To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Tube the Penguin Underground Lines box set brings together 12 books by writers ranging from John O' Farrell to John Lanchester Lucy Wadham to the Kids' Company Name: Penguin Underground Lines. Date of Birth: will be born 7th March 2013 Vital statistics: Twelve books one for each Underground line to celebrate the Tube's 150th anniversary

Height: when all twelve are stacked up: 4.7 inches Idea for series: Penguin asked twelve people to tell their tale of the city in 15 000 words (or in one case no words at all) each inspired by a different tube line. Defining characteristics: While the responses range from the polemical to the fantastical the personal to the societal they offer something for every taste. Read individually they're delightful small reads pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city. Appearance: determined by the authors who photographed/drew/picked their cover image chose their title & wrote the back cover copy the Penguin logo also takes an outing in the official colour of each tube line
- a unique play with Penguin's design. The 12 authors include: Fantastic Man; Kids Company; Danny Dorling; John Lanchester; William Leith; Richard Mabey; Paul Morley; John O' Farrell; Philippe Parreno; Leanne Shapton; Lucy Wadham; & Peter York.


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Otto isnt an ordinary penguin
- he is the first penguin chick to be born that year which means that it is his job to look after
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Here are poems to take you on a journey from the suddenly of love at first sight to the truly madly deeply of infatuation & on to the eternally of love that lasts beyond the end of life along the way taking in flirtation passion fury betrayal & broken hearts. Bringing together the greatest love poetry from around the world & through the ages ranging from W. H. Auden to William Shakespeare John Donne to Emily Dickinson Robert Browning to Roger Mc Gough this new anthology will delight comfort & inspire anyone who has ever tasted love
- in any of its forms.
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Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire comfort & delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies the book is divided into sections on childhood growing up making a living & making love family life getting older & approaching death ending with poems of mourning & commemoration. Ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy via Shakespeare Keats & Lemn Sissay this book offers something for each of those moments in life
- whether falling in love finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes
- when only a poem will do.

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Where do penguins live? What do they eat & how do they catch their food? Beginner readers can find answers to these questions & more in this colourful information book. It is illustrated with stunning photographs & illustrations accompanied by short informative text developed with reading experts. It

Includes:: carefully selected internet links to exciting websites about penguins.

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With the worldwide success of the movie March of the Penguins these fascinating flightless birds have become a symbol of the fragile nature of our ecosystem. Faced with global warming invasive tourism pollution & loss of habitat penguins need our help more than ever to survive. Over the last 18 years Wayne Lynch has travelled thousands of miles to Antarctica the Galapagos Islands Argentina Chile New Zealand & a dozen remote island clusters in the tempestuous Southern Ocean to study & photograph the 17 species of penguins in their natural habitats. In Penguins of the World he documents the extraordinary life cycle of these tough resourceful & beautiful birds in some of the harshest environments imaginable. Lynchs prose is engaging & easy-to-read & his beautiful photographs capture the birds in a wide variety of activities & behaviours. Penguins of the World is a book not to be missed by anyone interested in the future of life on this planet. ...

It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except
- hold on a minute
- that's not a simple idea at all. & when you throw in incompetent airline officials amorous Argentine Colonels' wives cunning Bajan drug dealers gay Australian waiters overzealous American anti-terrorist police idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus Archbishop Desmond Tutu & whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you bargained for. Harry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up & only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.

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The death of Adam Penhallow on the eve of his birthday seems at first to be by natural causes. He was elderly after all. But Penhallow wasnt well liked. He had ruled over his estate with an iron will & a sharp tongue. He had played one relative off against another. He was so bad tempered & mean that both his servants & his family hated him. It soon transpires that far from being a peaceful death Penhallow was in fact murdered & poisoned. With his family gathered to celebrate his birthday & servants that both feared & despised him there are more than a dozen prime suspects. But which one of them turned hatred into murder? ...

The Peninsular War saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the Napoleonic Wars. Despite the exposure given this theatre the soldiers who fought there have received little public recognition. The bicentennial commemorations of this war aim to bring the war to wider recognition bringing the Spanish Portuguese & British together in remembering the dead & re-examining the war in a balanced way. This atlas has been put together over the last decade by Colonel Nick Lipscombe of the British Army who is based in Spain & is the chairman for the official organisation in charge of the commemorations. His 30 years of military service have allowed him to bring a unique perspective to this first complete atlas of the war. The mapping is of very high standard & he has re-evaluated several battles in collaboration with Spanish authorities & academics & presents new interpretations of the sources. The 160 maps are accompanied by a text narrating the entire war. This title is a must for anyone interested in Napoleonic history. ...

Every year Penland the innovative school where crafters from around the world come to hone their skills offers a master class in the art of bookmaking thats simply without equal. Fortunately its available to everyone thanks to this technical & inspirational guide that showcases ten contemporary book artists who have taught at the institution. 400 illuminating photographs highlight the crafters as each one demonstrates all the details of his or her particular expertise. Marvel at the beauty of Dolph Smiths sculptural books the exquisite structure of Jim Crofts carved wood covers & metal closures & the intricacies of Barbara Mauriellos handmade boxes & slipcases. This book

Includes:: reflective essays by all the artists.

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