Take a peek inside the workings of our planet, enjoy a full-throttle adventure, meet a crime-solving schoolgirl, and have fun with a sleepy sloth in a colourful selection of books to entertain and inform children this February.
South African-born short story author Michelle Sacks has turned her considerable writing skills to a full-length novel and the result is this stunning psychological thriller… a toxic, teasing, twisted tale of marriage, motherhood and friendship, so chilling and stomach-churning that it will have you reaching for the smelling salts.
Spring might not yet be here but comic genius Frank Cottrell Boyce is certainly putting a spring in the step of young readers this month with new editions of his award-winning collection of laugh-out-loud fiction from Macmillan Children’s Books.
Lancashire lass Stacey Halls grew up a little fearful of stories about the notorious Pendle witches, never dreaming that one day she would write a thrilling novel which put both herself and the witches firmly in the picture.
Friendly and bubbly, number 1. best-selling author Sarah Pinborough seems far too lovely to have plucked dark thrillers and tense horror from her imagination.
Snow-capped peaks towering over an inky black pine forest, clear rivulets sweeping nimbly round rocks and icicles, animal tracks criss-crossing a thick woodland carpet...
Enjoy fantastical adventures, meet some of the world’s most incredible creatures, discover a pioneering photographer, and learn to keep your worries under control in a winter-warming selection of February children’s books.
America, I think we all know, is a nation obsessed with firearms, from the Colt six-shooters of Western legends, to the rapid-fire semi-automatics of the Robocopped SWAT teams.
