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History with twice the nasty bits!Want to know:How sniffing your own pee could save your life in the First WorldWar?Why wearing white knickers coul...

History with the nasty bits left in! Savage Stone Age clubs you over the head and drags you back to the days when people lived in caves, hunted wil...

The Frightful First World War' presents the dire details of a war that affected almost everyone - from peace-loving protesters to the suffering sol...

Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse... Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, h...

Jacqueline takes a look back at her own childhood and teenage years in this captivating story of friendships, loneliness, books, family life and mu...

Private Peaceful Heroism or cowardice? A stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller.

Warning: This book could change your ideas about history for ever!! Do you know why the Celts got the best girls? Or who had his portrait painted a...

Diamond wasn?t always a star. Born to penniless parents who longed for a strong, healthy son, she was a dainty, delicate daughter - and a bitter di...

In a world where the boys wore make-up and highwaymen ruled the roads, Terry Deary has uncovered some of the horrible truths about the Gorgeous Geo...

The Other Boleyn Girl (2002) returns to the executed queen's doomed family in a historical novel that maps the sad demise of Henry VIII in a series...

A fantastic new story set in the world of Hetty Feather and continuing the adventures of Jacqueline Wilson's inimitable heroine. Join Hetty and her...

Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy st...

Apparently the ancient Greeks were a rather groovy bunch. The boys didn't start school until they were seven, and girls didn't have to go at all. B...

Takes you back for another look at the mad Tudor monarchs and their suffering subjects, who just could not help losing their heads. Read on for inf...

It is 1925 and the war is long over. But much has been lost and life will never truly be the same again. Castle Deverill, cherished home to the Dev...

Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France....

The new Christmas bestseller from Katie Flynn; the UK's bestselling saga author Liverpool 1938 It’s Christmas in the Courts, and single mother Rosh...

The no.1 Sunday Times bestseller by award winner Kate Atkinson. In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world...

Ruthless Romans' reveals the grim truth behind the greatest empire of all time - from the terrible twins who founded Rome to the evil emperors who ...

They had only one thing in common...William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immig...

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behi...

Les Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published in France in 1862, it is Victor Hugo's greatest...

Lizzie and Karl?s mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precauti...

The year is 1946, and all over the world young women are crossing the seas in their thousands en route to the men they married in wartime, and an u...