plant knowledge to showcase the best herbs for culinary and medicinal uses.

Andy and Terry have added 13 new levels of crazy fun to their biggest treehouse yet. But Anti-Andy and Junkyard Jill - our trouble making opposites are trapped in one of the mirrors, and they want out! (Oh, and Mr Big Nose wants us to write another book...or else!) Can we avoid school, defeat our...

What unites us? What divides us? What do we value? Sociologist Eric Klinenberg had been studying what crises reveal about societies for over two decades when his home of New York became the deadliest hot spot of the global pandemic. In this book he combines what he and his research team learned o...

The Women's Murder Club is out celebrating an engagement at San Francisco's finest restaurant when a blood-curdling scream interrupts the festivities. They soon discover a young woman who has been the victim of a violent assault. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer makes an arrest. Assistant District Attorney...

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? 'Abroad in Japan' charts a decade of l...

Master of modern meditation Deepak Chopra illuminates the path to abundance, helping readers become agents of change in their own lives. Demonstrating how to work past self-generated feelings of limitation and fear and providing meditations to help you focus and direct your attention and intuitio...

Growing up in the west of Ireland in the 1940s Tess is a shy introverted child. But beneath her quiet exterior lies a heart of fire. A fire that will later drive her to make her home among the hurly burly of 1960s New York. Over four decades and a life lived with quiet intensity on Academy Street...

A magical journey of scientific discovery begins here! Four friends, the Museum Kids, are off on an incredible adventure to discover the history of flight and space travel at the Air and Space Museum. A magical lift takes them to the studio of Leonardo da Vinci, to see the Wright Brothers make th...

'After a Dance' is the compiled collection of short stories from acclaimed writer Bridget O'Connor, with an exclusive preface from the author's daughter, Constance Straughan.

London, 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times, having just lost her beloved husband, Harry, and with a lingering sadness at never having been able to have a child of her own. Struggling to face running the bookshop she and Harry opened together, Gertie is preparing to sell up ...

Prague, 1588. The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, wants to expand the boundaries of human knowledge and his court is a haven for scientists, astrologers and alchemists. His abiding passion is the elusive hunt for the philosopher's stone and thus immortality. The Catholic Church fears he has pushed...

Alex is an alligator who has experienced 'scary' things. In this charmingly illustrated story, he talks about how this affects him and how he copes. By reading about the different parts of Alex that come out because of the scary things he has experienced, such as The Destroyer when he is angry, S...

Strap on your boots and discover the Algarve on foot with the Sunflower Algarve walking guide which includes a hand-picked selection of long and short walks. On the days when your feet may have had enough, enjoy some spectacular scenery on one of our recommended car tours.

Eid Mubarak! Can Ali Tahir use his creative powers to save the holiday party? It's Eid, Ali's favourite day of the year! The family has fun plans for this special day after the Muslim holiday Ramadan. But Ali's brother, Fateh, is being cranky and keeps spoiling everything! Can Ali find a way to c...

Ali Tahir joins in a paper plane contest with a surprise twist. On a rainy day, Ali brings the fun to indoor break by sharing his talent for building paper planes with his friends. But in a contest to see whose plane can fly furthest, Ali is baffled by the results. Will aeroplane expert Ali flop ...

Nothing exciting ever happens on twelve-year-old Danny's estate - that is until he falls through a locker in his grandad's workshop and finds himself in an Interdimensional Lost Property Office! Join Danny, Modge and Inaaya in more rocket-fuelled rampages across the universe and space shenanigans...