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This is Alan Bennett’s fourth collection of diaries and prose. Covering the turbulent years 2016 to 2024, the diaries take us through lockdown, Brexit, the reign of Johnson, the rise of Trump and the death of the Queen. In between, we take the train with him back and forth to Yorkshire, celebrate the herons, the newts and the street fairs, and lament the scarcity of curlews, the closure of the last local bank and the deteriorating welfare state. There is the premiere of Allelujah!, the revived Talking Heads, the publication of two Sunday Times bestsellers and the filming of The Choral. 2024 is the year that Alan turns ninety; he reflects on old age and the importance of luck. He looks back to childhood and recalls an idyllic wartime month as an evacuee.
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‘This is the Age of the Heroes.’ From the ominous entry-point of ‘The Coming of the Immortals’ to the awe-inspiring heroics of ‘Perseus the Gorgon-slayer’, this book offers a wonderful introduction to Classical Greek myth, collecting the most action-packed and exciting tales.
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‘Never had she danced so beautifully’. From the powerful allegory of ‘The Little Mermaid’ to the fantastical tale of tiny ‘Thumbelina’, this book collects the most marvellously enchanting and enduringly timeless of Hans Christian Andersen’s celebrated fairy-tales.
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‘As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be.’ From the strange case of ‘The Red-Headed League’ to the extraordinary tale of ‘The Blue Carbuncle’, this book collects the most treacherous, ingenious and exciting adventures of the iconic duo, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
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‘The wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself.’ From the heart-warming wiles of ‘The Cat Who Walked by Himself’ to the whimsical rhymes of ‘How the Whale Got His Throat’, this book collects the most lyrical, inventive and enchantingly funny of Kipling’s animal allegories.
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‘I have many beautiful flowers; but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all.’From the newfound generosity of ‘The Selfish Giant’ to the haunting bravery of ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’, this book collects the most poetic, magical and absolutely unforgettable of Oscar Wilde’s short stories for children.
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Discover a story 400 years in the making – the definitive biography of the man who dominated England in the first half of the 16th century. Born into the English Wars of the Roses, educated in the European Renaissance, enthralled by the Age of Exploration and ultimately destroyed by Henry VIII, Thomas More is one of the most famous – or notorious – figures in English history. Is he a saintly scholar, the visionary author of ‘Utopia’ and an inspiration for statesmen, socialists and intellectuals even today? Or is he the stubborn zealot famously portrayed in Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’?
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‘No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.’ From the devious tale of ‘The Fox Outfoxed’ to the sage story of ‘Town Mouse and Country Mouse’, this book collects the best-known and most thought-provoking of Aesop’s timeless fables.
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With reflections on love, defiance and light, this novel is a story of profound human connection, on an unprecedented scale.
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Wyeth is a newcomer to New York, a young Black painter who is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. He shares a studio with his friends and earns money working for a gallery and an art restorer but he’s struggling with his portrait painting, unable to truly capture the life of his subjects. Then he meets Keating, a white former priest struggling with his faith. The two men seemingly have nothing in common, and yet Keating shows Wyeth how to see the world anew. The hot summer progresses, filled with art openings, walks around the city, and Wyeth’s search for a long-forgotten Black artist. But as the men grow closer, the differences between them become more stark, until Wyeth and Keating must decide what they are willing to risk – for art and for love.
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What if you could come back after death to watch over your loved one, installing yourself in a treasured mug, for example, or perhaps your mother’s hearing aid, a diary, or even a climbing frame, to feel the clambering limbs of a beloved sister? Eleven recently deceased protagonists find themselves floating in the afterlife where a nameless ghost offers them a joyous reunion with their loved ones. But not as you would expect.
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What do our gardens say about us? Monty Don has spent many years travelling the world, from America to Japan, from Italy and the Adriatic to Spain and the Mediterranean, getting under the skin of a country through its gardens and gardening traditions. Here, he finally brings his focus to home, journeying from the northern tip of Scotland to the Cornish coast, seeking to understand what our gardens tell us about ourselves as a nation. Encompassing historical gardens and public parks, mountains and seascapes, urban gardens and rural nurseries, glasshouses and community plots, each encounter is another link in a larger story of British identity: marks of ingenuity, eccentricity, and adaptation to changing environments.
The Little Mermaid and Other Tales 
