This is the biography of Arthur Lowe, the legendary Captain Mainwaring of TV's Dad's Army, one of the best-loved characters ever to have appeared on British TV screens. More than 20 years after Lowe died in 1982, Dad's Army has become a classic comedy series, is regularly repeated all over the world, and has captured yet another generation of enchanted fans. Lowe became an actor when he was a sergeant fighting in the North African desert during World War II after helping one of his officers build a theatre in Alexandria. On top of his long TV career, which took off when he appeared in...

A brilliant companion volume to mega bestseller Holes Readers are reunited with Armpit and X-Ray in this brilliantly plotted and masterfully told adventure story.

Laura Sibbie is trying to find the perfect 'pigs' for her new club, Pig City: classmates who can keep the biggest secret ever To make sure that none of them tells anyone else about the club, each one must give an 'insurance' - something totally embarrassing - to be hidden unless they break the most important law of Pig City.

Suicide Hill is the ultimate test of bravery, and rumour has it that Marvin is going to tackle it on his new mountain bike. Will he have to go through with it in order to prove himself to his classmates? If he succeeds, he will be a hero; if not, then everyone will witness the greatest wipeout ever

Using real maths to solve arithmetic problems, this may look puzzling at first but there are hints and clues throughout as well as all the answers.

When Alton's ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. Alton's mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future. But this choice soon turns out to be a lot more complex than Alton could ever have imagined.

Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre (which isn't green and doesn't have a lake) he is not surprised. Every day he and the other inmates are told to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, reporting anything they find. The evil warden claims that it is character building, but this is a lie and Stanley must dig up the truth. Wonderfully inventive, compelling and hilarious, Louis Sachar has created a masterpiece. This multi-million bestseller now in an exciting new package ahead of...