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Owen and his mum are struggling. It’s just the two of them now and they’re finding it difficult to ask for the help they need. When Owen discovers a battered old war memorial in the local park, he finds great comfort in confessing his worries to the war-weary stone soldier. No matter what Owen says, the soldier just sits and listens, and most days that’s all Owen needs.

If Peter Pan had been a girl...with a beard...then she'd have probably been called King Coo! The aliens have landed...or have they? Something mysterious has dropped into Coo's woods, and an even more mysterious government agency, the MIC (the Men in Caps), are out to find it. There's danger at every turn: Ben and Coo are going to need their most ingenious plan yet to save The Thing from Space.

Vulgar is a Viking boy who longs for the glory days of raiding, pillaging and enormous beards in this hilarious two-part volume from Odin Redbeard! Vulgar the Viking and the Rock Cake Raiders: Vulgar loves the idea of being a Viking – the roaring, the raiding, the beards. Except these days in Blubber everything’s a bit, well, boring. Vulgar the Viking and the Great Gulp Games: Vulgar the Viking is all a-quiver. The villages of Blubber and Gulp are about to compete in the Great Gulp Games! 

Charles lives in the testosterone-driven, high-powered, brutal world of investment banking. It is a world dominated by deals, bonuses, bravado, and savagery. Charles is a master of this world. Each day, he shrugs on a metaphorical suit of armour and goes out into a dog-eat-dog world to accumulate power and make money. He's a man who is familiar with casual brutality - his childhood saw to that.

Charles lives in the testosterone-driven, high-powered, brutal world of investment banking. It is a world dominated by deals, bonuses, bravado and savagery. Charles is a master of this world. Each day he shrugs on a metaphorical suit of armour and goes out into a dog-eat-dog world to accumulate power and make money. He's a man who is familiar with casual brutality - his childhood saw to that. But there is a price to pay. Now, at the peak of his career, his armour is rusted and bloodstained and no longer protecting him the way it once did.

Hercules Quick wants to be a magnificent magician. He just needs a special box of magic tricks. But the box is expensive, and Hercules doesn't have any money. Luckily, Hercules lives in a big apartment block with Aunt Alligator and his tadpole friend, Sylvie, and he has plenty of neighbours who are willing to pay for his help. Whether it's babysitting for the Elks, spring-cleaning for Queen Claude or helping Professor Calamari choose the perfect bow tie, no job is too odd for Hercules Quick!