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 Henson

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 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.

Adam Hills

Adam Howling

Adam J. Kurtz

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.

Adam Phillips

Adam Rackley

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.

Adam Richardson

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 Roberts

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 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

Adam Ross

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.

Adam Tooze

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Peppa Pig

This sound book is a brilliant way for parents to help kids with potty training! 
 
Press the big button and cheer George on in his potty training adventure! 
 
The fun story shows little ones that even George wasn't sure about using the potty at first! 
 
Everybody loves Potties! Also Available: 
Peppa Pig: Peppa's Super Noisy Sound Book 
Peppa Pig: Peppa's Talent Show 
Peppa Pig: Police Car 
Peppa Pig: Stomp and Roar!

Peppa Pig: George's Potty

HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales

Tony Juniper

Emily Shuckburgh

Aleesha Nandhra

Climate Change looks at the causes and effects of climate change on human life, nature and the Earth's geography. It celebrates the youth climate change movement and highlights the small changes everyone can do, today, to help slow and halt the progression of climate change.

A Ladybird Book: Climate Change

Marguerite McLaren

Hayley Wells

When someone you love has died there will be sad days and angry days but also happy days and fun days. 
 
Nobody lives forever ... and some wish they could have stayed for longer ... 
 
This sensitively-written and deeply-moving picture book will help children grieve, celebrate and learn how to live and love life when a parent is gone. 
 
With expert advice from the charity, Child Bereavement UK. 
 
Praise for When I'm Gone: 
 
"Beautiful, humane and deeply moving, with illustrations that made me gasp out loud.." Phil Earle 
 
"Marguerite McLaren writes so beautifully and directly about the subject of loss. The reader is given permission to feel all of those difficult feelings that come with grief and also to celebrate happiness and life. Hayley Wells's illustrations are a perfect match. The love in this book makes it shine, I was left with such a warm glow." Polly Dunbar 
 
"This is such a beautiful book - heartbreaking and kind and gentle and wise." Alex Latimer

When I'm Gone

A Picture Book About Grief

Bluey

Mum tells Bluey a lovely baby story - about how Bluey first learned to walk! 
 
Baby Bluey could roll, shuffle and even crawl backwards... but Mum was worried that she was never going to learn how to walk. 
 
This hilarious picture book is about how we all grow up in different ways. 
 
What other adventures will you go on with Bluey? Also Available: 
Bluey: Daddy Putdown 
Bluey: Camping 
Bluey: Mum School 
Bluey: Christmas Swim 
Bluey: Easter

Bluey: Baby Race

Join Peppa and her friends for an exciting adventure in their new clubhouse! 
 
Peppa and her friends are in their clubhouse, pretending to be adventurers! Every time they peep out of the window, a new wild animal appears . . . 
 
Want more Peppa? Also available: 
Peppa Pig: Lotte Llama Starts Playgroup 
Peppa Pig: Peppa's Song Contest 
Peppa Pig: Peppa Loves Yoga

Peppa Pig: Peppa's Clubhouse Adventure

Mummy Pig is worried they're going to be late for lunch at Granny and Grandpa Pig's house. Daddy Pig is worried that it might rain. And George is worried about driving his little car downhill in case it goes too fast. But Peppa isn't sure she can tell everyone about her little worry . . . 
 
Find out how sharing your worries can help them to disappear in this brand new story.

Peppa Pig: Don't Worry, Peppa

Maxine Lee-Mackie

But what would happen if Father Christmas wrote a letter? Surely, he couldn't . . . could he? 
 
Working hard to deliver presents to children all around the world, Father Christmas realises that he has never received his own Christmas gift. 
 
Feeling fed up and underappreciated, Father Christmas decides to write his own letter. 
 
But, will the letter work? And if it does work, what happens if Father Christmas gets a little bit greedy?

Dear Father Christmas

A fun and festive picture book, with lots of laughs along the way!

Ladybird

With simple text, bright illustrations and an exciting touch-and-feel on every spread, this gorgeous board books helps to engage your baby's senses while introducing them to Diwali. 
 
This touch-and-feel playbook: 
 
Encourages sensory development 
Introduces first words 
Recommended for children aged 0+ 
 
Illustrated by Lemon Ribbon Studio

Baby Touch: Happy Diwali!

A touch-and-feel playbook

Neil Clark

Join Crash, Bang and Wallop - three boisterous characters - as they crash through the story. They love making lots of noise! But soon they meet three quieter characters who help them see that there's fun to be had in the quiet moments, too. 
 
This joyful book is a celebration of noise . . . and quiet. The playful characters, bouncy rhyming text and vibrant artwork make this picture book a real treat to enjoy together.

Crash! Bang! Wallop!

Three noisy friends are making a riot, till they learn to be calm, relax and be quiet

Sidra Ansari

Rosie Haine

The Stone Age is a simple, accessible introduction to this mammoth part of history. This book is packed full of amazing facts to transport children back in time, where they'll find out how early people lived and survived, from making fire and taming wolves, to creating art and crafting stone tools.

A Ladybird Book: The Stone Age

Anoosha Syed

Mirha is so excited for her first day of school! She can't wait to learn, play and make new friends. But when her classmates keep mispronouncing her name, she goes home wondering if she should find a new one. 
 
When Mama helps Mirha see just how special her name is, she returns to school the next day determined to help her classmates say it correctly. 
 
Featuring beautiful, vibrant illustrations and with an empowering message at its core, this heartwarming picture book from author-illustrator Anoosha Syed reminds us all just how important our names are!

That's Not My Name!

Madame Gazelle asks the children at playgroup to think about what makes them special. 
 
Gerald Giraffe is tall, Rebecca Rabbit likes carrots, but what makes Peppa special? 
 
This lovely, full colour book helps children think about what makes them special, and to appreciate our differences.

Peppa Pig: Peppa Loves Everyone

Emilie Lapeyre

Featuring first animal words and brightly-coloured themed pages, this gorgeous book will build your toddler's vocabulary and help them as they begin to talk. Young children will love discovering their favourite pets, exploring the farm and travelling through the jungle, meeting all sorts of animals from cats, dogs and birds, to gorillas, zebras and elephants. 
 
With clear labels and simple questions to spark your child's curiosity on every spread, this is the perfect first words book to support your child's language development. 
 
Illustrated by Emilie Lapeyre

My First Animals

A World of Words

Featuring first vehicle words and brightly-coloured themed pages, this gorgeous book will build your toddler's vocabulary and help them as they begin to talk. From cars, trucks and trains, to boats, aeroplanes and diggers, young children will love discovering all sorts of vehicles on the go. 
 
With clear labels and simple questions to spark your child's curiosity, this is the perfect first words book to support your child's language development. 
 
Illustrated by Emilie Lapeyre

My First Vehicles

This large tabbed board book features 8 simple exercises to guide children through the day from morning stretches to bedtime breathing. Each exercise is illustrated with bright, animated artwork from Sandra de la Prada. 
 
From sunshine stretching to bumblebee breathing, this interactive book focusses on exercises that involve play, physical movement and breathing to make mindfulness fun and accessible for young children. 
 
This early introduction to mindfulness will help children to manage worries, encourage focus and make bedtime and waking up that bit more fun.

Starfish Stretches and Bedtime Breathing

A Ladybird Book of Mindful Movements

Rose Cobden

Loretta Schauer

Jewel the dinosaur is very nervous about her first day of school. There are so many new dinos to meet, the dining hall is noisy and her new classroom is so big! 
 
But as the day goes on and Jewel settles into her new class and makes new friends, she realises that school isn't that scary after all. 
 
With adorable illustrations by Loretta Schauer and rhyming, reassuring text, this fun starting-school picture book will encourage young readers to explore their own feelings or nerves around this big milestone.

Welcome to Dinosaur School

Have a roar-some first day!

Samantha Meredith

Help your toddler to say "goodbye" to nappies in this new potty-training board book. 
 
Shaped like a potty and written in rhyme, It's Potty Time! helps to make potty-training accessible and fun for all toddlers. Written with the UK's leading toilet-training expert, Amanda Jenner, there are also practical tips for parents on every page.

It's Potty Time!

Say "goodbye" to nappies with this potty-training book

Carly Gledhill

You can do it too with Ladybird's It's Time to...! 
 
This interactive novelty board book is filled with moving sliders and transforming flaps to help little ones mimic the adult behaviours they see every day. In It's Time to... Clean Up! toddlers can vacuum the floor, wash the dishes and even hang the washing!

It's Time to... Clean Up!

You can do it too, with sliders and flaps

Brought to you by Ladybird. 
 
A heart-warming collection of original audio stories celebrating Eid. 
 
Join the festivities and discover the joy of giving, sharing, and spreading happiness in five new adventures! These uplifting stories are perfect for young children celebrating Eid with their friends and family or wanting to learn about different Eid traditions. 
 
These stories are aimed at children aged 3-6, for family listening, learning and the development of young minds. 
 
Other audiobooks in the Ladybird Audio Original series include Ladybird Magical Stories, Ladybird Funny Nativity Play, and the Ladybird Audio Adventures series. 
 
These Ladybird stories were written by Sidra Ansari.

Ladybird Stories for Eid

Featuring 100 essential first words and brightly-coloured themed pages, this gorgeous first words book will build your toddler's vocabulary and help them as they begin to talk. From animals and vehicles, to home, food and clothes, young children will love discovering the different scenes and objects on every page. 
 
With clear labels and simple questions to spark your child's curiosity, this is the perfect first words book to support your child's language development. 
 
Illustrated by Emilie Lapeyre

My First 100 Words

Brave Bunnies

Bop and Boo are having a brilliant time with their new friend, Ricky Racoon! Ricky loves playing, but he doesn't like tidying up afterwards! 
 
The Brave Bunnies and Ricky love pretending to be astronauts - where will their adventures take them next? 
 
This colourful board book has big, chunky pages for little hands and is perfect to share with adventurous children!

Brave Bunnies Make A Friend

Bop and Boo have made a new friend, Franny Fox - they love to dress up and have adventures together! 
 
While the Bunnies are playing with Franny, Ma Bunny's hat gets stuck in an old tree. Boo is the only one who can get it down. But is this Brave Bunny brave enough? 
 
This beautiful, full colour picture book is a lovely story that encourages readers to be playful, welcoming and brave!

Brave Bunnies Spring to the Rescue

Kim Hillyard

*** WINNER of the Best Illustrated Book in the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2023 *** 
 
One peaceful Tuesday morning, a loud CRACK could be heard as the last mammoth on earth broke free from her icy shell - here comes Gretel the Wonder Mammoth! Everyone is so excited to meet her but as she settles into her new life, Gretel starts to feel a little overwhelmed and even a bit lonely... 
 
This positive, encouraging picture book teaches young readers that perhaps the bravest act a person (or mammoth!) can do is ask for help.

Gretel the Wonder Mammoth

A story about overcoming anxiety

Join Bluey and Bingo as they try to answer the question: can grannies dance? 
 
Bluey and Bingo are playing Grannies. While playing, they get stuck on a question: can grannies dance? Bluey thinks they can but Bingo doesn't. There's only one way to find out - call Nana and ask! 
 
This hilarious new board book is perfect for sharing with Bluey fans at story time and bedtime.

Bluey: Grannies

Pablo

Ladybird Readers is an ELT graded reader series for children learning English as a foreign or second language. The series includes traditional tales, favourite characters, modern stories and non-fiction - featuring Spot, Peppa Pig and Peter Rabbit and classic authors such as Roald Dahl. 
 
Recommended for children aged 3-11, the eight levels of Ladybird Readers follow the CEFR framework(Pre-A1 to A2+) and include extra learning activities that develop key skills and provide preparation for the Cambridge English tests. Each book is Lexile measured and introduces key vocabulary and character names at the start of each reader. The books are written by language learning experts and include access to online audio, supplementary activities and learning resources including role plays, phrase cards and lesson plans. 
 
This Level 1 Reader is Pre-A1 in the CEFR framework. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, using the present tense and some simple adjectives. 
 
Pablo cannot sleep in the dark. He does not like the dark. He draws his friends.

Ladybird Readers Level 1 - Pablo - Goodnight Pablo (ELT Graded Reader)

Ladybird Readers is an ELT graded reader series for children learning English as a foreign or second language. The series includes traditional tales, favourite characters, modern stories and non-fiction - featuring Spot, Peppa Pig and Peter Rabbit and classic authors such as Roald Dahl. 
 
Recommended for children aged 3-11, the eight levels of Ladybird Readers follow the CEFR framework(Pre-A1 to A2+) and include extra learning activities that develop key skills and provide preparation for the Cambridge English tests. Each book is Lexile measured and introduces key vocabulary and character names at the start of each reader. The books are written by language learning experts and include access to online audio, supplementary activities and learning resources including role plays, phrase cards and lesson plans. 
 
This Level 1 Reader is Pre-A1 in the CEFR framework and includes practice for the Cambridge English Pre-A1 Starters tests. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, using the present tense and some simple adjectives.

Ladybird Readers Level 1 - Pablo - Pablo Chooses his Shoes (ELT Graded Reader)

Cinders McLeod

Welcome to Bunnyland, where carrots are money! Bun loves to sing and just wants to be rich and famous. When her mum reminds her that stardom takes time and hard work, Bun realises that she'll need to start earning some carrots to make her dreams come true!

Earn It!

Learn simple money lessons

Welcome to Bunnyland, where carrots are money! Chummy has big plans for the ten carrots his gran gave him for his birthday. He wants to buy a superhero costume and save the world from dragons! But when there are no dragons to fight in Bunnyland, Chummy soon learns that there are other creatures who could use his help and that there's more than one way to be a hero.

Give It!

Welcome to Bunnyland, where carrots are money! Honey earns two carrots a week for taking care of her little siblings, but they're very bouncy and VERY loud! All Honey wants is to buy a playhouse of her own for some peace and quiet, and with a bit of maths, decision-making and patience, Honey learns that she can achieve her big dreams!

Save It!

Welcome to Bunnyland, where carrots are money! Sonny gets three carrots for his allowance every week but wants to buy EVERYTHING with it. He wants a toy rocket, a pogo stick AND a bouncy castle! When he discovers he doesn't have enough carrots for it all, he'll need to make some decisions about what's most important to him.

Spend it!

Black Lace Book Of Women Sexual Fantasies

Black Star Series

Blacklist

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.

Blandings

Blandings Castle

Blood City Rollers

Bloodlines

Blossom Street

Blue Ant

Bodyguard

Bodyguard Series

Bollocks to Alton Towers

Book of Dust Series

Borderlands

Born Wicked

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.

Boudica

Boy Soldier

Brain Chemicals

Bridge

Bridget Jones's Diary

Brief Encounters

Bright Young Things

Brotherband

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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