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Outback Pioneers
McHugh gathers the enthralling stories of the men and women who opened up the Australian outback and in the process discovered the beauty and terror of this extraordinary country....
Selected Diaries: Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty...
You Send Me : The Life and Times of Sam Cooke
When Sam Cooke was shot dead in a cheap motel in Hollywood, he was one of America's most successful pop stars. He left a world in which he had been born poor and had become very rich from the success of such records as "You Send Me" and "A Wonderful World", yet his body lay unrecognised in a morgue for ...
The Stepping Stone Minstrel in Tower #
In this gripping medieval page-turner, Roger and his sister Alice arekidnapped and held for ransom in an ancient tower. To escape and find theiruncle, the children must summon all their courage and imagination. "Designed aseasy-reading material for middle-graders, this has the virtues of an attractivefo...
Russia and the Russians: From Earliest Times to the Present
Geoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia and its people. The result of a lifetime's knowledge, this monumental and authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive single-volume history of Russia, tracing its story from the settlement of Kiev through to the present day. This s...
The World of Peter Rabbit
Featuring classic Beatrix Potter artwork this is the perfect introduction into the world of Peter Rabbit. This pull-out pop-up book features the exquisite and classic artwork of Beatrix Potter. One side reveals the beautiful scenery of Peter Rabbit's home in the Lake District while the other introduces ...
Who Was Louis Braille?
Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred years later,...
Midnight in the Century
In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin's police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days. Released, he spent two years in exile in remote Orenburg. These experiences were the inspiration for Midnight in the Century, Serge's searching novel about revolutionaries liv...
Made in America: An Informal History of American English
"Funny, wise, learned and compulsive." (GQ). Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Ro...
The Bat Book
Take a journey through the upside-down world of bats with The Bat Book. Bright, bold, and beautiful illustrations accompany fascinating facts about these furry flying mammals and their importance to the world we live in.From the way they fly, to how they communicate, and why they sleep upside-down, each...
When Days Tilt
Magic, mystery and darkness - a gripping fantasy adventure for lovers of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. In this page-turning debut, one girl must figure out why she is the key to two worlds, before time itself falls under the control of the powerful and the greedy. A historical fantasy adventure for...
The Knight at Dawn Graphic Novel (#2 Magic Tree House)
The #1 bestselling chapter book is now a graphic novel Magic. Mystery. Time-travel. Get whisked back to the time of medieval knights with Jack and Annie A castle. A knight. A quest When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back to the Middle Ages, they're looking for a knight. Instead, they f...
Morocco - DK Eyewitness Travel Guide
DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooksWelcome to this vibrant corner of the world.Whether you want to meander around medieval medinas, be entranced by storytellers and musicians on Marrakech's main square or indulge in some rest and relaxation at Essaouira, your DK Eyewitness travel guide...
The Moon
An exciting reference book for children aged 7-9 that covers every aspect of the MoonThis incredible guide to the Moon takes 7 to 9 year olds through its past, present, and future through amazing photographs, illustrations, and fascinating information. The perfect introduction for young readers who want...
Daughter of Darkness (#2 Viridian Deep)
The thrilling second novel of an all-new fantasy series from the legendary author behind the Shannara saga, about a human girl adapting to her place in a magical world she's only recently discovered.It's been two years since Auris escaped from the sinister Goblin prison and learned of her heritage as on...
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