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Jack Russell: the detective with a nose for crime. What's happening to the collars of Doggeroo? First Shuffle the Pug gets mugged. Then the ranger catches him without a collar. So when Red's collar is stolen, Jack knows he has a case on his hands. Will an attack of the Jack-pack be enough to nobble the mugger? Can Jack get to the bottom of - The Mugged Pug.

Someone is imprisoned in a horrible cage, but why is Jack trying to get caught by Ranger Johnny Wolf? What is Foxie up to? And just who is sharing Jack's basket these days? Everything is fine in Doggeroo until Sarge falls ill. Auntie Tidge is at hand to look after Jack, but Foxie is being disagreeable (again). When will Sarge be back? In no time, Jack has both a case and a moral dilemma - or even two. Is it right to leave his most dangerous enemy trussed up in a cage? And, who will mind the boy while he's off detecting?

There's a new postman in Doggeroo - and he doesn't know the rules of the Postman Game. Not only does he accuse Foxie of biting him, but he also calls Jack a mongrel! And when Fat Molly Cat from the Library comes to stay with Auntie Tidge, things don't get any better. What did Jack find caught on the fence? Will it help him save the case of - The Lying Postman?

From the author of the best-selling Truly Tan series comes a hilariously jam-packed new adventure series for boys. A hilarious series about a legend named Danny Best. Best by name, Best by reputation.... Danny Best doesn't just think he's the Best. He knows it! With his friends Fab, Clancy, Sticks, Dylan and Mae, plus trusty dog Pugsley, Danny turns every single day into one crazy adventure.

This is book 5 in the hugely successful Jack Russell: Dog Detective series. What terrier-ible thing has happened to the dogs of Doggeroo? They're missing! Then Jack finds them hiding under beds. But why? Can Jack sniff out the solution?

Trump the Animal Liaison Officer has her paws full with Dr. Jeanie’s new patient. Cranky Paws, the cat hates everyone: people, dogs, cats, and other animals. Dr. Jeanie can heal her injuries, but what will happen after that? Is there anyone who can offer Cranky Paws a home? And will Cranky Paws accept?

Roger Thesaurus watches in disbelief as his worst-best friend Peter Dusting, sworn girl-hater and bully, falls in love with the demure, sweet-natured Phoebe Drake - and gets them into more trouble than ever before.

Watch this! No. Hang on. Listen to this! Seriously. You will be dazzled by everything in this book. Including: the boy with the musical bum. Rampaging dead dinosaurs. Freaked-out ninjas in outer space. And so much more! Four new (and improved) stories from the genius who always, without fail, brings you The Best stories!

GIB has received a mysterious ransom note – pay $500 billion or a purple diamond Laser Blaster will be used to destroy all mobile networks around the world! Zac doesn't know who, where, or how, he just knows when. He has 24 hours to save the world.

A piece of top-secret GIB technology has been stolen, and Zac Power has to get it back. Blistering off towards a secret hide-out in the sky, he faces his strangest enemy yet ...

The year is 2347. Every living thing has to move to a new planet. But along the way, the Dogstar - a space-ark filled with all the world's canines - goes missing. The Clark kids set out on a brave quest to rescue their beloved pet, Hobart. But with an evil genius and a rock-throwing alien tribe pitted against them, will they ever find him?

Dusting thinks he is psychic and knows where to find buried gold. When a late-night dig at a creepy neighbour's place doesn't reveal any, he goes into partnership with Thesaurus and Millicent, and uses a school camping trip to start the business of gold hunting in earnest. But nothing is straightforward with this bunch, and when they accidently come into possession of a paper bag full of money, things take a sinister turn, in a hilarious sort of way.

Wagners Creek, otherwise known as the arse-end of the Earth, is the home of the mutton-bird, the carrion crow, and the remarkable Fin Starling. Son of the local provider of "special services", Fin is different from other children and soon it becomes clear that he is something of a miracle-worker as he transforms the dirt-poor shantytown into a place of pilgrimage. Elizabeth Stead's gently comic portrait of Wagners Creek is handled with benevolent grace.

Trump has a new case when she accompanies Dr Jeanie on a visit to a mare named Helen of Troy. Helen is due to have a foal, but her close companion, Paris the Dalmatian, isn't well. How can Trump persuade Helen to put Paris’s needs before her own? And how can she persuade Paris?

For centuries, emperors, historians, and even the Vatican have tried to locate Ivan the Terrible's magnificent Library of Gold - a fabled archive of gilded, bejewelled scripts and lost knowledge dating back to the ancient Greeks. Now one volume, The Book of Spies, has surfaced, and along with it a shadowy cabal. When the CIA unearths a connection between the legendary library and a terrorist-funded bank account, they turn to rare books curator Eva Blake for help. Then an attempt is made on Eva's life.

The year is 1796, and three and a half years have passed since Captain Lightfoot and his crew helped restore justice and peace to Tonga. It is time for them to return to their colony in New Holland, and then on to Mother England. But fate plays strange tricks in this vast ocean, even on the true of heart, and Lightfoot and his Polynesian crew find themselves facing an old enemy. Meanwhile, far off in the Torres Strait, a Dutch East India merchant ship is wrecked on an uncharted reef.

The third book in a hilarious series about a legend named Danny Best. Best by name, Best by reputation...Danny Best is always first. First to wrestle a wild pig. First to swim with crocodiles. First to eat the eyeballs of a dead yak. If the challenge is EPIC, Danny will be first. This audiobook is filled with four awesome stories, each one about Danny Best. So you'll be impressed.

Trump meets happy-go-lucky Motorbike Bob, the dog who believes he'll never need a vet. Meanwhile, Dr Jeanie must deal with some ponies that have sore eyes.

Zac has to rescue one of GIB's best agents who has gone missing near the Vanishing Tomb, somewhere in the desert region of the Amber Sands. The Vanishing Tomb keeps vanishing and has ancient booby traps. Zac will need more than a bag full of super-cool spy gadgets to complete this mission and get out alive.

Shipwreck A GIB agent has gone missing in the mysterious Black Triangle deep underwater. Can Zac find him among the sea of shipwrecks before it's too late?