Puffin Nibbles: The Littlest Pirate

Sherryl Clark

Nicholas Nosh, the littlest pirate in the world, isn't allowed to go to sea. When his parents board their ship, 'The Pig's Breakfast' and sail off to capture treasure, Nicholas is left at home with his babysitter, Gretta and some lazy pirates. But Nicholas has other ideas - he is going to run away and l...

A Terrible Beauty Is Born

William Butler Yeats

'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...' By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice....

The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

Christopher Harding

From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life...