A Year With Gilbert WhiteIn 1781, Gilbert White was a country curate, living in the Hampshire village he had known all his life. Fascinated by the fauna, flora and people around him, he kept journals for many years, and was now halfway to completing his path breaking 'The Natural History of Selborne'. No one had written like this before, with such close observation, humour, and sympathy: his spellbinding book has remained in print, treasured by generations of readers, since

is cursed by Apollo to see the future but never to be believed when she speaks of it

He's come to see the squibbing

Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered

Each of these objects is itself a wonder of design

Sweden and Finland

when the chaotic force of nature Monkey is fired into their midst by the British Space programme

His method provides a new way of viewing experiences and developing strategies

Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters

A compendium of stories and myths from ancient Egypt by Egyptologist Hugo Cook

Unsettled by his past

she and her brother are attacked

burning rivers and dark