Item category 1: Picture Books for Older Readers

Alex Rider is in hospital and determined to put his spying days behind him. But he is forced back into action when the vicious terrorist group Force Three takes him prisoner. Alex makes his escape - yet his most perilous adventure is only just beginning. Alex must stop Force Three in their attemp...

Fresh off their time fighting vampires, zombies, and giant creatures in the swamp - Princess Adrienne, Bedelia the Blacksmith, and Sparky the Dragon are in for their biggest adventure yet! Join our team of fearless ladies as they set off into the mountains to save twin princesses Andrea and Anton...

Jay, Cole, Zane, Kai, and Sensei Wu are strangers in an even stranger land - Garmadon City! But the name is not what's strange! The fact that everything is made of stone - the streets, the buildings, the trees, even the people! - that's the really strange part. But how do you save people who have...

After the terrifying discovery of the monolith in the red zone, the children must now adapt to having Dodzi back among them - something they never expected. Problem is, Saul, too, is back, and the Clan of the Shark has relocated to Campton. While Ivan begins investigating the 15 families that his...

Getafix, Obelix, Dogmatix and Asterix visit Egypt to help an architect build a palace for Caesar. There they are entranced by the Sphinx, the pyramids and Cleopatra's nose.

Yoko meets up with her cousin Monya - who couldn't resist the temptation to use her time machine again. Her meddling with the past has caused a sacred dancer to be sentenced to death. To save the young woman and make things right, Yoko will have to travel back to 1350 AD and face the terrifying f...

The time has come to confront the Master of Shadows. Rebecca, Max, and Theo must follow Grandpa Gabe into the heart of the Master's realm, the Tower of Shadows. But can Grandpa Gabe be trusted? There's a reason he's so familiar with the dark powers that rule Elsewhere: he created them. Grandpa Ga...

Teenage spy Alex is forced into the Australian secret service. His target is the criminal underworld of South East Asia, and a ruthless organisation known as the Snakehead.

In book seven of the Asterix series, the Romans persuade a Gaulish chief to challenge Vitalstatistix to single combat. This poses no threat until Getafix is hit by a flying menhir and forgets how to make the magic potion.

The cold war between the Campton group and Saul's clan has finally erupted into open warfare, but the increasingly strange events that affect the abandoned city eventually silence even the most bellicose instincts: the red zone is sinking into the ground, and all of the children, regardless of th...