Inside the June Alley Inn mice gather to tell fantastic tales each trying to outdo the other. A competition of sorts begins. The rules: Every story must contain one truth one lie & have never been told in that tavern before. Legends of the Guard" is a new Mouse Guard anthology series featuring the work of artists & storytellers handpicked by series creator David Petersen." ...

The grumpy miller is having mouse trouble so he buys himself a large tabby cat. Fortunately for the mice the cat is too unfit to catch even a single mouse. But when the miller loses his temper & threatens to drown the poor tabby the mice decide they must intervene as they have grown surprisingly fond of him... ...

This year Rabbit has invited all her friends to spend Christmas with her. Mouse is the most excited of all: its his dearest wish to spend the holiday together with his friends. But one thing after another goes wrong until Mouse believes he will never be able to make the journey! Will he be left all alone at Christmas? ...

This is a new title in the fantastic First Reading" series aimed at children who are beginning to read. Father Mouse wants his daughter to marry the best husband in the world
- the Sun! But Miss Mouse has her own ideas in this charming folktale from Japan. This book features clear & compelling text accompanied by enchanting original illustrations by Frank Endersby. It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education & an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. It is a great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership."
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The Mousehole Cat" was the winner of the British Book Award for the Illustrated Children's Book of the Year & the British Design Production Award (Children's Books). It was also shortlisted for the Smarties Prize the Kate Greenaway Medal & the Children's Book Award." ...

This title deals with the life & work of Robert Thompson of Kilburn the early 20th century craftsman of fine oak furniture marked with a h&-carved mouse. This is the most comprehensive guide to Mouseman furniture & where it may be found throughout the UK. It is a publication eagerly awaited by the many thousands of Mouseman aficionados. Robert Thompson known as The Mouseman of Kilburn North Yorkshire (1876-1955) is widely regarded as having been one of this countrys finest craftsmen of hand carved traditional oak furniture. His life story is fascinating
- a quiet man who never moved away from the cottage in which he was born in his home village of Kilburn in North Yorkshire. Nonetheless his work was discovered by leading architects of the day who commissioned major pieces for cathedrals stately homes & municipal buildings across the UK & overseas. Thompsons signature is the carved mouse which appears on all his pieces & which has inspired legions of mouse-hunters to seek it out wherever his furniture is sited. This new book provides several in-depth mouse trails" across the country which allow readers to view some of the mouse stunning examples of Mouseman furniture. The new edition also encompasses other trails across Britain particularly in & around London where there are many exquisite examples of Mouseman furniture most notably in West Minster Abbey. Today Robert Thompsons great grandsons & his craftsmen continue to produce fine oak furniture to the same standards & in the same workshop in Kilburn
- ensuring that the Mouseman name continues to live & the army of Mouseman aficionados continues to grow. In fact the company is fast becoming one of the most renowned oak furniture makers in England & looks set to be the next Chippendale. New commissions continue to flood in & auction prices are rocketing. From humble beginnings Robert Thompsons craftsmen now work with royalty celebrities as well as top UK designers on increasingly high-profile commissions. It is illustrated with archive images from the family of Robert Thompson including many sketches & designs of his work & also newly commissioned pieces of Mouseman furniture in visitor locations across the UK. The book also

Includes:: many previously unpublished photographs. The book will be the most comprehensive summary of this outstanding early 20th century craftsman & as such will be a must-buy for anyone interested in Mouseman furniture or twentieth century arts & crafts furniture makers."



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Anna knows that if you want something really badly you have to plan it. After all she's a chef. To make a bechamel sauce you need the right ingredients in the right quantities at the right time. So when she gets pregnant she plans a perfect new life in Provence for her perfect new baby. But Anna & Tobias are plunged into every new parent's nightmare as they learn that their daughter Freya has been born with profound mental & physical disabilities. Tobias who loves all humankind says he can't love this child. Anna too has grave doubts but she's physically unable to let go of her baby. So she manages to persuade him to carry on with their move to France & take Freya along just until she can bear to give her up. The family ends up in a decrepit mouse-infested farmhouse in the Languedoc
- where they become a magnet for the odd & the damaged. Surrounded by a wonderful cast of eccentrics & the riches of French life & cooking Anna is determined to get her life back on track or at least to rid the kitchen
- her sanctuary
- of the mice that infest it. But the more she tries to impose her will upon the situation the more it spirals away from her. & what none of them can predict is that Freya just by being herself will have a profound impact on everybody's lives.


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For the first time in a single combined B format a new edition of Agatha Christie's eight stage plays published to coincide with the 60th Anniversary Year of The Mousetrap the longest-running play in history. THE MOUSETRAP the longest-running play in the history of London's West End begins its 60th Year run on 25 November 2011. This new edition of eight works show how Agatha Christie's plays are as compulsive as her novels their colourful characters & ingenious plots providing yet more evidence of her mastery of the detective thriller. THE MOUSETRAP: Cut off by snowdrifts the owners of a new guest house encounter terror when one of their first visitors turns out to be a homicidal maniac...AND THEN THERE WERE NONE: Ten guilty people are lured to an island mansion where an unknown killer begins to exact revenge...APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH: The suffocating heat of an exotic Middle-Eastern setting provides a backdrop for murder...THE HOLLOW: Beneath their respectable surface a set of friends realize that any one of them could be a murderer...WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION: A scheming wife testifies against her husband in a shocking murder trial...T OWARDS ZERO: A psychopathic killer stalks unsuspecting victims in a seaside house perched high on a cliff...VERDICT: Passion & love are the deadly ingredients in this thriller in which a murder causes an unexpected chain of events...GO BACK FOR MURDER: A young woman discovers that her late mother was imprisoned for murdering her father & is determined to prove her innocence... ...

At 10.41am on a Tuesday morning in September Mark Mason boards the number 1A bus at Land's End in Cornwall. Forty-six buses & eleven days later he disembarks at John O' Groats in Scotl&. Move Along Please is his account of that gruelling 1100-mile odyssey; a paint-by-bus-numbers portrait of Britain. Along the way he visits everywhere from the village where the internet enters Britain to the urban sprawl of Birmingham (inspiration for the Two Towers in Lord of the Rings). He samples staples of the British diet from curry to the deep-fried Mars Bar & uncovers countless fascinating facts about his native land
- did you know for example that Crewe Alexandra football club is named after the wife of Edward VII that Loch Ness could hold the water from all the lakes in England & Wales or that there is a village which rejoices in the name Tongue End? Set against the backdrop of 2000 years of history & with a full supporting cast drawn from that most unusual of species the Great British Public this is the unmissable story of a man rediscovering his nation in all its idiosyncratic glory.
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When is it time to stop running? Coralie Casey is haunted by her past. Deciding its time for a fresh start she sets up Sweet Cleans a range of natural beauty & cleaning products & escapes to Penmorfa a quiet coastal village in west Wales. Gethin Lewis thinks hes about to put his home village Penmorfa behind him for good. Now an internationally-acclaimed artist living in New York he just has to return one last time to wind up his fathers estate. But the village soon disrupts their carefully laid plans. As truths are uncovered which threaten to split the community apart Gethin is forced to question his real reasons for abandoning Penmorfa & Coralie is made to face the fact that some stains just wont go away. ...