Panic

那群倒楣又搞笑的「超展開五人組」依舊維持著奇葩的外表：會吐彩虹的龐克獨角獸、傲慢膽小的無尾熊魔術師、還有那尊會走路的浴缸……為了找回弄丟的魔杖並變回人類，他們在路邊發現了一座神祕的「流動廁所」。等等，這不是普通會發臭的廁所，而是一個「多維度時空傳送門（Portal Loo）」！只要沖水、按鈕，就能帶你穿越時空！五人組一不小心按錯設定，瞬間被噴射到古埃及建造金字塔的現場、轉眼又掉進充滿飢餓暴龍的恐龍時代，甚至還差點被外星人抓去研究？！一路上，他們必須忍受廁所裡的劇烈搖晃，還要在歷史與未來的維度裡瘋狂逃命、尋找魔杖！The Far-Out Five!A madcap team of adventurers, lost far from home without the magical wand that could change them back into a normal group of kids and one grumpy amateur magician...Spewnicorn, a punk unicorn who vomits rainbowsWally, a pompous and cowardly koalaTubbs, a walking bathtubBloof, a blue-footed booby andGlossy Jeff, a really chilled-out sealTogether they must sail the oceans and face bizarre creatures, weird islands and mysterious tasks on their quest to find Wally’s missing wand and get back home.Now they face an island with a lot of Portal Loos – mobile toilets that are gateways to different interconnected dimensions – obviously! With a rampaging evil impala on the loose, they must hop from world to world with only the

A grippingly personal analysis of J. K. Rowling's rise as an anti-trans activist, its media and pop cultural context, and trans resistance to the moral panic she has stoked. In J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic, Gina Gwenffrewi weaves her own experience as a trans woman living in Edinburgh, Scotland, with analysis of political and pop cultural discourses and artifacts to deliver a trenchant study of how fellow Edinburgh resident J. K. Rowling's emergence as a major anti-trans campaigner and the years-long entrenchment of existing anti-trans forces have converged. Analyzing Rowling's output since 2020, a series of anti-trans events at the University of Edinburgh, the transphobic comedy of Ricky Gervais within the British media landscape, YouTube commentaries, and more, Gwenffrewi creates a potent taxonomy of the rhetorical devices and foundational assumptions of anti-trans discourse. While the 2020s UK has proved fertile ground for "gender-critical" feminism, she argues, it has al

From the internationally bestselling author of the DCI Ryan MysteriesMurder and mystery collide with dark humour in this explosive, fast-paced thriller.“The only way to catch a killer is to think like one…”When a senior Metropolitan Police officer and a High Court judge die within days of each other, criminal profiler Doctor Alex Gregory senses a chilling pattern. To him, the deaths echo the most devastating failure of his career: the wrongful conviction of Carl Deere, once accused of being the infamous ‘Soho Killer’.Four years earlier, Deere was cleared of the murders and released from prison—his name legally erased, his face surgically altered, his identity reborn. Officially, he no longer exists.But the past is not so easily buried.As the body count rises and public scrutiny intensifies, Gregory begins to fear that someone is orchestrating revenge with meticulous precision. Is Deere, the once-innocent man destroyed by the system, now hunting those he blames? Or is someone else manip

Gale has tried everything to master his anxious self, and when the happy-go-lucky Aiden stirs a little chaos into his life, Gale has to decide if stepping out of his comfort zone is really worth it. Gale's trying to master his anxiety, and he's hoping the latest wonder-cure "Simply Pear" can help. Not turning up to his art classes and feeling like everyone is a lot cooler and more in control than he is, he chugs his Simply Pear products and takes advice from its demanding app. Oh, it's definitely not working. His plan is thrown into chaos by the bubbly Aiden, who needs a buddy to help him get a job. Can this colourful and heartfelt romp through shoddy part-time jobs help Gale out of his anxious bubble? There's only one way to find out.