Books published by Pan Macmillan

Follow twelve-year-old Sim's time travel adventure in Ancient Egypt in Hunt for the Golden Scarab, the first title in Time Keys, a spectacular, action-packed mystery series by bestselling, multi-award-winning author M. G. Leonard. Perfect for fans of Adventures on Trains, Beetle Boy and Twitch.

The Best Friend Experiment by Susannah Nix is the fifth in the Chemistry Lessons series of standalone rom-coms featuring heroines who work in STEM fields.

A beautifully decorative colouring book inspired by L. Frank Baum's classic story, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Three classic Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler picture books with songs, games, quizzes and more activities to enjoy with each story.

From award-winning, bestselling Diane Ewen, The Great Unicorn Rescue is a charming, unicorn-filled tale about friendship and fighting your fears.

A stunningly beautiful celebration of love in all its forms, using rich, colourful imagery.

A cute springtime animal book with felt flaps to lift and a surprise mirror ending

A funny interactive mystery packed with briliant brain-busting puzzles!

A fascinating insight into the complexity, history and unpredictability of Iraq.By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun. Rory Stewart, a young Biritish diplomat, was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority's deputy governor of a province of 850,000 people in the southern marshland region. There, he and his colleagues confronted gangsters, Iranian-linked politicians, tribal vendettas and a full Islamist insurgency. Occupational Hazards is Rory Stewart's inside account of the attempt to rebuild a nation, the errors made, the misunderstandings and insurmountable difficulties encountered. It reveals an Iraq hidden from most foreign journalists and soldiers. Stewart is an award-winning writer, gifted with extraordinary insight into the comedy, occasional heroism and moral risks of foreign occupation. 'Beautifully written, highly evocative . . . a joy to read' John Simpson 'A marvellous book . . . a devastating narrative' Simon Jenkins 'Absolutely absorbing' Ken Loach 'Strikes gut and brain at once' James Meek 'Wonderfully observed, wise, evocative' Observer

The central novel from V.S. Naipaul's Booker Prize-winning narrative of displacement, published for the first time in a stand-alone edition.'In a Free State was conceived in 1969 as a sequence about displacement. There was to be a central novel, set in Africa, with shorter surrounding matter from other places. The shorter pieces from these varied places were intended to throw a universal light on the African material. But then, as the years passed and the world changed, and I felt myself less of an oddity as a writer, I grew to feel that the central novel was muffled and diminished by the surrounding material and I began to think that the novel should be published on its own. This is what, many years after its first publication, my publisher is doing in this edition.' - V. S. Naipaul. In a Free State is set in Africa, in a place like Uganda or Rwanda, and its two main characters are English. They had once found liberation in Africa. But now Africa is going sour on them. The land is no longer safe, and at a time of tribal conflict they have to make a long drive to the safety of their compound. At the end of this drive - the narrative tight, wonderfully constructed, the formal and precise language always instilled with violence and rage - we know everything about the English characters, the African country, and the Idi Amin-like future awaiting it.

By Cormac McCarthy, the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, Outer Dark is a novel at once mythic and starkly evocative, set in an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.

A brilliant new collection from one of Britain's finest contemporary poets.

A timely and innovative new poetry collection from the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2022