A passionate appeal to cherish, appreciate and preserve natural darkness and the many benefits it confers on the circadian rhythms and health of all living things.
Please note that this title is not published until August 11th.
A young deaf woman with an extraordinary gift for observation joins a scientific team which aims to teach human language to four captive dolphins. A fascinating exploration of communication between species and also between genders in a male dominated world.
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For collection from the event with Katherine Rundell, please select ‘Collect from Shop’ in the checkout screen, and then put your name, your child’s name, and whether they are from The Hall or Rosary Catholic Primary School.
Varian Fry, a young American journalist in Marseilles in 1940 plans to rescue artists and writers by smuggling them over the Pyrenees. Based on true events this is a riveting story of extraordinary courage, friendship and compassion.
Set in 1950s Tiger Bay, this is the story, told with vigour, character and humour, of a profound miscarriage of justice, which led to the execution of an innocent man, one of the last hanged in Wales.
Illustrated by Fiona Woodcock.
Bertie slips out one evening and encounters Archibald Frostgobble preparing for the night’s work. Fabulous longer-formpicture book, atmospheric and magical.
Age guide: 5-8
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Two sisters buy a ramshackle house on the Welsh Marches. While one works in London the other embeds herself in her new home and community and restores the neglected garden. A charming meditation on belonging and the power of place.
Please note that this title is not published until August 4th.
Magnificent and disturbing novel about Karl Braun, a nondescript piano tuner who has spent twenty years hiding in plain sight from his past in a concentration camp. A visit from a former colleague convinces him that he is being followed.
Elegant mini essays which urge the reader to pay close attention to the beauty and magic of the natural world and the significance of animals in our culture.
Signed by the author.
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this passionately persuasive and sharply funny book, Katherine Rundell tells us how and why.
A lavishly illustrated collection of the lives of some of the Earth’s most astounding animals, The Golden Mole is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck – to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness. A swift flies two million kilometres in its lifetime. That’s far enough to get to the moon and back twice over – and then once more to the moon.
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Books will be delievered to the Savile Club for collection at the event on 14th March – select “Collect from Shop” at the checkout after entering your billing address.
An entertaining and thoughtful fictional recreation of the life and death of one of the key figures in the 19th-century development of New York City, a man of remarkable achievment who is now almost forgotten.