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A fatal shooting. A vulnerable eyewitness. DI Ruth Hunter and her partner, DS Nick Evans, must track down the killers before they find a key witness - a ten-year-old boy, Daniel. Ruth and Nick are called to a fatal shooting at Chirk Castle, a well-known tourist spot in North Wales. The only witne...

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows, exposing the patriarchal prejudices of history. Expect the unexpected. A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three compan...

Martha LOVES making maps! Step back in time with Martha's amazing maps, packed with cool facts and fun details. She meets dinosaurs, mammoths, and ancient sea creatures as she travels all the way back to the beginning of time - and forwards to some of the fantastical things the future might bring!

Lucy Young is only 26, but she's exhausted. She's tired of bad dates, being on the bottom rung at work, and living off Rice Krispies. She's ready to skip to the good part. The part where she's happily married, running the office, and never even thinking about her overdraft. But you should be care...

Martin Hibbert was left paralysed by the Manchester Arena bombing which killed twenty-two people on 22nd May 2017. Determined to make a difference, he scaled Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair, raising a million pounds for charity. This is Martin's incredible story.

This is a story about wonder and hope that explores the meaning of life in ways that we can all understand.

Archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, former SAS soldier Eddie Chase, believe their globe-trotting adventures are over - the biggest worry being how their now-adult daughter Macy is going to spend her life. But after the violent theft of dangerous relics, with the only surviving guard claimin...

Steven Vinacour's hysterical historical adventure finds Ted visiting the great artistic masters of the past - from Da Vinci and Van Gogh to Georgia O'Keeffe - all to help his mission to win the school's art competition, and more importantly Chloe's heart! But as usual, things don't go quite to pl...

Rome is in chaos. The empire of a mobster chief is falling apart following his death. Rivals, fearsome relatives and associates are taking up position to vie for the spoils. With hideous murders in the streets of Rome, a lone female traveller arrives with an agenda of her own. But when her corpse...

Think you know the Kings and Queens of England? Think again. In 'Unruly', David Mitchell explores how early England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they app...