Meet Claude
- the ordinary dog with an extraordinary life. Now the star of his very own TV show on Disney Junior with 52 episodes.
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In this glorious picture book Claude goes on a rollicking seafaring adventure! He swooshes out of the house in the bathtub
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Doodle, design & draw a huge range of delights from Claude`s world! Set your imagination free & doodle away in this doodle book based on the young fiction series. Learn how to draw Claude & Sir Bobblysock, design outfits, friends & book covers for Claude, invent accessories & adventures & much much more... Claude was selected for the Waterstone`s Children`s Book Prize & the Richard & Judy Book Club. Alex T. Smith is the World Book Day Illustrator 2014. Praise for Claude: `...illustrated with humour & elegance...` The Times Follow the author at http://alextsmith.blogspot.co.uk & http://twitter.com/ Alex_T_ Smith ...

Claude discovers a film set on the other side of the fence! When the two lead actors are injured, Claude & Sir Bobblysock are asked to take their places. Can they become movie stars with just the simple addition of a wig? Of course they can! Claude was selected for the Waterstone`s Children`s Book Prize & the Richard & Judy Book Club. Alex T. Smith is the World Book Day Illustrator 2014. Praise for Claude: `...illustrated with humour & elegance...`
- The Times ` With quirky illustrations & plenty of humour...`
- Metro Follow the author at http://alextsmith.blogspot.co.uk & http://twitter.com/ Alex_T_ Smith

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Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here, he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army & the common people to repair the damage caused by Caligula; his relations with the Jewish King Herod Agrippa; & his invasion of Britain. But the growing paranoia of absolute power & the infidelity of his promiscuous young wife, Messalina mean that his good fortune will not last forever. In this second part of Robert Graves` fictionalized autobiography, Claudius
- wry, rueful, always inquisitive
- brings to life some of the most scandalous & violent times in history.

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” After Mark Cocker`s glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.” (Philip Hoare, New Statesman). In 2001 Mark Cocker moved to Claxton, a small village in Norfolk. In a series of daily writings spanning the course of a year he explores his relationship to the landscape he lives in, to nature & to all the living things around him
- the birds, plants, trees, mammals, hoverflies, moths, butterflies, bush crickets, grasshoppers, ants & bumblebees. Passionate, astonishing & inspiring, this book is a celebration of the wonder that lies in our everyday experience.
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Shortlisted for the 2015 Thwaites Wainwright Prize
- In a single twelve-month cycle of daily writings Mark Cocker explores his
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A boy creeps down from a high-rise block in the half-light of dawn to see the neat prints left by a fox on the frosty grass. He is TC, eight years old & skipping school to spend his time exploring the city's waste ground & long-forgotten wild corners. At school & at home he is barely missed. Sophia, seventy-eight & a half & still wearing her dear dead husband's shoes, looks out through her kitchen window at the little city park outside her flat, its grassy acres grimy & litter-blown, but to her eyes beautiful. She is writing her weekly letter to her granddaughter Daisy, whose privileged upbringing means she exists in a different world to that of TC, even though they live less than a mile apart. Jozef spends his days clearing houses & works night shifts at the local takeaway, but he is unable to forget the farm he left behind in Pol&, the woods & fields he grew up with still a part of him, although he is a thousand miles away. When he meets TC in the little park one night he finds a kindred spirit, despite the forty years between them: both lonely, both looking for something, both lost.A lyrical debut novel about innocence & experience, class & consumerism, Clay captures the delicate balance of life in the city, between young & old, between nature & development, between recklessness & caution. ...

Eight-year-old TC skips school to explore the city`s overgrown, forgotten corners. Sophia, seventy-eight, watches with concern as he slips past her window, through the little park she loves. She`s writing to her granddaughter, Daisy, whose privileged upbringing means she exists in a different world from TC
- though the two children live less than a mile apart. Jozef spends his days doing house clearances, his nights working in a takeaway. He can`t forget the farm he left behind in Pol&, its woods & fields still a part of him, although he is a thousand miles away. When he meets TC he finds a kindred spirit: both lonely, both looking for something, both lost.
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Clayton & Thornton East in 1933 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers the centre of Clayton & the eastern part of Thornton. Features include Thornton Hall, St James church, School Green, Leventhorp Hall, tramway, Clayton Beck, Leventhorp Mills, St John's church Clayton, Town End, Oak Mills, Victoria Park etc. On the reverse is a selection of street directory entries for 1936. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...