Time for an overnight excursion

Author Mick Jackson and illustrator Balinder Kaur have produced a book  - The Sleeper Train – that tells the story of a young girl and her family who board a train at the start of a long journey to visit family friends

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Hell is other people

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai is essentially the journal, a set of notebooks, of one man, Yozo Oba and his first-hand recounting of a life lived very badly indeed. 

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Ants on the march

Ant Life by Moesha Kellaway may change your mind about these often maligned insects.

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Biography of a classic

Alan Jacobs, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Baylor University in the USA, has written a relaxed and engaging introduction to John Milton’s classic poem, Paradise Lost 

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Growing pains

In The Fall, Anthony McGowan takes us to one of those periods in our teens when the world seems to pivot; when we discover things about ourselves and others that prefigure the endless complexities of adulthood. 

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Let's hear it for the bookshops

The Unknown Unknown by Mark Forsyth reminds us of the glorious serendipity offered by bookshop visits.

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Inspiring Young Readers

Come into the wonderful world of children's literature.

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Inspiring Older Readers

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