When Nathanial and his mother move to the quiet, safe streets of Cheshunt, he immediately senses something wrong.Violent gangs patrol the streets, feral dogs roam at night, and the oppressive...
James Thurber, Selection and Introduction by Michael J. Rosen
Selection and introduction by Michael J. Rosen of some of Thurber’s finest and funniest works. Contents include; from The Owl in the Attic, The Pet Department; My Life and Hard...
'The sky was pitch, and gashed by lightning; loutish waves rose and slumped heavily as mudslides. At a moment when she was filled with desperation, Maddy opened her mouth and...
Sadie and Ed meet Martin and Chloe at a holiday resort and instantly hit it off, despite coming from completely different worlds. When Martin saves Ed's life, everyone knows the...
More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has...
True first UK edition, 1997 Hardcover/dust jacket, pages have yellowed and there is a small rectangular piece of the half title page missing (name removed?). The bottom edge of the...
An epic play about two young hikers who accidentally discover a lost community deep in the forests of Tasmania. Lost in time, the group clashes with the culture of modern...
The Golden Lotus is a picture of family life in a polygamous household, told with extreme frankness and wealth of detail for which it would hard to find a parallel...
The Greens Cookbookis that rarity, a book that truly represents a revolution in cooking. Here are the recipes that helped to create the boldly original and highly successful Greens Restaurant on...
The day-by-day record of some 2,400 judicial hangings from around the world and through the centuries. Introduction by Colin Wilson Publisher: Headline Book Publishing, PLC Year: 1993, First edition, First...
The laugh-out-loud, reach-for-your-hanky story of one of Australia's best-loved comedians.Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as...
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his...
Integrated thematic units of work designed to involve Australian students in the experience of Shakespeare. The new Stage 5 English syllabus for NSW Years 9 and 10 can be adapted...
A boisterous, moving play that explores the relationships of youth, the migrant experience and assumptions about teaching and learning. Set in a tough inner-city school, it centres on a young...
The latest play from the author of The School of Night and The Bright and Bold Design is based on actual events which occurred in Stratford upon Avon in the...
In Alan Bennett's play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose.An unruly bunch of...
This is Volume II only, a reprint of the original 3rd & 4th volumes of Macquoid's ' A History of English Furniture' published 1904-1905. With 1000 black and white illustrations and 8...
'This book calls upon the expertise of 13 specialists to tell fully, for the first time, the story of porcelain from its beginnings in the Far East to its present...
Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen...
The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a...
The Holocaust was Nazi Germany’s deliberate, organised, state-sponsored persecution and genocide of European Jews. During the war, the Nazi regime and their collaborators systematically murdered over six million Jewish people....
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found mysteriously dead in the grounds of Baskerville Hall, everyone remembers the legend of the monstrous creature that haunts the moor. The great detective Sherlock...