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WINNER: CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers, 2018 WINNER: 2018 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature WINNER: 2018 New Zealand Book Awards, Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction Sometimes bees get too big to be up in the...

In this the seventh book in the chronicles of Adam Black, Adam is larking about with his mates in Anglesey when he finds himself back in about 150 BC in a Celtic village. From his capture and enslavement until his eventual return to his own time he has a roller-coaster ride crossing Ireland as well...

Ivan Twig is a lucky man. He has a great house, a great job, a great wife - a perfect life. It all falls apart when his wife is killed and he is sent to prison for it. But Ivan is an innocent man. Just when he has begun to accept his new, awful life, his whole world falls apart again - literally...

George Manville Fenn was an English novelist and journalist who wrote across a variety of genres, both fiction and nonfiction. His works are still widely read today.

[Nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for YA Fiction] After a double murder shakes a suburban town, a boy's life becomes the center of a chain-reaction of events that affects everyone around him. Luther McRae, an introverted family product of a busy mother, an overworked father and an autistic...

A heartwarming collection of your favourite Christmas classics that are sure to get you into the festive spirit. Filled with tales of family, presents and all the joy that Christmas brings! From frolicking goblins to the importance of giving gifts, this collection is the perfect Christmas gift.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). The New Utopia is a short story in which the author describes his dream about a socialist society. Jerome’s short essay describes a regimented future city,...

Anne of Green Gables is a bestselling 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Written as fiction for readers of all ages, the literary classic has been considered a children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, a young orphan girl, age 11[4]...

Eleanor H Porter was an American novelist. Porter mainly wrote children's literature, adventure stories and romance fiction. Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913), later followed by a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Her adult novels include The Turn of the Tide (1908), The Road to Understanding...

Welcome to Baker Street Academy, where there's always a mystery to be solved! Luckily Sherlock Holmes is on the case, with his friends John Watson and Martha Hudson. Told through Watson's diary, with energetic comic-strip illustrations, this introduction to Arthur Conan Doyle's classic characters will have every young super-sleuth hooked!

A great junior fiction series about what makes us do the naughty things we do! The imp in Biddy’s hair thinks she should be Biddy’s best friend, but Biddy longs for a human best-friend. All the girls at school already have best friends, so Biddy plans to find a friend outside of school. Her plan...

This early work by Violet Hunt was originally published in 1904 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Celebrity at Home' is a novel by the author of 'A Hard Woman'. Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham, England. Hunt covered several literary...

This is the heart-warming tale of a seven-year-old Froggy, who strives to care for his younger brother, Benny, after the death of their parents. “Froggy's Little Brother” is highly recommended for young readers and would make for perfect bed-time reading material. Georgina Castle Smith (1845 –...

Alice Caldwell Rice was a popular 20th century author best known for historical fiction, particularly her classic Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.