This tongue-in-cheek guide to the joys of married life shows the funny side of marriage. The author is one of Britain's most successful comedy writers, who in his 30 year career has written for most m...
"Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon. However, three in one afternoon was sufficiently unusual to raise more than an eyebrow." It's the third death that really troubles former champion jump-jock...
The great thing about being 75 years old is that you can wear your slippers everywhere - Percy Sloggett wears his in the garden and to the shops as well as in the house. In time his battered old slipp...
Babe is a little pig who doesn't have a real mother. He lives with Farmer Hoggett's sheep-dog, Fly, who looks after him like one of her own children. Babe must learn how to talk to sheep before the Br...
Dinosaur in trouble! Basil Brontosaurus doesn't like playschool. All the other little dinosaurs tease him. Then Basil finds out a secret which makes him very special at school but leads him into all s...
A little girl who desperately wants a dog introduces an imaginary Great Dane called Henry into her home. Her wish comes true when she is allowed a real Henry. Was old Mrs Garrow, with her cackling lau...
A reissue of a beautiful story for older readers in which bestselling author Dick King-Smith creates a fascinating picture of rural life at the time of the Second World War. Discovered as a foundling ...
Unlike most kittens, Martin doesn't like eating mice – let alone catching them. When he catches one by mistake he decides to keep it as a pet and soon Drusilla the mouse is established in an old bath ...
Royal Ascot's first day, and bookmaker Ned Talbot watches helplessly as astring of favourites come in. With the punters totting up their winnings,he counts his losses. Then an old man steps forward wi...
This new edition builds on the firm foundations laid by Jones's through the years as the mainstay of veterinary nursing training. A new editor and some new contributions bring a fresh eye to much of t...
With contributions from leading Romanticist scholars who draw on literary history, performance studies, philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology, Spheres of Action examines the significant intersecti...
Technical/historical background illustrated with b&w period photos and a selection of detailed walkaround photographs highlighting technical details of the A34 Cruiser - the best British tank of W.W.I...
The extra-sized final volume collecting Neal Adams' acclaimed covers and stories featuring the Dark Knight This volume includes material from BATMAN #232, #234, #237, #243-245 and #251, featuring Two-...
For the first time, DC Comics collects the moody Batman stories drawn by comics legend Gene Colan.These never-before-collected tales from the early 1980s spotlight the art of comics legend Gene Colan....