Books from Random House

  • Norman Rockwell
    By Laura Claridge

    ... a poem by Robert Frost, he pulled rank in order to show off for the teacher. ... Other times, they'd admit that Molly insisted Norman do no such thing.

  • Arrowood: A Novel
    By Laura McHugh

    Frost etched my windshield, and I scraped it off with the edge of an empty ... As soon as I got home, Istripped off the clothes I'd borrowed from Josh and ...

  • The Secrets Between Us
    By Laura Madeleine

    glittered in a thin layer across the bottom, like frost. I drew my fingers through it, scraped up a scant pinch. Before the war, we'd used salt without ...

  • The Archers: The Ambridge Chronicles: Moments that made the nation's favourite radio drama
    By Karen Farrington, Joanna Toye

    ... Christopher Hawes, Brian Hayles, Sam Jacobs, Peter Kerry, Helen Leadbeater, Malcolm Lynch, Edward J Mason, Bruno Milna, James Robson, Carole Simpson Solazzo, Tim Stimpson, Chris Thompson, Joanna Toye and Geoffrey Webb.

  • Great Lives: As heard on Radio 4
    By Karen Farrington

    With a married lover, Charles Gibson(Iowan. She set off in a boat — the Evelyn Hop: — in the summer of 1939. heading for Greece via the French canal system. In the south of France, she met libertine and writer Norman Douglas. who ...

  • Metzger's Dog: A Novel
    By Thomas Perry

    WHEN MoRRISON REACHED THE SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING he took the elevator to the third floor and walked directly to Ian Donahue's office. On the door was printed only “300–307 Professor Donahue.” Inside, there were an anteroom and a short ...

  • Star Wars: Legacy of the Force V - Sacrifice
    By Karen Traviss

    This is the middle book in the series and the second of three hardcovers. The adventure continues, and one of our storylines comes to a crucial and shocking climax.

  • David Jason: My Life
    By David Jason

    Winner of the National Book Awards Autobiography of the Year The long-awaited autobiography of one of Britain's best-loved actors Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his ...

  • Springwatch: The 2019 Almanac
    By Karen Farrington, Michael Bright

    Thorn. tree. It's traditionally in May that the hawthorn bursts into flower, giving hedges an enticing white or pink frosting which excites numerous insects. That's why it is better known as the May tree and ...

  • A Sudden Country: A Novel
    By Karen Fisher

    In particular to: My parents, Don and Mary Christensen, for their unwavering faith and support, my uncle, Alan McGrew, who, with my mother, compiled and handed down the facts, reminiscences, and letters of the Ross-Mitchell family, ...

  • Lions on the Loose
    By Mary Pope Osborne

    Whisked away to Africa on this adventure in the tree house, Jack and Annie cannot believe all the wild animals they see.

  • Palace of the Dragon King
    By Mary Pope Osborne

    It's not long before they learn the warning is right! In search of an old Chinese legend, they head to the palace of the dragon king. But he is not pleased to see them!

  • Diving with dolphins
    By Mary Pope Osborne

    Fortælling. Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea, where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle Climb the ladder to the Magic Tree House.

  • Adventure on the Amazon
    By Mary Pope Osborne

    Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.

  • Moon Mission!
    By Mary Pope Osborne

    Eight-year-old Jack and his little sister, Annie, are playing in the woods during their summer holiday, when they find a mysterious tree house full of books. But these are no ordinary books, and this is no ordinary tree house.

  • Castle of Mystery
    By Mary Pope Osborne

    When the magic tree house transports Jack and Annie back to the Middle Ages for another adventure, they follow a knight on horseback and sneak into a castle feast, only to be caught as spies!

  • Racing with Gladiators
    By Mary Pope Osborne

    Now master librarians, Jack and Annie are sent on a mission to find a lost story - in ancient Rome!

  • Mammoth to the Rescue
    By Mary Pope Osborne

    When the tree house lands in the freezing ice age, Jack and Annie have to hide from hunters and escape from a great cave bear.

  • Iron, Steam & Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution
    By Roger Osborne

    This had previously been achieved by the spinncr's fingers; it was an extraordinary achievement for Hargreaves to repli» cate this intricate process with a machine. Legend has it that Hargreaves saw his daughter's spinning wheel tipped ...

  • Julie Walters: Seriously Funny - An Unauthorised Biography
    By Bryony Sutherland, Lucy Ellis

    She is able to communicate with the public on a very basic level, by distributing familiar monikers, be they famous television personalities such as Cilia Black and Paul Daniels or branded names such as Palmolive and Tunes, ...