When preparing for his big party, Callum becomes so involved with the Scottish theme, that he starts to eat, talk, and dress like a Scotsman.

When two families are kidnapped while vacationing in the Caribbean, they come to understand something of the island's political backdrop and the events that fuel their captors' actions. 17,500 first printing.

Tom Pow's powerful new collection of poetry explores the imaginative legacy of a nineteenth-century lunatic asylum, the Crichton, drawing on the richly-documented history of the site. This remarkable book includes the sequence 'Resistances' gathered from female patients' notes, but Pow brings many others within his compass: Nebuchadnezzar, Tom Thumb, Peter Pan, Charcot (Master of Salpetriere, the female asylum in Paris, 'that great emporium of human misery'), all make an appearance, as do Freud and the Wolf Man. The Crichton Lunatic Asylum was at the forefront of the great nineteenth century European-wide 'trade in lunacy' -- a period when old assurances were crumbling and our modern sense of the permeability of identity was being formed.

A band of children must scavenge to survive in a post-apocalyptic future where forbidden territories exist and the line between man and beast is blurred.

'For those with an ear for the music of words his writing is a pleasure'. The Scotsman

After seeing the mysterious figure of Janet vanish into the fields beyond the town, Sam uncovers the horror of her story. He learns that these fields were the place - Scabbit Isle - where plague victims were banished. Consigned to the Isle by her father, she cannot escape without his help.

When it is time to settle in for the night, Molly is sure she will get some wonderful stories from her father as facts, fiction, and myth are rolled into charming bedtime tales.

'Who is the world for?' asks a baby bear in her winter cave, a lion cub on his grassy plain, a hippo in a slow brown river - all over the world baby animals ask their parents this, and a boy in a house in the city asks it as well. and all get the same answer in reply, 'the world is for you!'