The second novel in Simon Brett's great fun comedy crime series starring Blotto and Twinks.

A profoundly moving debut novel about the fragility of family love, the resilience of the living, the durability of memory and the experience of bereavement.

'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times

'A beautifully composed rave generation rhapsody ... dripping with eroticism.' Sunday Times

' A screamingly funny genre-defying feat ... sublime.' Maggie O'Farrell, Daily Telegraph

Crawl through the cat flap and come face-to-whiskers with Pufftail, the most distinguished stray who ever prowled the streets...

All of Magnus Mills' darkly comic and hugely entertaining stories are here collected in one book for the first time

After a mutiny on board their ship, British noble couple Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by the crew on a desolate African beach with their newborn son, John Clayton. Not long after, the founding boy is an orphan, his mother dead of natural causes and his father at the hands of a vicious ape.

It's a Wonderful Life meets modern Manchester in this heartwarming story of an orphaned boy who meets a mysterious stranger on Christmas Eve.

In a post-apocalyptic world where no-one lives beyond their teenage years, the mysterious Roxanne arrives in Cyrus's village, fleeing the barbaric Zeds. She claims to be on a mission that can save them all, but can she be trusted? Cyrus joins her in her quest for the legendary Soterion, but the Zeds are determined to get there first.

One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. In this pioneering novella, Wells combines comedy, both farcical and satirical, and tragedy - to superbly unsettling effect.

Danny and Dinosaur are back, and this time they are going to space! But when Danny realizes he's forgotten Dino's lunch box, the very hungry dinosaur eats everything in sight, including their only way home: the rocket! How will Dino get them back home?

Elmer loves practical jokes, but so does his cousin Wilbur. Until, that is, Wilbur's practical joke leaves him high and dry and Elmer and the other elephants have to come to the rescue and bring him back down to earth. This classic story is now even more appealing to the youngest of children in a sturdy, padded board book format.

High Church ritual, evangelical revivalism and the ancestor-worship of the English gentry are all subjected to merciless scrutiny. This book is both a devastating portrait of Church of England and a reworking of the central myth of Western culture.