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Horrible Histories: Terrible Tudors & Slimy Stuarts

The Terrible Tudors gives you the dreadful details of Tudor life for everyone - from cruel kings and queens like horrible Henry VII to poor peasants and common criminals. The Slimy Stuarts is full of foul but...

Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks & Rotten Romans

This work presents history with twice the nasty bits left a horrible new edition. "The Groovy Greeks" is full of fab facts about the hip `n` happenin` Greeks. In "Rotten Romans", readers follow life for folk in Roman...

Horrible Geography: Perilous Poles

The intrepid explorer can take a trip to the freezing-cold ends of the Earth in the latest Horrible Geography Handbook. This is the ultimate survival guide filled with tips on everything from how to handle a peckish...

Horribly Famous: Queen Victoria & Her Empire

Everybody knows Victoria married a chap called Albert and wore black clothes - all the time. But did you know that Victoria went on her holidays in disguise, and was best pals with her rude Scottish servant? This...

Horrible Science: Sounds Dreadful

This work features science with the squishy bits left in! How can a single sound shatter glass? Why are farts so noisy? Which sound waves make your guts wobble? Get the awful answers in "Sounds Dreadful"!

Horribly Famous: Alexander the Great & His Claim to Fame

Famously tutored by Aristotle, Alexander ruthlessly established himself as Macedonian king in the 300s BC, setting about continuing his father`s wars against the Persian Empire (for their attacks on Greek City states...

Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans

The grim truth behind the greatest empire of all time is revealed - from the terrible twins who founded Rome to the evil emperor who made murder a sport. Find out which emperor enjoyed eating camel`s heels and the...

Horrible Science: Killer Energy

Oh no! It’s time for science class, and you’ve just not got the energy. Well – we’ll zap you awake with a killer fact or two! It makes stars shine and bonfires burn. It gives you the power to lift your pen and make it...

Horrible Science: Body Owners Handbook

This work presents science with the squishy bits left in! How does your auto-repair function work? Where`s your top-of-the-range sensory equipment? What`s your rear gas and waste disposal? Get the awful answers in The...

Horrible Histories: Oxford Ned

It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: What a liripoop is? Which potty professor liked to walk like a dinosaur? What`s buried beneath the botanical gardens? Plot your path to the past with the...

Horrible Histories: England

It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Which monk tried to pinch the devil`s nose with a pair of tongs? Why some people in the Middle Ages ate dove droppings? Which English king was accused of being a...

Horrible Histories: Edinburgh (Ned)

It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Whose pickled skin became a sought-after souvenir? Why it`s alright to spit on the High Street? How the pupils of Edinburgh High School got away with murder?...

Horribly Famous: Sir Francis Drake & His Daring Deeds

Readers might already be aware that Sir Frances Drake is horrible famous for defeating the Spanish Armada, sailing all the way around the world and being a fearless explorer. But this book will tell them the facts no...

Horribly Famous: Elizabeth I & her Terrible Temper

Everybody knows that Elizabeth I was called the Virgin Queen, that she had lots of admirers and refused to marry and that her army beat the Spanish Armada. But in this book readers can discover all the fascinating...

Horrible Histories: Vicious Vikings / Measly Middle Ages

This book features history with twice the nasty and in an incredible new edition! Readers can learn what life was really like in the Measly Middle Ages - in days of old when knights were bold, women wore tall pointy...

Horrible Science: Evolve or Die

This is a reissue with 16 pages of extra material, including an index

Horrible Science: Shocking Electricity

Most science books are shockingly boring. Not this one! It’s simply sizzling with zippy, zappy facts to electrify you! Have you heard about the scientist who gave electric shocks to his eyeballs? Do you know that...

Horribly Famous: Al Capone & His Gang

Everybody knows that Al Capone was handy with his machine gun andhad a few nasty associates. But in this book readers will discover all the fascinating facts they didn`t know, such as how he lived with his mum all his...

Horrible Histories: Wales

It`s history with the nasty bits left in. Want to know: Why Druids split humans in half? How the Normans outwitted the Welsh with a lump of ham? How an army of welsh mums fought off the French once and for all?...

Horrible Histories: Horatio Nelson & His Valiant Victory

Everybody knows that Horatio Nelson won the Battle of Trafalgar and lost an arm and an eye. This book lets readers discover the facts, including how Napoleon nearly got killed by a polar bear, ate rats and maggots and...

Hunger Games (Hunger Games Trilogy 1)

In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TU shorn called the Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen...

Incredible Incas

It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Why llamas wore earrings and drank beer? How a bucket of stewed pee can make you beautiful? Why servants ate the emperor`s hair? Discover all the foul facts...

Invisible City

Josh`s father is missing in Mexico, presumed dead. Then Josh discovers that his dad was murdered. Suddenly he is caught in a race to find the legendary Ix Codex - a lost Mayan prophecy that predicts the end of the...

Ireland

It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: why wax models were captured and made Prisoners of War? Which warrior went to battle naked? How to make yourself invisible? This work helps you to find out the...

Isaac Newton and His Falling Apple

You`ve probably heard of Isaac Newton. He is horribly famous for: discovering gravity, being a right clever dick and getting hitn the head with an apple. But have you heard that Isaac: came bottom of the class at...