Travel to Skagen & find him. Give him my letter. Seek a better life Marianne! Promise! Bound by a vow made to her dying mother Marianne sells her few belongings & leaves Grimsby. Her destination? Denmark where she will search for her father Lars Christensen-the golden-haired fisherman her mother fell in love with many years before. The journey will be long-and dangerous for a young girl travelling alone. As Marianne boards the fishing boat that will carry her across the North Sea she wonders: will Denmark be the fairy-tale land she has dreamt of? Will she find happiness there? Will the father she has never met welcome the arrival of his illegitimate child? & why didnt he return for her mother as he promised he would? ...

In Between Two Windows" his first book of poems Oli Hazzard takes language out to stretch & flex & bend itself into new shapes. Into the formal straits of sestinas sonnets & pantoums stray palindromes mirrored poems anagrams allusions & curiosities. His lyrics & satires dance in the spaces that open up between intention & expression the moment when the horse attempts to throw its rider." ...

When a hungry wolf meets a young boy he knows exactly what he wants for supper! But the boy has a very clever plan & suggests some very special & delicious recipes
- like Boy Soup Boy Cake & Boy Pie. Soon the greedy wolf is running round trying to find all the ingredients
- with hilarious results!

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When Wolf decides that a little girl would make a very tasty snack he tries to trick her by pretending to be her grandmother. But the little girl is smarter than Wolf & sends him away each time he knocks at her door. She sends him to collect various things that she says her grandmother would wear or bring. Finally she sends him for a big bunch of balloons & a huge rock & then tells him to put the rock down. The balloons then carry him up into the air & away for ever. ...

In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance-his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweigs only novel is a devastating depiction of the torment of the betrayal of both honour & love realised against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian empire. ...

Brian Moore or ' Pitbull' as he came to be known during nearly a decade at the heart of the England rugby team's pack established himself as one of the game's original hard men at a time when rugby was still an amateur sport. Since his retirement he has earned a reputation as an equally uncompromising commentator never afraid to tell it as he sees it & lash out at the money men & professionals that have made rugby into such a different beast. Yet for all his bullishness on & off the pitch there also appears a more unconventional complicated side to the man. A solicitor by trade Moore's love of fine wine career experience as a manicurist & preference for reading Shakespeare in the dressing room before games mark him out as anything but the stereotypical rugby player & in Beware of the Dog Moore lays open with astounding frankness the shocking events both personal & professional that have gone towards shaping him over the years. Presenting an unparalleled insight into the mind of one of British rugby's greatest players & characters Beware of the Dog is a uniquely engaging & upfront sporting memoir. ...

Every night Herb's mother reads him a bedtime story. Sometimes it's about a big bad wolf who terrifies little girls & their grandmothers with his chilling growl & big yellow teeth. The story gets very nasty in the middle & everybody nearly comes to a sticky end. But by the last page it all turns out well & happy-ever-afterly. But what will happen to Herb when the wolves escape from his book? Will they gobble him up? Or will this too end happily-ever-after? Read this thrilling tale to find out
- & learn what to do if the wolves ever escape from your storybook!
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Jacks in trouble big trouble. Not only is he in hospital with a leg in traction (boring) but he knows the police are coming for him: because of an accident
- a tomato-related accident
- involving a supermarket pyramid & an old-age pensioner. Whoops! Jeremy Strong knows exactly what makes kids laugh & hes on top form in this very funny detective spoof. A major rebranding & repackaging programme in 2007 will ensure theres not a child in the country who hasnt laughed their socks off with Jeremy! Rowan Cliffords illustrations add to the fun.

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Beyonce is one of the world's biggest pop stars
- & this lavishly illustrated book is the first to celebrate the talented singer
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One of the greatest of all sports books now reissued with a new introduction. C L R James one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing watching & writing about the sport he recounts the story of his overriding passion & tells us of the players whom he knew & loved exploring the games psychology & aesthetics & the issues of class race & politics that surround it. Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood part passionate celebration & defence of cricket as an art form part indictment of colonialism Beyond a Boundary addresses not just a sport but a whole culture & asks the question What do they know of cricket who only cricket know? ...