Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries about his connection to wildlife and the way he sees the world are raw in their telling.
Scotlands grumpiest bookseller is back with seven witty portraits of bookshop regulars, from The Person Who Doesnt Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have A Blue Cover) to the Harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare. Affectionate, sardonic and laugh-out-loud funny, this is your indispensable guide to the flora and fauna of your local bookshop.
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. Aaron Blabey's Bad Guys is taking the world by storm, welcome to the gang's latest hilarious adventure. The Bad Guys have entered a whole new world--like, literally--a VERY nasty new universe awaits. Oh, Mr. Snake, what have you done...?
Chile, 1984: A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter to record his testimony. Our narrator is a child when she first sees this mans face on the magazines cover, and his complicity in the worst crimes of the regime haunt her into adulthood. How does one resist a repressive regime? And who gets to shape the truths we live by?
The Infinite is a mind-bending, time-twisting adventure for readers who loved Time Travelling with a Hamster and A Wrinkle in Time. The first book in The Leap Cycle series
Every teenager remembers when they realised how disappointing their parents actually are. Scarlet's feeling that. Her mum has left for a new life with a new love, and her dad's just hopeless. She's feeling stuck in the middle. A deeply insightful and funny novel about how growing up means coming to terms with your parents' lives being just as messy as your own.
On a future, frozen Earth, humanity has been packed onto self-sustaining trains, doomed to circumnavigate the globe until the end of the interminable ice age - or until the engines give out.
When a scrap of music piques their interest, the inhabitants of the Icebreaker take the ultimate risk and cross the frozen ocean, a vast expanse with no train tracks... and no way to return to them.
