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Superloo is a power-crazed toilet with an ego as big as a planet, a microchip that belongs to NASA and a mission to rescue his toilet ancestors from the past. All he needs now is a human helper - and then along comes Finn... In this second loo-natic adventure from W. C. Flushing, Superloo whisks Finn off to Roman Britain where the Emperor Hadrian is visiting his Wall. Conspiracies and plots are afoot involving gladiators, bears, very fierce British tribes and, of course, Hadrian's famous latrine.

Meet Max Flash; he's not your usual undercover agent. When the top secret Department for Extraordinary Activity discovers that an evil computer game character has escaped from the virtual world and is intent on causing chaos, they know the time has come for Max's first mission.

Meet the Spacemutts: the best interplanetary canine defence force in the universe, sworn to protect us from invasion by evil cosmic kitty cats. Let the battle commence! In The Sausage Dog of Doom!, as Lady Fluffkins gathers an evil Siamese Samurai army, the Spacemutts must once more battle to save the Earth. But will Oscar the noisy little sausage dog blow their cover?

Just when Joe thought things couldn't get any stranger, he is visited by Fizz, a zombie goldfish in Goldfish from Beyond the Grave. Fizz was flushed down the toilet by his owner Danny's little sister, who doesn't realize that she's sent the fish to a watery grave...

When Joe Edmunds makes a wish on an Egyptian amulet, little does he know that he has volunteered to guide and defend the undead pet inhabitants of his town! Disaster strikes when Bonsai the pug chases Pickle the cat into the street, where she is flattened by a car. But the fact that Pickle has (almost) shuffled off her mortal coil isn't her biggest concern; she is worried that Bonsai will pursue her sister Pebble into an early grave too, unless she and Joe teach the dog a lesson....

In "The Plot on the Pyramid", the workers building the Great Pyramid are blamed when their supervisor disappears. Only Dafia knows the truth - can she clear the men's names? "The Magic and the Mummy" features Neria, who helps her father make mummies. But when she is asked to mummify the Pharaoh's cat, she is too squeamish to kill it.... "The Phantom and the Fisherman" sees apprentice scribe Menes agreeing to write a prayer to rid Maiarch of his family ghost. But what if the ghost is more human than supernatural?

Did you know that there are aliens living among us? You might have seen them around - they’ve got fur, whiskers, a fondess for mice... That’s right, cats are bent on world domination! But don’t worry, Earth has the best interplanetary canine defense force in the universe: the Spacemutts! In Attack of the Ninja Kittens!, the gang are eager to overpower the evil Lady Fluffkins, but they fall into a trap and their spaceship is taken over by an army of ninja kittens!

Max Flash, not your usual undercover agent...Max, explosive escapologist and master magician, is back for his second mission, and it's out of this world! The Department for Extraordinary Activity tells Max that there's a vicious alien race preparing for a revenge attack on Earth, and he must blast off into space to defend the planet. Has Max got what it takes to battle evil aliens and save his fellow humans from slavery?

"The Sea Monsters" features a dangerous race between two giant steam ships, the Sirius and the Great Western. Which steam-driven sea monster will get to New York first? In "The Twisted Tunnels", the building of the London Underground Railway comes at a terrible cost for Jenny and her grandfather. In "Terror on the Train", Charles Dickens is involved in a train crash, and fights heroically to save lives and rescue the handwritten manuscript of Our Mutual Friend.

When Ulrich the knight turns up at a tavern wearing a green dress and a long blonde wig, he causes quite a stir in The Knight of Silk and Steel. In The Knight of Spurs and Spirits, Roger the stable boy fails to have a horse ready for cruel Sir Robert and suffers a terrible punishment.

From malevolent snowmen to Father Christmas - with a difference - Chris Priestley is on absolute top form with these seven atmospheric, clever, and thoroughly chilling stories. Add a new kind of thrill to the fluffiest of seasons with these brilliantly conceived examples of why you'd better be good at Christmas time. These perfectly formed festive tales of terror - "The Green Man", "The Musical Box", "The Snowman", "Frost", "In the Bleak Midwinter", "Soot", and "The Last Present" - each have a gripping yarn and genius twist. Singing carols may never seem quite the same again - especially after dark....

Three great heroes - Hamilcar Bear-eater, Neferata and Prince Maesa - each face very personal trials that could see them fall into darkness in these three tales that beautifully evoke bitter melancholy - as well as provide audio action. The gods are at war. As the Mortal Realms plunge into darkness and despair, there are an ambitious few who seek to turn these fortunes in their favour. Within the nightmarish, labyrinthine halls of Shadespire, a famed Lord-Castellant must escape the Mirrored City to cement his legend forever.

It's the coldest winter in Hull for years. When McAvoy is told by a concerned stranger that an elderly woman hasn't been seen for a few days, he goes to check on her - only to find her in the bath, encased in ice: the heating off, the windows open, the whole house frozen over. It could be a macabre accident, but when McAvoy finds a series of cryptic messages, he senses murder. Someone watched her die.

Amber Knight is hot property - pop star, film star, front-page gossip. DC Nick Belsey is less celebrated. He can't shake his habit of getting into serious trouble and his career at Hampstead CID is coming to a dishonourable end. He is currently of no fixed address - squatting in a disused police station round the corner from Amber's swanky Primrose Hill mansion. But a knock on the door from a frantic and confused woman looking for her missing son is about to lead Belsey straight into the heart of Amber's glittering life.

A Christmas short story about rugby, love, loss, mischief, and friendship. Oh, and maybe Banksy.

One girl's missing. One girl's dead. McAvoy can't let either of them go.... The fifth stunning novel in the DS McAvoy series by best-selling author David Mark, perfect for fans of Val McDermid and Peter Robinson. Hannah Kelly has been missing for nine months. Ava Delaney has been dead for five days. One girl to find. One girl to avenge. And DS Aector McAvoy won't let either of them go until justice can be done. But some people have their own ideas of what justice means.

Borealis Four has fallen under the sway of an insidious Chaos cult and its dense jungle terrain makes it the ideal battlefield for the infamous Colonel Straken and his platoon...or so it seems.