A beautiful lost classic of nature writing which sits alongside Tarka the Otter Watership Down War Horse & The Story of a Red Deer This is the story of Wulfgar the dark-furred fox of Dartmoor & of his nemesis Scoble the trapper in the seasons leading up to the pitiless winter of 1947 As breathtaking in its descriptions of the natural world as it is perceptive its portrayal of damaged humanity it is both a portrait of place & a gripping story of survival Uniquely straddling the worlds of animals & men Brian Carter's A Black Fox Running is a masterpiece lyrical unforgiving & unforgettable ...

At midday on 31st August Sedgewick the new history master arrives at Blindefellows former charity school for poor blind boys now a second division private school for anyone who can pay The naive newcomer is quickly taken under the wing of the rumbustious philandering Japes master of physics who soon becomes something of a mentor though not in an academic sense A Blindefellows Chronicle follows the adventures of Sedgewick Japes & a handful of other unmarried faculty at an obscure West Country boarding school including the closeted headmaster Reverend Hareton stalwart Matron Ridgeway & loathsome librarian Fairchild ...

When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study everyone is shocked & mystified Ernest was well-liked & respected so who would have a motive for killing him? Enter Superintendent Hannasyde who with consummate skill begins to uncover the complexities of Fletcher's life It seems the real Fletcher was far from the gentleman he pretended to be There is in fact no shortage of people who wanted him dead Then a second murder is committed with striking similarities to the first giving a grotesque twist to a very unusual case ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDMussolini was not only ruthless he was subtle & manipulative Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him arson murder destruction of homes & offices bribes & intimidation His opponents
- including editors union representatives lawyers & judges
- were beaten into submission But the tide turned in 1924 when his assassins went too far horror spread across Italy & antifascist resistance was born Among those whose disgust hardened into bold & uncompromising resistance was a family from Florence Amelia Carlo & Nello Rosselli Caroline Moorehead draws readers into the lives of this remarkable family
- their loves their loyalties their laughter & their ultimate sacrifice


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Bridging the gap between novelty board books & picture flats this adorable new series encourages little readers to engage with a central character & then follow a simple plot What noises do the farm animals make?) & interactive elements throughout the child is drawn in from the outset 12 pages ...

Bridget Christie is a st&-up comedian idiot & feminist On the 30th of April 2012 a man farted in the Women's Studies Section of a bookshop & it changed her life forever A Book For Her details Christie's twelve years of anonymous toil in the bowels of st&-up comedy & the sudden epiphany that made her unbelievably one of the most critically acclaimed British st&-up comedians this decade drawing together the threads that link a smelly smell in the women's studies section to the global feminist struggle Find out how nice Peter Stringfellow's fish tastes how yoghurt advertising perpetuates rape myths & how Emily Bronte used a special ladies' pen to write Wuthering Heights If you're interested in comedy & feminism then this is definitely the book for you If you hate both then I'd probably give it a miss " Christie is adept at turning on a sixpence between being comical or serious or both at once & at pricking her own earnestness" Telegraph Christie piles derision & tomfoolery upon everyday sexism while never pretending that jokes alone will solve the problem' Guardian ...

The story of Trump's America' Daily Mail Two families Two faces of America One violent crime that will bitterly divide them
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This is a book of book lists Not of the '1001 Books You MUST Read Before You Die' variety but lists that tell stories Lists that make you smile make you wonder & see titles together in entirely new ways From Bin Laden's bookshelf to the books most frequently left in hotels from prisoners' favourite books to MPs' most borrowed books these lists are proof that a person's bookcase tells you everything you need to know about them & sometimes more besides ...

This essential Middle English textbook now in its third edition introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 & 1400 It is a new thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook It introduces the language of the time giving guidance on pronunciation spelling grammar metre vocabulary & regional dialects It now

Includes:: extracts from ' Pearl' & Chaucer's Troilus & Criseyde Bibliographic references have been updated throughout Each text is accompanied by detailed notes

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Morrison&s intense examination of the world of things that accompany our lives & shape our environment Jasper Morrison has the ability to bestow things with a distinctive style His signature style is evident in many of the everyday objects that surround us His repertoire of essential designs is characterized by simplicity yet complexity as well as a sense of poetry & humor Morrison works on a global scale & is one of the most onfluential product designers in the world today A Book of Things is a collection of products & projects across the broad spectrum of his activities & demonstrates the continuity of his interests & methods ehich he describes in succinct texts ...