Lucy Atkinson (1817-1893) was an English Atkinson was an English nanny working in Russia. In 1848 she set out with her new husband on a six-year exploration of Siberia and Central Asia, by f... read more
Forster is always undoing, and no less so in this account of the remote princely court of Dewas in Madhya Pradesh, where he visited and worked as private secretary to the Maharajah in the ea... read more
Another glorious, imaginative picture book from the Fan brothers: something - who knows what but undoubtedly a treasure - falls from the sky and becomes an object much curiosity to a group o... read more
A re-issue from 1963 - an adored classic that has been out of print ever since. Two owls share the secret of their happiness with the greedy and squabbling barnyard fowl but to no avail. Mar... read more
It's the shortest, coldest day of the year and Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant in a small Irish town, busies himself with the last few deliveries. An elegant and carefully distilled... read more
Marzahn is a suburb of prefab GDR housing on the outskirts of Berlin. This odd but brilliant book, about a chiropodist who talks to her clients, is both memoir and portrait of modern Germany... read more