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A selection of children's favourite rhymes. Ages 2+.

Being fourteen is hard but it's even harder when your parents uproot you from a cosy little country town to a huge urban high school.Already unsettled and anxious about the...

Wild & Woolley: A Publishing Memoir is Wilding's rollicking account of those heady bohemian years in the 1970s and 80s, charting the growth, the experiments, and the development of this...

Rituals provides spiritual rituals and meditations for the modern world, for times of celebration and grief. Dorothy McRae-McMahon, who is internationally renowned for her knowledge of rituals, has created meaningful...

A light-hearted look at the pleasures and pitfalls of sitting on a committee. de-mystifies committee dynamics and procedures, offers diagnoses and examines a range of remedies and survival strategies. It...

A celebration of 100 years of motor sport in Australia dating from the first organised competitive events in 1904. Endorsed by Confederation of Australian Motor sport (CAMS), it tracks the...

Giuseppe is leaving his flat in the city of Rome, where he has lived for more than twenty years, to go and live with his brother in America. He must...

A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in...

Esther Williams is thirty and single. She lives with her grandmother in a small house and her life is one of routine and order; she takes a seaside holiday each...

It is the summer of 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is on holiday in Germany with her brother and his wife. On the surface, Charlotte is an unmarried aunt with a...

Nineteen-year-old Lea is from a village that is out of time, out of jobs and out of hope. She and her friends, however, are vivid and electric with life. They...

A game between a woman's father and husband simmers and boils into scalding danger; a daughter creates an elaborate feast for her grieving mother; a solar eclipse burns emotions and...

Presently, on the sea floor, I began to find lost things; toraise the moods that were mine when I was fourteenyears old, sitting in this garden, writing my Anthology ofHates....

'If you've ever tasted the after-rain clay dirt on a Kansassummer afternoon, or if you've ever secretly wanted to,you may understand why I was often tempted to eat astick of...

Admired by W. H. Auden as one of the greatest American writers, M. F. K Fisher never focuses on just the food set before her. Instead, with unfailingly elegant prose,...

Read the tales of Robbie the Tiger, Rose the Hippo, Libby the Dog and Davey the Elephant as they learn all about different feelings. Read how each character manages in...

Lou is a shy and diligent librarian at the local Heritage Institute. She works monotonous and dusty hours long into the night but she has found nothing - and no...

Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside...

Vivian Gornick's writing has always explored the hard truths of existence: the nature of human loneliness, and the struggle to love, work, and connect. In these seven seminal essays Gornick...

'Dear Michele, she wrote, I'm writing principally to tell you that your father is sick. Go visit him. He says he hasn t seen you for days.' Michele is the...

Friendship blossoms between an enigmatic girl and a whisky distiller's granddaughter on a remote Scottish island. It's the 1950s, and Lorrie is unimpressed when her family moves to the remote...

I cannot mourn, for I have lived a life of mountain air and cherry blossoms, steel, and honour. An achingly beautiful story of courage, loss and friendship. And these are...

A master illustrator helps sets the record straight in this picture book telling the other side of the Rumpelstilskin story For years, people have had the wrong idea about that...

Christmas seems to offer few joys to the four daughters of the March household. With their army chaplain father away at the Civil War, times are hard for Meg, Jo,...

This book celebrates the centenary of the Ramsey Steamship Co. Ltd. It is a short history in words and pictures illustrating its highlights and some of its difficult times. By...

Revelations of the Secret Service was first published in 1911. The author, William le Queux (pronounced 'Q'), was one of the first creators of the spy story. A journalist-turned-author, he...

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Delivering two 38-year-old Mississippi river tugboats halfway around the world from Bahrain to Trinidad would not be every ship master's dream employment. However, for Captain David Creamer, the seven-week voyage...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was not only an exceptionally prolific and versatile writer. As a minister of state in the small duchy of Sachsen-Weimar he had to deal with...

Visionaries of the 20th Century brings together the lives and works of 100 great men and women who offered inspiration, hope and healing. The 20th century was marked by wars,...

World boxing is in crisis. After decades of corruption and abuse, governing bodies now successfully collude in kickbacks and payoffs while many of the greatest boxers are left destitute and...

Bringing life and warmth into our homes, creating comfort and atmosphere, colour is once more an important aspect of modern decorating. Classic neutral tones the ubiquitous range of white, cream,...

The catalogue is arranged in three parts: firstly, a biographical section, incorporating portraits and records of events of both personal and national significance; secondly, a section drawn from Queen Elizabeth's...

In two World Wars, nearly 200 railway-owned ships were converted to operate as troop carriers, hospital ships, minesweepers, and seaplane-carriers, while others carried on normal sailings in a world suddenly...

Travel to one of the most beautiful cities in the world in the company of its finest writers. Walk the mysterious nighttime streets of Prague with Franz Kafka and Jaroslav...

What is a Dreamwalker? They are the rare few who, as Mary Summer Rain describes them, are "led by the spirit, ' have "shed the yoke of desire and self-want,"...

An extraordinarily warm and funny book about a big brother's courage and inventiveness when he discovers his parents have been run over by a truck - or have they? 'It's...

One day, when Baby Hippo woke up, he was in such a rush to go and play that he forgot to give his mum a kiss... The story that follows...

Janice Raymond offers a vision of female friendship that is as exhilarating as it is controversial. In this feminist classic, she explores the many manifestations of friendship between women, including...

For Mara, mother of four, and sole provider for her family, life has never been easy. In her community women carry a heavy burden as the world changes around them....

Lisa Saffron is the acknowledged UK expert on self-insemination, runs parenting workshops and writes a column in "Diva" magazine about lesbian families. Now, in one unique volume, Saffron uses new...