The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in the house she soon becomes obsessed with the idea that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. Meanwhile The Aspern Papers explores obsession of a more worldly kind, with its tale of a literary historian determined to get his hands on some letters written by a great poet. Such is his drive, he is quite prepared to use trickery & deception to achieve his aims... ...

In these extraordinary tales about ordinary people from ordinary places, Tim Winton describes turnings of all kinds: second thoughts, changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, abrupt transitions. The seventeen stories overlap to paint a convincing & cohesive picture of a world where people struggle against the terrible weight of their past & challenge the lives they have made for themselves. ...

This is a rare discovery in the world of fairy tales
- now for the first time in English. With this volume, the holy trinity of
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” One of the most unusual & affecting books...a compulsively readable, devastating novel.” (Jonathan Safran Foer). When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers, it is only a matter of time before he begins terrorising the countryside, earning his malevolent name from the humans he kills & then tenderly buries with leaves. Manu, the studious son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger & is drawn into the alluring world of ivory hunting. Emma is working on a documentary set in a Kerala wildlife park with her best friend. Her work leads her to witness the porous boundary between conservation & corruption & she finds herself caught up in her own betrayal. As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love & revenge, fact & myth, duty & sacrifice. In a feat of audacious imagination & arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage tells an original & heartbreaking story about how we treat nature, & each other. ...

One of the world`s great salmon rivers, the Tweed cuts through the heart of the Scottish Borders &, in part, forms the historic boundary between Scotland & Engl&. Rising in the rolling hills near Moffat it weaves through a cherished landscape on its way to Berwick-upon-Tweed & the North Sea passing through the proud Border towns of Peebles, Galashiels, Melrose, Kelso & Coldstream on the way. There is no better way to discover the wildlife, architecture & history of this area of Scotland than to walk. Whatever your ability
- walking at high or low level, following tough terrain or level paths
- the 25 routes in this guide offer something for everyone.

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Anna Wright has rapidly developed a following across the UK for her print, collage work & paintings, following in the footsteps of Emma Bridgewater, Tricia Guild & Liberty as she takes her designs across stationery & homeware. She is now embarking on her third picture book for children. Anna brings humour, beauty & sophistication to this perennially popular Christmas hymn, with her signature style. Exquisitely rendered in pen, ink, watercolour & collage, The twelve days of Christmas are beautifully & playfully reimagined for today`s readership
- & have never looked so sumptuous.
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Ladybird`s ” Twelve Days of Christmas” is a sturdy board book perfect for sharing with young children at Christmas time. It contains the full Christmas song with all twelve verses, from twelve drummers drumming & eleven pipers piping down to the partridge in a pear tree! ” The Twelve Days of Christmas” is perfect for helping the whole family learn all the words to this festive favourite. With bright images to count on every page. It is also great for young children mastering their first numbers; as they count up to twelve & all the way back down again. This is perfect stocking filler for every young child at Christmas! ...

` On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree...` The lyrics to this well-known, traditional Christmas song, have been transformed into a brightly coloured picture book, with illustrations by Moldovan artist violeta Dabija. ...

My dearest darling- That partridge, in that lovely little pear tree! What an enchanting, romantic, poetic present! Bless you & thank you. Your deeply loving Emily Everyone knows the ` Twelve days of Christmas`, but not as rewritten by John Julius Norwich in this delightful correspondence, which records the daily thank-you letters from one increasingly bemused young lady to her unseen admirer. & who but Quentin Blake could exploit the full comic possibilities of this hilarious debacle as first birds, then maids & finally the full percussion section of the Liverpool Philharmonic create mayhem in the calm of an English country Christmas? ...

Introduce children to the traditional song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, in this beautiful new book, featuring illustrations by Britta Teckentrup. The peep-through pages reveal each new Christmas gift, creating a stunning layered effect. A perfect gift for your true love! ...