"That must be a terrible thing to make a railway engine weep" quoth Dai Station: what oh what is the matter with Ivor, the little green steam engine of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Tra... read more
Flora lives in her garden with Robert the Bird, who can fly away to see the world. Two friends join them and they make a house out of paper - but then the wind gets up... A gentle story with... read more
A re-issue of this delightful short memoir by the son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose who did indeed take a bite out of Pablo - who, unlike Mr Murdstone in David Copperfield, bit the boy s... read more
A delicate exploration of the busyness of trees, and of the origins of plants: excellent and approachable non-fiction, beautifully illustrated. For ages 5-7.
Alexander's life interwoven with myths and legends from the countries he conquered. Gavin is a wonderful storyteller. First published in hardback in 2012 and long out of print. For ages 8-12... read more
A novel set in 1846, during the Great Famine in Ireland: a young woman works in the big house and must struggle to help her family. A doomed romance, love and tragedy. For ages 12 and over.
A paragon of self-publishing: short and attractive, with blue endpapers, good paper, well laid-out. While this description could pass itself off as a literary lonely heart, it is in fact a p... read more
An eccentric archive of skeps drawn from old books, newspaper cuttings and other ephemera from all over the world and from all ages. Their ingenuity and variety are immense: of wood, terraco... read more
Spiced with Dickens's wit and eye for detail, this is a tautly plotted, dazzling historical thriller. Set before and during the French Revolution, it turns on a French nobleman who repudiate... read more
Spiced with Dickens's wit and eye for detail, this is a tautly plotted, dazzling historical thriller. Set before and during the French Revolution, it turns on a French nobleman who repudiate... read more
After Possession, the much-missed ASB turned her steely gaze on the later Victorians. Rummaging through biographies of E. Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, J.M. Barrie and Alison Uttley, she introduc... read more
Written in the form of a letter to Marcus Aurelius, this timeless novel reimagines the Roman emperor Hadrian, looking back on his life. The prose is exquisite, the musings on art and death, ... read more
Aztec art in Brussels, West African ivories in Antwerp... the great artists (D?rer, Bosch etc) were drawing on more than rediscovered classical texts. JJ considers the Renaissance as "a conv... read more
After the Armistice in 1918, the Allies' support for anyone contra-German mutated into anti-Bolshevik Intervention. Forces were deployed in Archangel, the Caucasus, the Far East and elsewher... read more
RW's first novel was published during WWI, in 1918. A soldier returns from the trenches to his country estate, to his wife Kitty and cousin Jenny. Shell-shocked, he can only remember his lif... read more
Ursula le Guin's interpretation of the classic Taoist text. Wrought from decades of textual consideration but without the grounding in Classical Chinese, this is a fascinating piece for thos... read more
'Drawing from such diverse sources as Newton's Principia, military manuals, eighteenth-century games, and cookbooks among others, Lorraine Daston seeks to define the role rules have played i... read more
From the publishers of Luncheon magazine, a chic collection of stories, reminiscences and recipes grounded in HC's childhood in Ireland and his time in the Basque country and France, with Pe... read more