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Galaxy Runners: Jello Breaks the Universe
iki's Delivery Service meets Guardians of the Galaxy for readers of 7+ in this funny, epic, action-packed adventure combining black-and-white highly illustrated text with comic strip panels - from illustrator and animator James Lancett.
If you need something delivered in space with no questions asked, the Galaxy Runners are for you!
Working against greedy Warp Co., siblings Kas and Fig run their plucky business with the help of Skipper, their risk-taking artificial assistant, and Mags, their volcanic hired security! They spend their time adventuring across the galaxy, escaping perilous dangers and making a quick space-buck along the way...
Then, one day, they agree to transport a mysterious cannister across the galaxy. They soon discover it contains Jello - an adorable, gooey, shape-shifting alien being... with unexpected, life-changing powers. Which means greedy bad guys across the universe are soon trying to get their hands on him!
Can the Galaxy Runners escape the clutches of Warp Co.? And where exactly will Jello and his super-poop end up...?
Short, punchy chapters with comic panels and loads of illustration - perfect for young or less confident readers, or anyone who loves visual storytelling.
A story packed with humour, creative characters and universe-saving action!
James Lancett has worked extensively in both TV animation and children's illustration, illustrating bestselling books including Noel Fitzpatrick's Vetman, Adam B's Adam Wins the Internet and Chris Smith's The New Famous Five, as well as working on animations for Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Netflix and more.
LEGO Disney Character Guide
Unlock a world of Disney magic and LEGO® adventure with this essential character guide - including a Jessie minifigure from Toy Story!
Meet more than 150 LEGO Disney minifigures and mini dolls, from Mickey and Minnie Mouse to Princess Elsa and even Walt Disney himself! Explore the heroes, villains, princesses, friends, and locations from your favourite Disney films.
Everything you need to know about the enchanting world of LEGO Disney:
Discover the latest LEGO variants of beloved Disney characters, including fan favourites like Princess Ariel, alongside rare minifigures you've never seen before!
Loaded with fun facts about the best-loved Disney characters and locations - all presented in charming LEGO detail
Includes a collectable LEGO minifigure of Jessie from Toy Story - a must-have addition to any Disney or LEGO collection
Packed with colourful images and fascinating facts, this guide is a magical must-have gift for Disney fans aged 5-8, as well as lifelong fans and collectors of all ages.
© 2026 The LEGO Group
© 2026 Disney
First Light
At once a gripping thriller and a heartbreaking elegy, this is Toni Cade Bambara's powerful final testament, a hymn to Atlanta's missing children.
Zala Spencer is barely surviving on the margins of Atlanta's booming economy when she awakens one summer's morning in 1980 to find her teenage son, Sonny, has disappeared. As she takes to the streets to track down what happened to him, Zala is drawn into the nightmare of a city stalked by fear.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
Monkey Business
Four of Kurt Vonnegut's best dystopian stories, Monkey Business distils his darkly comic vision of the modern world and the cost of trying to engineer a better life.
In a future where everyone is forced to be equal, a gifted teenager dares to rebel. A suburban family discovers a device that delivers perfect happiness. A world frightened of death turns to drugs to slow the march of time. And in a quiet American town, a couple must decide how many children they are willing to raise - for ever.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
Mouse Folk
Five of Franz Kafka's most compelling short animal stories, where fable, dark humour and unease collide
A community gathers to listen to the singing of a mouse. An ape addresses an academy to explain how he became human. A creature digs ever deeper into its burrow, gripped by fear of what might be lurking outside. In these strange and unsettling stories, animals speak plainly about their hopes, fears and fixations.
Includes the stories: Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk, A Report to an Academy, The Burrow, The New Advocate and Investigations of a Dog
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
Paradises Lost
Ursula k. Le Guin's beautifully realised space epic of two young friends finding their lives steer a new, and unexpected course
As the spaceship Discovery makes its slow way towards its destination - New Earth - Hsing and Luis come of age together. Born in the middle of this multigenerational journey, they have never known life beyond the ship and never expect to. But just as their lives seem to be unfolding as decreed, a revelation about Discovery's true course throws everything they know into question.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
A Souvenir of Japan
Five stories of desire and discovery set in 1970s Japan, from weird fiction's most influential pioneer - Angela Carter
An Englishwoman muses on her affair with a younger Japanese man. A spurned lover seeks intimacy in another chance encounter. A boy stumbles upon a mirror world while walking in the woods. In five mesmerising, fantastical tales of 1970s Japan, Angela Carter explores what it means to arrive in a world different from one's own, and to transform profoundly - sometimes terrifyingly - in the process.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
An Expert Witness
From the UK's leading forensic scientist and Sunday Times bestselling author of All That Remains and Written in Bone: a gripping exploration of forensic science, told through often shocking real cases to assess its triumphs, failures, and future.
'No scientist communicates better.' Val McDermid, award-winning author of the Detective Karen Pirie series
For over forty years, Professor Dame Sue Black has analysed criminal evidence at the highest level. As the UK's leading forensic scientist, she has stood in court as an expert witness, repeatedly putting her research and reputation on the line, all in the name of justice.
Now in An Expert Witness she puts forensic science itself on trial.
Drawing on shocking real cases and true crime, from historic poisonings to modern sexual offences, Sue Black traces the evolution of forensic science, from early identification methods to more recent breakthroughs such as DNA profiling, Sue's own vein identification research, and the emerging role of artificial intelligence in criminal investigation.
She shows where science has delivered justice, and where failures have led to devastating consequences, including wrongful convictions such as that of Andrew Malkinson, imprisoned for seventeen years for a crime he did not commit.
As she reflects on life serving as an expert witness, Sue looks back at landmark cases to tell the story of forensic science, ask questions for its future, and explain why this book marks the close of a defining chapter in one of the most extraordinary careers in modern forensic science.
Ape and Essence
Huxley's dystopian classic is a nightmare vision of the fate of humanity in a post-nuclear world.
After a devastating global catastrophe, a group of scientists arrives in a ruined future shaped by fear, ritual and violence. Humanity has survived - but at a terrible cost, and not in any form they recognise. Ape and Essence is Aldous Huxley's bleak, satirical vision of civilisation after collapse. Fierce, strange and provocative, it confronts the destructive impulses that persist even after the world has ended.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
Bewitched
Edith Wharton's ghost stories whisper of passion, exile, and the things we cannot forget
In an old Dorset house, a couple settle into a life of quiet comfort - until a presence makes itself felt. At a country gathering, a man is forced to confront a long-buried secret he has tried to outrun. In a small New England community, suspicion gathers around a widower believed to be under the spell of a dead woman. Bewitched brings together three of Edith Wharton's most unsettling ghost stories. Elegant and controlled, they trace the lingering effects of guilt, secrecy and moral judgement - and the moment when the repressed makes its reappearance.
Includes the stories: Afterward, The Eyes and Bewitched
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
Crucible of Light
Focusing on major turning points, individual stories, and key places, from Mecca to Cordoba, from Damascus to Venice, and from Vienna to Istanbul, Drayson tracks the themes that unite us - classical learning preserved in Islamic libraries, the enduring influence of Moorish architecture and design, the food we share, the goods we have traded, and the continuing dialogue between individuals and cultures that has permeated Europe's history and shaped its borders.
It is a history that sweeps across cities and continents, from Spanish patios and palaces to Ottoman-inspired coffee houses in seventeenth-century London to the Mezquita in Cordoba, once a mosque, now a cathedral, the physical embodiment of the ongoing discourse that continues to shape European identity.
Down by the Riverside
A flood brings not only rising waters but the full force of a brutal, racist world
With the Mississippi flooding, a Black farmer struggles to get his pregnant wife to safety. In the chaos, a single desperate decision sets off a chain of events that cannot be undone. Down By the Riverside is Richard Wright's unflinching novella of race, power and consequence. Starkly told and painfully resonant, it captures how quickly the world can turn - and who is forced to pay the price.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
Long Weekend
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERVenture behind closed doors to uncover the secrets of life in the English country house between the wars – in all its splendour. During the 1920s and 1930s, as the sun set slowly on the British Empire, England's stately homes concealed worlds both opulent and ordinary, noble and viscious. This was a life draped in myth, hidden behind stiff upper lips and film-star smiles. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, on unpublished letters and diaries, on the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls, unhappy heiresses and bullying butlers, The Long Weekend reveals how the image of the country house was carefully protected by its occupants above and below stairs, and how the reality was so much more interesting than the dream. 'A masterpiece of social history' Daily Mail‘A delicious cocktail of a book’ Country Life ‘A perfect piece of escapism’ Guardian
Japan's Anime Revolution!
Twenty pivotal moments in anime filmmaking—and the untold drama behind them. From secret production battles to box-office triumphs, Japan's Anime Revolution reveals how each landmark film transformed Japanese animationAnime expert Jonathan Clements presents gamechanging moments in Japanese film history, from Japan's first black-and-white animated feature to modern blockbusters which have redefined the art form. From box-office hits to career-threatening flops, each of these case studies has changed the anime world in its own unique way, influencing developments in content, production methods, or distribution, capturing all the vibrancy and diversity of this world-beating medium. This illuminating book describes the twenty most notable films in anime history, including:Momotaro: Released at the end of World War II, this was Japan's first feature-length animeMy Neighbor Totoro: Miyazaki's iconic work, consciously created as an alternative to formulaic animated films with no conflict or antagonistGhost in the Shell: The influential sci-fi feature that inspired The MatrixSpirited Away: The first Oscar-winning anime and highest-grossing Japanese film of all time!A Silent Voice: Adapted from a popular manga, an essential entry from a woman directorPlus 14 other landmark films!Clements reveals behind-the-scenes decisions that changed the course of Japanese animation. Which movie was finished by a staff of out-of-work waitresses? Which animator hated his work so much that he threatened to shave off his own eyebrows? How did a maverick producer enlist fans to drive his movie to box-office gold? Which director learned his trade by watching The Bad News Bears ten time? llustrated with full-color images, this fascinating book is a must-read for every devoted anime fan!
TINA DOG WHO CHANGED WORLD PB
The worldwide bestseller, about Tina the rescue golden retriever, now in a specially adapted children’s edition – with brand new photos inside!A ‘tail’ like no other – the heartwarming story of resilience, kindness and true friendship. The perfect holiday and car journey read for kids!Niall Harbison set up Happy Doggo Land in the Thai jungle to tend to the needs of sick and injured street dogs.Meet Buster with his missing ear, Jumbo with his love of sausages, and Solo the tiny jungle puppy. Enjoy Shaq''s first ice cream on the beach, Buttons'' delight with his famous rock star family, and tiny Alba’s precious few sunsets. Most important of all, meet Tina: the golden retriever whose loving nature, delight in tennis balls and rides in Niall’s motorcycle sidecar inspired Niall’s most impassioned project to date: Tina’s Hospital, where Thailand''s sick dogs will receive the best possible care.Buy a book and save a doggo today!
Psychedelics and Human Potential
A guide to psychedelically facilitated personal growth and self-discovery• Includes a brief history of the ancient roots of psychedelics, their rediscovery by the counterculture, and their contemporary use in treating trauma and mental illness• Offers the “Human Promise” program blending spiritual and philosophical tools and practices with psychedelics for self-actualization• Explores today’s regulatory environment, the role of AI, and the influence of the Information Age on psychedelic cultureDespite an unsettled legal landscape, the promise and potential of psychedelics continue to be at the forefront of thinking and research in the United States and around the world. What medicinal and therapeutic properties do the substances of MDMA, psilocybin, LSD, ibogaine, ayahuasca, and ketamine possess, and how can they help us to grow as individuals and as a cultur? r. Carlos Warter, with input from mental health counselor Arthur Lawida, explores these questions to offer a guide to psychedelics that blends history, contemporary context, and tools and practices to help readers realize self-actualization. Warter considers the history of psychedelics from North American peyote rituals to the counterculture of the 1960s and the psychedelic renaissance, exploring how the public perception of psychedelics has changed with an increasing acceptance of their therapeutic value. Moving toward the Human Promise of enlightenment, this book explains how psychedelics can be used in a transpersonal context for sustainable growth and self-discovery. It suggests tools and practices that can round out a program of self-development, including Pilates, Feldenkrais work, neurofeedback systems, and virtual reality. Readers will also learn how AI and information technology are changing the psychedelic and human-development landscape to help with deep healing and spiritual awakening.
Hottest Girl at Burn Camp
A wonderful book, I don't expect to read a better memoir for a very long time.' ROBERT WEBB, author of How Not To Be A Boy'Funny and heart breaking in equal measure' FERN BRADY, author of Strong Female Character'The guiltiest of literary pleasures: a memoir that you open with trepidation and stay up til 6am to finish' KATE SPICER, author of Lost Dog. 'Compelling, edgy and always hilarious. Absolutely essential reading.' JOSIE LONGWhen Krystal Evans was 14, the house that she shared with her mother and little sister burned down. Narrowly escaping by breaking a window and jumping out head-first Krystal suffered burns, smoke inhalation, and the unimaginable tragedy of losing her sister. That Evans has written such a warm and disarmingly funny memoir about what led the family to that fatal night, and how they coped with its aftermath, is nothing less than astonishing. This is a spellbinding story of growing up poor in America, living with a mentally ill mother, and having a wolf for a pet (really). From the indignities of being rejected from a summer camp for burn victims, to putting up with a succession of her mom's increasingly shady friends and partners, Krystal and Katie's childhoods were marked by adult chaos, inappropriate behaviour, and never knowing what the next day would bring. But, writing with joy, skill and candour, we witness Krystal growing as a person from the ashes of disaster into the confident, funny, and (reasonably) well-hinged adult, mother and comedian that she is today. At the same time, funny, tragic and inspiring, it is the story of a family dangerously close to the edge, and of a girl struggling to make her way into adulthood, once the smoke clears.
Family
On the savannah, whatever the weather,The animals must stick together.A herd of elephants cross the trail,Steadily walking, trunk to tail.A gorgeous board book by award-winning illustrator Britta Teckentrup!Discover the incredible habits of animals and their families, from diving dolphins to marvellous manatees, and explore what family means to all kinds of creatures. Britta Teckentrup''s stunning artwork brings to life nature''s incredible stories of the ways in which animals protect and support each other. Lyrical rhyming text by Patricia Hegarty creates a calming tone, making this a perfect book for sharing with your child at bedtime or anytime! Die-cuts let young readers peep through the pages, revealing different horizons all across the world. In this latest addition to Britta Teckentrup''s bestselling series of nature-themed books, animal parents and their young help you celebrate families, love, and the wonders of nature.Also available in the Peek-through Nature series: Don''t miss the full range of stunning board books that focus on the natural world, including Sea, Moon, Bee, Tree and Home!
MR SIDHUS POST OFFICE HB
‘[A] moving family drama … If you don't fall in love with Mr Sidhu, as I did, then I can't help you!’BBC News, 12 Books to Read in 2026 ‘I found Mr Sidhu’s story – through all its twists and turns – utterly compelling … a testament to the power of family, friendship, community, and love. It’s an absolute treasure’ Ruth Hogan, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things 'Entertaining, emotional and enraging! … Mr Sidhu is absolutely real and rounded' FIVE star reader review 'A tremendous debut, mixing both a love story and an honorable man caught up in the sub-postmaster scandal … I enjoyed it immensely' FIVE star reader review * * * * For years, Mr Sidhu’s post office has been a place of small rituals and quiet mercies: news exchanged, kindnesses remembered, a haven for all. Mr Sidhu is confidant, caretaker and witness to a community revealing itself in its loyalties and secrets. But Mr Sidhu is caught between the life he has inherited and the one he has scarcely allowed himself to imagine. When his ordered world begins to shift, he is drawn towards a new future and an unexpected love, forcing him to navigate family tensions, shifting identities and the question of who stands beside us when everything changes. And soon, the life Mr Sidhu tended so carefully may no longer be enough … Tender, wise and beautifully observed, Mr Sidhu’s Post Office is an unforgettable novel about love, duty and the communities that shape us – and save us. * * * * Praise for Amman Brar: ‘Mr Sidhu is a wonderful character – he’s someone you will remember and think about long after you’ve finished the book’ Sarah Morgan, number one Sunday Times bestselling author ‘What a special debut … I couldn't put it down’ Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City ‘Amman Brar’s storytelling is warm, funny, and culturally astute … As the story unfolds, Mr Sidhu’s dignified reserve is peeled back to reveal a big heart’ Natalie Gregory, author of Mother Ghost Mango Seed ‘A powerful, heart-wrenching tribute to the immigrant journey … A standout debut that balances family, faith, and late-in life love’ Candid Book Club
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