AS SEEN ON BBC'S COUNTRYFILEFrom the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize This is a story about a boy named Kester He is extraordinary but he doesn't know that yet All he knows at this very moment is this 1 There is a flock of excited pigeons in his bedroom 2 They are talking to him 3 His life will never be quite the same again A captivating animal adventure destined to be loved by readers of all ages ...

AS SEEN ON BBC'S COUNTRYFILEFROM THE WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE A thrilling animal adventure for fans of Roald Dahl David Walliams & Katherine Rundell This is the story of a boy named Kester He has rescued the last wild animals in the world & saved his capital city from destruction But now he must face his greatest challenge yet because 1 The only blue whale on the planet has brought news from across the ocean 2 A mysterious steel dome has risen from the Four Towers 3 Out there somewhere a brave mouse holds the key to the future ...

Shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize THE LAST WILDERNESS is a hauntingly beautiful memoir on nature & hearing loss for readers of Macfarlane's THE OLD WAYS or John Lewis-Stempel's THE RUNNING HARE 320 pages Ansell Neil ...

Geralt is a witcher a man whose magic powers enhanced by long training & a mysterious elixir have made him a brilliant fighter & a merciless assassin Yet he is no ordinary murderer his targets are the multifarious monsters & vile fiends that ravage the land & attack the innocent He roams the country seeking assignments but gradually comes to realise that while some of his quarry are unremittingly vile vicious grotesques others are the victims of sin evil or simple naivety One reviewer said ' This book is a sheer delight It is beautifully written full of vitality & endlessly inventive its format with half a dozen episodes & intervening rest periods for both the hero & the reader allows for a huge range of characters scenarios & action It's thought-provoking without being in the least dogmatic witty without descending to farce & packed with sword fights without being derivative The dialogue sparkles; characters morph almost imperceptibly from semi-cliche to completely original; nothing is as it first seems Sapkowski succeeds in seamlessly welding familiar ideas unique settings & delicious twists of originality his Beauty wants to rip the throat out of a sensitive Beast; his Snow White seeks vengeance on all & sundry his elves are embittered & vindictive It's easily one of the best things I've read in ages' ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Kaulder (Vin Diesel) is the only one of his kind remaining & has spent centuries hunting down rogue witches all the while yearning for his long-lost loved ones However unbeknownst to him the Witch Queen has been resurrected & seeks revenge on Kaulder causing an epic battle that will determine the survival of the human race ...

In The Last Wolf Jim Crumley explores the place of the wolf in Scotland
- past present & future
- & challenges many of the myths

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In The Last Wolf a philosophy professor is mistakenly hired to write the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura a barren stretch of Spain His miserable experience is narrated in a single rolling sentence to a patently bored bartender in a dreary Berlin bar In Herman a master trapper is asked to clear a forest's last 'noxious beasts' Herman begins with great zeal although in time he switches sides deciding to track entirely new game In Herman II the same events are related from the perspective of strange visitors to the region a group of hyper-sexualised aristocrats who interrupt their orgies to pitch in with the manhunt of poor Herman These intense perfect novellas full of Krasznhorkai's signature sense of foreboding & dark irony are perfect examples of his craft ...

It is often assumed that the national identity must be a matter of values & ideas But in Robert Winder's brilliantly-written account it is a land built on a lucky set of natural ingredients the island setting that made it maritime; the rain that fed the grass that nourished the sheep that provided the wool & the wheat fields that provided its cakes & ale Then came the seams of iron & coal that made it an industrial giant In Bloody Foreigners Robert Winder told the rich story of immigration to Britain Now in The Last Wolf he spins an English tale Travelling the country he looks for its hidden springs not in royal pageantry or politics but in landscape & history Medieval monks with their flocks of sheep cathedrals built by wool the first shipment of coal to leave Newcastle marital contests on a village green mock-Tudor supermarkets
- the story is studded with these & other English things And it starts by looking at a very important thing England did not have wolves
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Michael Morpurgo has created a sweeping & dramatic story in the time of Bonnie Prince Charlie This spellbinding tale is complemented perfectly by Michael Foreman's illustrations Robbie Mc Leod & a wolf cub both orphaned venture far from their birthplace a land of rebellious fighters & vicious redcoats There is little constancy in Robbie's adventurous life save for the companionship of his wolf But when at last Robbie finds a place where he can peacefully make his home he knows in his heart that the wolf must find his own natural home too ...

What sort of a place is England? & who are the English? As the United Kingdom turns away from its European neighbours & begins to look increasingly disunited at home it is becoming necessary to ask what England has that is singular & its own 480 pages 25 integrated black & white pictures Winder Robert ...