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Father Christmas has a problem. He’s back from his fast-track journey around the world on Christmas Eve but he’s forgotten to deliver one of the presents…! The reindeers are exhausted – they won’t be able to make the return journey. There’s only one option: Father Christmas’s loyal – but very junior – dog, Kado. Can Kado help Father Christmas deliver the very last present?

Boy Underwater is a heartbreaking story about family, friends and secrets. And it’s very, very funny. Cymbeline has never been swimming, so he’s a bit nervous at the prospect of his first school swimming lesson. But how hard could it be? He’s Googled front crawl, and he’s found his dad’s old pair of trunks. He’s totally ready for this. But he’s not ready for an accident at the pool to reveal a family mystery that turns his life completely upside down. Only Cym and his friends can solve it because, as usual, the grown-ups aren’t telling them anything....

Cymbeline Igloo is bored. Bored of home learning, bored of lockdown, bored of not being able to do anything. And to make things even worse, his mum accidentally gave away his favourite football shirt. But then Mrs Stebbings, the beloved school cook, is taken into hospital, and suddenly coronavirus seems much closer to home. When Cym starts a project all about Mrs Stebbings’ childhood in World War II, he can’t know that it’s the beginning of something incredible and even dangerous.

Folgenreiche Zufälle. Als Jessica in Südengland einen schmuddeligen Teddy aus dem Wasser fischt, weiß sie nicht, dass Cym in London genau diesen schmerzlich vermisst. Und sie sind nicht die Einzigen, denen der Stoffbär etwas bedeutet: Noch bevor sie sich zum ersten Mal treffen, werden sie gemeinsam in ein Abenteuer verwickelt, in dem es um Einbrüche, wertvolle Ausstellungsstücke und ein kriminelles Geschwisterpaar geht, das alles daran setzt, den Schatz im Inneren des Kuscheltiers zu finden.

Jessica is playing with her family at the river when she finds a dirty, bedraggled teddy bear in the water. She has no idea that it will change everything, forever. Meanwhile, Cymbeline comes home from school to find that his mum’s house has been broken into - and the thieves seemed oddly focused on his toys. Thank goodness he had Not Mr Fluffy, his Bear of Most Extreme Importance, with him.

Verborgene Wahrheiten. Veronique und Cym sind beste Freunde geworden. Kein Wunder, dass auch er sich Sorgen macht, als Veroniques Großmutter Nanai plötzlich jede Nahrungsaufnahme ablehnt. Ihre gemeinsamen Nachforschungen führen sie zu einem gut gehüteten Familiengeheimnis: Alles scheint mit Nanais verschollener Zwillingsschwester Thu zusammenzuhängen. Was geschah damals wirklich, als die beiden jungen Frauen per Boot aus Vietnam geflohen sind? Und kann Cym Veronique und Nanai helfen?

Cym ist noch nie geschwommen - kein einziges Mal. Kein Wunder, dass ihn die Aussicht auf den ersten Schwimmunterricht in der Schule nervös macht. Andererseits - wie schwer kann das schon sein? Cym trägt schließlich die Badeshorts seines Vaters. Leichtherzig lässt er sich zu einem Wettkampf hinreißen. Dass Cym dabei fast ertrinkt, hätte niemand erwartet. Dass der Unfall eine Familienkrise auslöst, erst recht nicht. Cym muss einer Wahrheit auf die Spur kommen, die sein Leben auf den Kopf stellt. Doch das Beste ist, dass er dadurch echte Freunde gewinnt.

Here’s something you won’t believe: someone is doing TERRIBLE things to Mrs Martin, Cymbeline Igloo’s favourite teacher of all time. Cymbeline has to find the culprit (after he’s learned what ‘culprit’ means). He’s also got to help his friend Veronique, whose grandma is dangerously ill. It seems Nanai has a secret, connected to her arrival in the UK as a Boat Person from Vietnam, a traumatic journey in which she lost her twin sister.

There is someone on the streets of London who will stop at nothing to make a point... As she walks home from work one night, Josephine Thomas is brutally attacked and left to bleed to death. Billy Rucker had known her, briefly, and he soon hears about the tragedy. At the request of Jo's distraught colleague, he agrees to look into the murder.

Having coffee with a famous footballer would be the highlight of the year for many people. Not so for private eye Billy Rucker. Just hours after meeting Jack Draper - 'Super Jack' to his adoring fans - Billy is standing over the brutalised body of a girl. A girl who was Jack Draper's mistress. Jack had wanted Billy to catch the person who had been stalking him. But now all the evidence points to Super Jack being a cold-blooded killer.

Ex-policeman turned private investigator Billy Rucker has been asked to trace Lucy Bradley, a teenage runaway on the streets of London. But when he finds her, she has been strangled and stabbed and abandoned in a disused house. Despite this being a case for the Metropolitan Police, Billy is persuaded by Lucy's father to track down her killer. And he soon finds himself embroiled in an investigation which leaves him with only one way out...

A married airline pilot is found dead in his London flat, surrounded by shards of glass and the shattered remains of a champagne bottle. But who was the man seen with the pilot on the concourse of Heathrow airport? Private investigator Billy Rucker joins the case at the request of the pilot's brother, a well-known Tory MP. For Rucker it's the start of a long lonely trail through the city, clutching a grainy black and white photo and a gnawing suspicion in the pit of his stomach....

Ex-copper-turned-private-investigator Billy Rucker scours the seamy underbelly of London, hunting for runaways - and murderers. Tough, worldly wise and street-savvy, he can go where the police can't: and once he's on the trail, he won't stop until he finds the truth. David Morrissey stars as Billy Rucker in these two gritty urban noir thrillers.

Oscar is a little terrified to find that a lion is going to be looking after him for the weekend. But when the lion lets him eat as many biscuits as he wants, and reads him his favourite story ten times, Oscar realises he might be on to something good. Soon, Oscar discovers that the lion can change into different animals and the pair find themselves having all kinds of adventures! But before the lion has to go, might he have one more amazing transformation up his sleeve?

Cymbeline Igloo (yes, really!) has never been swimming. Not ever. Not once. But how hard can it be? He’s Googled front crawl, and he’s found his dad’s old pair of trunks. He’s totally ready. What he’s not ready for is the accident at the pool - or how it leads his mum to a sudden breakdown.