Second collection from the poet of powerful emotions & vivid imagery The Zoo Father underlines the authors reputation as a questing poet capable of outstanding imagistic flourishes & surprising associations. This extraordinary & powerful volume is comprised of two sections the first about with the poets relationship with her father the second with her mother. Section One is heavily imbued with imagery of the poets travels in South America & her researches in the cultures & ecology of the Venezuelan. Pain anger bewilderment are refracted through a rich often sensual imagery of fauna hallucinatory drugs & tribal beliefs. This gives the poems their originality & prevents subject matter of childhood abandonment & abuse becoming too harrowing. The imagery adapted from shamanistic beliefs is especially memorable. Section Two is set in southern France in an almost equally exotic location of vineyards & dinosaur plateaux. It concerns the poets family holidays in the vineyard" & her rediscovery & subsequent repossession of that place. Once again the poems delineate a primary relationship (with the poets mother) with the lushness of the imagery putting into surprising context the development of that relationship." ...

Introduce preschool children to the animals & day-to-day life in a big zoo with Ladybird's Zoo Hullaballoo!" This informative big noisy book has eight different realistic sounds that really bring the noises of a zoo to life. Follow Zookeeper Annabel as she goes about her rounds of all the different animal enclosures & zoo areas over the course of a day. From checking on the big cats & hosing down the elephant to feeding the penguins looking after the reptiles & cleaning out the monkeys there's a different part of the zoo to explore with additional labels that pick out interesting features or animals to talk about together & a ladybird to spot on every page. Children will love pressing the colourful sound buttons to join in with the story & making the noises of the zoo buggy roaring lion cheeky monkey trumpeting elephant splashing penguin & more! " Ladybird's Zoo Hullaballoo!" is a fun & educational sound book for all young children interested in wild animals." ...

' For many years I had wanted to start a zoo.. .any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first & obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion'. A Zoo in My Luggage" is Gerald Durrell's account of his attempt to set up his own zoo after years spent gathering animals for other zoos. Journeying to Cameroon he & his wife collected numerous mammals birds & reptiles including Cholmondely the chimpanzee & Bug-eye the bush-baby. But their problems really began when they attempted to return with their exotic menagerie. Not only had they to get them safely home to Britain but they also had to find somewhere able &
- most of all
- willing to house them. Told with wit & a zest for all things furry & feathered Gerald Durrell's "A Zoo in My Luggage" is a brilliant account of how a pioneer of wildlife preservation came to found a new type of zoo."

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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa a strikingly beautiful red-head contrary highly strung & blazingly angry. The trouble is he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother Poppy. More like sisters than mother & daughter they come as a pair a blistering presence that destroys Guys peace of mind suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading Guy fears is finished. His publisher fearing the same has committed suicide. His agent like all agents is in hiding. Vanessa in the meantime is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesnt expect her to finish it or even start it but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment & universal despair Guy wonders if its time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead but desire isnt. & out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry elegiac & rude Zoo Time is a novel about love
- love of women love of literature love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.
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This title features a new environment on every colourful artistic page. Zoo-ology" is filled with beautifully crafted species from the Aardvark to the Zebra connected in thought provoking & unusual groupings of creatures of all shapes & sizes. Take hold of these pages & throw yourself into the natural world. Lose yourself amidst the habitats that these animals share. A teeming wildlife sanctuary where over 300 animals leap off the page this book allows the reader to imagine a zoo without bars where animals gather in chaotic but innovative herds prides & rookeries." ...

This bright pink Zoodle pencil case is fun & works hard to protect your contents with a clever hard case exterior. The pencil case opens up fully to lie flat with a black canvas interior. Inside features a 5 pocket area for your pens & pencils & other side 2 mesh pockets for equipment. Comes pre-filled with useful stationery including; scissors pencil double ended ballpen/highlighter pen & a cool 30.5 cm long bright pink flexible eraser! ...

Come on a fantastic adventure to the moon & deep into space! This exciting book is full of amazing astronauts & super space vehicles including moon buggies lunar modules robot spacecraft & lots more! From the creators of the bestselling Dig Dig Digging. ...

Set before the start of the First World War this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives he meets Alexis Zorba a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has had a family & many lovers has fought in the Balkan wars has lived & loved
- he is a simple but deep man who lives every moment fully & without shame. As their friendship develops the Englishman is gradually won over transformed & inspired along with the reader.
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Saul David's Zulu: The Heroism & Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879" is a fascinating look at the most controversial & brutal British imperial conflict of the nineteenth century. The real story of the Anglo-Zulu war was one of deception dishonour incompetence & dereliction of duty by Lord Chelmsford who invaded Zululand without the knowledge of the British Government. But it did not go to plan & there were many political repercussions. Using new material from archives in Britain & South Africa Saul David blows the lid on this most sordid of imperial wars & comes to a number of startling new conclusions. " Saul David's brilliant & magisterial account must now be regarded as the definitive history of the Zulu War". (Frank Mc Lynn " Literary Review"). " This meticulously detailed book.. .give[s] a fully rounded & judicious account of this dismal conflict". (" Guardian"). " Fascinating thrilling convincing.. .reads like a novel". (" Economist"). Saul David is Professor of War Studies at the University of Buckingham & the author of several critically acclaimed history books including " The Indian Mutiny: 1857" (shortlisted for the Westminster Medal for Military Literature) " Zulu: The Heroism & Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879" (a Waterstone's Military History Book of the Year) & most recently " Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire"." ...

The battle of i Sandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonisation of South Africa. In one bloody day over 800 British troops 500 of their allies & at least 2000 Zulus were killed in a staggering defeat for the British empire. The consequences of the battle echoed brutally across the following decades as Britain took ruthless revenge on the Zulu people. In Zulu Rising" Ian Knight shows that the brutality of the battle was the result of an inevitable clash between two aggressive warrior traditions. For the first time he gives full weight to the Zulu experience & explores the reality of the fighting through the eyes of men who took part on both sides looking into the human heart of this savage conflict. Based on new research including previously unpublished material Zulu oral history & new archaeological evidence from the battlefield this is the definitive account of a battle that has shaped the political fortunes of the Zulu people to this day." ...