Karlsson is a funny little man with a propeller on his back who lives on the top of Smidge's house. Cheerful stories for ages 4-7. One of a pair of new Lindgren reprints.
A boy of seven discovers a man with a propellor on his back hovering outside his window: Karlsson lives in a little house on Smidge's roof. Jollifications and adventures ensue... Ages 4-7. O... read more
Cambridge University curators explore touch throughout art, how we leave our mark and how we connect. Illustrated essays from ancient limestone sculptures to contemporary abstract painting.
Photographs by Christopher Lloyd of his own garden, juxtaposed with contemporary images. Introduction and notes by his former head gardener and current head of the Great Dixter Charitable Tr... read more
A stylish and murderous mystery in which G, a mathematics student, is drawn into the investigation of events and crimes in the shadow of the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood and Oxonian sensibiliti... read more
SM's parents were German Jewish refugees; he was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. His maternal aunts concealed their origins too and had very diffe... read more
Looks closely at nine of his best known poems to see how this lower-middle-class outsider from a dysfunctional family became one of posterity's darlings.
A delicious anthology of ambling, strolling, pausing, looking, thinking... A feast that combines Joseph Roth and Rebecca Solnit, George Sand and Werner Herzog, Joseph Conrad and Kate Humble,... read more
The Booker-shortlisted author turns to contemporary Soho and the fall-out from property redevelopment. With a genius cast of characters, a pub called the Aphra Behn and very funny in the mid... read more
SM's first novel, published here for the first time, takes place in a school for girls - a microcosm that foreshadows the Rwandan genocide fifteen years later. The author's light touch is an... read more
1940s rocket-science sci-fi: a Nazi politician is lured into collaborating with the American space programme... what follows is a clever, satirical exploration of morality and technological ... read more
A vibrant blend of social history and memoir: argues that this three-month period of nation-wide, wintry shutdown gave rise to unprecedented cultural renewal. Fingers crossed for 2021 and 2... read more
Maeve's astute tarot readings are the talk of the school, until her ex-best friend draws an unsettling card and disappears without trace... (YA themes).
A collection of canine poems... This genre in any medium gives us the shivers, but Oliver is such an outstandingly wonderful poet that we are going to risk it...
Another scandalous woman? Well, when she went on trial at Westminster Hall for bigamy in April 1776, the story is said to have drawn more attention in society than the American War of Indepe... read more
Oudolf is the founder of the New Perennials, who sway like tall grasses to the sound of the wind across the Dutch landscape... With the hardback long out of print, this substantial paperback... read more
When 12-year old Jimmy and his brother are evacuated to a small Welsh mining town in Wales he discovers a secret. As compelling as 'Carrie's War' or Morpurgo, this canters along at pace, fo... read more
Uncovers the illicit affair between the novelist and the author's grandfather, Humphry House, which Parry discovered on being delivered a box of letters.
Mathilde Carre joined the French Resistance in 1940 but was captured by the Germans a year later and betrayed her network. She survived working as as a double agent and then - possibly - a t... read more