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Battle the Dogsnatchers (The Bare Bum Gang #2) by Anthony McGowan
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Bare Bum Gang
It offers more brilliant jokes and plenty of laughs as the gang come together to battle some evil dogsnatchers! Ludo, Noah, Jamie, Phillip and Jennifer are The Bare Bum Gang! They have an embarrassing name but a cool Gang Den, so things could be worse. The newest member of the gang is Rude Word, the wor ...Show more
Bear Adventure (Willard Price Inspiration #3) by Anthony McGowan
Category: Accessories | Series: Willard Price
Bear Adventure is the next authorised Willard Price book by award-winning author Anthony McGowan, for 8+ readers looking for action, adventure and animals! Amazon and her cousin Frazer are members of TRACKS. Normally they protect the world's rarest animals, but their mission just got personal. Amazon's ...Show more
Brock by Anthony McGowan
Category: Young Adult | Series: The Truth of Things
A bleakly poetic tale about one boy's determination to save a badger cub from the destructive hands of a local gang. When Nicky finds Jezbo and his gang digging up a badger set, there's not a lot he can do to save them. But one badger cub has escaped - can Nicky save it? Another stunning and moving nove ...Show more
Dogs of the Deadlands by Anthony McGowan
Category: Children's Fiction
'It broke my heart and then splinted it back together again... Magnificent.' Hannah Gold, bestselling author of The Last Bear 'A dog's eye perspective that's so vivid you can almost taste the earthworms.' FT, YA Book of the Year 'This visceral story of heartbreak and survival...has the memorable feel ...Show more
Dogs of the Deadlands by Anthony McGowan
Category: Philosophy
Chernobyl, 1986. Without humans, how will dogs survive? As humans fled the nuclear disaster, they were forced to leave their pets behind. Without people, nature began to return to the woods surrounding the power plant – lynx and bear and wolves. But the overgrown forest is no place for dogs. Can Zoya, ...Show more
Einstein's Underpants: And How They Saved the World by Anthony McGowan
Category: Children's Fiction
A stinking alien commander. Eight freaky kids. And a pair of faded Y-fronts. When crazy Uncle Otto warns of imminent invasion from outer space, his maths geek nephew Alexander takes on the task of saving the world. He recruits a ragged crew of school superheroes to help him, including Tortoise Boy, arme ...Show more
Hello Darkness by Anthony McGowan
Category: Young Adult
"Stealthy, furtive, unhurried yet urgent - In a few seconds of efficient butchery, the chickens are dead and dismembered." Someone is on a killing spree - slaughtering the school pets with a cold-blooded savagery. The number-one suspect: Johnny Middleton. Johnny's had problems in the past, but they're b ...Show more
How to Teach Economics to Your Dog - A Quirky Introduction by Rebecca Campbell; Anthony McGowan
Category: Politics | Series: How to Teach Ser.
A fun take on some of the biggest questions in economics, made accessible for non-experts (and dogs) Monty is a dog, not a financial genius, but economics still shapes his everyday life. Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and investigates how they appl ...Show more
How to Teach Philosophy To Your Dog by ANTHONY MCGOWAN
Category: Nature
We're doing philosophy now, and that means following the argument wherever it leads, like that time you chased a rabbit and ended up with your head stuck in a hole.'Monty was just like any other dog. A scruffy and irascible Maltese terrier, he enjoyed barking at pugs and sniffing at trees. But after yet ...Show more
I Killed Father Christmas by Anthony McGowan
Category: Picture Books
Jo-Jo's mum and dad are arguing again - but this time it's on Christmas Eve and Jo-Jo's convinced it's all his fault. He's been spoiled, selfish and greedy - and his badness has actually killed Father Christmas. To make amends, Jo-Jo decides that he must be Father Christmas - and so he fills sacks with ...Show more
Lark by Anthony McGowan
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Truth of Things
Things are tense at home for Nicky and Kenny. Their mum's coming to visit and it will be the first time they've seen her in years. A lot has changed since they were little and Nicky's not so sure he's ready to see her again. When they head for a trek across the moors to take their minds off everything, ...Show more
Leopard Adventure by Anthony McGowan
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Willard Price
This is an adventure, animals and action in the first authorized Willard Price book by award-winning author Anthony McGowan, for 8+ readers. Deep in the remote forests of Siberia, a mother Amur leopard, one of the rarest big cats in the world, senses danger. Something faster than any human and deadlier ...Show more