An old-fashioned story about a lonely miller who sets off to find friendship, overlooking that which is closest to home. Charming illustrations. For ages 4-7.
This mysterious and elegant establishment moves every day to a new location; two sisters are thrilled to find work in it and are happily swept away in all the excitement - but as time passes... read more
The ambitions of the youngest member of a musical family are thwarted by having to play the triangle... But help appears in the form of a cat-ghost, Maestro Gus, who is a magical teacher. A ... read more
Ludwig Pollak was the art dealer-scholar who found the missing arm of Laocoön, in the famous classical sculpture. In this mysterious, cerebral novella set in Rome in 1943, Pollak is exhorte... read more
A child moves from the country to the city; her imagination in this unfamiliar world is fired by a comet, and through her imagination comes reconciliation. Aspects evoke Howl's Moving Castle... read more
Had Mrs Gaskell lived in Japan and a century later, she might have written this intimate portrait of four sisters of good family living in Osaka in somewhat straitened circumstances. Their e... read more
JLS's approach to sheep and shepherding is both practical and lyrical - he, the shepherd, sometimes lies down to sleep with his sheep. Interesting too are his ideas about what constitutes go... read more
Happy reminiscences, told in rhyme, by a grandfather to his children. Excellent illustrations, treasure maps, whales waving their tails, adventure, swash-and-buckle... Ages 3-6.
Written in 2015 by the chess grandmaster and human rights activist, this passionate indictment of Russian kleptocracy is also a warning against the complacency of Western democracies in the ... read more
The great Russian poet became a master of the English language in his long American exile: these essays evoke his youth in post-WW2 Leningrad with memorable portraits of his parents, in whom... read more
A plane inexplicably duplicates when caught in a storm. One plane lands in March; the other in June. As for the duplicated passengers... From this speculative premise comes an engrossing dra... read more
A young woman in Tokyo takes a few tentative steps outward after years of isolation. Kawakami's unsettling lyricism and candour about ordinary modern lives have made her one of Japan's most ... read more
A Crimean War hero's divorce & remarriage causes two lines of descendants, who meet up again one summer in Devon in the 1970s. Ructions ensue. Shrewdly observed and compelling.
Subtle and slim volume of essays by a neurologist who champions the cross-fertilisation of different approaches - anatomical, electrical, chemical, etc.
A memorable and delightful old woman - who could have been a fifth columnist in Montypython's Hell's Grannies - takes on the education of an edgy granddaughter.
The story of Gaia, the Greek goddess who created the earth and all of nature, whose work is threatened by the ambitions and jealousies of the other gods. Greenberg has won several prizes for... read more