
It Was Snowing Butterflies
Book
'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus.' It is a selection of Darwin's...

The Fall of Icarus
Book
'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...' Ovid tells the...

The Maldive Shark
Book
'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.' Stories and poems by...

The Terrors of the Night
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'...dreaming of bears, or fire, or water...' The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe had a...

Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather: Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones: 2017
Anne Collett, Russell McDougall and Susan Thomas
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This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones,...

A Simple Heart
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'She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy!', 'Your...

Anthem for Doomed Youth
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'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The...

As Kingfishers Catch Fire
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'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley...
nature

Rurouni Kenshin (3-in-1 Edition): Vols. 4, 5 & 6
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Action, romance, and historical intrigue help make Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin, the tale of a...

The Ends of the Earth: (The Wide World - James Maxted): Book 3
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LIES. SECRETS. REVELATIONS. 1919 - The truth has never been in such short supply Ex-flying ace James...