After helping to knit and sew together the squares of a blanket to be sent to a country at war, Josie dreams of what life is like for the girl who will receive the blanket as a gift from Josie's class.

After helping to knit and sew together the squares of a blanket to be sent to a country at war, Josie dreams of what life is like for the girl who will receive the blanket as a gift from Josie's class.

Product Description: A collection of poems about a range of beasts, both real and imaginary. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Internationally-acclaimed author Helen Dunmore follows her bestselling novel, The Siege, with a riveting and emotionally absorbing portrait of post-war Soviet Russia, a world of violence and terror, where the severest acts of betrayal can come from the most trusted allies...read more

Tanya has trouble adjusting when her parents have quadruplets and turns to her diary for consolation

Product Description: Cambridge Reading is a major reading scheme which provides stimulating books and support materials for the teaching of reading and the development of literacy throughout the primary years.

Product Description: Clyde's Leopard has been written by Helen Dunmore, award-winning author of both adult and children's fiction; and winner of the Orange prize for fiction. When Clyde saw the leopard at the zoo, trapped in a cage, he knew he had to somehow set it free...read more

In the heat of Rome's long summer, the poet Catullus and his older married lover, Clodia Metelli, meet in secret. Living at the heart of sophisticated and brittle Roman society Catullus is obsessed with Clodia, the Lesbia of his most passionate poems. He is jealous of even of her pet sparrow. And Clodia? Catullus is possibly not her only interest.

The breathtaking conclusion to the critically-acclaimed Ingo series, by prize-winning novelist Helen Dunmore. Sapphire, Conor and their Mer friends Faro and Elvira are ready to make the Crossing of Ingo - a long and dangerous journey that only the strongest young Mer are called upon to make. No human being has ever attempted this thrilling voyage to the bottom of the world. Ervys, his followers and new recruits, the sharks, are determined that Sapphire and Conor must be stopped - dead or alive...

Product Description: Sapphire lives in two worlds. On land she walks the rocky shores of the Cornwall coast—but under the sea she can swim like a seal by the side of her Mer friend Faro. Now both of Sapphy's worlds are threatened. In the profound depths of the ocean, where the Mer cannot go, a monster called the Kraken is stirring...read more

A humane scientist attempts to explore the most loathsome forces of evil behind the doors of his London laboratory.

Two young women living during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. There exists a complex relationship between a German countess and a married Scottish soldier. A wounded prisoner of war has a disturbing influence on an Englishwoman. These three novels deal with human relationships and the devastating results of war.

Explores the fleetingness of life, its sweetness and intensity, the short time we have on earth and the pleasures of the earth, and death as the frame which sharpens everything and gives it shape. This work brings together poems of lyricism, feeling and artistry.

Product Description: Colette has dreams of packing a rucksack and taking off. But how can she win the school Travel Writing competition when the furthest she's going this holiday is Weston? There may be sand, but it's definitely not Egypt. However, Colette meets two boys, sandy-haired Robert and dark-eyed Caz who turns Colette's stomach to liquid with a single glance...read more

Product Description: Cambridge Reading is a major reading scheme which provides stimulating books and support materials for the teaching of reading and the development of literacy throughout the primary years.

Product Description: Great-Grandma's Dancing Dress has been written by Helen Dunmore, award-winning author of both adult and children's fiction; and winner of the Orange prize for fiction. Rosa doesn't know how to break free from her friendship with the horrible Charmaine...read more

Product Description: A terrifyingly atmospheric ghost story by the Orange-prize-winning Helen Dunmore. In the summer of 1954, newly wed Isabel Carey arrives in a Yorkshire town with her husband Philip. As a GP he spends much of his time working, while Isabel tries hard to adjust to the realities of married life...read more

Bestselling novelist Helen Dunmore’s historical novels have earned her comparisons in the press to Tolstoy and Emily Bronte. In her newest book, Dunmore mines the past to chilling effect in this evocative and sophisticated ghost story about a love affair between a neglected wife and a mysterious soldier. It is the winter of 1952 when Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her new husband, Philip, a medical doctor. While Philip spends long hours working away from home, Isabel finds herself lonely and vulnerable as she adjusts to the realities of being a housewife in the country.One evening, while Philip is on call, Isabel is woken by intense cold. When she hunts for extra blankets, she discovers an old RAF greatcoat hidden in the back of a cupboard. Sleeping under the coat for warmth, she starts to dream and is soon startled by a knock at her window. Outside is a young RAF pilot wearing a familiar coat. His name is Alec and his powerful presence disturbs and excites her as they begin an intense affair. Nothing though has prepared her for the truth about Alec’s life, nor the impact it will have on her own.

In a first collection to be published in the United States, a cafeteria cook confronts her Polish pen pal, a divorced mother gains insight from a parking meter, a thin celebrity gives in to the lure of comfort food, and a soulful woman contemplates a youthful pregnancy and remembers a troubled lover. Reprint.

The Tiernan family is suddenly in the money, with all their expensive possessions to prove it. But Mum and Dad haven't exactly said where the money has come from and it's only when Paul meets the strange Sarah-Louise that things start to swing alarmingly into place.

Product Description: A whisper on the tide Sapphire's father mysteriously vanishes into the waves off the Cornwall coast where her family has always lived. She misses him terribly, and she longs to hear his spellbinding tales about the Mer, who live in the underwater kingdom of Ingo...read more

Product Description: An atmospheric and beautifully written adventure, from the award-winning author of INGO Morveren lives with her parents and twin sister Jenna on an island off the coast of Cornwall - an island that in the long distant past was devastated by a tidal wave, its halls and people lost...read more

Product Description: Exploring the career to date of artist and environmentalist Kurt Jackson (b. 1961), this visually rich publication has, at its centre, the artist and the natural world: Jackson's paintings are set in places that he has travelled to and explored regularly, and are created by an individual with a deep understanding of natural history and ecology, politics and environmental issues...read more