Nobel Laureate & two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace" & " The Life & Times of Michael K" J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel De Foe's classic novel " Robinson Crusoe in Foe". In an act of breathtaking imagination J.M Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe. In the early eighteenth century Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship & cast ashore on a remote desert isl&. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso & his tongueless slave Friday. In time she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion & eventually his lover. At last they are rescued by a passing ship but only she & Friday survive the journey back to London. Determined to have her story told she pursues the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe in the hope that he will relate truthfully her memories to the world. But with Cruso dead Friday incapable of speech & Foe himself intent on reshaping her narrative Barton struggles to maintain her grip on the past only to fall victim to the seduction of storytelling itself. Treacherous elegant & unexpectedly moving Foe remains one of the most exquisitely composed of this pre-eminent author's works. "A small miracle of a book...of marvellous intricacy & overwhelming power". (" Washington Post"). "A superb novel". (" The New York Times"). South African author J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 & was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice for his novels " Disgrace" & " The Life & Times of Michael K". His novel set during the South African apartheid " Age of Iron" winner of the " Sunday Express" Book of the Year award is also available in Penguin paperback." ...

Madeline Wolfe is a mischievous mutinous high-rise (the shortest shed ever been was tall for her age) Aussie redhead who can open beer bottles with her teeth & is on first name terms with every bartender in Bangkok. Shes a woman in control of her life & no man is ever going to tell her what to do. So how come shes ended up twelve thousand miles from home in rainy London with no friends her visa about to expire with no place to live
- oh yes & pregnant? She fell in love with Alexander Drake thats how. But she soon realises that Alex goes through the tunnel of love holding his own h&. He also has more secrets than MI5. Alex may not be the man she thought he was but can she persuade him to be the man she needs him to be
- preferably before the baby arrives?

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The fourth action-packed quest in an exciting new six book character-led series for 7+ girls who love fantasy adventure & high-kicking heroines! Very few people ever enter the Shadow Woods for these woods are like no others. Hidden deep within them is the Gateway to the Shadow Realm -- a dark & chaotic world where all kinds of gruesome creatures live! On her tenth birthday tomboy Sophie learns she is the Guardian of the magical gateway & that her destiny is to protect the human world from the goblins trolls & evil sprites that inhabit the Shadow Woods. Each book sees Sophie having to outwit weird & terrifying creatures from the Shadow Woods & in this fourth action-packed adventure we meet the stinky Fog Boggarts! ...

Whos lurking in the foggy forest? Look through the trees & guess the shapes to find out! What can that be in the foggy foggy forest? Whether its a fairy queen on a trampoline three brown bears on picnic chairs or an ogre doing yoga children will love trying to guess what each foggy silhouette will be. Take a trip through the mysterious misty landscape
- hilarious fairytale fun lies around every corner.
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It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National's standards & won the world's toughest steeplechase. The jumps-racing establishment
- & Gregory Peck the Hollywood actor whose much-fancied horse was reduced to the status of an also-ran
- took a dim view. But Foinavon the dogged victor & Susie the white nanny goat who accompanied him everywhere became instant celebrities. Within days the traffic was being stopped for them in front of Buckingham Palace en route to an audience with the Duchess of Kent. Fan mail arrived addressed to ' Foinavon England'. According to John Kempton Foinavon's trainer the 1967 race 'reminded everyone that the National was part of our heritage'. Foinavon's Grand National victory has become as much a part of British sporting folklore as the England football team's one & only World Cup win the previous year. The race has even spawned its own mythology with the winner portrayed as a horse so useless that not even its owner or trainer could be bothered to come to Liverpool to see him run. Yet remarkably the real story of how Foinavon emerged from an obscure yard near the ancient Ridgeway to pull off one of the most talked-about victories in horseracing history has never been told. Based on original interviews with scores of people who were at Aintree on that rainswept day or whose lives were in some way touched by the shock result this book uses the story of this extraordinary race to explore why the Grand National holds tens of millions of people spellbound year after year for ten minutes on a Saturday afternoon in early spring.

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Designed in a great rush at the end of 1917 just in time to take part in the German standard fighter competition held in January/ February 1918 the D VII easily walked away with first prize. As Germanys premier fighter unit von Richthofens JG I (led by Hermann Goring in the wake of the Red Barons recent death) received the first examples of the D VII to reach the frontline in late April. Built to oppose the new generation of French SPAD XIIIs & British SE 5as & Camel fighters the D VII was arguably the best all-round fighting scout of the Great War. ...

Befitting its status as Germanys premier fighter unit von Richthofens JG I (led by Hermann Goring in the wake of the Red Barons recent death) received the first examples of the D VII to reach the frontline in late April. Built to oppose the new generation of French SPAD XIIIs & British SE 5as & Carnel fighters the D VII was arguably the best all-round fighting scour of the Great War. This volume completes the Osprey Aircraft of the Aces coverage of arguably the best fighting scout put into the air by either side in World War I. ...

The Dutch D.XXIs saw less than a week of action following the German invasion of the west on 10 May 1940 with many of the country's 28 fighters being destroyed on the ground. However those that survived the initial onslaught inflicted losses on the Luftwaffe. By then however the D.XXI had found everlasting fame in Finland during the Winter War of 1939-40. Proving itself a real thorn in the side of the Soviets the fighter operating in primitive conditions & against vastly superior numbers Finnish D.XXIs racked up an incredible score against the Red Air Force. The D.XXI also has the distinction of producing the first 'ace in a single mission' in World War 2 when then 1 Lt Jorma Sarvanto shot down six Ilyushin DB-3 bombers on 6 January 1940. After spending a year providing home defence & flying coastal patrols during the early stages of the Continuation War in 1941 all surviving Finnish Fokker D.XXIs were relegated to the reconnaissance role which they performed through to the end of hostilities in September 1944. ...

This fold-out sticker book packed with stunning full-colour pictures of horses & ponies provides hours of learning fun as children ...