A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

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The short life of A.J.A. Symons (1900-41) was described by his biographer as an intricate and largely harmless confidence trick. His many interests included the collection of musical boxes and rare books as well as the study and practice of forgery; they left him time to edit an anthology of Edwardian verse and compose studies of H.M. Stanley and other notable figures. He is remembered for The Quest for Corvo, one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, and for co-founding the Wine and Food Society.

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A. J. Liebling, born in Manhattan in 1904, joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles to the magazine throughout his lifetime, on subjects ranging from food to boxing and France to horse racing. As a war correspondent during the Second World War, he reported from France, England and Algeria, and participated in the Normandy landings. In later life he married the writer Jean Stafford, his third wife. He died in 1963.

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A. J. Rosen is an author of YA fantasy novels and is an ambassador for Wattpad, known as @agatharoza. Entwined is her first novel.

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A. K. Davidson

A. O. Scott has been a film critic at the New York Times since 2000. His writing has appeared in many other publications, including the New York Review of Books, Slate, the New Yorker and the Nation. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2010, Scott is currently Distinguished Professor of Film Criticism at Wesleyan University. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. 
 
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A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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A. T. Williams won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013 for his book A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa. He lives in Warwickshire.

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A. W. Chase

Dubbed ‘The new queen of spy fiction’ by the Guardian newspaper, and ‘the real thing’ by the Washington Post, A.C. 'Ava' Glass is the CWA Dagger-shortlisted author of Alias Emma (The Chase), The Traitor and The Trap. The Traitor was a 2023 Richard and Judy Bookclub pick. Alias Emma was a Barnes and Noble book of the month. A former crime reporter and communications consultant, for five years Ava worked closely with spies. Her time in that world fascinated her, and the people she met back then inspire every book she writes.

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Arthur Edward Waite was the designer and co-creator of the now famous Rider Waite Tarot deck. 
 
An American-born British poet and scholarly mystic, his strong interest in all esoteric matters - divination, magic, Kabbalism, alchemy and Freemasony - led to him penning a number of books. These include the Key to the Tarot, The Book of Ceremonial Magic and A New Encyclopedia of Freemasony.

A.E. Waite

A.E. Warren is the author of the Tomorrow's Ancestors series, which consists of Subject Twenty-One, The Hidden Base, The Fourth Species and The Final Rising. 
 
After spending eight years working as a lawyer, she began to write in the evenings and early mornings as a form of escapism from life in a very small cubicle with lots of files. She self-published her first novels in her spare time, which were picked up by Del Rey UK which is the science fiction/fantasy imprint of Penguin Random House. 
 
 She is an avid reader, occasional gamer and fair-weather runner. She lives in the UK with her husband, daughter and hopefully, one day, a wise border terrier named Austen.

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A K Benedict writes crime and speculative fiction in a room filled with clowns, mannequins and Doctor Who figures. Her first novel, The Beauty of Murder, was nominated for an eDunnit award and is in development for a major 8-part TV series by Company Pictures. Her second, Jonathan Dark or The Evidence of Ghosts, came out in February 2016. She's written Torchwood audio dramas for Big Finish and her short stories have featured in anthologies including Great British Horror and Best British Short Stories. She lives in St Leonards-on-Sea with her dog, Dame Margaret Rutherford.

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A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards – including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.

A.L. Kennedy

A.M. Ellis is a speculative fiction author and lover of everything steeped in myth and mystery. Her stories often lean into diverse voices, not only in her identity as a Black woman, but in exploring neurodivergence and mental health. A proud introvert and nostalgic gamer, she lives in Maryland, USA, with her husband and three children.

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A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.

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A. T. Emerald lives with her husband and baby daughter in Nottinghamshire. She discovered her love of writing in 2020 and has not shut up about enemies to lovers ever since. She loves iced matcha, torrid love confessions with knives pressed to throats (fictional, of course) and does not accept bills for any therapy her books might incur.

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A.W. Priest

A.B.C. Merriman-Labor was a barrister, writer and munitions worker born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1877. His published works include A Series of Lectures on the Negro Race and The Story of the African Slave in a Nutshell. He also edited two editions of the Handbook of Sierra Leone. He arrived in the UK in 1904 to study law. In 1907, he organised a centenary commemoration of the abolition of the slave trade in Westminster Abbey. He later embarked on an 'entertainment-lecture' tour called Life and Scenes in Britain, travelling across thousands of miles of West, South West and Central Africa, which he expanded on to create Britons Through Negro Spectacles.

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Aabria Iyengar is an American actress and author.

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Aaliya Jaleel is a freelance illustrator, designer, and visual development artist, currently majoring in Animation at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is also the illustrator of Under My Hijab and Muslim Girls Rise. You can visit her online at www.aaliyamj.com.

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Aaron Allston

After more than fifteen years of experience as a clinical psychotherapist, Dr Aaron Balick has taken the amazing insights from psychology and psychotherapy out of the consultation room and made them accessible to the wider world. 
 
He has been an ‘agony uncle’ for many years for both CBBC and BBC Radio 1, as well as on television, including BBC Worldwide, BBC 3 and BBC Learning.

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Ernest Penfold

Danger Mouse is the world's best secret agent. He's the greatest. He's fantastic. 
 
Then there's Penfold. He's . . . well, he's not much to look at, but he's got a book deal, so that's something. 
 
This hair-raising chapter book is Penfold's own account of one of Danger Mouse's most perilous missions. Featuring the villainous Baron Greenback and his second-rate sidekicks, this hilarious adventure is filled with mishaps, mayhem and, most of all, DANGER.

Danger Mouse: Licence to Chill

Case Files Fiction Book 1

Roald Dahl

This collection of hundreds of great jokes would make even the Trunchbull laugh! Inspired by Roald Dahl's wonderful world, these gigglesome gags are guaranteed to raise a chuckle from human beans young and old.

Roald Dahl: Whizzpopping Joke Book

It's Peter Rabbit's birthday, and his friends and family are planning a surprise party. But there's a problem - Mr Tod is trying to stop them! Will they make it to the party on time, or will the surprise be ruined? 
 
Join Peter Rabbit and his friends in this wonderful new picture book, perfect for all fans of the CBeebies show.

Peter Rabbit Animation: Happy Birthday, Peter!

Lola has a cold and is feeling really ever so not well. So her big brother, Charlie, thinks of all sorts of ideas to try to cheer Lola up. He brings her pink milk and biscuits, sings her a special song, plays her best smiley jigsaw puzzle and even takes her on a cloud-hopping adventure! Soon Lola's feeling much, much better!

Charlie and Lola: I'm Really Ever So Not Well

Sarah Gomes Harris

Meet Sarah and Duck! This brilliantly quirky pairing offer an alternative look at the world as they head off on adventures together. This picture book sees them trying to cheer up Scarf Lady's Donkey - with mixed results!

Sarah and Duck at the Library

Charlie has this little sister Lola. Today they are visiting London on a school trip. Lola says, "London is extremely huge and very BUSY. . . I can't wait!" 
 
Join Charlie and Lola as they take in all of London's most famous and best sights. There's plenty to see so tick off all the places they visit on your own extremely good London map at the back of the book! 
 
This new mini hardback is perfect for tourists and commemorates the 10th anniversary of Charlie and Lola on TV in 2015.

Charlie and Lola: We Completely Must Go to London

Malorie Blackman

Neil Gaiman

Derek Landy

Charlie Higson

Alex Scarrow

Richelle Mead

Patrick Ness

Philip Reeve

Marcus Sedgwick

Michael Scott

Eoin Colfer

Following on from the success of the 50th anniversary anthology, 11 Doctors 11 Stories, this highly-acclaimed collection of short Doctor Who stories contains all of the original eleven adventures plus an exciting new Twelfth Doctor story. 
 
Authors featured in this incredible collection are Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott, Marcus Sedgwick, Philip Reeve, Patrick Ness, Richelle Mead, Malorie Blackman, Alex Scarrow, Charlie Higson, Derek Landy, Neil Gaiman and Holly Black.

Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 Stories

Peter, Lily and Benjamin are very excited to hear about Mr Bouncer's most amazing invention ever - a flying machine that was crash-landed in Mr McGregor's garden by Peter's father. Peter is determined to find it! But the garden is a dangerous place. Can the friends find the machine and make their escape before Mr McGregor catches them?

Peter Rabbit Animation: Best Dad!

Jeremy Fisher's concert party is in full swing when Samuel Whiskers and Mr Tod crash in . . . it's party pandemonium! Can Peter, Lily and Benjamin save their family and friends from the fearsome fox and his sneaky side-kick?

Peter Rabbit Animation: Lily's Party Time

Lola loves dogs. So when Charlie takes Lola and her friend Lotta to the park with his friend Marv and Marv's dog Sizzles, Lola is thrilled. Marv lets her and Lotta look after Sizzles on the promise that they don't let him off the lead. Can Lola and Lotta keep their promise and look after Sizzles?

Charlie and Lola: We Honestly Can Look After Your Dog

Benjamin thinks Lily is amazing - she knows EVERYTHING! Lily promises to teach Benjamin about nature and they set off on a nature walk together. Peter is bored - he wants to go on an ADVENTURE, but his friends are more interested in leaves and bugs - and feeling left out, he sets off on a radish raid in Mr McGregor's garden. But suddenly Benjamin and Lily are in trouble. It's time for Peter to prove he's a true friend and leap to the rescue!

Peter Rabbit Animation: Friends Forever

Look inside for colouring, mazes, a yummy Easter recipe and more, all with a sunny springtime theme. With four pages packed with stickers - some to use with the puzzles and lots more just for fun. Do all the activities to earn your puzzle-skills award.

Peter Rabbit Animation: Hop to It! Sticker Book

Onk Beakman

He might be one of Skylands' fieriest characters, but even Eruptor feels a chill in his bones when he sees his own double frozen in ice! What starts with a cold snap leads to a red-hot adventure as everyone's favourite Lava Monster takes on a nightmarish opponent. 
 
The secrets of the Mask of Power unfold further in this seventh thrilling tale based on the characters from the hit Skylanders game world.

Skylanders Mask of Power: Eruptor Meets the Nightmare King

Book 7

As the newly-regenerated Twelfth Doctor arrives on our TV screens, Puffin are publishing the twelfth instalment in its sensational series of Doctor Who eShorts! With 11 previous stories by some of the most exciting names in children's fiction, this Twelfth Doctor ebook is written by bestselling US author Holly Black.

Doctor Who: Lights Out: Twelfth Doctor

Twelfth Doctor

Lola can't wait for it to snow. 'Snow is my favourite and my best,' she says. It snows all through the night and in the morning everything is extremely, completely white! Charlie and Lola play in the snowy park with their friends - they make snow angels, go sledging and Lola even makes a snow dog - just like Sizzles! But by the very next day all the snow has completely disappeared. Lola wishes it would snow every day,but Charlie compares snow to birthdays - they wouldn't be special if they happened every day. He takes Lola on an imaginary adventure to see penguins and polar bears living in their snowy homes and soon Lola realizes that it would be absolutely too cold to swim or wear her stripy party dress if it snowed all the time. Another winning story that perfectly captures a child's anticipation of the first snow of winter.

Charlie and Lola: Snow is my Favourite and my Best

Shhh - this is TOP SECRET! Learn all about how Peter, Lily and Benjamin earned their secret treehouse and what it takes to be a member of the club, as you play the games, colour the pictures and stick the stickers to win your puzzle skills award.

Peter Rabbit Animation: Secret Treehouse Sticker Activity Book

Jay, Jim and Jake Hawkins long to be sailors and spend their days listening to old Billy Beak's tales of the high seas. So when they discover Billy Beak's long-hidden treasure map, they set sail immediately with a crew of suspiciously green pirate birds, led by a cook called Long John Smooth Cheeks . . . 
 
 Can the Hawkins find the fabled Easter Egg Island, and can they trust their new pirate shipmates? Find out in this epic adventure based on Robert Stevenson's original swashbuckling tale. Featuring the Angry Birds and the Bad Piggies, this classic mash-up is sure to appeal to every Angry Birds fan.

Angry Birds: Treasure Island

Beatrix Potter

Grumpy Old Brown has stolen Peter's journal, left to him by his dad. Peter, Lily and Benjamin and their squirrel friends set off on a TOP SECRET mission to Owl Island to get it back. But when Nutkin is in danger Peter must make a choice: will he save his precious journal or his special friend?

Peter Rabbit Animation: Peter's Secret Mission

Lily, Peter and Benjamin are BEST friends! Play the games, colour the pictures and stick the stickers to win your puzzle skills award.

Peter Rabbit Animation: Best Friends Sticker Book

Peter, Benjamin and Lily are starting a club - an amazing adventure club! But Mr Tod, Tommy Brock and Old Brown are teaming up too, to set a terrible trap for the unsuspecting bunnies. Will Peter and his friends beat the beastly band or will it be rabbit stew for supper?

Peter Rabbit Animation: The Peter Rabbit Club

Everyone has gone football crazy! It's rabbits versus squirrels. But surely squirrels can't play football, can they...? Peter Rabbit and his friends have hit the screen on CBeebies and everybody wants to join Peter Rabbit's club! So much more than a story - study the map, enjoy the adventure then complete Peter's special skill challenge.

Peter Rabbit Animation: Football Fever!

Storm clouds are gathering - which wouldn't be unusual, if it wasn't for the fact that this is meant to be the Cloudless Desert! As weird weather reports flood in from all over Skylands, Cynder heads off on a mission to the Isle of the Undead to find out what's going on. Whatever it is, it definitely looks like rain! 
 
The secrets of the Mask of Power unfold further in this fifth novel in the story series from the pen of Onk Beakman. Based on the characters from the smash hit Skylanders video games.

Skylanders Mask of Power: Cynder Confronts the Weather Wizard

Book 5

Lola and Lotta are BEST friends. They do absolutely completely everything together, like eating lunch, playing in the sandpit and going in pairs. But when a new girl, Evie, arrives in their class, Lotta starts spending all her time with her, and not Lola. Everything is extremely very different and Lola worries that Lotta is not her Best, Best, BESTEST friend anymore. How will Lola get Lotta's attention? Find out in this ever so good Charlie and Lola story.

Charlie and Lola: My Best, Best Friend

Boom! When some innocent-looking sweet stuff explodes in a Gillman's face, it leads Terrafin on an amazing journey to the summit of Junk Mountain. Can he and his friends conquer Kaos or is Sky, the biggest brawler, about to meet his match? 
 
Based on the characters from the smash hit Skylanders video games, Terrafin Battles the Boom Brothers is the fourth tale in the thrilling Mask of Power series.

Skylanders Mask of Power: Terrafin Battles the Boom Brothers

Book 4

Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord. 
 
Thousands of years ago, Time Lords built a Prison for the Kin. They made it utterly impregnable and unreachable. As long as Time Lords existed, the Kin would be trapped forever and the universe would be safe. They had planned for everything . . . everything, that is, other than the Time War and the fall of Gallifrey. Now the Kin are free again and there's only one Time Lord left in the universe who can stop them! 
 
Author Neil Gaiman puts his own unique spin on the Doctor's amazing adventures through time and space in the eleventh and final story in the bestselling 50th anniversary series!

Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock

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Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord. 
 
When the TARDIS lands on a planet that looks identical to Earth, the Tenth Doctor and Martha are amazed to find it packed with fictional characters from her childhood. But who has the power to create an entire world out of books and why? The Doctor and Martha must solve the mystery before their story ends! 
 
Author Derek Landy puts his own unique spin on the Doctor's amazing adventures through time and space.

Doctor Who: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage

Tenth Doctor

Lauren Child

Charlie has this little sister Lola. She is small and very funny... 
This really very good Charlie and Lola book includes two wintery stories: Snow is My Favourite and My Best and I Really Need Actual Ice Skates. This wonderful book is perfect for fans of Charlie and Lola, and for cold winter bedtimes.

Charlie and Lola: I Completely Love Winter

Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord. 
In a small town in the Nevada desert, an alien pathogen has reduced the entire population to a seething mass of black slime. When the Eighth Doctor arrives, he realises this latest threat to humanity is horrifyingly familiar - it is a virus which almost annihilated his entire race, the Time Lords... 
Author Alex Scarrow puts his own unique spin on the Doctor's amazing adventures through time and space.

Doctor Who: Spore

Eighth Doctor

This adorable set of four little books is the perfect way to meet everyone from Peter Rabbit's world. Each main character has a little book of their own. Choose between adventurous Peter Rabbit himself, his cousin Benjamin Bunny, clever white rabbit Lily Bobtail, and silly mischievous Squirrel Nutkin. 
 
As soon as Peter Rabbit hits the screen with his funny friends, his taste for radishes and his thirst for adventure, everyone will want to join the gang. Be one of the first with this cute box of books - perfectly sized for little paws to hold.

Peter Rabbit Animation: Little Library

Beatrix Potter Animation

Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny and their new friend - a white rabbit named Lily Bobtail - are trying to find somewhere safe to enjoy the radishes they have stolen from Mr McGregor's vegetable garden. But someone else is after them too. Who could it be? Is is toothsome Mr Tod? Is it silly Squirrel Nutkin? Or is it someone much closer to home . . . ? 
 
As soon as Peter Rabbit hits the screen with his funny friends, his taste for radishes and his thirst for adventure, everyone will want to join the gang. Be one of the first with this great value adventure storybook. 
 
So much more than a story - complete Peter's special skill, and write your name on the special achievement certificate at the back!

Peter Rabbit Animation: Mystery Thief!

A Private Thriller

A series of children's modern classic novels by renowned 20th century children's writers. All the titles in this series have the A Puffin Book logo, contemporary-style covers, and child-friendly endnotes.

A Puffin Book

A Ripley Novel

A Slice of the Moon

A Victorian Mystery

A Walk in...

A Women’s Murder Club Thriller

A chef Paul Delamare Mystery

Aberrations

Across the Universe

Actiphons

Adelia Aguilar

Adrian Mole

Adventures in Time

Aftermath

Against War

Age of X

Agent 21

Agent Z

Detective Aidan Waits is a troubled junior detective haunted by his past. Facing an uncertain future, and disconnected from his history, DC Waits and his partner, Detective Inspector Peter 'Sutty' Sutcliffe work on Manchester's streets to uncover the city's worst criminals among the grime of the underworld.

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