Catching the Light

A compelling and heart warming collection of stories featuring four women with intriguing tales to tell.

Rachel has moved to the Isle of Wight determined to become invisible. Hiding a shameful secret she cultivates a ‘cold polite smile as effective as an electric fence.’ However, unexpectedly, into her life comes a loving, crazy, individual: Lottie the cocker spaniel. Everything is about to change..

The Ladybird Book of the Meeting
(Ladybirds for Grown-Ups)

'People at work spend a lot of the day in meetings.Meetings are important because they give everyone a chance to talk about work.Which is easier than doing it.''Rudd attends meetings remotely from his home office.He has three telephones, two Swiss desk intercoms, a fax machine and a wall-mounted theremin.Sometimes nobody speaks to him for days.'__________________________________This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially...

Horrid Henry's Underpants

Four hilarious stories, in which Horrid Henry hits on a brilliant way to write thank you letters, negotiates over vegetables, competes with Perfect Peter over which of them is sickest, and finds himself wearing the wrong underpants, with dreadful consequences.

The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse

Before The Road by Cormac McCarthy brought apocalyptic fiction into the mainstream, there was science fiction. No longer relegated to the fringes of literature, this explosive collection of the world’s best apocalyptic writers brings the inventors of alien invasions, devastating meteors, doomsday scenarios, and all-out nuclear war back to the bookstores with a bang.

The best writers of the early 1900s were the first to flood New York with tidal waves, destroy Illinois with alien...

A Wayne in a Manger

A Wayne in a Manger is the hilarious compilation of nativity stories by Gervase Phinn.

Discover some wonderfully funny and touching nativity play anecdotes, including children forgetting their lines, ad-libbing, falling of the stage, picking their noses and showing their knickers.

One brilliant anecdote tells of an innkeeper who generously says there's plenty of room for Mary and Joseph, while another child, jealous of Joseph's starring role, allows Mary to come in but not...

The Ladybird Book of the Zombie Apocalypse
(Ladybirds for Grown-Ups)

'Lara has constructed her own home-made flame-thrower.The flame-thrower has turned the walking corpses into burning walking corpses. Now everything they touch catches fire.'This did not happen with the cricket bat,' thinks Lara' 'Some people say civilisation after a zombie apocalypse will go back to The Stone Age.Nobody tidies up or collects the bins. The electricity keeps going off. There are dead bodies piled up in the streets.It is actually more like the...

Undead Worlds
(A Reanimated Writers Anthology)

22 Authors. 22 Undead worlds. 1 Great Book.Do you dare?Featuring stories by David Simpson, Adrienne Lecter, Christopher Artinian, Justin Robinson, Christopher Mahood, Arthur Mongelli, Michael Whitehead, Sylvester Barzey, Jeremy Dyson, Derek Ailes, Grivante, Michael Peirce, E.E. Isherwood, Mark Cusco Ailes, R. L. Blalock, T. D. Ricketts, Brea Behn, Jessica Gomez, Julien Saindon, Samie Sands, Valerie Lioudis, and Charles Ingersoll.

City of Saints and Madmen
(Ambergris Book 1)

From the author of Annihilation, now a major motion picture on Netflix.

From Jeff VanderMeer, an author praised by writers such as Laren Beukes, China Miéville and Michael Moorcock, City of Saints and Madmen is by turns sensuous and terrifying. This collection of four linked novellas is the perfect introduction to VanderMeer’s vividly imagined world.

In the city of Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye....

Making Changes

Lisa looks forward to a dream spring wedding in 'Give and Take' the first of four short stories in this anthology. What makes her think again? Ruth feels confused. She keeps forgetting things and making mistakes. What is happening to her? 'The Key' holds the solution.