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Napoleon had an orangutan called Rose, who ate turnips at the dinner table and stood when guests came into the room. She was much adored, but could not survive in Paris. A pig can be taught to differentiate between Bach and a brass band. One was once tried for murder: another saved a human’s life. An owl can turn its head two hundred and seventy degrees. They can learn to come at a whistle, and remember the signal for years, if they wish to. The creatures who share our world are stranger, smarter and more miraculous than you would believe. In this delightful collection, Katherine Rundell celebrates twelve vanishing animals, each one a wonder that she inspires us to treasure and fight for with love – because, as she argues so beguilingly: ‘The time to give up is never’.
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The judges of the 2026 Forward Prizes for Poetry read hundreds of recent books and individual poems before arriving at this anthology. The Forward Prizes are the most influential awards for new poetry published in the UK and Ireland. This selection combines fresh voices with familiar names, making the book essential reading for seasoned poetry enthusiasts and new readers alike.
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The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for ‘New Cemetery’. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner. These luminous and wry poems, composed in short- lined tercets, reflect the changing world: one of unstable weather patterns and unpredictable news events, all observed across a few acres of Pennine upland. As phases of lockdown come and go and the cemetery fills up with new ‘residents’, Armitage charts personal losses of his own, often retreating to his garden shed to navigate blank paper with pen and ink. Encompassing lyrical revelations and everyday vignettes alongside apocalyptic visions and imagined conversations with the deceased, these pages draw us into a parallel neighbourhood of remembrance and celebration.
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Against the rapidly shifting landscape of post Civil War America, Tennyson Bouguereau – freed man, devoted brother, nascent singer, conflicted soldier and wanted man – journeys to find meaning and belonging. From the relative safety of home in Tennessee with his sister Rosalee, he is offered the possibility of a whole new life in Nashville, until a surprising trip to Victorian England changes everything.
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At last, Dracula & Daughters are open for business. Their mission: to heal vampires and keep the streets of Temstown safe. Trouble is, the new Guildmaster is insisting the city is now vampire-free, and wants Dracula & Daughters to close. But the undead are still lurking. After a string of strange events at the prestigious Poisonwood School for Boys, frightened pupils start holding vampire slaying lessons in secret. It’s up to Mina, Buffy and Bella to convince them that slaying isn’t the answer. But when vampires are appearing by the classful, is it already too late? The granddaughters of Dracula are about to have their healing skills firmly put to the test. And are reminded never to underestimate the undead.
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The film star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Her image is everywhere. It has been like that since she was a child. With such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. M may live in the same places as real people. She may meet her friends or collect her children from school or walk her dogs as they do. But it seems the rules of reality have melted away. Now, a writer has decided to pay close attention to M’s life, in the hope of understanding who she really is.
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Every September, the spirits of the dead return before vanishing four weeks later in a puff of ash – a phenomenon known as Ghost Month. Four strangers prepare for this year’s haunting, not realising their fates are connected by a dark secret. Schoolteacher Jane rents a husband for the month, in the hope of convincing her deceased mother that she is interested in men. Lil, sleeping rough on the streets, drinks herself into oblivion. She is terrified to see the ghost of the little girl she lost, and terrified that she might never see her again. Nestled within his wealthy bubble, Gideon hires body doubles in a bid to shake off unwanted spectres. Little Eddie lives in his older brother’s shadow, which wouldn’t be so bad if his brother wasn’t dead. As the haunting wears on, and a hidden truth rises to the surface, each of them will end the month changed in ways they never imagined.
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Rival inventor, Dr Biscuits and his boss, Magnificent, are there too, to steal the Convention’s best invention. When they see the Crust-Away in action they realise they could use it to steal anything from anywhere without even leaving their secret hideout! Can Peng and Spanners stop them before it’s too late? Will security guards Bosh and Tickle use the Concrete Banana of Justice? And what the flippers does all of this have to do with Mavis Onions and her cat Mr Stinky Pants?
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Ireland is Britain’s closest neighbour – the sea crossing from Scotland measures only 12 miles. It was also its first captive in what became Britain’s empire. The two nation’s stories have been intertwined since Anglo-Norman invaders crossed the Irish Sea during the 12th century. ‘These Troubled Isles’ tells the extraordinary history of the past century in this tumultuous relationship, from the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1922 to the present day. This is a tale of deep division between Catholic nationalism and Protestant unionism, of wars and terrorist violence, and of occasional moments of great courage on the part of British and Irish leaders.
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One evening, Toño Azpilcueta, a Peruvian folk music journalist, witnesses a performance that changes his life. Toño becomes obsessed with hearing the virtuoso guitarist Lalo Molfino play again, but the next he hears, Molfino is dead. So begins a quest to uncover the story of this unforgettable musician. Toño tracks down the priest who rescued Molfino from a rubbish heap and raised him, the musicians who played with him and the girl who claimed to love him. Toño decides that he will write a book that will not only immortalize the hero of the Creole vals but will establish the music he loved as a unifying symbol for his fractured country. But the more Toño writes, the more he struggles to keep control of his story. As his savings dwindle and his paranoia rises, it becomes clear that writing a masterpiece is more complicated and consuming than he had realised.
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The dogs and the bears have been brawling for a while. No one knows quite how it started. Was it the jackets, cloaks and bandanas the dogs were wearing? Or the smell of the sickly sweets that the dogs were making? But today is the day of the third deciding brawl. The stage is set. NO snack breaks and no biscuits. But halfway through the world is interrupted by an unexpected airborne event – raining squid! This will change the relationship of the dogs and bears forever. This is a funny and sublimely ridiculous story about playground squabbling and peace.
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Ever since Dory met Rosabelle, a real true friend whose imagination and high spirits match her own, school has been pretty good. But now the class is learning to read, and it’s proving to be a challenge for Dory. While Rosabelle can read chapter books in her head, Dory is stuck with baby books about a happy little farm. Dory wishes for a potion to turn her into a reader but things don’t go as planned. Suddenly, a naughty little girl who looks an awful lot like Dory’s imaginary nemesis, Mrs. Gobble Gracker, shows up. And a black sheep leaves the pages of the farm book to follow Dory to school.
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The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are among the finest of their generation. ‘The Faber Poetry Diary 2027’ is a celebration of this remarkable list.
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The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are among the finest of their generation. The Liberty Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list.Rachael AllenSimon ArmitageIsabelle BaafiGeorge BarkerEmily BerryWilliam BlakeRobert BurnsMary Jean ChanJohn ClareGillian ClarkeWendy CopeJulia CopusT.S. EliotLavinia GreenlawThomas HardyDavid HarsentSeamus HeaneyRobert HerrickA.E. HousmanTed HughesIshion HutchinsonAlia KobuszkoZaffar KunialNick LairdPhilip LarkinAnge MlinkoPaul MuldoonDaljit NagraTom PaulinRowan Ricardo PhillipsSylvia PlathKathleen RaineCamille RalphsMaurice RiordanChristopher ReidDeclan RyanRichard ScottWilliam ShakespeareWilliam WordsworthW.B. YeatsAdam Zagajewski.
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Meet Dory – an irresistible scamp with a huge imagination. Dory’s the youngest in her family, which STINKS because it means everyone’s always too busy to play with her. Or worse! They call her too little to join in. Luckily Dory has plenty of friends to keep her company – even if everyone else says they’re just imaginary. And Dory has a lot to do: outsmarting the monsters that live in her house, escaping from prison (aka time-out) and exacting revenge on her sister’s favourite doll.
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Dory’s so excited for her first day at school. Her big brother and sister warn her that if she wants to fit in she ought to leave her imaginary friend, Mary, at home – or better yet, her whole imagination! But being boring is just about as far from being Dory as you can get. And on her very first day she meets someone new, and wonderful – a little girl whose imagination and style are just about as wild as her own! Now all she has to do is convince her siblings that she’s not making it all up.
