Mopoke the owl loves peace & quiet, but the bush is full of many, many annoying disturbances. Poor Mopoke is about to find out that you can't always get what you want. Visually brilliant, & hysterically funny, this debut picture book by Philip Bunting is destined to become a classic. ...

Presenting the tale of a powerful witch, & the city that raised her, this story features strange creatures, as the reader follows young Mora through the City of Witches. It

Includes:: black & white insert covers, thumbnails, layouts, early concepts, sketches, notes & more.

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Find out who’s the goody-two-shoes & whose antics deserve a time-out in this hilarious family-friendly game of most likely to!

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Margaret Atwood has frequently been cited as one of the foremost writers of our time. Moral Disorder, her new work of fiction, could be seen as a collection of eleven stories that is almost a novel or a novel broken up into eleven stories. It resembles a photograph album
- a series of clearly observed moments that trace the course of a life, & the lives intertwined with it
- those of parents, siblings, children, friends, enemies, teachers & even animals. & as in a photograph album, times change; every decade is here, from the 1930s through the 50s, 60s & 70s to the present day. The settings are equally varied: large cities, suburbs, farms, northern forests. The first story, The Bad News, is set in the present, as a couple no longer young situate themselves in a larger world no longer safe. Then the narrative switches time, as the central character moves through childhood & adolescence, in The Art of Cooking & Serving, The Headless Horseman & My Last Duchess. We follow her into young adulthood in The Other Place, & then through a complex relationship, traced in four of the stories
- Monopoly, Moral Disorder, White Horse & The Entities. The last two stories, The Labrador Fiasco & The Boys at the Lab, deal with the heartbreaking old age of parents, but circle back to childhood again, to complete the cycle. By turns funny, moving, lyrical, incisive, tragic, earthy, shocking & deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Atwoods celebrated storytelling gifts & inimitable style to their best advantage. As the New York Times has said, Atwood has complete access to her peoples emotional histories, complete understanding of their hearts & imaginations.


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Possibly the only drawback about the How To Be A Woman was that its author, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. This book is a proof that she can actually be 'quite chatty' about other things, including cultural, social & political ...

Danny Wallace has had a baby & has been hobnobbing with the powers that be in Hollywood. But that hasn't made him any less awkward. Being more of a grown up brings its own baffling etiquette & expected social graces, & no-one has told Danny. This title helps you join Danny on his funny stumble through the Awkward Situations. ...

Sometimes reliving the past revives old demons.. . In a Stockholm apartment, five-year-old Tilde watches from under the kitchen table as her mother is brutally kicked to death. Meanwhile, in another part of town, psychotherapist Siri Bergman & her colleague Aina meet their new patients
- a group of women, all of whom are victims of domestic violence. From Kattis, who was beaten by her boyfriend & lives under the constant threat of his return, to Malin, the promising young athlete who was attacked by a man she met online, & from Sofi, the teenager abused by her stepfather, to Sirkka, an older woman who had a troubled marriage
- each woman takes her turn to share her story in the safety of the sessions. But as the group gets closer, it is not long before the dangers lurking in the women's lives outside invade the peace with shattering consequences. & somehow, the fate of five-year-old Tilde is intertwined with that of Siri & the other women, so that what started out as the search for peace will swiftly turn into a tense hunt for a murderer.

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In More Blood, Sweat & Beers, World Cup-winning rugby legend Lawrence Dallaglio shares his favourite stories from his time at International rugby's greatest tournament. With razor-sharp wit & good humour he lets the reader behind the closed doors of the tournament, to see what happens on & off the pitch when the cameras aren't looking. All the great names are here
- Blanco, Lomu & Pienaar among them
- & in his time Dallaglio has shared pints or blows (or both) with them all & has lived to tell the stories. Funny, frank & fully loaded with quick-fire banter these are the best of the best tales of the legends of the International stage

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Includes: stories of ultimate revenge, from freshly sold human meat, & reality TV where death is the penalty, to a
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Details: 10 blood-curdling stories of ultimate revenge, from freshly sold human meat & uncontrollable robots, to life-sucking
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