Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other era, he would be considered a boy. Driven by a series of pressures internal and external, Max leaves home, jumps in a boat and sails across the ocean to a strange island where giant beasts reign.

The international bestseller, reissued with a striking new illustrated cover with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman Part of the Gothic series - three books tracing the tradition of Gothic from Edgar Allan Poe to Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke

A gripping and fast-paced new supernatural adventure from the UK's bestselling urban fantasy writer.

Detective Sherlock Holmes attends a seance to unmask an impostor posing as a medium, Sebastian Melmoth, a man hell-bent on obtaining immortality after the discovery of an ancient Egyptian papyrus. It is up to Holmes and Watson to stop him and avert disaster.

Sam and Jacob Redman are brothers. They fight alongside each other; they watch each other's backs. They are ruthlessly professional in the field of war, fiercely loyal wherever they are. But when Jacob is booted from the Regiment for a moment of madness, he disappears. Not even his family knows where he is, or even if he's still alive.

Assistant D A Alexa Hamilton has just been handed the kind of case that makes careers: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa relentlessly builds her case and prepares for a high-stakes trial, until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil.

Queen Corinn Akaran of the known world has a primary goal that is to topple the Lothan Aklun and so she sends her brother Daniel, disguised as a slave, on an exploratory expedition to the Other Lands. Daniel soon discovers a mainland that is a more lush, exotic, and expansive than the Known World.

Emotional, issue-led fiction perfect for all fans of The Memory Keeper's Daughter and Jodi Picoult

'Kellerman always delivers the goods; and BONES is no exception' Independent on Sunday

Tells the story of Genesis. This book introduces us to the bountiful tree-lined garden of Adam and Eve, the massive ark of Noah with beasts of every kind, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by brimstone and fire that rained from the heavens, and the Egypt of the Pharaoh, where Joseph's embalmed body is carried in a coffin.

A poetry anthology that offers paper chains of poems about the landscape and nature of Britain, transcripts of contemporary poet interviews, and short introductions to lead poems.

What do you do when the person who holds you together is the one who tears you apart? Bestselling phenomenon Jodi Picoult's novel centres on domestic abuse.

Presents some of the greatest love poetry from around the world and through the ages, ranging from W H Auden to William Shakespeare, John Donne to Emily Dickinson, and Robert Browning to Roger McGough.

The second thriller in the Joe Hunter series - Hodder's major fiction launch of 2009

Set in San Francisco, the new thriller by Number One bestseller Lisa Jackson

Her life is falling apart. Picking up the pieces could kill her. On the surface, Annie Powers' life in a wealthy Florida suburb is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely and together they dote on their beautiful daughter, Victory. But cracks are beginning to appear as demons from Annie's past come back to haunt her.

There is a killer loose on the London Underground. He kills without leaving any forensic trace, and seemingly without motive. Genecrime, the UK's elite forensic unit, are stretched to the limits trying to find one usable clue. And there is another problem facing Genecrime.

Detective Alex Cross is given the awful news that his niece, Caroline, has been found brutally murdered. Cross soon learns that Caroline was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend to a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in.

A collection of stories connected by the life and crimes of Ford County - a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams and final wishes converge - in which a mercy mission that is hilariously sidetracked by human weakness; a manipulative death row inmate with one last plea; and, a small town divorce attorney who suddenly hits pay dirt.