Author: Alex Woolf

All The Way Down is an ingenious new information book series looking at different ecosystems from the organisms that live near the top to the creat...

Learn the surprising truth about just how important poo really is: it keeps our bodies healthy, and can also be used to power our cars, heat our ho...

Imagine a world without fire. There would be no cooked food, no artificial light and no way of keeping warm in a cool climate. Fire can be dangerou...

Money is one of the most important inventions in the history of human civilisation, allowing people to exchange goods and services, and amass great...

This fascinating guide to natural disasters combines fact-packed, easy-to-read text with colourful and quirky illustrations. From earthquakes to vo...

This fascinating guide to how humans mastered space travel combines fact-packed, easy-to-read text with colourful and quirky illustrations. From th...

This fascinating guide to the construction and architecture of buildings through the ages combines fact-packed, easy-to-read text with colourful an...

Did you know that the chocolate bar you can pick up from any corner shop used to be a precious and exotic food that only aristocracy could afford? ...

Be inspired by the lives of trailblazers past and present in this fun and factual biography series! How did Neil Armstrong become the first person...

The second instalment in this stunning historical-thriller trilogy. The year is 1603. Alice Fletcher''s brother, Richard, has returned from beyond ...

This narrative non-fiction series tells the stories of great moments in science as if through the eyes of the scientists and inventors themselves. ...

This fascinating guide to rocks and minerals combines fact-packed, easy-to-read text with colourful and quirky illustrations. From tectonic plates ...