Our Planet: The One Place We All Call Home

MATT WHYMAN

Harpercollins

Meet Ren. Underachieving actor. Overactive dreamer. Waiting in the wings of love. Centre of his stage is Roxi, the heaven-sent make-up artist on a cat food commercial from hell. A woman, he discovers, who's literally out of his league.Thwarted in his attempts to win her over in the real world, Ren resorts to reinventing himself for her in the chat rooms of the Internet. And so begins the deception, desperation and brilliant comic confession of one man and his mouse.

Man or Mouse

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Flame

Boy Kills Man

Shorty and Alberto are best friends. They live in the poor district of Medellin, where music, money and soccer are the three things they worship. It's also an area where guns speak louder than words. Slowly the boys are drawn into a dark world of threats, kidnaps and hits - both of drugs and guns. Shorty stays on the sidelines, scared, but Alberto strides right in, confident he can stay in control. But he can't and he doesn't, and soon Shorty is searching for his missing friend - and if that means picking up a gun, he'll do it...

Hodder Children`S Books

Yoshi is 13 and he's running for his life. Trapped in a dead-end in Chinatown, his life flashes before his eyes as his pursuer approaches - until the floor drops out beneath his feet and he falls down a waste-chute - and into a world he never knew existed. Knocked unconscious, he awakes to find he's lost his memory - and found a family of urchins and street magicians. Their leader, Julius, an elderly man who no longer goes above surface, sees Yoshi's arrival as a sign and enlists him in his cause, tracking a mysterious villain who threatens the whole of London. But Yoshi is more concerned with finding out just who he is. Will it ever be safe for him to go home?

Street Runners

SIMON SCHUSTER CHILDREN S

Inside The Cage

Children's Books

Simon & Schuster Childrens Boo

What happens when a man wonders aloud if a pig would make a good pet? A great deal - once his wife discovers a kind the size of a handbag. Matt Whyman is a writer and house husband. He enjoys the quiet life. His career wife, Emma, prefers the chaos a big brood can bring. On top of four challenging children, one freaked-out feline, a wolf-like dog and a wild bunch of ex-battery chickens, she brings minipigs Butch and Roxi into the fold. But can the new arrivals really cuddle up on the sofa, or will their growing presence spark a battle of hearts, snouts and minds? Funny, touching and entertaining, Oink! charts the trials and errors of one man and his menagerie. With help and advice from a seasoned local smallholder, Matt sets out to master the art of managing minipigs - inside the house and out. Then someone suggests breeding minipiglets, and Matt's understanding of marriage is tested in the most unexpected ways...

Oink: My Life with Mini-Pigs

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Hodder&Stoughton

Oink! My Life with Minipigs

<p>Keeping pets is a lovely idea. When building a family, they complement the kids. But what happens when things get out of hand? For writer and house husband, Matt Whyman, it's a case of catastrophe management in coping with four children and all the ill-advised animals amassed by his career wife, Emma. Just as Matt gets to grips with managing her two maxed out minipigs, she falls for a miniature Dachshund - the kind of dog he wouldn't be seen dead with. Hercules isn't big or clever, but Emma is determined. She'll do everything, she promises...From the author of Pig in the Middle</p>

Walking with Sausage Dogs

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Hodder

Savages

Hot Key Books

The sharp and hilarious second book in THE SAVAGES series about an everyday family with some not-so-everyday problems...  Vegan, veggie, carnivore... humanitarian? Welcome to the top of the food chain.      The Savages are back - this time in a country where servings come supersized. Titus, Angelica and the kids go to great lengths to fit into their new lives in sunny Florida. But that's not easy when their appetite runs to feasts of human flesh.      In this dark comic serving of everyday family life with contemporary cannibals, the Savages seek to hide in plain sight by setting up a vegan cafe. But when the venture turns out to be a surprise sensation, and bad apples bob to the surface, Titus is forced to question whether the family have finally bitten off more than they can chew.

American Savage (The Savages)

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