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Discover a brand-new slipcased hardback edition of the beloved classic picture book story about overcoming fears, featuring Plop the Baby Owl – the perfect gift for young readers. Plop, the baby owl, is like every barn owl there ever was, except for one thing – he is afraid of the dark … The dark is brimming with excitement and magic. As Plop ventures into the night, he meets a boy who shows him fireworks, a black cat who takes him exploring, a girl who tells him about Father Christmas, among other surprising discoveries… · A sumptuous slipcased hardback edition of the much-loved abridged picture book. · This uplifting story about finding the courage to face your fears has been beloved of parents and children for decades – and its message of resilience is as timely as ever. · Filled with Jill Tomlinson’s gentle humour and heart-warming illustrations from Paul Howard.

*Shortlisted for the Children's Book of the Year - Irish Book Awards*The laugh-out-loud funny children's book from Number-One-Bestselling Ross O'Carroll Kelly author, Paul Howard. Illustrated throughout by Lee Cosgrove.An adventure full of mystery, magic and cheeses that seriously, SERIOUSLY pong!ALDRIN ADAMS is an ordinary boy with an EXTRAORDINARY SUPERPOWER. When he eats cheese just before he goes to sleep, he can enter into other people's dreams . . . AND THEIR NIGHTMARES!But why has he got this power? And what is he supposed to do with it?HE NEEDS ANSWERS . . . AND FAST!What Aldrin doesn't realize is that he is being watched by a MYSTERIOUS, SUPERNATURAL VILLAIN who's creating nightmares for millions of children every night.Will an ordinary boy, armed with his pet frog and the STINKIEST CHEESE in the world, be enough to stop him?A brilliantly funny, heartwarming story, perfect for fans of David Baddiel and Sam Copeland.

The laugh-out-loud funny children's book from the number-one-bestselling Ross O'Carroll Kelly author, Paul Howard. Illustrated throughout by Lee Cosgrove.Aldrin Adams is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary superpower. When he eats cheese, just before he goes to sleep at night, he can enter into other people's dreams... and their nightmares! But why has he, of all people, been given this ability? What is he supposed to do with it? And why doesn't it come with some kind of instruction manual that explains how it works? There are so many questions that require answers. Luckily, Aldrin's dad owns the biggest and finest cheesemonger's for miles and miles around, offering him unlimited access to some of the stinkiest cheeses in the world as he tries to figure it all out. What Aldrin doesn't realise, as he embarks on his journey of discovery, is that he is being watched by Habeas Grusselvart, a mysterious, supernatural villain who creates nightmares for millions and millions of children every night. Suddenly, a young boy poses a threat to his plans to control the world through fear. Which is why he must be stopped - at all costs! Join Aldrin Adams on an unforgettable adventure as he steps into a world of mystery and magic and cheeses that seriously, SERIOUSLY pong!

An ordinary boy. The most EXTRAORDINARY, stinkiest superpower!Some months have past since Aldrin Adams discovered his extraordinary SUPERPOWER. When he eats CHEESE, just before he goes to sleep, he can enter into other people's dreams . . . and their nightmares! He's learned when to eat blue cheese (to help with nightmares about KILLER toys), smoked cheese (to help him recover from using his powers) and good old Cheddar (TOP SECRET). He's also come face to face with his nemesis - A MYSTERIOUS SUPERNATURAL VILLAIN who creates NIGHTMARES for millions of children every night.Aldrin survived, but only JUST. And now what is he supposed to do? Save the world, one SCARY CLOWN nightmare at a time? Shouldn't being a superhero be more adventurous than this? Is there a way to beat his Nemesis once and for all?Find out, as Aldrin navigates his new life, meets more people with powers like him and - finally - faces his NEMESIS again!

Meet Superfly, a new children's book superhero guaranteed to create a buzz around the playground. Home to millions of bugs, Bugville was a rotten, crime-ridden city that stank of stale underpants - that is until Superfly and Midge came to clean up the streets. But our heroes have their work cut out, facing the likes of Nasty Nat (the nastiest gnat in Bugville) and a giant robotic goo-shooting caterpillar. And all this before heading home for a tasty 'lice-cream'. Can the heroes defeat Electro Slug and his evil plot to 'reek' havoc on all flies? You'll have a good slime finding out! Wonderfully imaginative comedy books for young readers who love nothing better than exciting illustrations in their stories. Kids will find Paul Howard's Bugville hilarious - even the most reluctant readers.

The second buzzing adventure from Superfly, the smallest superhero in children’s books. Home to millions of bugs, Bugville was a rotten, crime-ridden city that stank of stale underpants – that is until Superfly and Midge came to clean up the streets. The hit TV show Bugville Smash has the city in the grip of wrestle-mania! But it’s not good news for SUPERFLY and MIDGE . . . Mysterious Mr Wig wants to turn super-strong wrestler The Tank into Bugville’s biggest new superhero – and he’ll stop at nothing to win Superfly’s crown! Can our plucky pair fight back, or will they be muscled out of town? You’ll have a good slime finding out! Wonderfully imaginative comedy books for young readers who love nothing better than exciting illustrations in their stories. Kids will find Paul Howard’s Trouble in Bugville hilarious – even the most reluctant readers.

I went to the supermarket and I bought . . .When a brother and sister play their favourite game of I Went To the Supermarket, they compete to see who can think of the most bizarre and brilliant things. As their words come to life, they get more and more carried away . . . Until the game comes to a surprising, and somewhat messy, end!A new take on an old favourite, children will love this laugh-out-loud, test-your-memory story, with witches, dragons, aliens, flamingos and much, much more!

I went to see Santa and I got ...When a brother and sister go to see Santa, they compete to see who can be given the most bizarre and brilliant things. As they try to remember all the Christmas gifts, everything escalates until ...It’s CHRISTMAS! MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!A new take on an old favourite, children will love this laugh-out-loud, test-your-memory story, with reindeer, penguins, a gingerbread tree and much, much more!From the illustrator of the bestselling The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and the hilarious follow-up to I Went to the Supermarket.

I went trick-or-treating and I scared... a naughty, warty toad, a sliding, gliding ghost, a howling, growling wolf and some super silly skeletons...When a brother and sister go trick-or-treating, they compete to see who can scare the creepiest creatures. As they try to remember each hair-raising encounter, everything escalates – until they get the biggest fright of all! A new take on an old favourite, children will love this laugh-out-loud, test-your-memory story, with ghosts, skeletons, a spooky pirate ship and much, much more!From the illustrator of the bestselling The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, this is a hilarious follow-up to I Went to the Supermarket and I Went to See Santa.

I went trick-or-treating and I scared... a naughty, warty toad, a sliding, gliding ghost, a howling, growling wolf and some super silly skeletons...When a brother and sister go trick-or-treating, they compete to see who can scare the creepiest creatures. As they try to remember each hair-raising encounter, everything escalates – until they get the biggest fright of all! A new take on an old favourite, children will love this laugh-out-loud, test-your-memory story, with ghosts, skeletons, a spooky pirate ship and much, much more!From the illustrator of the bestselling The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, this is a hilarious follow-up to I Went to the Supermarket and I Went to See Santa.

Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics regard as The Beatles' finest. But who was John Lennon's lucky man who made the grade and then blew his mind out in a car?Author Paul Howard has pieced together the extraordinary story of a young Irishman who epitomized the spirit of the times: racing car driver, Vogue model, friend of The Rolling Stones, style icon, son of a peer, heir to a Guinness fortune and the man who turned Paul McCartney on to LSD.I Read the News Today, Oh Boy is the story of a child born into Ireland's dwindling aristocracy, who spent his early years in an ancient castle in County Mayo, and who arrived in London just as it was becoming the most exciting city on the planet. The Beatles and the Stones were about to conquer America, Carnaby Street was setting the style template for the world and rich and poor were rubbing shoulders in the West End in a new spirit of classlessness. Among young people, there was a growing sense that they could change the world. And no one embodied the ephemeral promise of London's sixties better than Tara Browne.Includes a sixteen-page plate section of stunning colour photographs.

The Crucifixion has been cancelled. The Aztecs and the Sioux are threatening nuclear war. The armies of Ancient Rome and Carthage have been destroyed by a force field. Human history is unraveling, and only a few people realize it is happening; the same team of music historians who faced an imploding universe a few years earlier. But this is different. The damage is being done by millions of people from the future, and they don't even know why it is happening. Who would do such a thing? The answers can only be found by taking a roller coaster ride through time where everything is constantly changing right before their eyes, and by enlisting the help of super A.I. from the distant future; machines millions of times more intelligent than humans. Can a handful of time traveling music experts muster these forces in time to save the Earth? The clock is ticking, and each second reduces their chances of success in a timeline so volatile that it can make people forget who they are and what they are doing just by being in it. The Second installment in The Timelines Series, it is another wild ride through time and technology with a random element nobody figured on: Who are those people in that Grand Cherokee and what are they up to?

We went trick-or-treating and we saw ...When a brother and sister go trick-or-treating, they compete to see who find the most bizarre and brilliant things. As they try to count all the hair-raising creatures, everything escalates until …It’s time for the Halloween feast! HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE!A new take on an old favourite, children will love learning to count with this funny rhyming story – packed with ghosts, skeletons, dancing monsters, spooky bats and much, much more! From the illustrator of the bestselling The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, this is a brilliant and accessible board-book version of Paul Howard's laugh-out-loud Halloween picture book, I Went Trick-or-Treating.

The movie set of the Regal Films post-war drama, The Valley of Dreams, is a place of dark menace and evil, where everything isn't as it seems. Cameraman, Peter Rivers, has a hidden past. Under many different identities, this serial killer has left a trail of victims behind him, a fact the cast and crew of the movie are blissfully unaware of. Charming and confident, he chooses Debbie Duncan, the movie's co-star, as his new soulmate/submissive, but she isn't as easy to manipulate and subdue as he expected. Then Detective Inspector Sarah Machin shows up at the movie set in Wales with questions about his former girlfriend's murder, and things spiral out of control for Rivers. He knows he should flee, but he can't settle into a new life while one of his intended victims is still alive, resulting in an all-consuming need for him to come after Duncan. Even though she has police protection and the close attentions of friend and confidante, Director Clay Thompson, Rivers will not be denied, leading more than one participant to confront the dark side of their souls...

A terrorist bombing at a summer carnival on the Brighton sea front causes mayhem and murder. Detective Inspector Sarah Machin and her colleague, Detective Sergeant Morgan Roberts, recently transferred to Counter Terrorism Command, are sent to investigate. After discovering the bomber, a teenage boy, had been kidnapped and had no connection with any terrorist group, a baffled Machin starts a frantic hunt for the ones behind the awful crime.With the recent rise of the English Patriot Party, a far right organization fronted in Sussex by local leader, Ian Bailey, Machin looks at them as major suspects. When ex-copper Bailey denies all knowledge and claims the bombing was, in fact, carried out by the militant left in a bid to destroy the well-supported EPP, Machin's case is thrown into disarray. As the investigation unfolds and more terror attacks are carried out by what appear to be brainwashed boys, she realizes that she's locked in a fight with evil killers who have no compunction about taking human life.

One man's story of life in The Joy -- compulsive, chilling and frank. A no-holds-barred account of a criminal's time in the notorious Dublin prison, as revealed to journalist Paul Howard. This extraordinary life story tells it all. The desperate lifestyle of a junkie; bullying and savage beatings among the prisoners; ingenious drug-smuggling ploys; the despairing cry for help of a failed suicide attempt. But alongside the pain there is humour -- from the hilarity of World Cup celebrations to the distraction of a beautiful aerobics teacher, from bingeing on altar wine to the shortest-ever "hunger strike". The first ever glimpse of Mountjoy Prison -- from the inside. Illustrated with black & white photographs. With a new introduction by the author.