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This is a fast-moving activist thriller about exposing corporate wrongdoing, with an apparent conspiracy that reaches beyond the company. It is the third instalment of a series.

A lively science-focused look at real-world ideas behind superpowers, from robotic suits to unusual bone strength, with a quiz for readers to try.

This offers a broad, story-led route through United States history, connecting people, political decisions, social change, exploration, war and international affairs across multiple volumes. The focus is informational rather than fictional.

This is a focused life story that connects one leader’s family background and political career with India’s independence struggle, national government, religious and cultural tensions, and the human cost of public leadership.

This offers a focused introduction to dynastic China by connecting rulers, peasants and other social groups with wider historical change.

This is a historical biography centred on faith, bereavement, financial loss and service. It presents Seton’s work founding a religious community and school, alongside the community’s later charitable institutions.

Expect a high-stakes resistance story centred on loyalty, oppression and difficult choices. Its speculative world includes a plague’s aftermath, time-travelling operatives and a society controlled through medicine, walls and surveillance.

This is a history-led tour of the White House, mixing anecdotes, personal recollections and practical details about occupants, workers, rooms, customs and change across two centuries.

This offers a compact way into Ancient Egyptian society, beliefs and material remains, linking mummification and pyramids with writing, art and social order.

Elise Gravel’s graphic nonfiction book explains fake news, disinformation and conspiracy theories through deliberately silly fictional examples. Serious consequences include harmful health claims, pollution denial and damaging political accusations, though the tone remains humorous and non-blaming.

A suspenseful historical adventure combines a child-led mystery with Tutankhamun’s story. It offers friendship, family loyalty and questions about who has the right to remove cultural treasures, alongside period travel and Egyptian history.

Expect a lively, irreverent introduction to ancient Egyptian history, moving among pharaohs, pyramids, gods, mummies, writing and ordinary people. The comic approach foregrounds surprising and unpleasant details rather than offering a solemn historical overview.

Expect a bleak flooded setting, solitary travel, danger from other young people and a determined search for family. The ending is described as positive, although the journey is repeatedly presented as harrowing and gloomy.

This is an informational, community-focused account of turning discarded plastic into purses. Its angle links environmental action with persistence, collective work and economic empowerment rather than presenting rubbish only as a problem.

This is an immersive historical novel voiced as Claudius’s autobiography, offering intrigue, psychological characterisation and a close-feeling reconstruction of the ancient past rather than neutral history.

A fast-moving magical quest gives Chompa a determined central role while opening discussion of Indian and South Asian folklore, colonial power and cultural loss. The journey spans India and London, with friendship and new skills supporting her search.

A topical, discussion-oriented introduction to medical ethics. It covers competing positions on testing and consent, including cases involving vulnerable people, animals, genetic information and international research.

A brisk historical introduction to Coronado’s expedition, combining travel, geography and conflict. Its central focus is the search for wealth, alongside encounters with Pueblo peoples and the expedition’s disappointing outcome.

This is an informational look at blizzards: what makes them severe, how they affect roads, buildings and electricity, and how people may experience them during dangerous conditions.

A focused introduction to how the US Congress is organised and how it makes federal laws, combining constitutional explanation, political terminology, historical examples and reference tables.