Product Description: [Children's Fiction (Ages 8-12)][*Read by the author - David Baddiel ]In this zany, internationally bestselling adventure, a boy travels to an alternate world where kids get to choose their own parents.A boy travels to an alternate world where kids get to choose their own parents in this zany, internationally bestselling adventure, which combines the be-careful-what-you-wish-for humor of The Chocolate Touch with the classic appeal of Roald Dahl...read more

Product Description: The new novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically-praised The Secret Purposes. In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer, Eli Gold, is dying. Witnessing his death are his precocious 8-year-old daughter by his present (fifth) wife, his anxiety-ridden 44-year-old son from his third marriage, and his 89-year-old first wife, watching on TV from a care home in London...read more

Having fled life in pre-World War II East Prussia for the safety of Cambridge, Isaac and Lulu Fabian find themselves placed in an internment camp by the British government along with thousands of fellow Jewish Germans, where they endure suspicion, prejudice, and other hardships. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Having fled life in pre-World War II East Prussia for the safety of Cambridge, Isaac and Lulu Fabian find themselves placed in an internment camp by the British government along with thousands of fellow Jewish Germans, where they endure suspicion, prejudice, and other hardships. 25,000 first printing.

Gabriel can't get to sleep. Or anywhere else, either in his Triumph Dolomite or his life. But he's not unduly worried; he's too busy being in love with his happily married brother's wife. He knows this won't achieve happiness and suddenly remembers - his brother's wife has a sister.