Beware of the Storybook Wolves

Lauren Child

For a real thrill, try reading Beware of the Storybook Wolves. It will scare your socks off A fun-filled picture book with a fairytale twist, from Children's Laureate Lauren Child. Every night, Herb's mother reads him a bedtime story. Sometimes it's about a big bad wolf who terrifies little girls and t...

Charlie Chaplin

Peter Ackroyd

He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. But what of the man behind the moustache? The director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it? Peter Ackroyd's new biography turns the spotli...