Alastair Fothergill studied zoology and joined the BBC Natural History Unit in 1983, working on The Really Wild Show, Wildlife on One and David Attenborough's The Trials of Life. He was appointed head of the Unit in 1992, and during his tenure he produced Attenborough's award-winning series Life in the Freezer. He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal and Award in 1996. 
In June 1998, he stood down as head of the Natural History Unit to concentrate on his work as series producer, initially on the multi-award-winning The Blue Planet,. In 2006 he completed his next major series Planet Earth, which won the Cinema for Peace Clean Energy Award at the Cinema for Peace Gala Berlin in 2008. He was executive producer of Frozen Planet (2011) and The Hunt (2015). He has also presented several television programmes, including The Abyss. 
In 2008, he signed a multi-picture deal with newly formed Disneynature. In 2012 he left the BBC to co-found Silverback Films, which makes landmark natural history series for various clients including Netflix and the BBC. 
In 2016, Alastair was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society for his work in natural history programming. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to film.

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Alastair Gunn is an experienced magazine journalist. The Advent Killer was his first novel in the series featuring DCI Antonia Hawkins, followed by My Bloody Valentine and The Keeper, which was published in April 2017. 
 
Alastair lives in Hertfordshire with his fiancée, Anna.

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Alastair Sooke is the author of the biographies Henri Matisse: A Second Life and Roy Lichtenstein: How Modern Art was Saved by Donald Duck, both published by Penguin. He is art critic for the Daily Telegraph and is a popular BBC broadcaster. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

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Alayo Akinkugbe graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in History of Art in 2021 and graduated with an MA in Curating the Art Museum from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2023. She runs the Instagram platform @ABlackHistoryofArt, which highlights Black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers from art history and the present day; and hosts the podcast A Shared Gaze. Alayo is a contributing editor and writes the column ‘Black Gazes’ for AnOther Magazine. She was awarded a curatorial research grant by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art for the exhibition Entangled Pasts: Art Colonialism and Change at the Royal Academy of Arts. 
Alayo was on the advisory panel and contributed to the book African Artists: From 1882 to Now, published by Phaidon in 2021, and has written for publications including Dazed, Tate Etc. and The World of Interiors. Reframing Blackness is her first book.

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Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall. After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man, appeared posthumously.

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Albert Costa was Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and director of the Speech Production and Bilingualism Group at the Centre for Brain and Cognition. His research focused on the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language processing.

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Regarded as the founder of modern physics, Albert Einstein was born in 1879, in Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Zürich in 1905 and published four papers in the scientific journal named Annalen der Physik. These papers on photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity and mass-energy equivalence (E = mc2) were significant contributors to the foundation of modern physics. In the next few years, Einstein came to be recognized as a major scientist. 
He developed the general theory of relativity between 1907 and 1915. It was published in 1915. In 1916, Einstein published Relativity: The Special and the General Theory in German. Its first English translation was published in 1920. In 1921, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." He published numerous scientific and non-scientific works. 
Einstein died on 18 April 1955, aged seventy-six, in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Alberto Polverosi was born in Montelupo Fiorentino, Tuscany and has been writing for Corriere dello Sport since 1977. He has covered eight World Cups and seven European Championships. He lives in Florence.

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Aldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, but it was his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point Counter Point (1928) – bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found in Along the Road (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work Brave New World (published in 1932, this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as Music at Night (1931) and Ends and Means (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West braced itself for war, Huxley came increasingly to believe that the key to solving the world's problems lay in changing the individual through mystical enlightenment. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. His beliefs found expression in both fiction (Time Must Have a Stop,1944, and Island, 1962) and non-fiction (The Perennial Philosophy, 1945; Grey Eminence, 1941; and the account of his first mescaline experience, The Doors of Perception, 1954). Huxley died in California on 22 November 1963.

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Alec Baldwin is a multiple Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actor, producer, comedian and philanthropist. He has also been nominated for an Oscar and a Tony Award and the author of the New York Times bestseller A Promise to Ourselves.

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Alec Ross is the New York Times bestselling author of The Industries of the Future and one of the world's leading experts on innovation. Now Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bologna Business School of l'Universitá di Bologna, he served in the Presidential Administration of Barack Obama for four years as Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He is also Board Partner at Amplo, a global venture capital firm and has been named a Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine.

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A super soft cloth book with a velcro strap so that you can take it with you everywhere 
 
Discover the great outdoors with Moomin in this beautiful baby book with its super soft cloth material and crinkly page, developed to boost a baby's motor skills. The bold patterns and high-contrast colours throughout help to stimulate a baby's developing eyesight. 
 
In this beautiful new range of baby books, Tove Jansson's much-loved world of The Moomins is brought to life for the very tiniest of bookworms. 
 
Discover more beautiful Moomin baby books: 
Moomin Baby: Buzzy Book 
Moomin Baby: 123 Tummy Time 
Moomin's First 100 Words: A lift-the-flap book 
My First Moomin: Goodnight Moomin 
My First Moomin: Best Friends

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Eric Hill

First Steps with Spot: Big or Small, Spot? introduces young children to opposites and helps to develop key vocabulary for comparing things in the world around them. 
 
Spot, Mum and Dad are having a fun day at the beach. Learn words for size, capacity and more as they play and swim! Up or down? Empty or full? 
 
Join Spot on an early learning adventure that supports and develops curious young minds.

First Steps with Spot: Big or Small, Spot?

Join Spot as he explores the farm and learns all about colours along the way in this felt flap board book. 
 
Can you help Spot find the little yellow chicks? 
 
Toddlers will love peeking behind the large felt flaps on every page to see where the chicks are hiding, while learning all about colours along the way. 
 
Loved this? Try these: 
Where are the Five Frogs, Spot? 
Spot's First 100 Words 
Spot's Magnet Fun 
Spot's Hide-and-Seek

Spot’s Felt Flaps: On the Farm

Tove Jansson

Moomin and the Birthday Surprise

Pippa Goodhart

Nick Sharratt

It's PARTY TIME and YOU CHOOSE what happens! What kind of party will it be? Who will you invite? Which cake would you like to eat? Will you dance to a steel pan band or bagpipes? 
 
The possibilities are endless in this magical storytelling toolkit which will inspire children age 3 and upwards to make their own adventures again and again - a fantastically fun sequel to YOU CHOOSE, YOU CHOOSE YOUR DREAMS, YOU CHOOSE IN SPACE, YOU CHOOSE FAIRY TALES and YOU CHOOSE CHRISTMAS. 
 
Readers love the YOU CHOOSE series! 
 
'My 3 year old daughter loves this book, it's a good book to share when you have a bit of time to go through it as there can be so many little sub stories to create and talk about!' - 5* Amazon review

You Choose Party Time

Michelle Robinson

Nick East

"Of all the trucks, I love you best. 
Goodnight, bin lorry, time to rest." 
 
Join two little children as they say goodnight to all their toys, including their beloved bin lorry, in this playful and soothing adventure. 
 
Told in lyrical read-aloud rhyme, alongside stunning illustrations, this is the perfect bedtime story for vehicle-obsessed little ones. 
 
Discover other Goodnight stories: 
Goodnight Digger 
Goodnight Tractor 
Goodnight Spaceman 
Goodnight Grandchild

Goodnight Bin Lorry

Join Spot and his Mum as they sail the sea in this boat-shaped board book. 
 
Spot and Mum are going on a boat trip! Follow along as they ride the waves and discover lots of fun surprises along the way. 
 
Children will love this boat-shaped board book for little hands that can be played with or read for twice the fun! 
 
Spot is the fun first friend for new experiences, early learning, and stories you can play with. 
 
If you loved this, why not try: 
Where's Spot? 
Find Spot at the Beach 
Spot's Train 
Spot's Fire Engine 
Spot's Road Trip 
Spot's Digger

Spot's Boat

Rachel Morrisroe

Richard Merritt

They say, where the waves beat the caves on the beach,you might spot a den, hidden far out of reach... 
 Everyone's heard of the Grim. They say it has terrifying talons and fiendish fangs. They say it likes to eat children up in one grizzly bite. 
 
But when, one fateful night, a child finally meets the Grim, they realise that not everything is as it seems... 
 
An epic tale with an unexpected ending from incredible picture-talent Rachel Morrisroe, with gorgeously detailed illustrations from Richard Merritt. 
 
More stories from Rachel Morrisroe and Richard Merritt: 
The Robin Who Stole Christmas

The Tale of the Grizzlygrim

Eric Carle

Brown Bear and Friends 123

Brown Bear and Friends: Colours

Cara Matheson

Mike Byrne

Cilla Chinchilla's ice cream van has only one rule: your ice cream flavour MUST rhyme with your animal name. But when her customers start to misbehave, can Cilla avoid a meltdown? 
 
It's Rocky Road for Toad. 
Banana for Iguana. 
And Fig for Pig. 
 
But when Pig demands Rocky Road, the other customers start to complain too. Can Cilla stick to her strict rhyming rule? And will Pig EVER get his Rocky Road? 
 
A hilarious picture book from emerging talent Cara Matheson, brought to life with brilliantly bonkers illustrations from Mike Byrne.

Meltdown!

Introduce the concept of opposites with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this playful lift-the-flap early learning series! 
 
Learn your opposites with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and friends. 
 
Each page of this chunky board book has been thoughtfully designed with a peep-through flap to encourage little ones to join in and identify their opposites. Perfect for getting very little ones excited about learning opposites. 
 
Discover more in our My Very First range with The Very Hungry Caterpillar: 
My Very First Colours with The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Lift-the-Flap Book 
My Very First 123 with The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Lift-the-Flap Book 
My Very First Shapes with The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Lift-the-Flap Book

My Very First Opposites with The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Introduce shapes with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this playful lift-the-flap early learning series! 
 
Learn all about circles, squares, triangles and more with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and friends. 
 
Each page of this chunky board book has been thoughtfully designed with a peep-through flap to encourage little ones to join in and identify their opposites. Perfect for getting very little ones excited about learning opposites. 
 
Discover more in our My Very First range with The Very Hungry Caterpillar: 
My Very First Colours with The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Lift-the-Flap Book 
My Very First 123 with The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Lift-the-Flap Book 
My Very First Opposites with The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Lift-the-Flap Book

My Very First Shapes with The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Raymond Briggs

Celebrate 60 years of the creator of The Snowman, Raymond Briggs’s, ultimate nursery rhyme collection, The Mother Goose Treasury with this beautiful foiled edition. 
 From well-known favourites to hidden gems, this collection of over 200 nursery rhymes has something for every child. 
 This revised edition of a famous classic first won the Kate Greenaway in 1966 and continues to delight and surprise new generations of young readers. 
More classic stories from Raymond Briggs: 
The Snowman - a wordless picture book 
Father Christmas 
Father Christmas Goes on Holiday 
The Bear 
Jim and the Beanstalk 
The Elephant and the Bad Baby

The Mother Goose Treasury

Sophie Burrows

Get ready to explore some of the weirdest wonders on Earth! Such as: 
 
A BOILING RIVER – this river in Peru reaches temperatures of 100 degrees celsius! 
 
A PIRATE CEMETERY – located in Madagascar, this was the final resting place of many notorious pirates from the 16th and 17th centuries 
 
A GIGANTIC MIRROR - the salt flats in Bolivia form a huge reflective surface that's visible from space! 
 
A MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN – this slope in Australia has a mysterious force that causes cars to roll up instead of down. 
 
As you journey through this book, you'll discover some of the strangest and most fascinating places on every continent. And sometimes, you'll travel back in time to discover the weird histories of these locations. 
 
With hilarious comic-strip illustrations throughout, this quirky guide to the strangest stuff on Earth will surprise and delight curious kids aged 6+.

The Weirdest Wonders on Earth

from pirate graveyards to exploding trees, unicorn skeletons and more!

Georgian Romance

From one of the most distinguished English authors of historical fiction comes a series that explores the lives of eleven Georgian figures. Beginning with the beautiful Sophia Dorothea, darling of Celle, and ending with Victoria's rise to become Queen of England.

Georgian Series

Ghost Detectives

Girl Heart Boy

The #1 bestselling series by Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella, following the life, loves and laughs of Penny, an ordinary blogger, who meets an extraordinary boy...

Girl Online

Maxine is a little girl full of big ideas. She loves solving problems, and can usually be found with her twin brothers in tow causing all kinds of mischief. Whether it is solving the mystery of the tooth fairy, building the biggest snowball ever or just causing trouble, they always have the best time together. This selection of fantastically funny short stories is perfect for spring boarding younger readers into the world of reading via an endearing heroine who has a lot of fun.

Girl Wonder

Being a teenager is tough, but having your two best friends around you can make it easier. Sometimes. Thirteen year old Ellie narrates this quartet of books as three girls navigate their way through their early teenage years, finding their first loves, testing the boundaries with their parents, falling out, making new friends, working out what they really want and realising how lucky they are to have each other. Jaqueline Wilson deals with the pressures surrounding teenage girls with her usual style, creating a series that is in equal measure heartwrenching and uplifting.

Girls

Gladiator

Glenn Moore’s Almanac

Global Icons Series

Glory Gardens

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Gods Beyond the Skies

Gods and Warriors

Goodnight

Grandville Series

Set in rural Georgia, and starring Dr. Sara Linton, the town’s pediatrician and coroner, Jeffrey Tolliver, her wayward ex-husband and chief of police, and Lena Adams, the county’s only female detective.

Grant County

Starring Detective Inspector Will Grayson and Detective Sergeant Helen Walker – a police partnership like no other.

Grayson & Walker

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Great Plains Trilogy

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Greg the Sausage Roll

Grumpy Monkey

Guillermo Downes Thriller

Guru Guru Pon Chan

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Meet Nathan Byrn. 
 
He's half White Witch, half Black Witch 
His mother was a healer, his father is a killer 
He's been kept in a cage since he was fourteen. 
 
If White Witches are good 
And Black Witches are evil... 
What happens if you are both?

Half Bad

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