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What is it like to live in or visit Japan? What makes Japan's culture unique? Grab your World Passport guide to Japan and learn about the customs, traditions, food, celebrations and landmarks that distinguish this amazing country from others.

Andy and Terry have added 13 new levels of crazy fun to their biggest treehouse yet. But Anti-Andy and Junkyard Jill - our trouble making opposites are trapped in one of the mirrors, and they want out! (Oh, and Mr Big Nose wants us to write another book...or else!) Can we avoid school, defeat our...

At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her is sceptical. Stories of captivity, friendship, murder, adventure, assumed identities and spying. Stories that tak...

Julián Álvarez's extravagant football skills won him a youth team place at the famous Argentinian club River Plate at the age of 12, and he quickly rose through the ranks. By 18, the gifted striker was showcasing his prowess in the Copa Libertadores and, before long, represented Argentina in in...

One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps. She doesn't scream or break something or cry or curl into a ball. She simply abandons her car in traffic and walks away. But not from her life - towards it. To the d...

Think history is just a boring list of facts and dates? Think again! History is hectic, exciting, and unpredictable - in fact, it's absolute chaos! Join Greg Jenner on a riotously fun journey through ancient Egypt, from brilliant beginnings to epic ending. Accompanied by expert Egyptologist Dr Ca...

Would you rather go the theatre in ancient Greece or go to a festival? Would you rather hang out with Hades or Hermes? Only you can decide!

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the closed door of the therapist's office? What's revealed there may surprise you. Psychotherapist Josh Fletcher takes us on a candid and human journey into the individual sessions of four patients - Levi, Zahra, Noah and Daphne - sharing their self-disc...

1923. A decade that promises excitement and liberation, Pearl Glenham and her father are invited to a country house party on the Dorset coast, by a total stranger. Her father claims not to have any prior association with Highcliffe House, but upon arrival, it's apparent that he has a shared histo...

Astrid Atomic, a 6 year old human person, goes to bed every night like every other 6 year old human person. But unlike many other 6 year olds she doesn't stay there. The minute the lights are off and the coast is clear the Space Cadet siren goes off, her uniform goes on, and 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - WHOOS...

Uncover the unique features of Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand and Oceania, from the wide variety of habitats and landscapes to the cultures of the peoples that inhabit these continents. Explore Tongariro National Park, the Outback and Great Barrier Reef, Tahiti, the rainforests of New Guinea ...

The Big Bad Dragon Club is bad as can be. They're rascals and rogues and wrong'uns all three. We're so full of bad, any badder and we'd burst. We're the Bad Dragon Club and we're here to do our worst. Scorch, Grub and Fang think they are a rather fearsome gang. But when their attempts to cause ma...

Warsaw, September 1939. A city ruled by fear. A population brutalised by restrictions and reprisals. Amid the devastation, another hunter begins to prowl. What are a few more deaths amid scores of daily executions? Former chief investigator Jan Kalisz lives a dangerous double life, forced to work...

Called in to examine what is left of a body struck by lightning, Tempe traces an unusual tattoo to its source and is soon embroiled in a much larger case. Young men - tourists - have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos for years. Seven years ago, the first victim was found with b...

It's 1959 and eighteen-year-old Sophie is determined that now is the time for her real life to start. Her existence in the village of Poynsdean, Sussex, with her austere foster-father, the Reverend Osbert Knox, and his frustrated wife Alice, is stultifying. She finds diversion and excitement in a...

London, 1932. Thomas James Wise is the toast of the literary establishment. A prominent collector and businessman, he is renowned on both sides of the Atlantic for unearthing the most stunning first editions and bringing them to market. Pompous and fearsome, with friends in high places, he is one...

Bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer - an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the very front there's a handwritten message to Cassie, telling her that this is the Book of Doors. What Cassie is abo...