Interest age: from c 12 years

It was two-thirty in the morning. Darkness hung over the coast of France. Prepare for a journey back into the most extreme conflict the world has ever seen, as historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a rip-roaring, heart-stopping adventure in time. We witness the Second World War first-hand throu...

It was two-thirty in the morning. Darkness hung over the coast of France. Prepare for a journey back into the most extreme conflict the world has ever seen, as historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a rip-roaring, heart-stopping adventure in time. We witness the Second World War first-hand throu...

This is an empowering selection of poems by women - from classic, well loved poets to innovative and bold modern voices. The collection includes of a broad variety of exciting and relevant themes.

Are you buzzing to discover how an electric eel can give you a nasty shock? Or which scientist gave electric shocks to his eyeballs? Use fact files and quizzes, teacher tests and cartoons to discover the shocking facts about electricity.

Step through these pages and into the Tudor court - a dangerous world, where one misstep could cost your life. Through the eyes of Henry VIII's six very different queens, from a brave Spanish princess to a wise English widow, historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a thrilling journey through the...

'Slimy Stuarts' tells the foul, funny and fascinating facts about life for everyone in Stuart times, from gibbering James I to suffering schoolchildren and cunning criminals.

'Smashing Saxons' tells the terrible truth about the pillaging people who bashed the Brits but got nobbled by the Normans.

'Smashing Saxons' tells the terrible truth about the pillaging people who bashed the Brits but got nobbled by the Normans.

Zoom around the planets with Oddblob the alien, find out which galaxies eat each other and see if you've got what it takes to be a staggering stargazer. With fact files, quirky quizzes and crazy cartoons, this book is out of this world!

'Five Nights at Freddy's' fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night.