Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

The Popcorn Pirates

Lucy, Hermione and Sam offer to accompany the captain and his dog, Biscuit on the next trip to keep a lookout for danger. But danger is exactly what they run into! The pirates aren`t just after more popcorn they want...

The Restraint of Beasts

The Tent

The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr Punch

A young boy stumbles across a Punch and Judy show at the pier one day and thus enters a world of extraordinary magic. A story unfolds in which the boy is forced to confront family secrets, strange puppets and a...

The Willowdale Handcar: or, the Return of the Black Doll

In this enigmatic, surreal, wonderfully entertaining tale, three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, travelling by handcar. On the way to nowhere in particular they pass a number of odd characters and observe...

Theres a Boy in the Girls Bathroom

Give me a dollar or I`ll spit on you. That`s Bradley Chalker for you. He is the oldest child in the class. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights with girls, and the teachers say he has serious behaviour problems. No...

This is Lulu (PB) illustr

Readers embark on a glorious day accompanying Lulu. She introduces us to her family, house, garden, toys, friends and favourite activities as we turn the pages and lift the flaps in this bright and bold picture book...

This Side of Brightness

On a bitter winter`s day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men are working in one of the huge pressurised tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly, a tiny hole appears in the roof of...

Tooth and Claw

This new collection of short stories from T. C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares...

Uncle Montagues Tales of Terror (illustr.)

Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house and his regular visits from his nephew give him the opportunity to relive some of the most frightening stories he knows. But as the stories unfold, a newer and more surprising...

Walking to Hollywood

Walking to Hollywood is a dazzling triptych - obsessive, satirical, elegiac - in which Will Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place and psyche to explore some of our deepest fears and anxieties with...

Wandering Wombles

What on Earth Happened?. .. in Brief

In What on Earth Happened?, Christopher Lloyd tells our story from the very beginning of time to the present day, taking giant narrative leaps across millennia and continents. Along the way, he explains exactly how...

Wildlife

Witch Child #ост./не издается#

After Mary sees her grandmother accused of witchcraft and hung for the crime, she is hurried to safety by an unknown woman who gives her tools to keep a record of her days - paper and ink. Then Mary is taken to a boat...

Wombles

The Wombles is the first ever Wombles book and introduces the stern but kindly Great Uncle Bulgaria; Orinoco, who is particularly fond of his food and a subsequent forty winks; general handyman extraordinaire...

Wombles at Work

Wombles Go Round the World

Great Uncle Bulgaria loves telling the ancient and revered history of the Wombles clans to the younger Wombles. But to his great sadness he notices that the young Wombles are not nearly as interested in the history as...

Wombles to the Rescue

Women

Welcome to the troubled, tempestuous world of Frank Lloyd Wright. Scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside...

Women with Men - Женщины без мужчин

World Below (Exp.)

Young Romantics: Shelleys, Byron & Other Tangled Lives

`The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn` - John Keats. In "Young Romantics", Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary, introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence of an...

Zugzwang TPB

Where magnificence and squalor co-exist, there will always be envy, rage, cruelty, paranoia and violence. This title is set in St Petersburg, 1914: imposing and shabby, monumental and squalid, and - under its surface...

Zugzwang

St Petersburg, 1914. Dr. Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who is due to play the most important competition of...