” 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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As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives & used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. ” The Twelve Caesars” chronicles the public careers & private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar & Augustus, to the decline into depravity & civil war under Nero & the recovery that came with his successors. A masterpiece of observation, anecdote & detailed physical description, ” The Twelve Caesars” presents us with a gallery of vividly drawn
- & all too human
- individuals.

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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! ...

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! ...

In this festive pop-up book, the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning illustrator Grahame Baker-Smith exquisitely illustrates each scene in the favourite Christmas carol ” The Twelve Days of Christmas”. The book is presented in a beautiful slipcase. The perfect Christmas gift or stocking-filler. ...

The big day has almost arrived & one little puppy is very excited about his first EVER Christmas. But with three drooling Dalmatians, six sausage-snaffling Scotties & every dog in town helping out, the festive season is a shambles! Will everything be ready in time for Christmas Day? Children will love picking their favourite dogs & spotting the puppy in busy scenes. This hilarious picture book is a great way to introduce children to Christmas traditions. ...

Before she became the nineteenth-century's heroine, before he had written a word of Madame Bovary, Florence Nightingale & Gustave Flaubert traveled up the Nile at the same time. In reality, they never met. But in The Twelve Rooms of the Nile, they ignite a friendship marked by intelligence, humor, & a ravishing tenderness that will alter both their destinies. On the surface, Nightingale & Flaubert have little in common. She is a woman with radical ideas about society & God, naive in the ways of men. He is a notorious womanizer, involved with innumerable prostitutes. But both are at painful crossroads in their lives & burn with unfulfilled ambition. In Shomer's deft hands, the two unlikely soulmates come together to share their darkest torments & fervent hopes. Brimming with adventure & the sparkling sensibilities of the two travelers, this mesmerizing debut novel offers a luminous combination of gorgeous prose & wild imagination, all of it colored by the opulent tapestry of mid-nineteenth century Egypt. ...