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Fired by his abiding love of the English landscape, the poetry of Edward Thomas is some of the most astonishing of the twentieth century. By 1917, when he was killed on the Western Front, he had earned his place as one of England's most valued poets. This title brings together his finest verse with his most vivid prose writings on the countryside.

In 1792, John Evans, a twenty-two-year-old farmhand from Snowdonia, Wales, travelled to America to discover whether there was indeed, as widely believed, a tribe of Welsh-speaking native Americans still walking the great plains.

After regaining independence in 1947, India immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system. This book presents an analysis not only of India's deprivations and inequalities, but also of the restraints on addressing them - and of the possibility of change through democratic practice.

Mr Biff and Mr Bop are boxers and deadly rivals too. Mr Bop is fit and lean and Mr Biff... Well, Mr Biff likes a cream cake or two. Will he ever be able to toughen up in time for the annual charity match.

Mrs Wobble loves her job as a waitress but, oh dear, there's one big problem - she wobbles! And when she wibbles and wobbles and drops jelly everywhere, it's time for a new job! Luckily, Mr Wobble, and all the Wobble children have a cunning plan...

The author was adopted as a baby. In 1938 he was picked up in London by his new mother and taken back to Oldbury in the Black Country. This title tells his story.

Penelope Devereux is a legendary beauty in the court of Elizabeth I, with a smile that would light up the shadows of hell. But it's not just her looks which have won her favour with the Queen wing.

Provides the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors invent a glossary of new words to describe how we are truly feeling today; and 'mindsource' images and illustrations from over 30 contemporary artists.

Written in agony, this book features elegiac meditation on the creation of life, and of art.

From ex-professional bank robber, this is a dictionary of criminal slang out there - and an absorbing journey, through words, into the heart of the criminal world.

Includes two wintery stories: Snow is My Favourite and My Best and I Really Need Actual Ice Skates. This book is suitable for fans of Charlie and Lola, and for cold winter bedtimes.

Offers two good stories about animals including, "I Completely Know About Guinea Pigs" and "I Will Not Ever Never Forget You Nibbles".

After The Second World War, the author was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In this book, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation.

Tracing the psychological damage inflicted by battle, the collapse of England's secure Edwardian values - embodied in Christopher's wife, the beautiful, cruel socialite Sylvia - and the beginning of a new age, epitomized by the suffragette Valentine Wannop, this title is an elegy for both the war dead and the passing of a way of life.

From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, this title traces the early years of the author's life. It presents his bookish boyhood as the son of an Orthodox rabbi, equally absorbed in science, philosophy and cabbala. It chronicles the intricacies of his first love affairs.

Presents the story of Joseph Shapiro, a disillusioned and aimless man who discovers a purpose to his life through the Jewish faith. This title offers an examination of the nature of faith, the question of identity and the notion of how to lead a good life.

Offers an exploration of primitive history. This title portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. It describes the brutality, prejudice and subjugation that occur when hunter-gatherers and farmers struggle for supremacy over the land.

Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Bronte's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. This book presents an illuminating account of one of our best-loved novelists.

Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs are going on holiday to Australia and can't wait. But everything is very different down under. There are lots of new sights, sounds and experiences and, without Nan there to comfort them, Harry and Tyrannosaurus begin to feel a bit homesick. Luckily, a surprise gift makes all the difference...

Suitable for your babies or toddlers, this title fills with easily recognizable objects.

Focusing on the relationship between WB Yeats and his father or Thomas Mann and his children or JM Synge and his mother, the author examines a world of family relations, richly comic or savage in its implications.