A gorgeously illustrated celebration of creativity, upcycling and Christmas magic! It's Christmas Eve at Lily's new house, but Lily misses the old one. Then, in a moment of magic, she is whisked away to the North Pole! Santa's elfbots need her help to invent new toys from used, discarded ones. Lily comes to learn that with a dash of imagination, she can make anything - even, perhaps, a new home...   The perfect give for young budding engineers who love to invent things! Perfect for fans of The Polar Express and Rosie Revere, Engineer. This is the picture-book debut of Vashti Hardy, the Blue-Peter-Book-Award-winning author of children's novels known for their distinctive fusion of imagination and invention. Illustrator and rising star Katie Cottle was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.

AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAL…TOGETHER? Lola has come to reclusive billionaire Grant Laningham’s private island because she's been hired to write the memoir of the allegedly grumpy workaholic. Yet Grant is nothing like she expects. The ‘genius with a hot temper’ is charming—and good-looking! Their attraction is undeniable, but a fling with her boss would be dangerous to her already shattered heart. Especially as Grant’s recently discovered he has a son! Losing her own family devastated Lola…dare she take a chance on another…? HER HUSBAND FOR A YEAR… ‘Will you marry me?’ are words career-focused lawyer Catriona never expected to say. Especially not to her rival, Dominic. But to inherit her much-loved ancestral home she must marry—immediately! Proposing a deal that benefits them both, Catriona trusts Dominic to keep it professional. After one failed engagement she’s determined to keep this marriage on paper only. Except planning their wedding reveals a connection she can’t ignore… Could one year become a lifetime?

In this third book in the series, Harley goes on a time-twisting adventure! On a school trip to the Inventia Jurassic Coast, Harley finds an unusual fossil. Has she discovered an entirely new species of dinosaur? Her class nemesis, Fenelda, doesn't believe it, so Harley decides to build a time machine to prove the discovery and win the 'best invention' competition. But messing around with time can have unexpected, dinosaur-size effects... Vashti Hardy's immersive world building, cool science and tech, weird and wonderful inventions, warm and funny characters - all perfectly pitched for younger readers. A modern-day INSPECTOR GADGET meets THE WORST WITCH, with a STEM twist.

Three classic films starring comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. In 'The Dancing Masters' (1943), Stan (Laurel) and Ollie (Hardy) are owners of a dance school, but are evicted for non-payment of rent. To raise money, Ollie tries an insurance scam which involves inflicting injuries on Stan, but the inept pair soon find themselves mixed up with local gangsters. Watch out for appearances by long-running Marx Brothers' foil Margaret Dumont and a youthful Robert Mitchum. In 'A-haunting We Will Go' (1942), Laurel and Hardy unknowingly offer to help a bunch of crooks smuggle a wanted man past the police in a coffin. Unfortunately, the casket gets mixed up with one used by a stage musician, leading to a comic chase. Finally, in 'The Bullfighters' (1945), Stan and Ollie are two detectives looking for a female criminal in Mexico. Stan gets mistaken for a famous matador and is forced to show his prowess in the bullring.

Action comedy starring Chris Pine, Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon. Two of the world's most skilled CIA operatives (Pine and Hardy) - who also happen to be best friends - fall out spectacularly when it emerges that they are both dating the same woman, Lauren (Witherspoon). The two men now put their considerable technical skills and arsenal of super-advanced spy gadgetry to use as they go all-out to bring each other down and win the battle for the blonde.

Harley Hitch returns for an airborne adventure! The Aviation Parade is coming to Forgetown this summer, and Harley has her sights set on creating a flying machine that will really stand out: a flying robot hippogriff! And if the creature impresses Cosmo's mum enough, surely Cosmo will be able to keep it as a pet? But Harley wants the flying machine to be a surprise for everyone. She soon finds that keeping secrets leads to tricky explanations and lots of trouble - especially when REAL hippogriffs arrive and cause chaos!

Thirty years of Butterflies in traditional Lancashire and Cheshire. A regional butterfly atlas with a difference: taking three ten-year periods (last decade of the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st), this book documents the changes in distribution and abundance of all the butterfly species which occur of have occurred within vice-counties 58, 59, 60 and the furness portion of 69, which equate to the true historic or traditional English counties of Cheshire and Lancashire a " a a no legislation has ever changed the boundaries of Britaina s traditional countiesa a From a base in the MerseyValley, close to the border between the counties, the author explores the length and breadth of both of them, noting how the butterflies have been affected by human activities as well as by the forces of Nature, and also takes a closer look at the 1974-created administrative areas of Merseyside and Greater Manchester, and their central cities of Liverpool and Manchester. There is also a section of flowers which butterflies use for their nutrition within the two counties.