A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder. In 1948 in a Greek mountain village Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested tortured & shot. She was one of the 158 000 victims of the Greek Civil War. Her crime had been to help her children escape from the Communist guerrillas who occupied their village. Her son Nicholas Gage was then eight years old. Eleni is the story of his obsessive & harrowing reconstruction of his mother's life & death & his pursuit of his mother's killer. ...

These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest Errand" in which he imagines the death of Chekhov a writer Carver hugely admired & to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may in the year before his untimely death have been flexing his muscles for a longer work." ...

The Elephant & the Bad Baby" is the classic story from Elfrida Vipont & Raymond Briggs. The Elephant takes the Bad Baby for a ride & they go 'rumpeta rumpeta rumpeta down the road.' They help themselves to ice creams pies buns crisps biscuits lollipops & apples & the shopkeepers follow them down the road shouting & waving. All ends well as the Bad Baby learns to say ' Please' & his mother makes pancakes for everyone. Elfrida Vipont worked as a teacher singer & writer. She wrote over 30 books & won the Carnegie Medal in 1950 for Lark on the Wing. Raymond Briggs has produced wonderful children's books including the classic titles " The Snowman" " Father Christmas" & " When the Wind Blows"
- all made into immensely successful films. Raymond lives in Sussex. Look out for these other titles by Raymond Briggs: The Snowman; The Elephant & the Bad Baby; Father Christmas; Fungus the Bogeyman; Raymond Briggs' Christmas Little Library; The Father Christmas it's a Bloomin' Terrible Joke Book; Jim & the Beanstalk; Father Christmas Goes on Holiday."
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The Elephant takes the Bad Baby for a ride & they go rumpeta rumpeta rumpeta down the road." They help themselves to ice creams pies buns crisps biscuits lollipops & apples & the shopkeepers follow them down the road shouting & waving. All ends well as the Bad Baby learns to say Please & his mother makes pancakes for everyone." ...

Ravi is fascinated by his grandfather's stories of India & descriptions of a sun like a ferocious tiger wind like a wild horse & monsoon rains which cascade like waterfalls from the sky. Ravi also loves to hear the story of Divaali where the parading elephants play a key role & dreams of having an elephant dance to the sound of his flute. This is a beautifully written exploration of India through the conversation between a grandparent & grandchild & also has informative endnotes on Indian culture animals & peoples. ...

A thrilling & moving novel about an extraordinary animal caught up in a very human war for anyone who loved The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips or The Butterfly Lion... By the award-winning former Children's Laureate & author of War Horse. Dresden 1945. Elizabeth & Karli's mother works at the zoo where her favourite animal is a young elephant named Marlene. Then the zoo director tells her that the dangerous animals
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- must be shot before the town is bombed. Unable to give Marlene up their mother moves her into the back garden to save her...and then the bombs start to fall. Their home destroyed the whole family must flee the bombed-out city & through the perilous snow-covered landscape all the while avoiding the Russian troops who are drawing ever closer. It would be hard enough to do without an elephant in tow...

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The rangers closed in firing steadily. Within minutes all the adult animals were down. Only the calves still raced in bewildered circles stumbling over the bodies of the dead & dying. Six minutes after the first shot a silence fell over the killing ground on Long Vlei.. . In the blinding light of Zimbabwe's Chiwewe National Park Dr Daniel Armstrong world-famous TV naturalist films the slaughter of a herd of elephant. In London anthropologist Kelly Kinnear is forced into violent confrontation with the shareholders of the most powerful conglomerate in the City of London warning them of the destruction of an African country. Now the time has come to act. Together Armstrong & Kinnear forge a passionate alliance
- & begin the fight against the forces of greed evil & corruption attacking a land they would both give their lives to save.. . Combining breathtaking realism & thrilling suspense the world's master storyteller takes us on a journey deep into the heart of a wild magnificent continent threatened forever by the destructive hand of man.
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Its been a long journey for Maurice Micklewhite
- born with rickets in Londons poverty-stricken Elephant & Castle
- to the

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It's been a long journey for Maurice Micklewhite
- born with rickets in London's poverty-stricken Elephant & Castle
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When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his reserve at Thula Thula his commonsense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival
- notorious escape artists they would all be killed if Lawrence wouldn't take them. He agreed but before arrangements for the move could be completed the animals broke out again & the matriarch & her baby were shot. The remaining elephants were traumatised & very angry. As soon as they arrived at Thula Thula they started planning their escape... As Lawrence battled to create a bond with the elephants & save them from execution he came to realise that they had a lot to teach him about love loyalty & freedom. Set against the background of life on the reserve with unforgettable characters & exotic wildlife this is a delightful book that will appeal to animal lovers everywhere.
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