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One of Britian's best loved writers chooses her best short stories from her career at the forefront of contemporary fiction.

When a sick cub arrives at the bear farm, no one expects it to survive. But twelve-year-old Tam refuses to give up hope - he nurses the bear back to health and they form an unbreakable bond. Tam swears to return his bear to the wild - but in a world torn apart by indifference and greed, will Tam ...

Drawn from a lifetime's search for the weird and the wonderful, 'The Most Interesting Book in the World' is a miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are.

Chloe sees Mr Stink every day, but she's never spoken to him. Which isn't surprising, because he's a tramp, and he stinks. But there's more to Mr Stink than meets the eye (or nose) and before she knows it, Chloe has an unusual new friend hiding in her garden shed.

This novel is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship.

For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI -...

Like his namesake, the great Aztec king, Montezuma is a survivor. Everyone knows that cats have nine lives, but this ginger tom proves that the old saying is true as his adventures taken him into the world beyond his farmyard.

Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, wil...

This novel evokes the pressure and rapture of physical effort, teamwork and achievement. It follows two oarsmen, David and Anton, while they are being trained as a coxless pair by a strange German coach in the golden Amsterdam summer of 1939. 'I am holding on to that summer, not just in my though...