Two hours ago I fell in loveand trembled, & tremble still, and haven`t a clue whom I should tell. Any hall she reads her poetry in is invariably filled to the gills. In Italy, Patrizia Cavalli is as beloved as Wislawa Szymborska is in Pol&, & if Italy were Japan she`d be designated a national treasure. The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben said of Cavalli that she has written `the most intensely ethical poetry in Italian literature of the 20th century`. One could add that it is, easily, also the most sensual & comical. Though Cavalli has been widely translated into German, French, & Spanish, she remains little known in Britain; My Poems Won`t Change the World is the first substantial gathering of translations of her work into the English language. The book is made up of poems from Cavalli`s collections published by Einaudi from 1974 to 2006, here translated by an illustrious group of poets including Mark Str&, Jorie Graham, Jonathan Galassi & Gini Alhadeff. Thoughtful, sly & full of life, these are poems of the self, the body, pasta, cats, the city traversed on foot or by car, &
- always, & above all
- love.

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The photographer Steve Bloom is off on another expedition, this time to see the animals living at the freezing poles: polar bears, penguins, whales & seals. The book follows Steves journey as he finds out how these animals survive day to day how they live, grow up, hunt & have babies. His on-location account & dramatic photography make for an exciting commentary. Each key animal polar bear, whale, penguin, albatross & seal appears in a 3 4-spread photograph & a close-up box feature that introduces facts. Within the diary narrative, information & photographs are presented in a visually exciting way, from letting the reader watch how a baby penguin grows into an adult, to seeing a roll call of the different kinds of penguin. There are feature boxes throughout, with tips for children who want to take their own photos of animals, & at the back of the book there are two spreads further explaining how to photograph animals in the wild or at home. ...

With interactive elements including pop-ups, flaps, booklets & pull-tabs, this book is an exciting introduction to people & cultures around the world. An exciting follow up to My Pop-Up City Atlas, My Pop-Up Atlas of People is full of facts to discover. From plush city high-rises to homes on the move, from daily routines to rites & rituals, this book is a treasure trove of information on where & how people live. ...

A bright, fun, fact-packed first atlas with detailed illustrations that little geographers will love to immerse themselves in. Each continent has its own spread, with pop-ups, flaps, booklets & pull-tabs to introduce readers to the world`s countries, inhabitants & most famous landmarks. Anita Ganeri wrote Scholastic`s best-selling Horrible Geography series, which won the Geographical Association Silver Award & the Blue Peter Award for the Best Book with Facts in 2009. ...

` You will have heard of my friend the once celebrated novelist Jocelyn Tarbet, but I suspect his memory is beginning to fade... You`d never heard of me, the once obscure novelist Parker Sparrow, until my name was publicly connected with his. To a knowing few, our names remain rigidly attached, like the two ends of a seesaw. His rise coincided with, though did not cause, my decline... I don`t deny there was wrongdoing. I stole a life, & I don`t intend to give it back. You may treat these few pages as a confession.`A jewel of a book: a brand new short story from the author of Atonement. My violet Scented Novel follows the perfect crime of literary betrayal, scrupulously wrought yet unscrupulously executed, published to celebrate Ian Mc Ewan`s 70th birthday. ...

Caly Toys has produced this Roy Poly Inflatable Globe dedicated to toddlers to help them develop their motor skills & learn to count up to five, through play. This colourful & beautifully illustrated ball features a weight at one end that makes it to self righting, wobbling & zig-zagging, when thrown in the air. The colours are linked to continents, just like toddlers learn in preschool. Simple illustrations give examples of the population, vegetation & animals found around the world. Children can also learn to count up to five & this is why there are 2 whales, 3 wolves, 4 birds & 5 fishes on the globe. The manufacturer used a ‘shiny’ printing technique that produces a high quality gloss & finish. The globe comes in two different main colours, pink or blue & measure 38cm diameter. Packed in a presentation box the Roly Poly Inflatable Planet is ideal as gift for children aged 3+. ...

At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City & takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where Dictaphones & typewriters still reign & old-time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches, & at night she goes home to the tiny, threadbare Brooklyn apartment she shares with her socialist boyfriend. Precariously balanced between glamour & poverty, surrounded by titanic personalities & struggling to trust her own artistic sense, Joanna is given the task of answering Salinger`s voluminous fan mail. But as she reads the candid, heart-wrenching letters from his readers around the world, she finds herself unable to type out the agency`s decades-old form response. Instead, drawn inexorably into the emotional world of Salinger`s devotees, she abandons the template & begins writing back... Poignant, keenly observed & irresistibly funny, My Salinger Year is a memoir about literary New York in the late 1990s, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself swept into one of the last great stories & entangled with one of the last great figures of the century. Above all, it is the coming-of-age story of a talented writer & a testament to the universal power of books to shape our lives. ...

Aidan has spent most of his life keeping a low profile because his mum has a terrible secret
- one that he can`t be trusted to
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` Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader for ” My Secret History”.. . Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a. 22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante`s ” Inferno”.. . He is a creature of naked & unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, another life`
- Jonathan Raban, ” Observer”.
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Flossie is just nine years old when, in 1939, Britain declares war on Germany & her father leaves the family home to join the army. Flossie is left to bring up her baby brother & to face a whole host of new experiences on her own. Her diary becomes an outlet for relaying all the news from at home & abroad. From the first evacuees arriving to her sweetheart`s being killed in Normandy in 1944, Flossie has to endure much hardship. But her own special blend of courage, humour & fighting spirit sees her through to the Armistice, when she can welcome her dad home at last. ...