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Terry Deary
HORRIBLE CHRISTMAS is filled with all the festive facts every HORRIBLE HISTORIES reader wanted to know, but were too stuffed full of mince pies to ask! The complete horrible history…
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Discover all the amazing and awful facts about barmy beasts and cagey creatures across history. From gory stories of animal sacrifices in the Stone Age to murderous games held in…
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Readers can discover all the foul facts about the INCREDIBLE INCAS, including how a bucket of pee could make you beautiful, why servants ate the emperor's hair. With a bold…
Discover all about barmy beasts and cagey creatures across history in Horrible Histories Animals. From gory stories of stone age sacrifices, Roman murderous games, a clever Victorian baboon given the…
Discover all the foul facts about the Smashing Saxons, including who got cow pats as Christmas presents, why wearing a pig on your head is lucky and how to make…
All the foul facts about the WOEFUL SECOND WORLD WAR are ready to uncover, including why the blitzed Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty, what really happened in Dad’s Army…
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In this brilliant new edition of Pirates, Terry Deary reveals the terrible truth behind the lousy pirate legends and lies so forget the brave heroes swinging from masts and the…
Discover all the foul facts about the Terrifying Tudors in this classic Horrible Histories title. With a striking newspaper look throughout!
Discover all the foul facts about fifty gruesome great houses in this brand new Horrible Histories book.
The Truly Terrible History of the Toilet is full of horrible facts about the loo. Read all about how the ancient Romans used sponges on sticks to wipe each other…
HORRIBLE HISTORIES: LIVERPOOL takes readers on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Liverpool. From the Vicious Vikings who slaughtered the Liverpudlian monks, but left behind their legacy of the…
HORRIBLE HISTORIES: YORK takes readers on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of York, exposing all of its most scurrilous secrets. With the frightful map tourists can plot their path…
This title tells the story of the Scots from the desperate Dark Ages to the terrible 20th century. It provides facts on cool kings, cruel kings, mean queens and wise…
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Terry Deary,Martin Brown
All the most horrible facts about the Groovy Greeks ready for readers to uncover, including why girls ran about naked pretending to be bears, who had the world’s first flushing…
Discover all the foul facts behind the story of Britain and Ireland’s seafaring heritage in this brand new Horrible Histories book. In Horrible Histories: All at Sea. Full of the…
Jump into Celtic life with Terry Deary, the master of making history fun. Discover why Celtic warriors fought without any kit on, how they preserved their enemy’s brains once they’d…
The World’s Worst is packed full of the foulest gold, silver and bronze medal winning entries in horrible categories such as diseases, battles, emperors, punishments, schools and more. Read all…
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the ANGRY AZTECS, from why the Aztecs liked to eat scum and all about their horrible habit of drinking wine with live…
Readers can discover all the foul facts about WALES, including why Druids split humans in half, how the Normans outwitted the Welsh with a lump of ham and how an…
All the foul facts about the Vicious Vikings are ready to uncover, including including Viking Gods in wedding dresses, corpses on trial and Death by booby-trapped statues. These bestselling titles…
Discover all the terrifying facts about the number one river in London, the Terrible Thames. From gory stories of death, crime and creepy creatures to the freezing Frost Fairs, which…
All the foul facts about the VILE VICTORIANS are ready to uncover, including the murderers who wouldn’t hang, when the first public loo was flushed and how stag hunting took…
All the foul facts about the Measly Middle Ages are ready to uncover, including why chickens had their bottoms shaved, a genuine jester’s joke and what ten-year-old treacle was used…
Discover all the frightful facts behind the story of the railways across the world in this brand new Horrible Histories book. From the puffing pioneers of the British railways who…
All the foul facts about the Frightful First World War are ready to uncover, including how sniffing your own pee could save your life in a gas attack and why…
Readers can discover all the facts about the Savage Stone Age including what they used instead of toilet paper, why a hole in the skull is good for headaches and…
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the RUTHLESS ROMANS, including which emperor enjoyed eating camel’s heels, who were the terrible twins who founded Rome and which evil emperors…
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the STORMIN’ NORMANS, including why Norman knights slept with a dolly and why Crusader ships were defended with barrels of pee. These…
Top 50 Kings and Queens is packed full of foul facts and loathsome lists all about our ruthless rulers. Filled with new material, this pocket-sized guide to rotten royalty has…
From Tintagel Castle in Cornwall to Skibo Castle in the Scottish highlands, Horrible Histories: Crackin' Castles covers the history of Britain from the time of the Romans to the London…
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the SLIMY STUARTS, including why some slimy Stuarts ate toads, snails and fleas, which king picked his nose and never washed his…
Discover all the foul facts about the history of flight in this brand new Horrible Histories book. From the prisoners who were sent up on kites and the brave but…
Discover all the foul facts about the Rotten Romans in this classic Horrible Histories title. These bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of…
All the Awful Egyptians’ most horrible facts ready for readers to uncover, including why the Egyptian people worshipped a dung beetle, which pharaoh married her grandfather and what the ‘Shepherd…
All the most horrible facts about the Gorgeous Georgians ready for readers to uncover, including what they used squashed fish eyes for and all the skills you need to be…
Readers can discover the foul facts about the SCOTLAND, including the truth about William Wallace, the disgusting details of sick Scottish torture techniques, and how to terrify a tourist with…
HORRIBLE HISTORIES GRUESOME GUIDES: LONDON takes readers on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of London, exposing all of its most scurrilous secrets. Take a trip to the terrifying Tower…
Readers can discover all the foul facts about England, including which monk tried to pinch the devil’s nose with a pair of tongs, why some people in the Middle Ages…
Readers can discover all the foul facts about IRELAND, including why wax models were captured and made Prisoners of War, which warriors went to battle naked, and how to make…
Discover all the frightful stories behind iconic ghost tales from around the world. From the ancient evils of Egypt, cutthroat Celtic sacrifices, Anne Boleyn and other restless royals as well…
Discover all the frightful facts behind the story of cars on the road across the world in this brand new Horrible Histories book. From scalding steam engines to preposterous propellor…
The blood-curdling history of Britain and Ireland from Terry Deary! The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales in full colour…
Discover all the foul facts with history's most horrible headlines: Victorian edition. From ridiculous stories of why burglars were scared of bogies to how a snick fadger might kiddy-nap your…
The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to the foul but fascinating Horrible History of the World, from brain-nibbling Neanderthals to terrified teenage soldiers in the…
