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A little girl, presumed dead, turns up playing happily in the park. She is barefoot but otherwise unharmed. The child’s mother who lives on a notorious local estate doesn’t seem bothered that her daughter has returned alive. Meanwhile, a man is tortured by a ruthless criminal. The victim’s severed hand is left on his wife’s doorstep.

Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific quest to fathom the secrets of the atom.The unlikely story of an Antipodean friendship that changed the world forever. Centered on the inter-war...

When a mysterious portal appears above the SUPER HAPPY MAGIC FOREST, it's the first sign that evil is afoot. The second sign is the hungry monster bursts from the swirling darkness and eats Gnomedalf's breakfast waffles. This is the darkest kind of sorcery. With more portals opening throughout the land, it's up to five brave heroes to travel to Wizard City to save the day.

When a fishy-looking creature called Foam washes up in the Super Happy Magic Forest, it's the start of an epic quest to the ancient hidden underwater city of Fishopolis. Can the heroes survive the deeps and save the oceans from a new hypnotic menace?

When Tiddlywink the pixie gets trapped inside a cursed puzzle cube, every attempt to free him fails. All hope now rests on the shoulders of five brave heroes, who must journey all the way to the mysterious Distant Desert for answers before the sands of time run out. But with cacti gladiators, a down-on-her-luck genie and a rebellious magic carpet to contend with, it's not going to be an easy ride!

Deep in the Super Happy Magic Forest an evil force has been secretly growing. What was once a minuscule mushroom is now a humongous fungus with an appetite for chaos. All hopes rest on five brave heroes. Only they have the power to stop the evil Fungellus before he and his toxic spores take over.

Deep in the Forest, the foxes live in an underground city built by their wolf slaves. The foxes' leader Reynard controls everything with his clever talk. Silas is bullied at school because his words will not come. He wishes he could live in silence as animals do. One day Silas helps an injured wolf. Then he enters the secret world of the Forest, where the last remaining wolves fight to survive. But even there, language is power. Can Silas find his voice in time to help his wolf friends – can he become the Wolfstongue?

Join a group of brave young explorers as they embark on a dangerous mission to deliver a valuable parcel, follow Jessica on her first day of school where she hopes to find a friend, learn about understanding and acceptance with Christopher, hear how Penguin attempts to cheer up a blue whale and many more touching tales.

Huxley and Flapjack are enjoying a trip to the seaside when they meet Whizz, who invites them aboard his submarine to search for the shipwreck of the Isabella. Huxley’s excited to go deep-sea diving – he’s sure there’ll be treasure to find – but Flapjack can’t help worrying. What if something BIG and FISHY finds them first …

Faolan and Sally have no memory of their lives before they arrived at the Land ten years ago. In this self-sufficient community, good fortune comes from mysterious beings known as the shapes, and no one is to venture into the Forest – a dangerous place full of fearsome wolves. When a strange gentleman named Reynard emerges from the Forest, he quickly befriends Faolan and Sally. But the community are both suspicious and enthralled by his storytelling.

When Callum and his friends find Iona on Callum's farm they try to chase her back into the village. But Iona runs from them up into the hills. It is late and dark and snow lies in the mountain gullies. Worried for Iona's safety, Callum follows to find her shivering with cold but refusing to leave. She is guarding a secret hidden in the forest above the dark waters of the loch.

When they first meet, Kara and Felix can't stand each other. But on discovering an injured dolphin calf on the beach, they know they must work together to save it. Now friends, they set out to find the truth behind the disappearance of Kara's mother and to protect the nearby reef. But powerful people don't want them to succeed. And with the odds stacked against them, how can Kara and Felix make their voices heard?

Twelve-year-old Tam ventures into a moon bear den in the mountains of Northern Laos on a dare. His goal is to steal the cub and sell it, making a fortune for his family. But the mother bear’s unexpected return upends Tam’s plan, and he barely escapes with his life. Then his life implodes anyway, as his entire mountain village is forced to relocate to make room for a new highway. Lured by the promise of electricity, running water and a television, Tam’s people move to an overcrowded village, and Tam’s father is killed by a stray landmine.

Joe has always loved the moorlands above his home: the wildness, the freedom, the peace. But since his father died, everything has changed, and the moors are no longer a place of refuge. Now the whole community is divided over the fate of the hen harriers that nest up there in the heather and Joe is stuck right in the middle, with a choice to make and a huge secret to keep.