Who's been sitting in the chairs, eating the porridge and is still sleeping in the bed? Three bears discover a little intruder in their home and, like Goldilocks, young readers will find this retelling just right!

Hans Christian Andersen's beloved story about a mermaid who leaves the sea after she falls in love with a human prince receives a beautiful and poignant retelling. Lavishly illustrated, lovingly retold, these new Silver Penny Stories are sure to find...

Little Red Riding Hood has to deliver goodies to grandma, but when the hungry Big Bad Wolf spots the girl in the woods, he decides to trick her into becoming dinner.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the world's most popular and influential fictional detective – the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Wats...

In the Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood robs from the rich and gives to the poor and has enough action-packed exploits to thrill any child.

Children will love this simple and charming version of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale about a very, very tiny girl and her adventures in a big and sometimes scary world.

In "Quick Question" John Ashbery extends an invitation to readers to accompany him into the extraordinary worlds of the everyday, experienced through the box of tricks that is language. He revels in twist and transformation, the constant mutability o...

"Pure and beautiful, she glows like the moon behind clouds". The time is the 12th Century, the place Cambodia, birthplace of the lost Angkor civilisation. In a village behind a towering stone temple lives a young woman named Sray, whom neighbours lik...

Contemporaries in imagination as in fact, James Joyce and Sigmund Freud pondered the complexities and depths of human consciousness and found distinct ways to represent it-the one as a great novelist, the other as the first psychoanalyst. In this boo...

This book distils an adult lifetime into the intense magic of poetry. Wallace-Crabbe is a nature poet in the broadest possible sense: his poems, ranging widely in tone and subject-matter, seek above all to convey the richness and variety of our world...