Includes The Giggler Treatment , Rover Saves Christmas and The Meanwhile Adventures .

While Tom and Johnny are on a husky safari in Finland, their half-sister Grainne stays behind to face the mother who abandoned her. But Tom and Johnny are too caught up in their adventure to think of home - until they find themselves lost in the snow, in a desperate struggle for survival...

Includes The Giggler Treatment , Rover Saves Christmas and The Meanwhile Adventures .

Tells the story of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, who sees everything but understands less and less.

The Gigglers waited. They waited for the wallop - Mr Mack hitting the poo. They waited for the squelch - Mr Mack stepping down o the poo. They waited for the groan - Mr Mack seeing that most of the poo was now on his shoe. Who are the Gigglers? Good question. The Gigglers look after children. And they do it very well.

To commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this title features a short-story collection for young adults, celebrating what it means to be free. Hosting a variety of talented children's authors from all around the globe, it includes such themes as asylum, law, education, and faith.

Features stories, each told in just 366 words, from some of the top authors in children's fiction. In this work, the contributors include Roddy Doyle, Michael Morpurgo, Charlie Higson, Anne Fine, Jeremy Strong, Nina Bawden, Ian Whybrow, Paul Stewart, Michael Bond, and Tom Fletcher from McFly .

A collection of stories which range from 'Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a ghost story, 'The Pram', about a Polish nanny who scares her charge's older sisters.

Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne. Paula still works as a cleaner. This work shows the inner life of this battered house-cleaner.

A novel that describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, it tells the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.

Christmas is under threat! Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer only works one night a year - but, unfortunately, he's chosen Christmas Eve to take a sickie. When your star sleigh-puller is stable-ridden with the flu, what do you do? You call Rover... Join Rover, Robbie, Jimmy and Kayla, and all the other stars of 'The Giggler Treatment' for a fantastic race against time...as Santa embarks on a sleigh-ri

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabitte, brilliantly coached by Joel 'The Lips' Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from paris hall to immortality on vinyl. But can The Commitments live up to their name?

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Focuses on the life of the mysterious George 'Gee' Keane, photographer, soldier, adventurer and enigma.

Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton are alike in appearance, different in character and in love with the same woman. In the midst of the French Revolution, Darnay, who has fled to London to escape the cruelty of the French nobility, must return to Paris to rescue his servant from death. But he endangers his own life and is captured.

Focuses on the life of the mysterious George 'Gee' Keane, photographer, soldier, adventurer and enigma.

A novel of mothers lost and found, 'Wilderness' is part roaring adventure, part family drama - with a charm that's all Roddy Doyle's. While Tom and Johnny are on a husky safari in Finland, their half-sister Grainne stays behind to face the mother who abandoned her. But Tom and Johnny are too caught up in their adventure to think of home - until they find themselves lost in the snow, in a deperate

When we first met Paula Spencer in The Woman Who Walked into Doors she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together. Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne.Pau

Part of the Open Door series, this is a fiction title.

This is the heart-rending story of a woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after a violent, abusive marriage and a worsening drink problem. Paula Spencer recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo and the marriage to him that left her powerless. Capturing both her vulnerability and her strength, Doyle gives Paula a voice t