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What the encyclopaedia was to the 20th century, this book is to the 21st. 12 elegantly designed chapters brim with 321 fascinating - and often surprising - facts, enabling people to dazzle their friends and family with their encyclopaedic knowledge of sports, science, plants and insects, famous p...

In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, 'The Accusation' provides a unique and shocking w...

Krako..w, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This is no place to grow up. But Anna Lania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father and suddenly, she's alone. Then she meets the Swallow Man. He is a mystery, strange and tall. And like Anna's missing fathe...

Unsettling, beautiful, laced with dark humour and tenderness, 'The Answer and Other Love Stories' explores the inner lives of those who live as neighbours, pass each other in the street and work side by side.

The stories in this triptych are about responsibility and the problems of conscience that each one of us must solve if we are to discover the deepest meaning of life. An international bestseller from the author of Follow Your Heart, which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.'I kill you in o...

Atticus Grammatticus Cattypuss Claw, the world's greatest police cat, is back. When the kittens at the local cats' home are wrongly suspected of a knitting crime spree, Inspector Cheddar is baffled. Atticus must step in to find the real culprits. In an adventure that takes him from Littleton-on-S...

'Wonder' tells the story of Auggie Pullman: an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, whose first year at school changed the lives and the perspectives of everyone around him. 'Auggie & Me' is a new side to the Wonder story: three new chapters from three different characters - bully Julian, old...

A collection of seven magical and heart-warming animal stories, specially for World Book Day, by the nation's favourite storyteller.