Sparrow, Giles – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:19:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Sparrow, Giles – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Deep space danger https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/deep-space-danger/ Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=42900 Spin to Survive: Deep Space Danger, the fourth in the series, launches you on your most daring adventure yet: surviving on board a spaceship heading for disaster.]]> The innovative  Spin to Survive  series boldly goes where no game-in-a-book has gone before with its fourth instalment.  As part  of a pioneering mission to Mars, you’ve earned your place as one of  Earth’s greatest explorers. Now, become its most tenacious hero as you fight for your life and the lives of your crew when your spaceship meets with catastrophe. All systems are down, your crewmates are gone, and you’re millions of miles from help.

Armed only with your scientific knowhow, a few scraps of hi-tech gear and, of course, your astronaut’s Survival Spinner, it’s up to you to avert the impending calamity. Will you abort the mission and set a course for home, try  to bring the spaceship back online and complete your journey, or attempt to divert to a nearby asteroid mining station?

On each spread, read the story, make your choice, then use the pop-out spinner to determine if it was the lucky one… or not! With dozens of paths and unexpected disasters along the way, readers aged 8-12 will love embarking on this journey again and again.

Play your way through a host of hazards as you fight to survive, enduring solar flares, asteroid belts, space-walks and more interplanetary challenges. Prepare for adventure… and take to the stars!

]]> The history of our universe in 21 stars https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-history-of-our-universe-in-21-stars/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=34407 Previously published as A History of the Universe in 21 Stars.

‘A delight and triumph … A thing of beauty … Truly, truly magical’ talkRADIO

Look up on a clear evening, and you’ll see thousands of stars shining in the night sky, each telling a story of their own. With star maps to help easily identify key celestial bodies, astronomer Giles Sparrow takes 21 stars (and three imposters) to look at what each pinprick of light can tell us about the birth, life and death of our universe.

From red giants to supernovae and from stellar cities to our own Sun, The History of Our Universe in 21 Stars shows how the lights we see in the sky can help us unravel the mysteries of the cosmos.

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