The first book in a hilarious, heart-warming series for children from Costa Award-winning author A. L. Kennedy, illustrated by Gemma Correll. Badger Bill needs rescuing. He`s been kidnapped by two nasty sisters who are about to make him fight a boxing match against three even nastier dogs. The four most depressed llamas in the history of llamas need rescuing too. They are about to be turned into llama pies. But never fear
- Uncle Shawn is here! He loves rescuing things. He has a rescuing plan, which involves dancing, & a mole, & an electric fence. What could possibly go wrong?
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Badger Bill needs rescuing. He`s been kidnapped by two nasty sisters who are about to make him fight a boxing match against three even nastier dogs. The four most depressed llamas in the history of llamas need rescuing too. They are about to be turned into llama pies. But never fear Uncle Shawn is here! He loves rescuing things. He has a rescuing plan, which involves dancing, & a mole, & an electric fence. What could possibly go wrong? ...

The second book in a hilarious, heart-warming series for children from Costa Award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, illustrated by Gemma Correll. Badger Bill loves his best friend Uncle Shawn. But he has started to notice that Uncle Shawn is a bit unusual. Dr P` Klawz hates Uncle Shawn. He has also noticed that Uncle Shawn is a bit unusual
- pajimminy crimminy unusual, in fact. It looks like Badger Bill is going to need a plan, or Uncle Shawn might be sent to the Maximum Security Institute of Unusualness for ever. But all Bill has to help him are four bickering llamas, one pirate boy & one invisible girl. What could possibly go wrong?
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Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe`s novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials & eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty. ” Uncle Tom`s Cabin” has remained controversial to this day, seen as either a vital milestone in the anti-slavery cause or as a patronising stereotype of African-Americans, yet it played a crucial role in the eventual abolition of slavery & remains one of the most important American novels ever written. ...

Uncommon nurtures variety of expression through close collaboration with the editors-at-large, via a centralised editorial team. Each destination is approached with attention to detail & respect for the local customs & social structure. Uncommon seeks to remain local in a global environment, working as much as possible with local editors, contributors, publishers, printers, distributors & marketing companies in each destination, who come together globally on the Uncommon digital platform. Unique to Uncommon is the appeal to both resident & visitor, as well as to those who may never visit the destination. Unlike other formulaic travel guides that offer standard instruction to `places of interest`, Uncommon sets off where others end their journey. We do not propose to offer systematic checklists of `secret` or `underground`. Uncommon is not exhaustive & has within its breadth all aspects of the locality in question, not through impersonal, dry jargon, but rather through personal, evocative, distinct & well-informed voices. Text & image combine to reveal the codes & constructs of a place, & to celebrate & revere the particular. Subsequently, Uncommon compels you to find your own path & tell your own story. In book format we experience an intimate meeting with a gathering of people, summoned to perform the same task
- that of sharing stories of place & providing direction through text, photography, illustration & mapping. This A5 companion is intended to be an object of aesthetic appeal & to become part of one`s library. It is easy to carry on your journey, & may be picked up over & over again, referenced & revisited, just as we do with our most treasured neighbourhoods & destinations. The people selected are connected to their society, may have a Facebook page or similar form of social media & digital representation, belong to a professional strata & be actively involved in their community. The tone of the contributions will not be a pose for the camera, but rather what we do in our off time, & how we connect to what we are passionate about. We are not promoting a superficial lifestyle that is impossible to sustain, but rather a gentle meander through a neighbourhood with reward. Timeless & far-reaching in its appeal, Uncommon is a journey we never stop taking.
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Uncommon Dubai + is a sliver of"idian & artistic reflections on spaces of change & exchange, imbued with meaning & memory for individuals, communities & diasporas that enrich the city & its neighboring emirates: Weave through insights on the tradition of camel racing, archeological finds of crocodiles in the desert, the uncanny urban corridors of superhighways, architectural artifacts in danger of erasure, the imagined communities of barbershops, the communal traces of ad-hoc cricket pitches, & the resilience of the urban fox. Against the backdrop of the morphing coastline & the alluring locus of the creek, explore memoirs, investigations & poetic landscapes of the mind that are meant to engage with the contrasts of the cit y & offer collective aspirations for its past, present & possible futures. ...

This book offers an enchanting visual glossary of the British landscape: photographs & stories which take the reader from the waterlogged fens to the white sands of the Western Isles. ` Out...over the hill & then down the dip & through some lumpy bits.` This was how Dominick Tyler used to describe the places he roamed during his childhood in rural Cornwall. Vague generalities were good enough then, but later he felt a more precise, more detailed language must exist, precisely because he needed it to do what people must have needed it to do for millennia: give directions, tell a story or find a place. & so he began collecting words for landscape features, words like jackstraw, zawn, clitter & cowbelly, shivver & swag, tolmen & tor. Words that are as varied, rich & poetic as the landscapes they describe. Many of these words for our landscape are falling into obscurity, some endure only by haunting place-names & old maps. Here Dominick Tyler gathers them into an enchanting visual glossary of the British landscape. On facing pages are photographs & stories touching on geology, literature, topography, folklore & a time when our ancestors read the lines on the land as fluently as text. Taking us from the waterlogged fens to the whitesands of the Western Isles, this full-colour book is a rare delight. ...

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Uncommon London is a journey traveling deep & wide across the sprawling metropolis. 43 contributors have ventured through the city streets & delved into their intimate worlds to bring us portraits & glimpses of the many lives that hold London together, or at times tear it apart. Routes, maps & itineraries have been especially created, providing keys to London across time, in the hope of bringing closer to a city that can seem distant & indifferent, yet upon ins[ection celebrates diversity, insists upon acceptance & thrives on exuberant discussion. To be a Londoner you only need step foot here, & charge along with the rest of the crowd, flowing through the ` Unreal City` ...

The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations. What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we had. What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs. To stay young forever. No wonder many didn`t stay the course. In Uncommon People, David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments & turning points in the lives of forty rock stars from 1955 to 1995, taking us on a journey to burst a hundred myths & create a hundred more. As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies, they also shaped us, our real lives & our fantasies. Uncommon People isn`t just their story. It`s ours as well. ...