Populartitles

See life through the eyes of one of the most unfortunate people in European history! Crowned as a baby, widowed at 18, schemed against in your own country and menaced by the superpower next door - your life is not going to be a bed of roses.

Revealing facts about the awesome ancients, their groovy gods, potty pyramids and their mad mummies, this book also tells how a hunted hippo got his own back on a pharaoh, and discovers the truth about the cool Queen Cleo and the curse of Tutankhamun.

Climb up the waterspout with Incy Wincy, help the king's men try to put Humpty Dumpty back together again and dance along with the cat playing his fiddle! Bought to life with Axel Scheffler's illustrations, this collection of beloved nursery rhymes such is the perfect bedtime read.

Baby's brother is getting ready to take a basket of bananas all the way to Baba's bungalow in the next village. He will have to go along the bumpy road, past the baobab trees, birds and butterflies, and all the way over the bridge. What he doesn't realise is that his cute, very curious baby siste...

One day Izzy and her friends are surprised to find that their teacher, Miss Jones, is actually being nice to them. This is the woman who was caught secretly smiling when Maisie Miller fell off her chair. There can only be one conclusion - she's been taken over by aliens, and now she wants to make...

A tragic bush fire sparks a beautiful friendship between a young girl and a baby koala. Ruby is dreading changing schools as her autism makes it hard to befriend other kids. But when her dog finds a baby koala and her family agrees to foster it, Ruby quickly becomes the koala's best friend. Ruby ...

Once, many years ago, there was a baby, in his pram, with his sisters and their sandwiches and lemonade and toys. A lyrical and epic story about a baby and a trio of toys, and their adventure on the high seas. Beautifully told by master storyteller Allan Ahlberg and stunningly illustrated by Emma...

Caroline Harvey is found dead in Suffolk on the hottest day of the year, her limp body awkwardly draped over a cot - and the baby she was looking after is nowhere to be seen. Hundreds of miles away, Siobhan Dillon's holiday on the French coast comes to an abrupt end when her husband, Callum, is a...

Bob Skinner may be Chief Constable no more but he's indispensable to Scotland's police force when it comes to cracking the toughest cases. It's not just the brilliant detective work - it's the absolute determination to unearth the truth and see justice done. And Bob Skinner doesn't care whose toe...

Mermaids Beattie, Mimi and Zelda are enjoying a summer on land with legs when they receive a strange Crabagram ordering them to return home at once. Some seriously bad mermaids are on the loose and the girls are the only ones who can stop them. If they're going to save the day, they'll need answe...