This semi-autobiographical & unforgettable story, of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany before the start of the Second World War, now reissued with its original cover illustration in this very special edition. Michael Morpurgo called When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit: ” The most life-enhancing book you could ever wish to read.” This internationally acclaimed story of one Jewish family`s flight from Hitler`s Germany has become a much-loved classic, & has been in print since its debut 45 years ago. Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was one of those people. That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busy to take much notice of political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler, the man who would soon change the whole of Europe
- starting with her own small life. One day, Anna`s father was missing. Then she herself & her brother Max were being rushed by their mother, in alarming secrecy, away from everything they knew
- home & schoolmates & well-loved toys
- right out of Germany...


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Partly autobiographical, these are first & second books in the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr, telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War. Michael Morpurgo called When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit: ” The most life-enhancing book you could ever wish to read.” This special bind-up, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, is based on Judith`s own experiences. The last-minute escape, village life in Switzerl&, the family`s refugee existence in Paris & their final arrival in England were all part of her childhood. Follow the deeply moving yet often humorous story of Anna & her much-loved family through their flight from Nazi Germany to their new life in war-torn London. ...

Ten-year-old Benedict is feeling happy. His family`s new home in Swaziland has the most beautiful garden in the whole entire world, teeming with insects, frogs & his favourite cinnamon-coloured birds. Here, crouched in the cool shade of the lucky-bean tree, it`s easy to forget the loneliness that comes from his siblings playing without him, easy to stop himself fretting about how to fix his Mama`s failing cake-baking business. Not that Benedict generally allows sad or uncomfortable things to cloud his day. Usually, he simply finds a way to put things right. Like trying to learn the language of his strange new country, to make himself feel less of an outsider. Like persuading the people at Ubuntu Funerals to provide a decent burial for the beautiful hoopoe killed by their van. Or like being a friend to Nomsa, a girl brave enough to pick up a spider but too afraid to tell anyone why her teacher is making her stay late after school. Of course, there are many things in Africa that cannot be put right by a boy who isn`t yet big. But in Benedict`s wonder-filled world, even the ugliest situation has a certain magic. Warm, funny & brimming with life, Where Hoopoes Go to Heaven paints a fresh & compelling picture of life in Swaziland that will capture your imagination & restore your faith in humanity. ...

On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning & went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived. Juliane Koepcke, the seventeen-year-old child of famous German zoologists. She`d been thrown from the plane two miles above the forest canopy, but had sustained only a broken collarbone & a cut on her leg. With incredible courage, instinct & ingenuity, she survived three weeks in the ”green hell” of the Amazon
- using the skills she`d learned in assisting her parents on their research trips into the jungle
- before coming across a loggers hut, &, with it, safety. Now she tells her fascinating story for the first time, & in doing so tells us about her ` Gerald Durrell` childhood
- with a menagerie of wild, exotic & sometimes dangerous pets
- about how she learned to survive at her parents ecological station deep in the rainforest & about her present-day commitment to this wildlife as a biologist & dedicated environmentalist.



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How the friendship of a lifetime began! The ninth title in this hugely popular series featuring Lily & her loveable soft toy. When Lily gets a new baby brother, she soon discovers that it`s not easy learning new things & helping to look after someone so small. But then Grandma brings her a very special surprise; someone who also needs to be cared for
- Blue Kangaroo! & from the moment that Lily & Blue Kangaroo meet it is love!
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR` Courageous & brave & disturbing & will stay with you for a long time` -- Stylist Caught in the hook of love, a young woman marries a dashing university professor. She moves to a rain-washed coastal town to be with him, but behind closed doors she discovers that her perfect husband is a perfect monster. As he sets about battering her into obedience & as her family pressures her to stay in the marriage, she swears to fight back
- a resistance that will either kill her or set her free.
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This beautifully illustrated book is a celebration of the special bond between a grandparent & child as they share the magic, joy & love in the world, both past & present. There is magic in everything. The world is a spinning star, No matter how old you are. This heartwarming, tender story is a magical gift for a grandparent or child. ...

When Ty witnesses a stabbing, his own life is in danger from the criminals he`s named, & he & his mum have to go into police protection. Ty has a new name, a new look & a cool new image
- life as Joe is good, especially when he gets talent spotted as a potential athletics star, special training from an attractive local celebrity & a lot of female attention. But his mum can`t cope with her new life, & the gangsters will stop at nothing to flush them from hiding. Joe`s cracking under extreme pressure, & then he meets a girl with dark secrets of her own. This wonderfully gripping & intelligent novel depicts Ty/ Joe`s confused sense of identity in a moving & funny story that teenage boys & girls will identify with
- a remarkable debut from a great new writing talent.

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` For personal reasons, or for reasons I don`t know myself, I began feeling old, & I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty`. Georges Simenon`s autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties & `all the silly ideas that pass through my head`, are one of the most candid self-portraits of a writer ever put to paper. Here, as the celebrated author ruthlessly examines his tortuous writing methods, his past, his fame, his intimate relationships & his fears of ageing, the result is an unsparing, often painfully revealing insight into a man trying both to find & to escape himself. ” As revealed in these notebooks, Simenon`s is a shrewd, lucid mind...the balance tips toward the real, the immediate, the mysteries of human complexity above all... Utterly unpretentious.” (The New York Times). ...