For ten years Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the things they believe, and to find out what has happened to th[...]

Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about the British! It's history, but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant, action-packed, fact[...]

Recently, scientists at the frontiers of biology have hypothesised the existence of life-forms that can only be called "weird": organisms that live off acid rather than water, microbes that thrive at temperatures and pressure levels so extreme that their cellular structures should break down, even o[...]

This is the "delightful" (People) New York Times bestseller that's earned raves from Sarah Blake, Helen Simonson, and reviewers everywhere-the story of three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much... Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reunit[...]

Scooby-Doo and the gang decide to take a break from mystery-solving and have some fun at a water park. But, it turns out that the park has been abandoned...because it's haunted! Can the terrified tail-wagger and his buddies get to the bottom of this watery weirdness - before it swallows them up?[...]

Cow puncher, foot model, mannequin sculptor, and potato chip inspector are just a few of these peculiar professions. From alligator wrangler to wrinkle chaser, they're bizarre but real careers. Each of the 45 full-page illustrations features a guessing game in the form of a job description with mult[...]

Before he conquered books, comics, and movies, Robert E. Howard's immortal character Conan the Cimmerian was born in the pages of the pulp magazine "Weird Tales." Reprinted as they originally appeared in that legendary publication from 1934 to 1936, this ferocious anthology gathers many of the barba[...]

On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. But strange things are happening. Why is Effie being followed? Is someone killing the old people? And where is the mysterio[...]