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Terry Deary presents the foul but fascinating story of humans, from brain-nibbling Neanderthals to the terrified teenage soldiers in the twentieth ...

Terry Deary's foul facts and Martin Brown's crafty cartoons combine to bring all those cunning conquistadors and terrific temples to life. With an ...

No man ever did more to alter and correct the map of the Earth, writes Percy Adams in his new Introduction, than James Cook, the Scotland-born Brit...

Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn na...

England, 1485. Young George is plucked from his grand home and finds himself a hostage to King Richard III. With the king's enemies advancing, the ...

In 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd...

Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green capri pants. Others thi...

Vincent van Gogh does not belong to any painting 'school', though he shared with the Impressionists a feeling for light and colour, and like them,...

During World War II, a British girl and her father sail across the English Channel to rescue soldiers fighting in France who are trapped at Dunkirk.

His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but ...

The Mary Celeste was discovered adrift on the open sea by another ship in 1872 -- with no sign of captain or crew. What happened? Did the crew muti...

"The Measly Middle Ages" portrays life as it really was in the days when knights were bold and the peasants were revolting.

Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this lush, sweeping, and richly deta...

This reference book includes everything you need to know about the history of the British Isles. It reviews thousands of years of culture, events a...

Recreates the author's own childhood through the story of the Maggie Tulliver and her spoilt, selfish brother. This novel combines images of family...

A Sunday Times bestseller - Five women. One house. One extraordinary history. From its construction in the 1660s to its heyday in the 1960s, Clived...

Make your way through this thrilling adventure,using your maths skills to decide how the plot unfolds.Complete your mission and become a maths whiz...

Discover all The Natural History Museum in London, England has to offer.

The heroic, real-life personal account of Chris Ryan's most famous mission, The One That Got Away, is now reworked for a new generation. Some autho...

Gervase Phinn is a school inspector in Yorkshire, including the Yorkshire Dales. He chronicles in this book his appointment to the local school ins...

At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the...

New in paperback! Where do pebbles come from? How were they made? This book tells the story of a pebble, from its origins in a fiery volcano 480 mi...

The Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving lasted three whole days. Ann McGovern's simple text introduces children to the struggles of the Pilgrims during th...

It is AD 79 and Mount Vesuvius has erupted, destroying Pompeii. Among the thousands of people huddled in refugee camps along the bay of Naples are ...