The acclaimed travel writers youthful journey
- as an 18-year-old
- across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts which

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When Dorothy set off on a night out with her sister she never dreamt it would lead to a car journey to Baghdad; but that night she met a dark mysterious stranger
- an Iraqi student named Zane- & almost before she knew it they were married & driving to Baghdad in a borrowed car with their baby daughter Summer. They moved into a house in the suburbs with Zane's family throwing Dorothy into the maelstrom of Iraqi culture: letters could take weeks to arrive there were no mobile phones or computers & there was no direct dial facility to the UK
- she might as well have been living on the moon. Between Two Rivers is an honest funny & moving memoir of Baghdad life from the perspective of a young woman from England transplanted into another culture by love.

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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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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. ...

Wily Wolf is back in a third hilarious story! Wolf is once again extremely hungry & decides he has to go to school
- it's full
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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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