David Roberts Boeken

De vakantie is voorbij en Robert Harper gaat naar een nieuwe kostschool. Voor het eerst reist hij alleen met de trein. Vlak voor een tunnel komt de trein met een schok tot stilstand. De andere passagiers in de coupé slapen, op één vrouw na. Ze is in het wit gekleed en stelt Robert allerlei vragen. Om de tijd te doden vertelt ze hem griezelige verhalen. Robert vindt dat eerst wel vermakelijk, maar wanneer de verhalen een macaber tintje krijgen, wordt hij bang. Wie is die vrouw eigenlijk? En wat wil ze met haar verhalen zeggen? Langzaam maar zeker raakt hij bedwelmd door haar verhalen, tot hij een schokkende ontdekking doet...

Fasten your seatbelts - it's a special adventure for World Book Day with Teddington's wildest family! Learn just how our intrepid hyenas managed to get from their African safari park onto the plane and off to their new home in England. It's quite a remarkable, and some would say, unbelievable tale - but there are many laughs along the way!

At the Old Inn, which clings precariously to a cliff top above a storm-lashed ocean, two sick children are left alone while their father fetches the doctor. Then a visitor comes begging for shelter, and so begins a long night of storytelling, in which young Ethan and Cathy, who have an unnatural appetite for stories of a macabre persuasion, sit out the last throes of the storm in the company of a sailor with more than enough grisly tales to satisfy them. But something about this sailor puts Ethan on edge, and he becomes increasingly agitated for his father's return. Only when the storm blows itself out can Ethan relax - but not for long, for the new dawn opens the children's eyes to a truth more shocking, more distressing than anything they heard the night before.

A fabulously funny story from a winning picture book team!

Once you pick me up, you won't want to put me down . . . I'm an encyclopedia, but not as you know it. Big books with facts are boring - I'm not. I'm more like a computer game than a book, crammed with funky pages and cartoons. Forget A-Z, just follow my lead and you'll be amazed where you end up! Was Beethoven a punk? Why is 10 to the power of 100 called a googol? How are smelly feet connected to nuclear weapons?I've got it all covered. Read me in bed, read me on the bus, or even in the loo! Just pick me up - go on. I'm exciting, I'm addictive - I'm unputdownable! Curious? Try me!

Hardcover, very good condition. Light shelf wear to the jacket otherwise an exceptionally clean copy throughout. 5 parts in one volume containing 123 facsimile lithographs. DP

Twelve-year-old Eddie Dickens survives encounters with an escape artist in a runaway hearse's coffin, a hot air balloon bearing the escape artist's lovely assistant, a gas explosion, and a jewel thief on the run.

Through an intertwining of physics and its philosophy, this book demonstrates how to distinguish the true arrow of time from illusory asymmetries. It is rigorous, richly illustrated, and accessible, ensuring its suitability for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of physics and philosophy, as well as contemporary researchers.

Join Bertie as he struggles to escape from the clutches of Angela Nicely, looks after the elderly class hamster, ends up with a star solo trumpet performance, even though he's never played one before...

Conquistadors of the Useless is the autobiography of French Alpine guide Lionel Terray, one of the greatest alpinists of his time. Terray made first ascents in the Alps, the Andes, and the Himalaya - including the second ascent of the Eiger North Face - and was at the centre of global mountaineering at a time when Europe was emerging from WWII.