Fiction, Comedy and DVDs

"Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!" Tired of spring cleaning, Mole ventures above gro...

By Arthur Ransome 'You'll start with a blank map, that doesn't do more than show roughly what's water and what isn't'When the Walker family's holid...

Poems to Celebrate Britain's Maritime Heritage A wonderful anthology of poetry celebrating the British coastline and life above and below the deep ...

By Des Sleightholme Reissued by popular demand, Old Harry's Dog-Watch is a wonderful collection of Des Sleightholme's irreverent observations on t...

By Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin Box set includes 12 hardback books:Noggin, King of the NogsThe Ice DragonThe Flying MachineThe OmrudsThe Islan...

By William Grill Debut illustrator William Grill brings us a detailed visual narrative of Shackleton's epic journey to Antarctica. Grill's beautif...

"Moominpappa yearns to make a fresh start, to find a rocky island and a lighthouse where he'll feel alert and important again. And so the Moomins s...

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the ...

By Patrick O'Brian Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Pat...

By Patrick O'Brien Set sail for the read of your life ... Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series...

By Sam Llewellyn It is hard, if you are a girl in 1814 who is interested in ships. What you have to do is dress up as a boy, and go exploring. W...

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, a...

For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publici...

'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.'Stories and poems by Herman Melville drawn from his years at seaIntrod...

By Rafael Sabatini With and introduction by Kate Mosse Wrongfully arrested following the Monmouth rebellion of 1685, Peter Blood, country physician...

Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unu...

By Patrick O'Brian Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. H.M...

By Erskine Childers When Carruthers receives a letter from his friend Davies suggesting a Baltic sailing trip, the vision of a manned yacht, A1 sce...

By Arthur Ransome 'You know what it's like. Dark at teatime and sleeping indoors: nothing ever happens in the winter holidays.'Or so Nancy thinks. ...

*Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller*The Pebbles on the Beach was first published in 1954. This newly reissued edition includes a foreword by Robert Mac...

By Sam Llewellyn This quirky, lighthearted compilation brings together many of nautical thriller writer Sam Llewellyn's articles for "Practical Bo...

It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination fro...

John Masefield (1878-1967) is one of the great storytellers of English poetry, a spinner of yarns and ballads of tall ships and exotic seas, of the...

By Dave Eggers A teenage boy and his uncle embark on the adventure of their lives"Don't you worry, son. Whatever it is that's been killing the sai...