Something strange is happening in the village of Hedgely. Children are walking into the woods in the middle of the night. Secrets are being kept closely guarded. Destruction of homes and threatening messages are becoming common. For Simon and his fri...

About the book: 'I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.' With "The Way of Al...

Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, they’ve been playing one continuous, ever-changing game of pirates and thieves, mermaids and warriors. Ruling over all is the Great Queen, a bone-china doll cursing those who d...

A powerful meditation on political resistance from one of the most original and influential thinkers of our times. Hold Everything Dear is John Berger's vital response to today's global economic and military tyranny. From Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and...

Marzanna Pomorska (born 1968) is a specialist in Turkic languages at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. For years her main area of interest has been the study of the Chulym Turkic dialects, still one of the le...

The Elizabethans took from the Middle Ages a modified view of the universe which, Platonic and Biblical in origin, radically differed from our own. For them all creation was ranged in an unalterable order from the angels down to man - for whom the wo...