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The brilliant, heart-warming debut novel from the Sunday Times best-selling author of Dummy and Man vs Toddler Frank is a miserable old curmudgeon. An agoraphobic recluse and widower whose only company is the 'ghost' of his wife, Marcie. He is estranged from friends and family and is entirely...

Thirty-six years have elapsed since Jemma Stone's murder, an unsolved case consigned to history...or is it? Leap back to 1979 in this fast-paced, humorous whodunnit. A clandestine organization requires a Change Agent to alter the past and ensure certain future events are averted. Frank Stone, a...

Two best friends. One bucket list. And absolutely no intention of growing old gracefully.Frank has just received the sort of news from the doctor that no one wants to hear. Then he discovers that his wife’s fitness instructor has been providing her with more than just an exercise plan.With...

Frank and Stan are back for another hilarious adventure, and this time they've really bitten off more than they can chew!The idea of maverick racer Dave Quirk winning a TT was about as likely as a seaside donkey winning the Grand National. But that wouldn't stop him from trying.An unlikely...

Frank and Stan are back for another hilarious adventure, proving that you're never too old to have the time of your life!Frank’s too busy enjoying life just now to worry about dying...Bucket list item 1 for Frank and his oldest friend, Stan, was the TT Races. They did it, and loved it so much...

A heartwarming and hilarious new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of FRANK AND RED 'This might just be my feel-good read of the year . . . prepare to be transported back to the early 1980s and to lose your heart several times on the way back ' JANICE HALLETT 'Matt Coyne is a genius...

Being a professional clown was a great way to keep reality at arm's length, but now Frank Dean is heading rapidly and controversially towards the end of his life. On a turbulent filght to Switzerland, sitting between a glamorous stranger and a priest, Frank finds himself getting thrown in at the...

This is the legend of Saint Frank, and the great deeds he what did to earn that Sainthood, not born a Saint, in the beginning he was just, Frank, but not long after some stuff that took long, he became Sir. Frank. Sir. Frank may or may not have slayed a Dragon, if he did then this is the Tale of how Sir. Frank became Saint Frank, and if he did not then this is the story of nearly a Saint Frank and a triumphant Dragon.

After returning to 1979, when he changed history and prevented the murder of his wife, Frank Stone thought he was done with time travel. He thought wrong. A British time travel murder mystery – a witty whodunnit, back in the 1970s. Thirty-six years have elapsed since Frank saved his ex-wife. A...

It was all going so well!Once again Frank snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. His quest was quested, all was well, and then he inadvertently gets sucked off into another dimension.Franks new quest, his journey home begins on the Island of Valhalla. Frank was not the only one to get sucked...

Life rarely stands still when you find yourself surrounded by a bunch of loveable crackpots. Certainly, that was the case for Frank and Stan. With their hugely successful "Le Mans" TT now behind them, thoughts turned to their next adventure and, inevitably, also to the topic of their own mortality.

Saint Frank has had a time of it, things have not gone smoothly for him so far, but now he has an ally in his fight against the rogue saint Dark Charlie, One-Eyed Cy, lord of the sea. A war is coming, and it's Saint Frank and One-Eyed Cy who are bringing that war to Dark Charlie; however, Dark Charlie has a new ally of his own, Poseidon, One-Eyed Cy's nemesis, whom Frank accidentally resurrected from the dead. With a cast of thousands! Maybe it's twenty, but it's a lot! This epic ball of epicness couldn't be more epic if it killed the dinosaurs, that is just how epically big it is, huge!

Frank is eighty-one. He lives on his own, his daughter and her young family are living in America. He watches DVDs, keeps an eye on the neighbours, eats tinned spaghetti, and has a cat called Bill (which made more sense before Ben died). It was tough enough to fill the hours of the day when he...

What happens when a window mannequin wakes up with the mind of a newborn and the wardrobe of a Parisian “rare bargain”? In this wry, whirlwind short story by L. Frank Baum, a mischievous Yellow Ryl breathes life into a department-store dummy, who marches into the city armed with a hat...

Death gets a book, and now you do, too! 

Bloomsbury presents Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, read by Kit Griffiths. The smash-hit national bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist from the New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters. An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused...

Lawrence Nurdle fancies himself a Goth Edgelord. His girlfriend isn't impressed. To convince her he's the edgiest guy in Toledo, Ohio, he joins a coven of vampires. The vampires kill Lawrence. Death just wants to enjoy a ballgame. But Death has a job to do and must collect the soul of Lawrence Nurdle. There's just one problem. Death can only collect the souls of the dead and Lawrence is now undead, like the rest of the vampires.

Frank has questions, many questions. Startled to learn that his wife did not die after smoking mushrooms, in their mushroom smoker and burning the house down, Frank sets off on a quest to find her, and the many answers to the many questions that he has about her disappearance. The quests just keep coming, as there’s trouble in paradise, a rogue saint, Saint Charlie, has quit his job as a saint, and he’s come to Earth to make the world his domain.

Frank is eighty-one. He lives on his own, his daughter and her young family are living in America. He watches DVDs, keeps an eye on the neighbours, eats tinned spaghetti, and has a cat called Bill (which made more sense before Ben died). It was tough enough to fill the hours of the day when he...

Onkel Hermann, der seit dem Tod von Stefans Eltern in Bochum die Stellung hielt, ist gestorben, und Stefan muss zurück in die Heimat...