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26/09/2025

💫 Introducing Chicken Hill: Attack of the Zombie Cactus 💫

The first in a new full-colour graphic novel series from the incredible Beccy Blake!

Join Ferdy, Gripper, and Tink as they investigate the many wild and weird happenings in town including…

🛸 Saving the world from UFOs 🛸
🌵 Battling zombie cactuses 🌵
👑 And escaping the clutches of King Frog 🐸

Get ready for three hilarious and off-the-wall adventures in one brilliant book!

Invading bookshops on 12th February 2026.

Welcome to weird.

https://bit.ly/3ICjDxm

25/09/2025

Happy publication day! 📗📘🥳

Letters from the Upside by Katya B***n
From the award-winning author comes a captivating story for children 9+ about finding friendship and hope.

The Week Junior Big Book of Even More Knowledge
Packed to the brim with brain-expanding facts and mind-blowing information, this book is from the award-winning children’s magazine The Week Junior.

Out today! 📚

21/09/2025

No.1! 📗🎊
Congratulations Katherine Rundell! The Poisoned King is an instant Sunday Times bestseller.

Flying off bookshop shelves, with golden Manticore wings, readers around the world are discovering the magic of the Archipelago.

📗🎊

16/09/2025

🐧✨ We’re delighted that Pablo and Splash have waddled their way onto the line-up for World Book Day 2026 🐧✨

Join them for another time-travelling adventure in The Castle Quest by the krill-iant Sheena Dempsey
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Pablo and Splash are searching for snacks when they end up in a medieval dungeon!
Will anyone come to their rescue, or is it time to say ‘Good knight’?!
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Publishing on 12th February 2026 for £1/€1.50 with or FREE with your £1/€1.50 World Book Day token!
https://bit.ly/46o9CMi

11/09/2025

Happy publication day!
New brilliant books out today, online and at all good bookshops.

Picture Book – an utterly delightful, unmissable story about a cat who hates Christmas
Cat’s Christmas by Alison Murray

Picture Book – seeing the world from other points of view
This Way Up by Tom Percival

Non-Fiction – the perfect Christmas gift at your fingertips!
Super Great Kids’ Stories by Kim Normanton

Fiction 9+ – book 2 in the bestselling Impossible Creatures series
The Poisoned King by Katherine Rundell .rundell

Fiction 9+ – spooky stories from brilliant authors
Historic Royal Palaces: Ghosts in the Walls from Historic Royal Palaces and art work by Pam Smy


Fun Fiction 11+ – book 2 in this page-turning horror series
The Fate of Finnegan Quick by Larry Hayes

Bloomsbury Education – essential guides and workbooks for teachers
100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Greener Schoolby Edd Moore
Comprehension Ninja: Inference and Beyond for Lower KS2 by Andrew Jennings
Comprehension Ninja: Inference and Beyond for Upper KS2 by Andrew Jennings
How to Lead it: Primary Geography by Emma Lennard
How to Lead it: Primary History by Alex Pethick
The Muddy Puddle KS1 Teacher by Sarah Seaman

02/09/2025

Out today - online and at all good bookshops!
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Zombie and Brain Are Friends
By Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic and illustrated by Laan Cham

A new fun picture book:
Zombie in Love meets Gustavo, the Shy Ghost in this story about a young zombie who must decide: Are brains friends…or food?
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Zeb comes from a family of farmers-zombie farmers. Each week they pickle, bake, fry, and sell their grain-fed, free-range brains to be enjoyed by the masses. Zeb understands that brains are food, not pets…until one day he comes across the tiniest, pinkest, squishiest brain he ever did see! Can he convince his parents that his brainy bestie is better off as a member of the family than family dinner?

From Bloomsbury US

02/09/2025

‘The manticore is beautiful, but liable to eat you.’

Meet the manticore from The Poisoned King!

On September 11th the manticore will be brought to life and toured through central London, passing key landmarks including Big Ben, Waterstones Piccadilly, St Paul’s Cathedral and London Bridge, before stopping for the afternoon at Potters Field Park near Tower Bridge. We’d love to see you there – timings below.

Here you can see the manticore in development, behind the scenes.

For our wonderful readers not based in London, you can follow along on the day via Katherine Rundell’s Instagram account, and we hope to bring him to a city near you in the future!

*we promise he won’t eat you.

10:00 - Westminster Bridge
10:30 - The Mall
10:45 - Waterstones, Piccadilly Circus
11:00 - Trafalgar Square
11:05 - Waterstones, Trafalgar Square
11:30 - St Paul’s Cathedral
12:00 - London Bridge
13:45 to 18:00 - Potters Field Park

01/09/2025

Announcing two new friends joining our Pocket Potter series!

29/08/2025

✨ CREATURE REVEAL ✨

Last and by no means least, the final creature to be revealed is the majestic Manticore.

🦁 The manticore has the tail of a scorpion, the face of a human, the teeth and body of a lion, and the personality of a self-righteous politician.

Prepare for a rare sighting of the manticore out in the wild…

Pre-order your copy of The Poisoned King now, available in all good bookshops from 11th September.
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-poisoned-king/katherine-rundell/9781408897447

28/08/2025

📚Happy Publication Day! A brilliant new stack of books out now, online and at all good bookshops!

🎨PICTURE BOOKS
Perla and the Pirate by Isabel Allende and illustrated by Sandy Rodriguez

We’re Going on a Ghost Hunt by Martha Mumford and illustrated by Cherie Zamazing

📖NON-FICTION
Animal Gym School by Kate Peridot and illustrated by Samara Hardy

Time Travellers: Ancient Egypt by Francisco Llorca and illustrated by Montse Galbany
Time Travellers: Ancient Greece by Francisco Llorca and illustrated by Montse Galbany

📝EDUCATION
The Time Machine Next Door: Artists and a Disappearing Dog by Iszi Lawrence
The Time Machine Next Door: Inventors and Dinosaurs by Iszi Lawrence

Under Fire by Sufiya Ahmed

Exam Stress by Katharine Radice

New books for all ages, out now! 📚

27/08/2025