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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This hugely exciting picture book collaboration by internationally celebrated musician-comedian Tim Minchin & award-winning illustrator Steve Antony is an absolute treat for all ages. Inspired by Tim Minchin`s hit song WHEN I GROW UP from MATILDA THE MUSICAL, the book takes a humorous yet moving look at adult life from a child`s perspective. The book comes with a high-quality CD with WHEN I GROW UP performed by Tim Minchin. Grown-ups surely have all the fun as they must eat sweets every day, climb the biggest trees & watch cartoons till their eyes go square. But do they really...? A truly magical picture book by two incredible talents. ...

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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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). ...

The President of Ireland since 2011, when he was elected by a final tally of almost 57% of the votes, Michael D. Higgins has used his time in office to setout a vision of what he calls `an ethical Republic`. In a series of remarkable & urgent speeches, which are anything but the bland commentaries of a ceremonial head of state, Michael D. Higgins has urged his fellow citizens to consider what makes the good life. He has asked how human rights, an active & empowered citizenry, women`s equality & the right to health & a life free of corrosive anxiety might be achieved. He has highlighted the plight of refugees. & he has criticised the ways in which work is becoming dehumanised. ...

The President of Ireland since 2011, when he was elected by a final tally of almost 57% of the votes, Michael D. Higgins has used his time in office to setout a vision of what he calls `an ethical Republic`. In a series of remarkable & urgent speeches, which are anything but the bland commentaries of a ceremonial head of state, Michael D. Higgins has urged his fellow citizens to consider what makes the good life. He has asked how human rights, an active & empowered citizenry, women`s equality & the right to health & a life free of corrosive anxiety might be achieved. He has highlighted the plight of refugees. & he has criticised the ways in which work is becoming dehumanised. ...