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Who is allowed to speak? What is it to see? These are some of the questions filtering through Nick Flynn's extraordinary new collection. Loosely based on the life of Francois Huber, the eighteenth-century beekeeper and blind savant, who is alleged to have sat before a series of hives for fifty years, thereby unlocking, and entering deeply into, an unknown world. In these poems, Burnens, his assistant throughout, becomes Huber's eyes and hands,...

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A "best of" poetry anthology, based on five previous collections.

George Clare's incredibly affecting account of Nazi brutality towards the Jews. 'A beautiful book: a fascinating piece of history' Beryl Bainbridge

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An unusual, lyrical love story

S, M, L, XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, pe...

The thrilling tale of a tiny snail and a great big grey-blue humpback whale ...

Wise old man, won't you help me, please? My house is a squash and squeeze.'' What can you do if your house is too small? The wise old man knows: bring in a flappy, scratchy, noisy crowd of farmyard animals. When you push them all out again, you'll be amazed at how big your house feels!A Squash and a Squeeze is the brilliantly funny first ever picture book written and illustrated by the award-winning team of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, ...

Delightful story and song now available in CD format!

An exquisitely-crafted tale of love and loss from the author of Four Letters of Love and Only Say the Word

By the author of the acclaimed Essays in Love

The witch and her cat fly happily over forests, rivers and mountains on their broomstick until a stormy wind blows away the witch's hat, bow and wand. Fortunately, each item is picked up by helpful animals who join the grateful witch and her cat on their travels. But is there really room on the broom for so many new friends? And when disaster strikes, will they be able to save the witch from the clutches of a hungry dragon?Room on the Broom is...

The classic boy-hero of American literature. Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. There were some in his dusty old Mississippi town who believed he would be President, if he escaped a hanging. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, rescues an innocent man from the gallows,...

The Count of Monte Cristo is the ultimate novel of retribution. Based on a true story, it recounts the story of Edouard Dantes, his betrayal, and imprisonment in the sinister Chateau d'If. Years later, Paris is intrigued by the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, who bursts onto the Paris social scene with his millions. He encounters the three principal betrayers of Dantes who have prospered in the post-Napoleonic boom and, one by one, their liv...

Julia Donaldson is the author of some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 17 million copies worldwide, and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle books illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs ¿ and her brilliant live shows are always in dem...

Brilliant and terrifying' Observer Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is, men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. So he has taken the initiative, left the coast, acquired his own shop in a small, growing city in the continent's remote interior and is selling sundries ...

Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer. It is the story of a journey, from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another, and is ...

For Kieran it's his Irish roots, for Michael it's Kieran's girlfriend, for Kieran's girlfriend it's God--some infatuations are so explosive it takes years for the dust to settleIt's 1982, and the summer is oppressive. Twin brothers Michael and Kieran--gasping for air in the middle of an eccentric family that only outsiders find enchanting--are visiting their grandparents in County Cork. The questions and entanglements born of that stifling tri...

A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good." Walk further into the deep dark wood, and discover what happens when the quick-thinking mouse comes face to face with an owl, a snake and a hungry gruffalo . . .Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's The Gruffalo has become a bestselling phenomenon across the world. This award-winning rhyming story of a mouse and a monster is now a modern classic,...