ADAM HAMDY is a bestselling author and screenwriter. His most recent novel, The Other Side of Night, was an NPR best book of 2022 and a New York Times best thriller of the year, and has been described as ingenious and deeply moving. He is the author of the Scott Pearce series of modern spy thrillers, Black 13, Red Wolves and White Fire, and the Pendulum trilogy. Keep up to date with his latest books and news at www.adamhamdy.com.

Adam Hamdy

Adam Hart-Davis

Adam Haslett is the author of the story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novels Imagine Me Gone and Union Atlantic. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and his books have been translated into over thirty languages. His journalism on culture and politics has appeared in The Financial Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Nation, and The Atlantic, among others. He lives in New York City.

Adam Haslett

Adam Henson presents Countryfile, often from his 650-hectare farm in the Cotswolds. Having studied Agriculture at college, Adam took over Bemborough Farm from his father, Joe. The farm now grows wheat, spring barley and oilseed rape, runs a flock of 400 commercial ewes and has the UK's leading collection of rare breeds, many of which are in demand for film sets and advertisements. Cotswold Farm Park (www.cotswoldfarmpark.co.uk) offers a total countryside experience for all the family, welcoming more than 100,000 visitors each year. 
 
Adam presented Lambing Live with Kate Humble, writes for Countryfile magazine and has appeared on Radio 4's On Your Farm and Farming Today. He is the author of three previous books, Adam’s Farm: My Life on the Land, the Sunday Times bestseller, Like Farmer, Like Son and A Farmer and His Dog.

Adam Henson

Adam Henson is perhaps the best-known farmer in the UK, presenting on BBC's Countryfile to millions of viewers each Sunday evening. He's also appeared on Lambing Live, Secret Britain, Coast and Inside Out. Adam also runs the award-winning Cotswold Farm Park in Gloucestershire, which welcomes family visitors all year round and is home to many rare breeds. He has a monthly column in Countryfile magazine, as well as the Cotswold Life magazine. He has written several books including the Sunday Times bestseller Like Farmer, Like Son. This is his first children's book and it is the perfect introduction to the farm.

Adam Higginbotham has written for magazines including The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Wired and Smithsonian. He is also the author of Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, which was awarded the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. He lives in New York City.

Adam Higginbotham

Adam Hills is an internationally recognised comedian and host of award-winning Channel 4 show The Last Leg. His collection of stories from a life in comedy, Best Foot Forward, was a Times bestseller.

Adam Hills

Adam Howling

Adam J. Kurtz

Adam Jacot de Boinod

ADAM JOHNSON won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for his second novel, the New York Times bestseller The Orphan Master’s Son (‘Excavates the very meaning of life’ New York Times). His short story 'Nirvana' won the prestigious Sunday Times/EFG Short Story Award. He is the author of acclaimed story collections, Fortune Smiles and Emporium and the novel Parasites Like Us. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives with his family in San Francisco.

Adam Johnson

Adam Kay is a former doctor who has written five million books and sold seven copies. No, hang on – he’s written seven books and sold five million copies. His debut book, This is Going to Hurt, is a literary sensation: a Sunday Times number one bestseller for over a year, winning a record-breaking four National Book Awards and selling over 3 million copies. Kay adapted This is Going to Hurt as a BAFTA-winning comedy-drama series for the BBC. Adam Kay’s children’s books have been translated into 32 languages and sold over 1 million copies, making him one of the UK’s bestselling children’s authors. Kay’s Anatomy became the fastest-selling children’s general non-fiction hardback of the decade. His first picture book, Amy Gets Eaten, was published in 2023, and his first children’s novel, Dexter Procter the Ten-Year-Old Doctor, was published in September 2024.

Adam Kay

Adam studied illustration and animation, and received a BA followed by an MA from the Edinburgh College of Art. As a student he won a competition to create a short film for MOMI and Channel 4, and once his career producing animated commercials was under way, he became an illustrator as well. He has regular columns in the UK and the US.

Adam Larkum

Adam Lashinsky

Adam Macqueen

Adam Mars-Jones

Adam O'Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982, where he currently lives. In 2008 he became the youngest Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first collection In the Flesh (2010) win a Somerset Maugham Award. He is the Academic Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Adam O'Riordan

Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Giving Up, On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

Adam Phillips

Adam Rackley

Adam Richardson is the UK's top trending health and fitness coach with a rapidly growing audience across both TikTok and Instagram. Adam is passionate about removing barriers to exercise and movement, a philosophy that is key to his work as a Personal Trainer in which he strives to help his clients feel more confident, as well as more fit and healthy.

Adam Richardson

Adam Roberts is acknowledged as the senior scholar of international relations in the UK. He was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University 1986-2007, and President of the British Academy 2009-13 - the head of humanities in Britain. He was on the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (2002-08), a member of the UK Defence Academy Advisory Board (2003-15) and is now on the Board of Advisers of the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare at the United States Military Academy, West Point.

Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts is the author of The Amateur Gourmet and Secrets of the Best Chefs, and coauthor of Give My Swiss Chards to Broadway. He started his food blog, The Amateur Gourmet, in 2004 and currently writes The Amateur Gourmet Newsletter on Substack. Roberts has also written for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and for film and television. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband and their dog, Winston. Food Person is his first novel.

Adam Robinson is based in the Middle East and is a regular contributor to newspapers in the Arab world and also to the British media. He is the author of numerous books on the region, including Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of the Terrorist.

Adam Robinson

Adam Ross

Adam Rutherford is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and geneticist at University College London. His books include A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Book of Humans, and the Sunday Times bestseller How to Argue with a Racist. He has written and presented numerous documentaries for BBC radio and television, including Inside Science and The Cell. Adam has also worked as a science advisor on many films, including the Oscar-winning Ex Machina (2015) and Annihilation (2018).

Adam Rutherford

Adam Smith

Adam Smyth runs the 39 Step Press, an experiment in printing, from a cold barn in Oxfordshire. He is also Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at Balliol College, University of Oxford.

Adam Smyth

Adam Sweeting

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Kou Lan

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. The Ladybird Tales series is based on the original Ladybird re-tellings, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best ­- full of richness and detail. 
 
 This beautiful hardback edition of Aladdin is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic story for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, following the story of a young boy's magical adventures with a wicked magician, a beautiful princess and two amazing genies.

Ladybird Tales: Aladdin

Victoria Assanelli

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. The Ladybird Tales series is based on the original Ladybird re-tellings, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best ­- full of richness and detail. 
 
 This beautiful hardback edition of Pinocchio is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic story for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, following the story of a little wooden puppet who wants to be a real little boy.

Ladybird Tales: Pinocchio

Valentina Belloni

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. The Ladybird Tales series is based on the original Ladybird re-tellings, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best ­- full of richness and detail. 
 
 This beautiful ebook edition of The Emperor's New Clothes is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic story for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, following the story of the vain emperor who is taken in by a pair of trickster weavers.

Ladybird Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. The Ladybird Tales series is based on the original Ladybird re-tellings, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best ­- full of richness and detail. 
 
 This beautiful hardback edition of The Little Mermaid is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, following the story of a young mermaid who falls in love with a human prince.

Ladybird Tales: The Little Mermaid

Ailie Busby

Based on the traditional fairy tale Cinderella, this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Find out what happens when Cinderella meets a handsome prince at the ball. Part of the Ladybird First Favourite Tales series - a perfect introduction to fairy tales for preschoolers - it contains amusing pictures and lots of funny rhythm and rhyme to delight young children. Ideal for reading aloud and sharing with children aged 2-4 year olds.

Cinderella: Ladybird First Favourite Tales

Based on the classic story Hansel and Gretel, this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Find out what happens when the brother and sister get lost in the woods! Part of the Ladybird First Favourite Tales series - a perfect introduction to fairy tales for preschoolers - it contains amusing pictures and lots of funny rhythm and rhyme to delight young children. Ideal for reading aloud and sharing with children aged 2-4 year olds.

Hansel and Gretel: Ladybird First Favourite Tales

Based on the classic story Puss in Boots, this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Find out what happens in this tale of the poor mill owner's son and his cat. Part of the Ladybird First Favourite Tales series - a perfect introduction to fairy tales for preschoolers - it contains amusing pictures and lots of funny rhythm and rhyme to delight young children. Ideal for reading aloud and sharing with children aged 2-4 year olds.

Puss in Boots: Ladybird First Favourite Tales

Based on the traditional fairy tale The Ugly Duckling, this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Find out what happens to the Ugly Duckling. Will he ever find anyone who loves him? Part of the Ladybird First Favourite Tales series - a perfect introduction to fairy tales for preschoolers - it contains amusing pictures and lots of funny rhythm and rhyme to delight young children. Ideal for reading aloud and sharing with children aged 2-4 year olds.

The Ugly Duckling: Ladybird First Favourite Tales

Mandy Cross

Based on the traditional fairy tale 'The Sly Fox and the Little Red Hen', this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Find out what happens when a naughty fox tries to capture a clever little hen! Part of the Ladybird 'First Favourite Tales' series - a perfect introduction to fairy tales for preschoolers - this book contains lots of funny rhythm and rhyme to delight young children. Ideal for reading aloud and sharing with 2-4 year olds.

The Sly Fox and the Little Red Hen: Ladybird First Favourite Tales

Ladybird

Rex the big dinosaur wants to play with the other little dinosaurs in the jungle, but they find him FAR too loud and scary! Is there any way that Rex can convince the little dinosaurs that he's a good friend to have around? 
 
Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series. For over thirty five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills. Now, for the first time, each title is also available as an ebook with synched audio. 
 
Each Read it yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the four different levels of books support children all the way from very first reading practice through to independent, fluent reading. 
 
Each book has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. 
 
Rex the Big Dinosaur is a Level 1 Read it yourself title, suitable for very early readers who have had some initial reading instruction and are ready to take their first steps in reading real stories. Each story is told very simply, using a small number of frequently repeated words.

Rex the Big Dinosaur - Read it yourself with Ladybird

Level 1

Sam loves building things, especially robots. His robots are all very good at helping out, but when they start going wrong it's clear that Sam needs to take his robots on holiday for a rest! 
 
Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series. For over thirty five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills. 
 
Each Read it yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the four different levels of books support children all the way from very first reading practice through to independent, fluent reading. 
 
Each book has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. 
 
Sam and the Robots is a Level 4 Read it yourself title, ideal for children who are ready to read longer stories with a wider vocabulary and are keen to read independently.

Sam and the Robots - Read it yourself with Ladybird

Level 4

Vera Southgate

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. The Ladybird Tales series is based on the original Ladybird re-tellings, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best &shy;- full of richness and detail. 
 
This beautiful hardback edition of Chicken Licken is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, following Chicken Licken and his friends as they go to tell the king that the sky is falling down.

Ladybird Tales: Chicken Licken

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. This ebook version story of Puss and Boots is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best ­- full of richness and detail. 
 
Children have always loved and will always remember these classic stories and sharing them together is an experience to treasure.

Ladybird Tales: Puss in Boots

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. This ebook edition of the story of The Elves and the Shoemaker is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best ­- full of richness and detail. Children have always loved and will always remember these classic stories and sharing them together is an experience to treasure.

Ladybird Tales: The Elves and the Shoemaker

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. This ebook edition of the story of The Enormous Turnip is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best ­- full of richness and detail. Children have always loved and will always remember these classic stories and sharing them together is an experience to treasure.

Ladybird Tales: The Enormous Turnip

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. The Ladybird Tales series is based on the original Ladybird re-tellings, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best &shy;- full of richness and detail. 
 
This beautiful hardback edition of The Little Red Hen is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, following Little Red Hen as she finds some grains of wheat, plants the seeds and looks after the wheat before grinding it into flour and baking a loaf of bread.

Ladybird Tales: The Little Red Hen

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. The Ladybird Tales series is based on the original Ladybird re-tellings, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best &shy;- full of richness and detail. 
 
This beautiful hardback edition of The Princess and the Pea is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, beginning with a prince's search for a proper princess, the arrival of a young girl at the castle one stormy night and an unusual test to see if she is a real princess.

Ladybird Tales: The Princess and the Pea

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. 
 
This classic ebook version of The Three Little Pigs is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful new illustrations of the kind children like best - full of richness and detail. 
 
An essential part of any child's heritage, this Ladybird Tale is perfect for sharing together and creating memories to treasure forever.

Ladybird Tales: The Three Little Pigs

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. The Ladybird Tales series is based on the original Ladybird re-tellings, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best ­- full of richness and detail. 
 
 This beautiful ebook edition of The Ugly Duckling is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, following the duckling as he leaves his family and makes his way in the world on his own.

Ladybird Tales: The Ugly Duckling

Johanna Spyri

Martina Peluso

This Ladybird Classic is an abridged retelling of the classic story of Heidi by Johanna Spyri, making it perfect for introducing the story to younger children, or for newly confident readers to tackle alone. 
 
Beautiful new illustrations throughout and a gorgeous larger format with ribbon marker bring the magic of this classic story to a new generation of children.

Ladybird Classics: Heidi

Rudyard Kipling

Galia Bernstein

This Ladybird Classic is an abridged retelling of the classic story of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, making it perfect for introducing the story to younger children, or for newly confident readers to tackle alone. 
 
Beautiful new illustrations throughout and a gorgeous larger format with ribbon marker bring the magic of this classic story to a new generation of children.

Ladybird Classics: The Jungle Book

Alexandre Dumas

Sean Hayden

This Ladybird Classic is an abridged retelling of the classic story of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, making it perfect for introducing the story to younger children, or for newly confident readers to tackle alone. 
 
Beautiful new illustrations throughout and a gorgeous larger format with ribbon marker bring the magic of this classic story to a new generation of children.

Ladybird Classics: The Three Musketeers

This Ladybird Classic is an abridged retelling of the classic story of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graheme, making it perfect for introducing the story to younger children, or for newly confident readers to tackle alone. 
 
Beautiful new illustrations throughout and a gorgeous larger format with ribbon marker bring the magic of this classic story to a new generation of children.

Ladybird Classics: The Wind in the Willows

Joan Stimson

Worried Arthur: The Big Match is a beautifully illustrated picture book from Ladybird. 
 
Arthur is a penguin and a worrier. He's feeling very excited about the big football match he's playing in, but a little bit worried too. It's great to be on the school football team but playing in the Final against the champions is making him nervous! Luckily, Dad has a few tips for Arthur that might just save the day... 
 
The gentle text by Joan Stimson and fantastic illustrations by Jan Lewis make this a lovely ebook that is perfect for sharing together with young children. Follow along line by line with the built-in voiceover or read the story yourself.

Worried Arthur: The Big Match Ladybird Picture Books

Worried Arthur - The Birthday Party is a beautifully illustrated ebook from Ladybird. Arthur is a penguin and a worrier. One morning he wakes up feeling excited and worried all at once. Dad has promised him a birthday party and there's an awful lot to think about. Will Ben burst all the balloons? Will Dad perform his terrible magic tricks? Or might it be the very best birthday party a little penguin ever had? 
 
The gentle text by Joan Stimson and fantastic illustrations by Jan Lewis make this a lovely ebook that is perfect for sharing together with young children. Follow along line by line with the built-in voiceover or read the story yourself.

Worried Arthur: The Birthday Party Ladybird Picture Books

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. Beauty and the Beast is the story of a kind-hearted girl called Beauty who is forced to live with an ugly beast, until one day some magic happens... This Ladybird Tale ebook is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best ­- full of richness and detail. Children have always loved and will always remember these classic stories and sharing them together is an experience to treasure.

Ladybird Tales: Beauty and the Beast

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. The story of Dick Whittington and his cat, about how a poor boy seeking his fortune ended up becoming Mayor of London, is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best ­- full of richness and detail. Children have always loved and will always remember these classic stories and sharing them together is an experience to treasure.

Ladybird Tales: Dick Whittington

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. The Big Pancake is the cumulative story of a runaway pancake trying to escape from seven hungry little boys and a wide variety of other creatures who wish to eat him! This Ladybird Tale is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best ­- full of richness and detail. Children have always loved and will always remember these classic stories and sharing them together is an experience to treasure.

Ladybird Tales: The Big Pancake

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. The story of a princess who is helped by a frog is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best ­- full of richness and detail. Children have always loved and will always remember these classic stories and sharing them together is an experience to treasure.

Ladybird Tales: The Princess and the Frog

Richard Dungworth

Genie Street is a magical place where anything can happen. Join Daisy and Tom for an exciting adventure.The Ladybird First Fiction range is an ideal first chapter book series for children who are gaining in reading confidence and want to read a proper book. Each book is split into two stories, with large type and plenty of pictures, so that children can read it for themselves, with a sense of achievement. Ideal for Key Stage 1 children. 
 
Mr Slater is a business man who goes to work every day in a smart suit and carries a very important briefcase. So when he stops catching his early morning train Tom and Daisy begin to wonder what has happened to him. They soon find him in a spot of bother in Lampland! 
 
Madame Zarr is the best circus star in all of Lampland. But when the king decides to watch her perform, Madame Zarr has a small case of stage fright. Can Tom and Daisy help her lose her nerves and save the day?

Mr Slater, Gladiator: Genie Street: Ladybird Read it yourself

Black Heart Blue

Black Lace Book Of Women Sexual Fantasies

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Blacklist

Set inside Blandings Castle, this comedy series follows Lord Emsworth and his pig Empress as they meet with his dysfunctional family and friends, and the havoc that follows.

Blandings

Blandings Castle

Blood City Rollers

Bloodlines

Blossom Street

Blue Ant

Bluey

Bodyguard

Bodyguard Series

Bollocks to Alton Towers

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Borderlands

Born Wicked

Boudica: the last defender of the Celtic culture; the only woman openly to have led her warriors into battle; the only British warrior to have stood against the might of Imperial Rome - and triumphed. 
 
This is her story.

Boudica

Boy Soldier

Brain Chemicals

Brave Bunnies

Bridge

Bridget Jones's Diary

Brief Encounters

Bright Young Things

Brotherband

Arthur Bryant and John May are Golden Age detectives living in the modern world. Together they head up the Peculiar Crimes Unit, ready to solve any of the weird and wonderful crimes that fall across their desks.

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