Alan McDonald

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Alan Moore

Alan Moorehead was born in Melbourne, Australia. He travelled to England in 1937 and became a renowned foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. Writer, world traveller, biographer, essayist, journalist, Moorehead was one of the most successful writers in English of his day. During World War II he won an international reputation for his coverage of campaigns in the Middle East and Asia, the Mediterranean and Northwest Europe. He died in 1983.

Alan Moorehead

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Alan Pollock is a playwright, translator and screenwriter. His numerous plays include One Night in November, Pigs and All Tomorrow's Parties.

Alan Pollock

Alan Root was born in London in 1937 but moved to Kenya as a young boy. He dropped out of school at sixteen but soon found himself behind the camera. He married Joan Thorpe in 1961 and together they produced an array of award-winning wildlife films including Baobab: Portrait of a Tree, commissioned by David Attenborough, Safari by Balloon, The Year of the Wildebeest and Castles of Clay, which was nominated for an Oscar. Alan won over sixty awards during his career, including an Emmy, three Lifetime Achievement Awards an OBE. Alan Root died in August 2017.

Alan Root

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Alan S. Blinder

Alan Shearer CBE  grew up in Newcastle, leaving home as a  teenager to pursue a career in professional football with his first  team, Southampton. He went on to  reach football stardom, winning the Premier League with Blackburn in  1995, breaking the world transfer record by signing to Newcastle United  in 1996 and achieving international success as the Captain of England.  Alan also holds the record for most goals scored in Premier League history.

Alan Shearer

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Alan Simpson

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Alan Thompson

Alan Titchmarsh MBE is known to millions through his career as a television presenter of shows including Love Your Weekend, Love Your Garden, Ground Force, Gardeners' World, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and Spring Into Summer. He has written more than forty gardening books, as well as twelve novels and three volumes of memoirs. He was made MBE in the millennium New Year Honours list and holds the Victoria Medal of Honour, the Royal Horticultural Society's highest award.

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Unterman

Alan Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker who was best known for his expertise in Eastern philosophies including Zen Buddhism and Taoism. He wrote over 25 books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, the meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the non-material pursuit of happiness.

Alan W Watts

Alan Warner is the author of eight novels: Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, The Deadman's Pedal and Their Lips Talk of Mischief. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.

Alan Warner

Alan Watts

Alan Weisman is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including the global bestseller The World Without Us, which has been translated into 34 international languages and was nominated for numerous awards. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times Magazine and many other places. Alan has worked on all seven continent and reported from 58 countries, and lives in western Massachusetts.

Alan Weisman

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Dan Green

Toot toot! All aboard! Join in and use the flaps to help the busy train driver collect the passengers, change tracks, drive through the tunnel and much, much more. With interactive action-flaps, you can do it, too! 
 
Each clever flap provides an action or scene-change to encourage children to actively engage and explore. The playful flaps are perfect for little hands to develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Busy Day: Train Driver

An action play book

Dawn McNiff

Zoe Waring

In Smiley Eyes, Smiley Faces, toddlers can take an interactive tour through the town, meeting different face-mask-wearers along the way. Toddlers can then lift the mask-shaped flaps to reveal the smiley faces underneath the bright, colourful masks. They can even lift their own mask at the end of the day with the surprise mirrored finale!

Smiley Eyes, Smiley Faces

A lift-the-flap face-mask book

Peppa Pig

Peppa and George love magical creatures! 
 
Peppa and George are having a sleepover at Granny and Grandpa Pig's house. Granny Pig is reading a bedtime story. 
 
Share their dreamy bedtime adventure, and touch a shimmery mermaid, bumpy dragon, squishy narwhal, shiny fairy wings and soft unicorn in this fun touch-and-feel book.

Peppa Pig: Peppa's Magical Creatures

A touch-and-feel playbook

Nila Aye

Introduce your baby to fairy tales and opposites with sturdy Ladybird Little Pop-Ups. 
 
Based on the popular tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, this simplified story with sturdy, integrated pop-ups is perfect for parents and toddlers to explore the magic of reading and learning together. 
 
Nila Aye's beautiful illustrations bring the story to life as each spread features a central pop-up and a pair of opposites highlighted for your child to learn.

Little Pop-Ups: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

A Book of Opposites

Introduce your baby to fairy tales and first words with sturdy Ladybird Little Pop-Ups. 
 
Based on the popular tale of Hansel and Gretel, this simplified story with sturdy, integrated pop-ups is perfect for parents and toddlers to explore the magic of reading and learning together. 
 
Nila Aye's beautiful illustrations bring the story to life as each spread features a central pop-up with a highlighted word for your child to learn.

Little Pop-Ups: Hansel and Gretel

A Book of Words

Ladybird

The award-winning, bestselling Baby Touch series is back with a sleek and playful design. 
 
Have fun with your baby exploring the colourful, high-contrast touch-and-feel pages and making different noises, from 'beep, beep' and 'ding-dong' to learning to say 'hello'. 
 
With textured patches to touch, feel and explore, this bright and sturdy board book with flaps to lift and a surprise mirror ending will engage young children from birth upwards. High-contrast colours and touch-and-feels stimulate a baby's senses, while encouraging interaction and play. 
 
A perfect first words book for all babies and toddlers.

Baby Touch: Busy Day

The award-winning, bestselling Baby Touch series is back with a sleek and playful design. 
 
Name and touch the different foods, from healthy fruit to yummy treats! With textured patches to touch, feel and explore, this bright and sturdy board book with grabbable tabs will engage young children from birth upwards. High-contrast colours and touch-and-feels stimulate a baby's senses, while encouraging interaction and play. 
 
A perfect first words book for all babies and toddlers.

Baby Touch: Food

It's a busy day on the farm! Join in and use the flaps to help the farmer collect the eggs, harvest the crops, milk the cow and much, much more. With interactive action-flaps, you can do it, too! 
 
Each clever flap provides an action or scene-change to encourage children to actively engage and explore. The playful flaps are perfect for little hands to develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Busy Day: Farmer

Nee-naw, nee-naw! Can you help the firefighter to save the day? Join in and use the flaps to slide down the pole, unroll the hose, put out the fire and much, much more. With interactive action-flaps, you can do it, too! 
 
Each clever flap provides an action or scene-change to encourage children to actively engage and explore. The playful flaps are perfect for little hands to develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Busy Day: Firefighter

Libby Burns

Magic Windows is the new novelty non-fiction series from Ladybird Books. Perfect for curious toddlers, this new series explores the wonderful transformations found in nature. 
 
Little ones will love to pull the sliding mechanism on each spread and change what appears in each Magic Window. They will learn how their body moves, why food is so important and why we need to sleep at the end of the day.

Magic Windows: My Body

Magic Windows is the new novelty non-fiction series from Ladybird Books. Perfect for curious toddlers, this new series explores the wonderful transformations found in nature. 
 
Little ones will love to pull the sliding mechanism on each spread and change what appears in each Magic Window. They will learn why puddles appear, what hides behind the clouds and how rainbows are made.

Magic Windows: Weather

Carmen Saldana

This lift-the-flap book uses plant-based inks, glues with minimal plastic content and is made from recycled board. 
 
Teaching children all about why our oceans and seas are so important and how we can help care for them better, this eco-friendly book is the perfect introduction to an important topic. With flaps to lift and facts to learn, this book also includes a section on how you can help.

Seas: A lift-the-flap eco book

This lift-the-flap book uses plant-based inks, glues with minimal plastic content and is made from recycled board. 
 
Teaching children all about why trees are important and how we can help save them, this eco-friendly book is the perfect introduction to an important topic. With flaps to lift and facts to learn, this book also includes a section on how you can help.

Trees: A lift-the-flap eco book

Grab your crayons, pencils and pens, and get ready for a brilliant colouring adventure with Peppa! 
 
Peppa dives under the sea, flies high in the sky and even zooms to the moon in these fun activities. 
 
Fans of Peppa will love these easy-to-colour pages, filled with lovely family scenes!

Peppa Pig: Peppa's Bumper Colouring Book

Official Colouring Book

Baby Touch: Happy Easter is part of Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series, designed to help stimulate babies' senses from birth. 
 
With simple text, bright illustrations and a touch-and-feel on every double page, this interactive book helps to engage your baby's senses while gently introducing them to Easter.

Baby Touch: Happy Easter!

Rob Hodgson

Little Bear is very good at hiding and Mama Bear needs your help to find him! Join Mama Bear on her search through the forest in this gorgeous flap book, illustrated by Rob Hodgson. 
 
Each spread features a sturdy flap that children can slide back and forth to reveal a surprise animal hidden underneath (and there's a quirky ladybird to spot on each page too!). With bold illustrations, robust flaps and simple text, little ones will want to revisit this book time and time again.

Is that you, Little Bear?

A pull-and-slide flap book

Little Chick is very good at hiding and Papa Rooster needs your help to find her! Join Papa Rooster on his search through the farm in this gorgeous flap book, illustrated by Rob Hodgson. 
 
Each spread features a sturdy flap that children can slide back and forth to reveal a surprise animal hidden underneath (and there's a quirky ladybird to spot on each page too!). With bold illustrations, robust flaps and simple text, little ones will want to revisit this book time and time again.

Is that you, Little Chick?

Baby Touch: Hello Mummy is part of Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series, designed to help stimulate a baby's senses from birth. 
 
With bright, high-contrast colours and touch-and-feels, Baby Touch: Hello Mummy will help to engage babies' senses as they discover all sorts of babies and their mummies. Perfect for cuddles or as a gift for new mums on Mother's Day.

Baby Touch: Hello, Mummy!

The award-winning, bestselling Baby Touch series is back with a sleek and playful design. 
 
Say hello to spring, summer, autumn and winter, from fluffy chicks to sparkly snowflakes! With textured patches to touch, feel and explore, this bright and sturdy board book with grabbable tabs will engage young children from birth upwards. High-contrast colours and touch-and-feels stimulate a baby's senses, while encouraging interaction and play. 
 
A perfect first words book for all babies and toddlers. 
 
Illustrated by Lemon Ribbon Studio

Baby Touch: Seasons

Peppa and George love all pets, from Tiddles the Tortoise to Goldie the Goldfish! 
 
Create fun sticker scenes with Peppa and George in this big book, as they find out all about their friends' pets. 
 
With twelve sticker scenes for little hands to decorate, it's the perfect book to keep Peppa fans busy. 
 
Includes over 250 stickers for sticker fun!

Peppa Pig: Peppa Loves Animals

Sticker Activity Book

Peppa and her friends love dressing up as mermaids, lift-the-flaps to join in their fun! 
 
This exciting adventure is full of hidden mermaid surprises - what will Peppa and her friends find next? 
 
This lovely book has big flaps for little hands and is perfect for everyone who loves mermaids!

Peppa Pig: Peppa's Mermaid Friends

A Lift-the-Flap Book

Babies see first of all in black and white, and in bright, high contrast colours such as yellow and red. This padded cloth book includes simple images, black-and white illustrations and a touch-and-feel on every spread to help develop a baby's eyesight and engage their senses, making this the perfect first book for children.

Baby Touch: My First Book: a black-and-white cloth book

Count down to Christmas with Peppa and George with this magical and fun collection of 24 stories! 
 
Find a surprise mini storybook behind each door, plus a special Christmas story for Christmas Eve! 
 
Stories include: Peppa Goes Skiing, Ballet Lesson, Treasure Hunt, A Trip to the Moon, Miss Rabbit's Taxi, Grandpa Pig's Greenhouse and Peppa's Perfect Christmas. 
 
Put the books back inside the windows, so you can reuse your Advent Book Collection every year!

Peppa Pig: Advent Book Collection

Every page has a fun activity and a silly joke to help Peppa fans get in the festive spirit. 
 
Get ready for Christmas with this brilliant Peppa activity book! 
 
Stick an advent calendar, draw Peppa and give presents to all of Peppa's friends - Yule be glad you bought this book!

Peppa Pig: Ho Ho Ho! Christmas Sticker Book

A lovely magnet book full of Peppa's favourite things! 
 
Peppa and her family are out for a fun day in town and they are having the best day ever! Move your magnets to create exciting adventures for Peppa, Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig and George. 
 
Help build storytelling and imagination skills with this lovely, bright book.

Peppa Pig: Peppa's Best Day Ever

Magnet Book

Learn at home by practising first phonics with Peppa and her friends in this colourful sticker activity book. Single letters and sounds are introduced in a systematic order, with fun activities to build confidence in reading and spelling. 
 
Every set of activities follows the same structure, so that children can focus on the letters and sounds covered on each page. By working through the book, they will learn to read lots of new words with Peppa and her friends. 
 
Perfect for young children who are learning at home or starting school. 
 
The ideal companion title to the early writing skills practised in Practise with Peppa: First Letters, Practise with Peppa: First Words and Practise with Peppa: First Writing.

Peppa Pig: Practise with Peppa: First Phonics

Young babies will love snuggling up with this soft, padded cloth book - with a different touch-and-feel pair of ears poking out from every page! Helping to stimulate developing senses, this is a perfect very first book for children. 
 
Baby Touch is an innovative and award-winning range that provides a sensory feast for babies, stimulating their growing minds and active senses through bold, colourful and playful illustrations and baby-friendly text.

Baby Touch: Ears

A touch-and-feel cloth book

Young babies will love snuggling up with this soft, padded cloth book - with a different touch-and-feel tail poking out from every page! Helping to stimulate developing senses, this is a perfect very first book for children. 
 
Baby Touch is an innovative and award-winning range that provides a sensory feast for babies, stimulating their growing minds and active senses through bold, colourful and playful illustrations and baby-friendly text.

Baby Touch: Tails

3, 2, 1 . . . Lift off! Join in and use the flaps to help the busy astronaut put on her spacesuit, launch the rocket and drive the moon buggy. With interactive action-flaps, you can do it too! 
 
Each clever flap provides an action or scene-change to encourage children to actively engage and explore. The playful flaps are perfect for little hands to develop fine motor skills and hand-eye co-ordination.

Busy Day: Astronaut

It's a busy day in the kitchen! Join in and use the flaps to help the chef as he chops, stirs and bakes! With interactive action-flaps, you can do it too! 
 
Each clever flap provides an action or scene-change to encourage children to actively engage and explore. The playful flaps are perfect for little hands to develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Busy Day: Chef

Find Spot

Finn Fitzpatrick Series

First Favourite Tales

The First Festivals series invites children to explore the world's culture from the comfort of their home, encourages the development of hand-eye coordination and is recommended for children aged 2 and over.

First Festivals

First Impressions

First Steps with Spot

Five Minute Mum

Flaptastic

Fluffy

Folk Art

Foolproof

Football Academy

Football Skills

Forbidden Spaces Trilogy

Fortuna Sworn

Foul Play

DICK FRANCIS was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys and author of forty-three bestselling novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), the biography of Lester Piggott and his own autobiography (The Sport of Queens). He was rightly acclaimed as one of the greatest thriller writers in the world. 
 
 Since his death, his son FELIX FRANCIS has taken over the literary reigns from his father and Dick's legacy lives on through the Dick Francis novels. The Francis flair is clear for all to see in these national treasure thrillers, and readers will appreciate the sporadic reappearance of beloved series characters Sid Halley and Jeff Hinkley.

Francis Thriller

Frank Behr

Once a Detective Inspector in the Nottinghamshire Force, Frank Elder has retired to an isolated cottage in Cornwall, and is trying to live the quiet life. The past, however, is never far behind him.

Frank Elder

Fred

Free Collars Kingdom

Jean Plaidy combines imagination with facts to bring the French Revolution alive in this dynamic historical fiction series. From Louis XV’s debauchery to Marie Antionette’s demise, it is clear there was only one way this was going to end.

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