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Nicholas and his family are off on holiday to Turkey! But with Cheese and Tomato causing chaos with stray tortoises, Dad having to be rescued by the lifeguard and Mum setting off the hotel sprinkler system with her belly dancing routine, rest and relaxation are not in the cards!

Now that the twins have been born, the family needs to earn more money. Dad starts to grow his own vegetables and keep a goat for milking - with disastrous results! Then the twins audition for a nappy advert. They cause chaos.

Known as 'Stuff', because he knows a lot of stuff, Simon is faced with the typical pitfalls that all teenage boys have to deal with. While he longs to get off with the beautiful Sky, he also wants to dump his girlfriend Delfine.

Jack's in trouble. Big trouble. Not only is he in hospital with a leg in traction (boring) but he knows the police are coming for him. Because of an accident - a tomato-related accident - involving a supermarket pyramid and an old-age pensioner. Whoops...! Jeremy Strong knows exactly what makes kids laugh, and he's on top form in this very funny detective spoof.

When Giant Jim comes to town, the townspeople are terrified they'll be eaten or squashed. But they needn't have worried, because Jim is a good giant, who only eats omelettes, likes music and wants somewhere to live.

Bald Ben, Lumpy Lawson, the quarrelling twins, Polly and Molly, and Captain Blackpatch are a useless bunch. They don’t like boats and they don’t like the sea, so they live in a house. When a big electricity bill lands on the mat it needs paying pretty quickly, so the hunt is on for some treasure. But are these pirates any good at finding treasure? In fact, are they good for anything at all?

Josh thinks Fizz is dentally challenged and fluent in gibberish. Fizz thinks Josh is the Prince of Handsomeness. Doooom! Or is it? They're destined to work together at Marigolds Old People's Home - can Cupid's arrow strike among the Zimmer frames or is it all just too weird?

The Indoor Pirates think there's buried treasure on a nearby island - but how can they get there, when they hate boats and water? Captain Blackpatch is their dastardly leader, and he has a cunning plan to get them across. Join the pirates for more tales from 25 Dolphin Street, as Molly and Polly, Bald Ben, and Lumpy Lawson embark on new adventures - all in the company of a huge crocodile!

Batpants the orangutan is completely, wildly HAIRY. She loves swinging through trees and apple crumble. But most of all, she loves her family, the Loveharts, and all their madcap adventures. Mrs Lovehart is a stuntwoman, and so the whole family is off to watch her latest film. But someone on set has an EEEEVIL plan and things could turn nasty - will it be Batpants to the rescue?

Nicholas's baby brother, Cheese, is famous. Well, his bottom is, because he advertises Dumper disposable nappies....

Things have gone crazy at Nicholas’s house. His dad wants to hatch some fluffy yellow cheeping chicks, their new neighbour is a GIRL (she’s trouble!) - AND his little brother Cheese’s botty has turned red and spotty! No one knows WHY! Has he sat on a hedgehog?

The youngest of 16 princesses, Belinda isn't very beautiful or clever - but she's very good at karate. For seven years she's been ignored while the king and queen married off her elder, prettier sisters. Now it's Belinda's turn to find a husband.

When Ellie puts on her new pyjamas she and her little brother, Max, are whisked off to the magical Christmas Shop. And they've been shrunk to toy size help! Worst of all, there's a battle raging between a brave troop of toys and a very scary Christmas fairy. Can Ellie and Max save Christmas and convince the crazy fairy they're not mince spies? A side-splitting seasonal story from bestselling author Jeremy Strong.

Father Christmas' evil brother, Bad Christmas, is plotting to take over the world. His poisonous Christmas puddings are turning humans into zombies. Four children from Plumpot Primary have escaped. Are they in time to save the world?

Something STRANGE has happened to Rosie and her brothers! Rosie’s new pyjamas have led them to a dangerous discovery... Doctor Starkly-Bonkers has invented the DOOMBUSTER and history is all muddled up - and now the machine has been STOLEN! Can Rosie and the boys beat the pharaohs and dinosaurs, and will rice pudding REALLY stop the Vikings? Another hilarious adventure with some totally nutty nightwear, from best-selling author Jeremy Strong.

Explore the unsettling world of weird narrative with this first volume of Lectures on Weird Fiction. This collection features the first ten transcribed and revised lectures originally delivered live and published individually.

When Sigurd the Viking arrives back in Flotby, not everyone’s pleased to see him - in fact the whole town quickly goes down with a severe attack of Vikingitis! Mr and Mrs Ellis don’t know what to do with him until they hit upon a brilliant idea - perhaps a short spell at school would teach him some twentieth-century manners...

After falling overboard from his longboat, Sigurd the Viking finds himself in modern-day Flotby a small English seaside town. Finding refuge in the aptly named Viking Hotel, Siggy's attempts to embrace modern ways end in disaster. His attempt at romance is no better, as even the course of true love doesn't run smoothly when Siggy's involved... A hilarious story about a Viking who tries to adapt to life in the twentieth century from bestselling author Jeremy Strong.

The youngest of 16 princesses, Belinda is not very beautiful or clever - but she is very good at one thing: karate, which she learns from her Japanese tutor. Her skills come in useful when she is snatched from her own wedding to help with a dangerous mission. It’s up to the Karate Princess to outwit the Grand Oompah of Pomposity and stop him from capturing the Last Griffin....

Whether it's a dinner party, guests staying over, cooking alfresco or deciding what drinks to serve, The Joy of Guests has a wealth of advice and anecdotes both for the aspiring host and the seasoned veteran of a thousand menus and seating plans. Pour yourself a drink and enjoy.