General fiction

Billy was a champion soccer star, playing for Chelsea in the 1930s. But that was before war broke out! ...

Blow-your-socks-off fiction for teens who arent keen to pick up books. ...

Blow-your-socks-off fiction for teens who arent keen to pick up books. ...

Meet Dirty Bertie; a boy with nose-pickingly DISGUSTING HABITS! ...

Tells the story of Charlie Bucket and his Golden Ticket, and Willy Wonka and his chocolate factory. ...

Features a Quentin Blake cover. ...

Beauty Cookson is no beauty. Shes a plain, timid girl surrounded by super-confident, snooty girls at school. Worse than the teasing in the playground, though, is the unpredictable criticism from her father. Eventually, after an unbearable birthday party and a very real fear that ...

Tie-in edition of the animated feature directed by Henry Selick, director of Tim Burtons The Nightmare Before Christmas, with a cast including Teri Hatcher, Ian McShane, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Dakota Fanning ...

Tells the story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell. ...

Greg Heffley finds himself in a new year and school where undersize weaklings share the corridors with kids who are taller and meaner. Desperate to prove his maturity, Greg is happy to have his sidekick, Rowley, along for the ride. But when Rowleys star starts to rise, Greg tries ...

Martine, the child who rides the white giraffe, embarks on a second African adventure. ...

Horrid Henry reaches a younger generation of readers in a new version of this amusing picture book. ...

A warm-hearted story of Mr Hoppy, Mrs Silver and the tortoise who brings them together. ...

Boggis, Bunce and Bean are the meanest three farmers you could meet. They are determined to get Mr Fox - but he has other plans. ...

A collection of short stories. ...

George creates a very special medicine to cure his grandma of her nasty habits. ...

Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of WW2. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley - but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London. ...

This is a story of friendship with the cleverest of plot twists, and descriptions so vivid you can feel the heat of Stanleys desert prison burning off the page. A total must-read The Times Totally absorbing and beautifully written The Bookseller ...