Something Beginning with P is a collection of new poems for children including poems from leading Irish poets: Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Maighread Medbh * Paula Meehan * Brendan Kennelly * Michael Longley * Rita Ann Higgins * Matthew Sweeney * Biddy Jenkinson * Desmond O' Grady * Richard Murphy * Nuala ni Dhomhnaill * Celia de Freine * Cathal O Searcaigh * Frank Mc Guinness * Julie O' Callaghan * Tom Mc Intyre * Paul Muldoon * Dermot Bolger * Eilean Ni Chuilleanain * Frank Ormsby * Siobhan Campbell * Dennis O' Driscoll * John Montague * Moya Cannon * Peter Fallon * Mary O' Malley * Micheal O' Siadhail * John F Deane Published by The O' Brien Press in association with Poetry Irel&. Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Irel&. ...

Somewhere, not so far away, theres a cave filled with wonderful creatures.

They’re called the Little Somethings, which

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One minute, 11-year-old Carmen is watching her hippy mum put curlers in for the first time, the next she is being dragged with her sister through LA airport with her mother muttering about 'the patriarchy' under her breath. The three of them board a plane that takes them to Peru, next door to the Chile from which the family had fled after Pinochet's coup. Eight days after landing in Lima, & still perplexed by their mother's disguises & lies, they're off again, on a bus bound they know not where. They are then to spend most of the next decade, the 1980s, moving from dictatorship to dictatorship, evading capture, torture & peril at every turn. It is no way to spend your teenage years, until, overnight, it becomes the way Carmen herself chooses. ...

This is the first Blandings novel, In whuch P.G. Wodehouse intorduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his log-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, & Beach the Blandings butler. As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one imposter on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself'. In Something Fresh there are two, each with an eye on a valuable Egytian amulet which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of course things get a lot more complicated than this... ...

Bob Slocum was a promising executive. His life was settled & ordered; he had conformed & society demanded he be happy
- or at least
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Romantic comedy as seen through the eyes of a high-flying African-American woman. Kenya Mc Queen (Sanaa Lathan) thought she had it all: a successful career, good friends & family. There was just one thing she didn't have under control: her love life. She is goaded into a blind date by friends with sexy, free-spirited Brian Kelly (Simon Baker) but cuts the date short when she lets eyes on him
- Brian's a whitey! The pair then meets once again at the party of a mutual friend they never knew they had & she decides to let him have a chance. Her family & friends, however, are not as accepting
- threatening the fledgling relationship from the outset.

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From the bestselling author of ' The Solace of Leaving Early', a funny, heartwrenching & unforgettable novel following the fortunes of a particulary feisty young female pool hustler. Cassie Claiborne, at ten, was surely too young to be the head of her disparate family. But who else was going to do it? Growing up in Indiana with her distant, heartbroken mother, Laura, her fragile, eccentric sister Belle, & her beloved grandfather Poppy, Cassie got sick of waiting for her father to come home from his everlasting gambling & drinking binges & took matters into her own hands. Taught by her father to play pool, Cassie was a natural & was soon hustling experienced pool players -- & winning. We follow Cassie from a complex little girl to a rebellious & impetuous young woman as she tries to create a world for her mother & sister. Overwhelmed but compelled by her family's love, Cassie feels herself drawn back to the past by the stories of her mother's youth, & she leaves her town for New Orleans, hoping that there she can find a truth to soothe her wounded soul & to allow herself the happiness she has been denied. Funny, heartbreaking, full of the eccentricity of small-town life & the overwrought drama of the close-knit family, ' Something Rising (Light & Swift)' is the story of a very unique young woman who knows that 'the worst thing that can happen to you is that you will find what you seek'. It tells of grief & love & growing up & leaving home in a way that is desperately sad but ultimately uplifting. ...

Thursday Next, Head of Juris Fiction & ex-Spec Ops agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos & Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the Chronoguard. It's not going to be easy. Thursday's former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares, the Goliath Corporation are planning to switch to a new Faith based corporate management system & the Neanderthals feel she might be the Chosen One who will lead them to genetic self-determination. With help from Hamlet, her uncle & time-travelling father, Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? & why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare? ...

A perfect first introduction to Mr Tumble with his rosy red nose, dancing feet & bright buttons.

Then, when its time

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All our friends have come to play. What a sunny, special day!

What a sunny day! Join Mr Tumble on a picnic in the park

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