Interviews with an Ape
Ripped from family.
Sold into captivity.
Held for financial gain.
This is a book about vulnerable animals and the men who interact with them. And it's about us. Our pasts and our present,...
Books: Animals
Extinction
In a lonely valley, deep in the mountains, a ranger watches over the last surviving grizzly bear.
With the natural world exhausted and in tatters, Ben has dedicated himself to protecting this single...
Pony
The highly anticipated, unforgettable new story from the internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning author of WONDER.
When Silas Bird wakes in the dead of night, he watches powerlessly as...
The Good Bear
It’s the Christmas holidays and Thea is looking forward to spending them with her father. She can tell him all about her plans to become a writer, and maybe he’ll buy her the typewriter she’s...
A Life on Our Planet
I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.
As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world -...
The Go-Away Bird
A gorgeous story about friendship and working together from a star picture-book partnership, the bestselling Julia Donaldson and award-winning Catherine Rayner. ‘The Go-Away bird sat up in her...
Grimm Tales for Young and Old
In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a'clear as water'...
Animal Farm
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a...
The Bear Who Went Boo
This is a book about a cheeky polar bear cub who loves to go…
BOO!
But this little bear cub doesn’t always know when to stop…
Opposites
Help your child to learn their opposites with this beautiful book by this beloved children's author. Featuring iconic characters and beautiful illustrations by Quentin Blake.
All That I Can Fix
Romney is well-known in the small town of Makersville, not only is he from a mixed-race family but his sister is a genius, his mum likes to pop pills and his dad tried to kill himself.
When the...
Elefant
Schoch lives on the streets of Zurich, he drinks and hallucinates, in particular he sees a pink elephant. What if the elephant is still there when he is sober?
Salvage the Bones
Salvage The Bones is set over twelve days leading up to the impact of Hurricane Katrina but it is so much more than a novel about the devastating impact of that storm. It is also about poverty and the...
The Last Dog On Earth
Agoraphobic Reg and his dog Linekar live in a flat in Peckham. They have a daily routine they stick to and on the rare occasion they leave the flat they do so only within certain areas.
One day,...
How to be Human
How to be Human is the story of Mary and her unusual relationship with a fox. The story begins with Mary discovering her neighbour’s infant girl on her doorstep. It is unclear whether Mary...
Tales of the Peculiar
This book is a collection of tales from the peculiar world created by Random Riggs. Folklore passed on from generation to generation via word of mouth or written word. The tales tell of giants,...
Mo, me and America: The Vanishing Rural Community
A man, his dog,
and their 15,000-mile search
for rural America.
Randy Turk, along with his dog, Mo, spends sixteen months traveling the country in search of the rural America of his past: a...
