Rumbelow is so excited to visit his grandparents that he can''t help but dance all the way there. His dance is infectious, and it isn''t long before a whole host of characters -…
A bizarre mystery surrounding a family tragedy forms the centrepiece of Rachel's struggle as an astonishingly beautiful mixed-race child in a mostly black community. As terrible…
We are in the midst of a worldwide waste epidemic, where the average person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every seven weeks. The figure looks even worse…
The Girl from Guildford Street describes a working class childhood, growing up in Lozells, Birmingham, 1957-1968. The author and her sister and cousins were the last generation to…
A cute collection of short stories and rhymes, with pictures of cuddly teddy bears throughout.
Freestone & Webb was a great name in British coachbuilding for some 35 years, but as demand for coachbuilt car bodies dried up in the 1950s, the company became the first of the…
“I try to write something every day even though I am not writing poetry, just to get myself in touch with language.â€â€”Edwin MorganEdwin Morgan (1920–2010) is one of the…
A century before Charles Darwin, decades before the French Revolution, Gilbert White began his lifelong habit of measuring and observing the world around his Hampshire home.
The arts were an important shared enthusiasm of Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert, throughout their marriage. Of particular personal significance for them were the…
Are you feeling broken? Separation and divorce can catch us at our most vulnerable, at a time when we're in need of impartial, solid counsel. This book's been written by…
What do the celebrated actors, the bestselling novelist, the Nepalese Sherpa and the famous model have in common? Like millions of us, they love their gardens—and with good…
