Adam Henson presents Countryfile, often from his 650-hectare farm in the Cotswolds. Having studied Agriculture at college, Adam took over Bemborough Farm from his father, Joe. The farm now grows wheat, spring barley and oilseed rape, runs a flock of 400 commercial ewes and has the UK's leading collection of rare breeds, many of which are in demand for film sets and advertisements. Cotswold Farm Park (www.cotswoldfarmpark.co.uk) offers a total countryside experience for all the family, welcoming more than 100,000 visitors each year. 
 
Adam presented Lambing Live with Kate Humble, writes for Countryfile magazine and has appeared on Radio 4's On Your Farm and Farming Today. He is the author of three previous books, Adam’s Farm: My Life on the Land, the Sunday Times bestseller, Like Farmer, Like Son and A Farmer and His Dog.

Adam Henson

Adam Henson is perhaps the best-known farmer in the UK, presenting on BBC's Countryfile to millions of viewers each Sunday evening. He's also appeared on Lambing Live, Secret Britain, Coast and Inside Out. Adam also runs the award-winning Cotswold Farm Park in Gloucestershire, which welcomes family visitors all year round and is home to many rare breeds. He has a monthly column in Countryfile magazine, as well as the Cotswold Life magazine. He has written several books including the Sunday Times bestseller Like Farmer, Like Son. This is his first children's book and it is the perfect introduction to the farm.

Adam Higginbotham writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, Businessweek, Smithsonian, Men’s Journal, and The Atavist. He began his career in magazines and newspapers in London, where he was the editor-­in-chief of The Face and a contributing editor at The Sunday Telegraph. The author of Midnight in Chernobyl, he lives in New York City.

Adam Higginbotham

Adam Hills is an internationally recognised comedian and host of award-winning Channel 4 show The Last Leg. His collection of stories from a life in comedy, Best Foot Forward, was a Times bestseller.

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Adam Howling

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Adam Jacot de Boinod

ADAM JOHNSON won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for his second novel, the New York Times bestseller The Orphan Master’s Son (‘Excavates the very meaning of life’ New York Times). His short story 'Nirvana' won the prestigious Sunday Times/EFG Short Story Award. He is the author of acclaimed story collections, Fortune Smiles and Emporium and the novel Parasites Like Us. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives with his family in San Francisco.

Adam Johnson

Adam Kay is a former doctor who has written five million books and sold seven copies. No, hang on – he’s written seven books and sold five million copies. His debut book, This is Going to Hurt, is a literary sensation: a Sunday Times number one bestseller for over a year, winning a record-breaking four National Book Awards and selling over 3 million copies. Kay adapted This is Going to Hurt as a BAFTA-winning comedy-drama series for the BBC. Adam Kay’s children’s books have been translated into 32 languages and sold over 1 million copies, making him one of the UK’s bestselling children’s authors. Kay’s Anatomy became the fastest-selling children’s general non-fiction hardback of the decade. His first picture book, Amy Gets Eaten, was published in 2023, and his first children’s novel, Dexter Procter the Ten-Year-Old Doctor, was published in September 2024.

Adam Kay

Adam studied illustration and animation, and received a BA followed by an MA from the Edinburgh College of Art. As a student he won a competition to create a short film for MOMI and Channel 4, and once his career producing animated commercials was under way, he became an illustrator as well. He has regular columns in the UK and the US.

Adam Larkum

Adam Lashinsky

Adam Macqueen

Adam Mars-Jones

Adam O'Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982, where he currently lives. In 2008 he became the youngest Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first collection In the Flesh (2010) win a Somerset Maugham Award. He is the Academic Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Adam O'Riordan

Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Giving Up, On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

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Adam Richardson is the UK's top trending health and fitness coach with a rapidly growing audience across both TikTok and Instagram. Adam is passionate about removing barriers to exercise and movement, a philosophy that is key to his work as a Personal Trainer in which he strives to help his clients feel more confident, as well as more fit and healthy.

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Adam Roberts is the author of The Amateur Gourmet and Secrets of the Best Chefs, and coauthor of Give My Swiss Chards to Broadway. He started his food blog, The Amateur Gourmet, in 2004 and currently writes The Amateur Gourmet Newsletter on Substack. Roberts has also written for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and for film and television. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband and their dog, Winston. Food Person is his first novel.

Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts is acknowledged as the senior scholar of international relations in the UK. He was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University 1986-2007, and President of the British Academy 2009-13 - the head of humanities in Britain. He was on the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (2002-08), a member of the UK Defence Academy Advisory Board (2003-15) and is now on the Board of Advisers of the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare at the United States Military Academy, West Point.

Adam Robinson is based in the Middle East and is a regular contributor to newspapers in the Arab world and also to the British media. He is the author of numerous books on the region, including Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of the Terrorist.

Adam Robinson

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Adam Rutherford

Adam Rutherford is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and geneticist at University College London. His books include A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Book of Humans, and the Sunday Times bestseller How to Argue with a Racist. He has written and presented numerous documentaries for BBC radio and television, including Inside Science and The Cell. Adam has also worked as a science advisor on many films, including the Oscar-winning Ex Machina (2015) and Annihilation (2018).

Adam Smith

Adam Smyth runs the 39 Step Press, an experiment in printing, from a cold barn in Oxfordshire. He is also Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at Balliol College, University of Oxford.

Adam Smyth

Adam Sweeting

Adam Tandy

Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. The author of three previous novels, his work has been translated into thirty languages. His essays appear in the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, and he is an advisory editor of the Paris Review. His awards include a Somerset Maugham Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2018 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has twice been selected by Granta as one of their Best of Young British Novelists.

Adam Thirlwell

Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992 and he has published two books of stories and ten further novels, most recently Missing Fay (2017), and six poetry collections. 
 
 
www.adamthorpe.net

Adam Thorpe

Adam Tooze is the author of the highly praised Crashed, The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction, all published by Allen Lane. He has been the recipient of the Wolfson Prize for History, the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Tooze has taught at Cambridge and Yale and is now Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University.

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&lsquo;This is the story 
 
Of Alison Hubble, 
 
Who went to bed single, 
 
And woke up double.&rsquo; 
 
Here, in verse, are the hilariously original stories of a mighty slide, a man who fought crocodiles, a girl who doubled, a couple of baby skinners and a thing that lived under a school. A wonderful collection from Allan Ahlberg, author of &lsquo;Please Mrs Butler, Woof!&rsquo; and &lsquo;Happy Families&rsquo;, illustrated throughout with delightful drawings by Charlotte Voake.

The Mighty Slide

Kit Wright

A brilliantly funny collection of poems involving everyone's favourite anti-hero Dave Dirt, the extraordinary afternoon of a prawn and the mysterious tale of Zoe's earrings. 
 
Witty, touching and clever - this is a classic collection from the irreverent Kit Wright.

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Elisabeth Kamakawiwoole

The life-affirming, unforgettable story of a unique little robot on a quest to find humanity, one hundred years after the end of the world. For fans of The Wild Robot, Wonder and The Last Bear, this is set to be a modern classic. 
 
All of his adventures had led him to this moment. 
 
Seventeen's database is full of poetry, legends and stories. He knows he is a robot, but he would love nothing more than to be a knight on an exciting, important quest. 
 
Then, one day, he gets his wish: he is tasked with finding humanity. But where will he find it? After all, the humans disappeared over one hundred years ago. 
 
On his journey, Seventeen meets a courageous girl named Hazel, who can't remember where she comes from, but who wants to find her parents. They embark on an adventure full of strange creatures and unusual dangers, and together they piece together the truth: about who they are, about how they came to be here, and - most importantly of all – about what it really means to be human. 
 
The tale of a friendship like no other, and a celebration of the transformational power of story and the imagination, The Seventeenth Quest is a modern classic to be shared and treasured.

The Seventeenth Quest

Eric Carle

Read along - and play along! - with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and press-out play pieces. 
A home is where these animals can live, and play, and rest. 
Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar to see which one you like the best. 
 
Visit animal homes around the world with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Then use the press-out pieces to bring the animals to life. 
 
Perfect for little hands and imaginative minds this gentle rhyme with four press-out-and-play models is great for creative play and first shared reading experiences.

Animal Homes with The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Press-Out-and-Play Book

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: 
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Goodnight Tractor 
Goodnight Spaceman 
Goodnight Grandchild

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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!

Barry Timms

Ben Whitehouse

"When you wish upon a car, and if your wish is deep, 
A starry kind of magic sometimes happens in your sleep . . ." 
 
Close your eyes, make a wish, and join the cars, bikes, jeeps and trucks (and the little dreamers who've driven them to Dreamland) in this brilliant, rhyming bedtime adventure. 
 
From award-winning author, Barry Timms, with warm and wonderful illustrations by Ben Whitehouse, this brand new picture book is a brilliant addition to bedtimes everywhere - perfect for fans of Goodnight Digger and All Aboard the Bedtime Bus.

Wish Upon a Car

Roald Dahl

Jack was nimble, Jack was keen. He scrambled up the mighty bean. 
 
This is Jack and the Beanstalk as you've never known it before in this darkly comic twist on a classic fairy tale. 
 
Jack's mother is furious that Jack has traded their cow for a single bean - until she realises the bean has sprouted into a ginormous beanstalk with golden leaves! But when Jack discovers there's a hungry giant with a keen sense of smell at the top of the beanstalk and comes home empty handed, his mother takes matters into her own hands . . . 
 
 
With brand-new and wickedly funny illustrations alongside Roald Dahl's original rhyming text, this picture book is perfect for those who like their fairy tales with a splash of daring and danger! 
 
This picture book edition of Jack and the Beanstalk is a version of the original text by Roald Dahl first published in Revolting Rhymes in 1982, and as such the content reflects the attitudes and culture of the time.

Revolting Rhymes: Jack and the Beanstalk

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

Rhiannon Findlay

Siân Roberts

A brilliantly interactive rhyming read-aloud adventure before bedtime from the bestselling author of the Ten Minutes to Bed series. 
 
In the distance, something moves. 
Was that a flash of GOLDEN HOOVES? 
DO NOT DISTURB THE UNICORN! 
 
Tiptoe over, under, round and through the book, just . . . don't disturb the UNICORN! 
 
Fans of Ten Minutes to Bed, Little Unicorn will love helping the baker on her mission to save Princess Posy’s birthday cake in this immersive story with a wind-down-to-bedtime ending!

Don't Disturb the Unicorn

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Set inside Blandings Castle, this comedy series follows Lord Emsworth and his pig Empress as they meet with his dysfunctional family and friends, and the havoc that follows.

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Boudica: the last defender of the Celtic culture; the only woman openly to have led her warriors into battle; the only British warrior to have stood against the might of Imperial Rome - and triumphed. 
 
This is her story.

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Arthur Bryant and John May are Golden Age detectives living in the modern world. Together they head up the Peculiar Crimes Unit, ready to solve any of the weird and wonderful crimes that fall across their desks.

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