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After the runaway success of You Couldn't Make It Up, Jack Crossley has compiled a second selection of anecdotes from around the British Isles. In...

Charlotte Goodman is living the dream. Surrounded by family, friends and a stunning vineyard overlooking the ocean, it would be difficult for anyon...

Well what would you say if your brother kept whacking you with a spoon, or the spider made it all the way up the toilet bowl or your mum made you w...

I buried you. I mourned you . . . But now you're back. Three days after Christmas, a woman walks into a police station. She has no phone and no ID...

Lucy, a young bear, starts her day determined to make a new friend but her enthusiasm leads to all sorts of problems until, just as she is about to...

It is AD 1400 and you are a young boy dreaming of becoming a knight; a life that brings wealth and admiration. Featuring cartoon-style illustration...

Get ready as a young man living in the roman empire, you've heard many stories about far-away lands and people . It soundsexciting but you're about...

This series of hilarious fictional diaries put us inside the heads of hapless figures from history in frazzling situations. Robert, a boy living in...

Get ready it's the 1920s , and more and more women around the world are being given the right to vote. But women have not always had it so good . L...

As a man brought up a British coal-mining village in the 1860s, you have to endure the dangers and difficulties of working underground in a Victori...

Many people think of Jews as victims of a particular sort of racism, not as active participants in the development of racial thinking in the ninete...

As an ancient Egyptian, your body is being prepared for the afterlife. But it's fairly disgusting business, and you can't be sure that you will alw...

It's the end of the 15th century, and your local castle is looking for a jailer. Do you want the job? Your charges will include all sorts of people...

Get ready you are MP and famous diarist samuel pepys , living in london in the 1660s .little do you suspect that you are about to witness this anc...

Marrying Henry VIII was not an easy option - tips provided in this book include 'think carefully before accepting his proposal' and 'give birth to ...

An account of the story of one of the most difficult adventures of all time across the bitterly cold continent of Antarctica. This book charts the ...

It is 1577 and Francis Drake, the Queen of England's favourite adventurer, has been ordered to command a new expedition leaving from Plymouth. Drak...

Many dangerous diseases are carried by bacteria - tiny organisms that can get into the body and multiply inside it. Antibiotics are medicines that ...

Though most of them are too small to be seen with the naked eye, bacteria are everywhere. They appeared on Earth more than 3 billion years before t...

Imagine a world without books. You would have no information about the world outside, except what you could learn from travellers. You would know n...

We could not live without water. Almost two-thirds of our body weight is water. We rely on it to keep ourselves clean, to keep our bodies nourished...

We depend on electricity in almost everything that we do. It gives us heat, light, transportation and entertainment. Electricity has always existed...

It's a nuisance when it rains on a picnic. It's a tragedy when a tornado destroys a neighbourhood. But our planet would be a very different place i...

Nasty stinging creatures that destroy crops and spread disease - if that's your opinion of insects, read this fascinating book to discover the othe...