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  • Sin Bin Island - an unmissable adventure from the Red Dwarf co-creator

    Sin Bin Island - an unmissable adventure from the Red Dwarf co-creator

    • Doug Naylor
    • David Fickling Books
    • ISBN13: 9781788453707
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    Detention just got dangerous!  When Jack Digby is sent to Cyril Sniggs's Correctional Orphanage for Wayward Boys and Girls, he doesn't expect lessons in how to fire cannons and fend off pirate attacks. But perhaps he should, as the school, some say, was founded by a pirate. Even strange...

  • Toby and the Pixies: Pixie Pandemonium (a Phoenix Comic Book)

    Toby and the Pixies: Pixie Pandemonium (a Phoenix Comic Book)

    • James Turner
    • David Fickling Books
    • ISBN13: 9781788453554
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    Toby just wants life to stay normal - but the "helpful" magical pixies have other ideas! Laughs are guaranteed! King to a colony of pixies living in his garden, Toby's life is NOT regal, as their every attempt to help goes horribly wrong.  A trip to the dentist, going o...

  • Empty Heaven

    Empty Heaven

    • Freddie Koelsch
    • Farshore YA
    • ISBN13: 9780008623524
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    "This sensational YA debut blends tense, terrifying horror with dark humour, queer romance and hugely original storytelling." The Guardian on Now, Conjurers You are safe, my child. You are loved, my child. You are surrounded by the good ea...

  • The Fate of Podkin One-Ear

    The Fate of Podkin One-Ear

    • Kieran Larwood, illus David Wyatt
    • Faber Children's Books
    • ISBN13: 9780571369577
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    Little rabbits can do great things! The final book in the epic The World of Podkin One-Ear series.Podkin and his crew have brought all the gifts together in this astonishing finale that brings this nine book series to a close. The gifts then melt and morph before t...

  • The Last Bard (HB)

    The Last Bard (HB)

    • Maz Evans
    • Chicken House
    • ISBN13: 9781913696900
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    The bestselling author of Who Let the Gods Out is back with a new story packed full of humour and heart!  Will Davenant has known more tragedy than laughter. But in an unexpected twist, he inherits his grandfather's copy of The Complete Works of Shake...

  • Whoosh!: Adventures with Grandad

    Whoosh!: Adventures with Grandad

    • Sam Usher
    • Templar Books
    • ISBN13: 9781800786783
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    The third title in a new quartet from Sam Usher featuring the much-loved Boy and Grandad.Boy has the most wonderful dessert-filled dream so he and Grandad decide to have ice cream for breakfast. Having cycled up a few hills, disaster strikes when they discover all...

  • The Search for Our Cosmic Neighbours: Award-winning picture book adventures where science meets myth and magic

    The Search for Our Cosmic Neighbours: Award-winning picture book adventures where science meets myth and magic

    • Chloe Savage
    • Walker Books
    • ISBN13: 9781529517682
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    Join Chloe Savage - winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2024: Best Illustrated Book - on a journey across the cosmos with Commander Julia, her team of Astro scientists and her trusty dog, Khan, as they search for life in the stars. Travelling for ten years in their packed s...

  • My Name is Jodie Jones

    My Name is Jodie Jones

    • Emma Shevah
    • David Fickling Books
    • ISBN13: 9781788453516
    • Published: 11-09-2025

    From then on, I collected sentences like other people collect keyrings. I searched for them everywhere . . .Jodie Jones is obsessed with words. Yet she can't find the ones to say what happened that day five years ago, with her mum, on the bridge.Struggling in school and at home, she takes comf...