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Alcohol is mankind's favourite drug. Tipple, poison, mother's ruin, mud in your eye, juice, a shot of the hard stuff and plonk - all of these terms are included in this anthology of nips and draughts of every intoxicant in the thesaurus with swigs from Homer, the Bible and Dickens.

A beautiful cloth-bound collection of festive stories, carols, prose and poetry, bound in stunning Liberty fabric for Christmas.

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All his life, Jack Henley has felt at home in the woods - more at home than when he's actually at home with his parents. When Jack discovers that the woods hide an incredible secret - a beautiful, extraordinary, unicorn - he cannot believe his eyes.

An eye-opening survey of cricket, from the crowd violence and blatant match-rigging of the eighteenth century, down to the twentieth century's glaring abuses of the spirit of the game. Written in the same lively style that won such praise for his W.G.

Simon Rae is a poet and broadcaster. For many years he wrote topical poems for the Guardian newspaper and was also presenter of the popular Radio 4 programme, Poetry Please! He then branched out, writing the definitive biography of the great Victorian cricketer, W. G. Grace, followed by a number of plays, before turning to fiction. He published his first novel, Unplayable, in 2009. Stone Butterfly is his second book for children.

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A 'cosy crime' murder story at the heart of the English countryside, interspersed with intrigue, feuding...and cricket.

A collection of poems from the winner of the National Poetry Competition. From the dangerously unreliable mounts of the title poem running amok on the race-course through equally dangerous encounters with a bruiser in a bar, to studies of torturers, rapists and unwitting arsonists, these poems explore the darker side of human behaviour.