The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war: under fire, on patrol, waiting in the trenches, at home on leave, and in hospitals and dressing s...

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Ape That Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our chi...

The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve

What exactly are the weird and the eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The weird and the eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each ...

The Weird and the Eerie

Shout at the Devil is a tense adventure novel from master of the genre Wilbur Smith, set during the outbreak of the First World War.   'Now the seas were more awesome in their raging insanity. Each mountain of glassy grey rose high above the raft, sh...

Shout at the Devil

Is it right to eat a pig that wants to be eaten...? Thought experiments are short scenarios that pose a moral or philosophical problem in a vivid and concrete way. In this book Julian Baggini presents 100 of the most intriguing thought experiments from the history of philosophy and ideas.

The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And Ninety-Nine Other Thought Experiments

Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element - the classroom - outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly unfinis...

Postcapitalist Desire

On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt. The giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one’s death and the other’s glory are ext...

Railsea

There is not one you. There are many yous. There is not one world. There are many worlds. Ours is one among billions of parallel Earths. When Everett Singh’s scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves young Everett a mysterio...

Planesrunner

After accidentally summoning a demon while playing poker, the normally mild-mannered Chesney Anstruther refuses to sell his soul…which leads through various confusions to, well, Hell going on strike. Which means that nothing bad ever happens in the w...

The Damned Busters

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial, and many others.

Ghosts of My Life

Dog behaviourist Nigel Reed reveals the secrets to a happy, well-behaved dog in his revolutionary new book, The Dog Guardian. Struggling to solve your dog's behavioural problems? Looking to achieve the perfect relationship with your dog? The Dog Guar...

The Dog Guardian

World-hopping, high-action adventure starring a smart boy with computer skills and a tough girl who pilots a blimp. The airship Everness makes a Heisenberg Jump to an alternate Earth unlike any her crew has ever seen. Everett, Sen, and the crew find ...

Empress of the Sun

Chesney's efforts to 'Save the Day' and 'Win the Girl' make slow progress. This superhero lark is a bit more complicated than he thought. But even as Chesney is trying to learn the ropes, Boss Greeley has made a deal with the Devil. A deal that is ma...

Costume Not Included

A vivid and personal account of banking excess. Tetsuya Ishikawa's story reveals how a young Oxford graduate found himself in command of vast sums of other people's money. It also explalins how a novice to the mysteries of hedge funds and sub-prime m...

How I Caused the Credit Crunch

Everett Singh has escaped from his enemies with the Infundibulum – the key to all the parallel worlds. But his freedom has come at a price: the loss of his father to one of the billions of parallel universes in the Panopoly. E1 was the first Earth to...

Be My Enemy

Are You Experienced is a devastatingly funny satire on the whole idea of student travel - particularly the India backpack trail. Dave travels to India with Liz because he thinks he might be able to get her into bed. Liz travels to India with Dave because she wants a companion for her voyage of spiritual discovery. She loves it. He dreams of frosty mornings, pints of lager and restaurants where vegetable curry is only a side-dish....

Are You Experienced?

A gripping adventure that takes the listener on a backpacking trip through South East Asia.  John’s trip to India starts badly when he finds himself looking at the sharp end of a knife in a train station cubicle. His life is saved by the enigmatic Ri...

The Backpacker

When Nat Carver takes home a strange and smelly mutt, his life is changed forever. Woody is the last of his kind, a Wolven, thought only to exist in legend.  Then Nat discovers Woody has escaped from a top-secret science project - and some very bad guys want him back....  A fast, funny, howlingly hairy adventure featuring a very odd dog, from début author Di Toft.

Wolven

Meet Chesney Arnstruther. Once a mild-mannered insurance actuary, now a full-time crime-fighting superhero, it’s all he can do to kick bad-guy ass while at the same time holding down a steady relationship with the gorgeous Melda. Something is going o...

Hell to Pay

The rules are simple. But the game is not. At 11 years old, Morgan Sheppard solved the murder of a teacher when everyone else believed it to be a suicide. The publicity surrounding the case laid the foundation for his reputation as a modern-day Sherl...

Guess Who

Six years ago Tom's brother died. The next day he came back. It's Tom and Jack's 18th birthday, but it isn't a cause for celebration. For the past three years they've been in a care home for troubled children, a place where Dr Smith tries to silence ...

We Used to Be Kings

A tense, powerful thriller from the best-selling author of Six Four. 1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet of the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disast...

Seventeen

A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe. Centuries ago, the principle of Ockham’s razor changed our world by showing simpler answers to be preferable and more often true. In Life Is Simple, scientist Johnjoe McFadd...

Life Is Simple

Nat Carver and Woody, his hairy shape-shifting friend, have escaped from barking-mad werewolves and scientists - and joined the Twilight Circus of Illusion. But the boys are far from safe.Soon they’re caught up in a terrifying new mission against an evil black widow vampire...The second fabulous story starring Nat and Woody from bestselling author Di Toft.

Wolven: The Twilight Circus

When Nat Carver and his Wolven pal Woody learn that their arch enemy is creating a bad werewolf pack, they know they must stop him. Although it doesn’t help that Nat’s having problems with his own shape-shifting ability. Digging deep into history, the boys have to solve clues and riddles to stop one of the worst monsters ever!

Wolven: Bad Wolf Rising

Eddie hates staying with his cousins - so it looks set to be a really long summer. But then they visit the amazing caves at Wookey Hole and Eddie is entranced. Until he wanders off down a secret passage and gets lost in the dark. Underground, on his ...

Dark Summer

Collected Poems was first published in 1958 and has sold over two million copies. It has been reprinted numerous times and has absorbed, one by one, the volumes of additional poems that continued to appear regularly until Sir John Betjeman's death. H...

John Betjeman

An inspiring guide that teaches us how adversity can be an opportunity to make us into stronger, better people.  Discover how to rebuild your life after it is broken, repair the cracks, heal emotional wounds, and embrace imperfection. Written by a ps...

Kintsugi

With his supernatural ability to conjure spectacular illusions, Spook Williams knows he is destined for greatness. So when he's kidnapped by a celebrity magician claiming to be his real father, he can't help but be intrigued...Very soon, Spook is liv...

Unleashed: Trick or Truth

At a once vibrant communal-living property in the British countryside, back-to-basics fervor has given way to a vague discontent. A place that once buzzed with activity, from the polytunnels to the pottery shed, now functions with a skeleton crew. Fo...

Wild Abandon

We live in a country where: Only one of our 650 MPs has worked as a research scientist.The Government's drugs adviser was sacked for making a decision based on scientific fact rather than public opinion.A writer can be forced into court for telling t...

The Geek Manifesto

A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of Six Four and each centreing around a mystery and the unfortunate officer tasked with solving it. Season of Shadows 'The force could lose face...I want you to fix this....

Prefecture D

From the Sunday Times best-selling author of Six Four: an investigative thriller set amid the aftermath of an air disaster - perfect for fans of Spotlight and After the Crash.  1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs ...

Luke spots Eve at his dad's funeral. She's hot - and she's the perfect distraction from his messed up family life. There's only one problem - she's got a boyfriend. Still, Luke's not going to give up that easily.

Six Steps to a Girl

Another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy from the master of the genre. This time, Baggini applies his philosophical scalpel to famous sayings, proverbs and pieces of homespun wisdom. Should you really...

Should You Judge This Book by Its Cover?

Known as 'Stuff', because he knows a lot of stuff, Simon is faced with the typical pitfalls that all teenage boys have to deal with. While he longs to get off with the beautiful Sky, he also wants to dump his girlfriend Delfine.

Stuff

Nicknamed 'Mountain Man' by the Sunday Telegraph, James Forrest is the record-breaking adventurer who climbed every mountain in England and Wales in just six months - the fastest ever time. Solo and unsupported, he walked over 1,000 miles and ascende...

Mountain Man

Gideon and Luke are spending some quality family time, playing at being normal teenagers. They have no reason to use their telekinetic powers in the small seaside town, and they have enough bodyguards to keep them safe, right? Wrong. A brutal killer is stalking them, and he has Gideon and Luke in his sights. The second in a sensational new series about a group of teenagers with special powers, from best-selling author Ali Sparkes.

Mind Over Matter

Chosen by El País as one of this past decade's nine best novels about life and death.  The prize-winning, best-selling tale of love, loss, family and the lives we live moment by moment, from a stunning new voice in European fiction.  Tom's heavily pr...

In Every Moment We Are Still Alive

In 1961, Derek Leech emerges fully formed from the polluted Thames, destined to found a global media empire. In 1978, three ambitious young men strike a deal with Leech. They are offered wealth, glamour, and success, but a price must be paid. In 1994, Leech's purpose moves to its conclusion, and as the men struggle, they realize to truth of the ultimate price.

The Quorum

Delving into the interesting, amusing and often bizarre lore of numbers, this intriguing book uncovers the numbers that have shaped our history and culture, from ancient Babylon to the present day. Light-hearted and entertaining, but chock-full of fa...

As Easy as Pi

Three boys, two dogs and a whole lot of trouble! Jordan, Ryan, and Boy Dave always get blamed for EVERYTHING. And OK, most of the time it is their fault - but this is one time it definitely wasn't! How could they have known that trying to save the world and being accidental reality TV stars would end in DISASTER?

Aliens Don't Eat Dog Food

Eddie, Adam, and David have the same gift. Separated by generations, they are linked by their ability to time travel. Using their dreams, they can appear like ghosts, wherever and whenever they want. The first is the genius who discovers dreamwalking. The second is a Haunter, a dreamterrorist, determined to change history for his own ends. The last is the novice dreamwalker who must battle to save his family, and himself, from oblivion.

Haunters

At 11 years old, Morgan Sheppard solved the murder of his maths teacher when everyone else believed it to be a suicide.  Twenty-five years later.... Morgan Sheppard wakes up handcuffed to a bed in an unfamiliar hotel room, with five strangers waking ...

Guess Who?

Told who to cheer for, who to believe in, Yuri grows up in a country where no freedom of thought is encouraged - where even one's neighbours are encouraged to report any dissension to the authorities. But it is still a shock when a few careless words...

The Road of Bones

Not sure what to do when you've been dumped? Join The Ex-Files society and let them help you. Pete Johnson takes another affectionate and funny look at the ups and downs of teenage life in this sparky tale of love and how to get over it.

The Ex-Files

This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for over forty years.  This is a book writte...

Literature in our Lives

The first integrative history of Nazi mass killing - showing how policies of mass murder were crucial to the regime’s strategy to win the war. Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other noncombatants in deliberate policies of ma...

Empire of Destruction

A vivid eulogy for London of the late 1970s and early '80s - the last years prior to the rise of the digital city. An elliptical, wildly atmospheric remembrance of the sites and soundtrack, at once aggressively modern and strangely elegiac, that acco...

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