Collection: Reader Development

When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him. The ensuing quest leads them into the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice and witch-queens fly through the frozen skies.

Literary detective, Thursday Next is pursuing the world's most evil man, who has kidnapped Jane Eyre in a display of literary vandalism. She must also assist her time-travelling father, marry the man she loves and discover the truth about bananas.

In 1984, PC Alan McAlpine was given a simple job. Guarding a woman - nameless and almost faceless after an acid attack - at a Glasgow hospital. He has no idea that this simple job will haunt his career and change his life forever. Two decades later, Alan steps into Partickhill police station and ...

Humpty Dumpty - well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist - is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Following the careful reconstructuring of his shell, DI Jack Spratt and his sergeant - Mary Mary - grapple with a sinister plot.

Gus Dury once had a high-flying career as a journalist and a wife he adored. But now he is living on the edge, a drink away from Edinburgh's down-and-outs, drifting from bar to bar, trying not to sign divorce papers. The road takes an unexpected turn when a friend asks him to investigate the brut...

Called to a woman's refuge to take a routine witness statement, DI Marnie Rome instead walks in on an attempted murder. Trying to uncover the truth from layers of secrets, Marnie finds herself confronting her own demons. Because she, of all people, knows that it can be those closest to us we shou...

In a ruined and hostile landscape, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies. The people who don't follow the rules are the dangerous ones; they dare to hope and dream, and infect others with thei...

2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson has returned to the burned-out home of one Willis Linsay where she finds an invention that would change the way mankind viewed his world forever.