A vibrantly illustrated rhyming text that describes the shape of each of the first ten cardinal numbers as written in Arabic numerals. An innovative Early Years Foundation Stage resource for teaching number recognition.

Meet two very greedy cows, Marigold and Petal, and follow them in their madcap plan to eat every blade of grass they can get their hooves on. A new laugh-out-loud rhyming story for young readers.

Sixteen stories that run the gamut of genres, from comedy to scifi to horror to crime, and span multiple centuries, three continents and two dimensions. Two pirates, stranded amongst a primitive civilisation with unusual ideas about beauty, find their preconceptions challenged and start asking deeper questions than pirates are used to. A pair of grave robbers get more than they bargained for when they dig up a serial killer. A scientist goes to extreme lengths to save her dying husband. A Japanese girl gives advice from beyond the grave. A gardener gets his revenge. A drug lord battles to save his career. A woman swears at a giant holographic paperclip. And so on. Full of unexpected twists, profound ideas and silly jokes. If you don't like them, you must be weird.

David Grange has no reason to live. His life's a mess and Elizabeth doesn't love him. But a long time ago, he made her a promise, and he can't keep it if he's dead. Fate has given David a fresh start, and a chance to help the girl he loves. But when does 'help' become harassment? When does love become obsession? Is David even capable of telling the difference? And what do you do for a living if you don't exist? Elizabeth couldn't be happier that her stalker has plunged to a bloody death. But if David's really dead, who's been performing nocturnal car repairs and filming her undress? And how could it be possible that her problems are about to get even worse?

Isabella's dead. She must be, because she just found her own corpse in an alley. Now she'd quite like some answers, like who killed her, and how come she's never felt so alive? There's only one man who can solve such an impossible mystery: shoe maker and reluctant detective Lorenzo Valentini. But how does it relate to a farm worker who lived in the Casentino Valley over twenty years earlier? Will an attempt to divert the course of the Arno to win the war with Pisa succeed? And, most importantly of all, can Isabella afford Valentini's fee? Witness a murderous romp through Renaissance Italy in a tale of death, obsession, shoe making and war.

All Adrian wants is to kill his wife. It's the perfect crime, until it really really isn't. Why isn't murder ever simple? The magic has faded from Adrian Hadley's marriage, so when he hits it off with teen runaway Kelly, it's not long before they're consummating their relationship like rabbits. But soon wife Elizabeth learns of his infidelity and he finds himself on the street. Adrian and Kelly set up home together but Adrian starts to worry about a secret he foolishly shared with his wife. Can he trust her to keep it now they're no longer an item? The stakes are too high to take the chance, and he faces the unpleasant task of killing Elizabeth.