Item category 1: Book Club

When Howard Armitage finds talking mice under his desk, his life, his belongings and, most of all, his biscuit packets are turned upside down.

Howard's evil boss Mr Bullerton has decided to put on a big show at work, and he wants Howard to sing! Trouble is, Howard's singing is worse than awful, and Mr Bullerton knows it. Now Howard faces an epic humiliation. Can the Clumsies help by turning Mr Bullerton's concert into total chaos? Silly...

A wily fox uses his formidable cunning to outsmart three feeble-minded farmers who resort to extreme tactics to protect their chickens in director Wes Anderson's animated adaptation of the popular Roald Dahl children's book.

"Sixteen-year-old Ana is a poet and a lover of language. Except that since she moved to New Jersey from Argentina, she can barely find the words to express how she feels. At first Ana just wants to return home. Then she meets Harrison, the very cute, very American boy in her math class, and disco...

Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Treadwater is summoned home by his sister, who accuses a new servant of improper conduct with their widowed father. By the time Thomas returns home, his father is insensible, felled by a stroke, and their new servant is...

12-year-old Gabriel is a brilliant pickpocket, a skill which he uses to keep his often empty belly not quite so empty. And then one day, he's caught. But instead of being arrested, he is invited by the mysterious Caspian Crook to attend Crookhaven - a school for thieves. At Crookhaven, students a...

How do you protect the world's most famous woman? This is the dilemma William Warwick has in this the fifth instalment of the series. London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the `people's princess'. Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalt...