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| "Death of an Airman" |
| "Death of an Airman is an enjoyable and unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as remarkable as that of any of his fictional creations When an aeroplane crashes and its pilot is killed Edwin Marriott the Bishop of Cootamundra in Australia is on hand In England on leave the Bishop has decided to learn how to fly but he is not convinced that the pilot's death was accidental In due course naturally he is proved right The Bishop and Inspector Bray of Scotland Yard make an appealing pair of detectives and ultimately a cunning criminal scheme is uncovered"
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| "The Z Murders" |
| "'Jefferson Farjeon is quite unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures'Dorothy L SayersRichard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning He takes refuge in a nearby hotel along with a disagreeable fellow passenger who had snored his way through the train journey But within minutes the other man has snored for the last time - he has been shot dead while sleeping in an armchair Temperley has a brief encounter with a beautiful young woman but she flees the scene When the police arrive Detective Inspector James discovers a token at the crime scene 'a small piece of enamelled metal Its colour was crimson and it was in the shape of the letter Z'Temperley sets off in pursuit of the mysterious woman from the hotel and finds himself embroiled in a cross-country chase - by train and taxi - on the tail of a sinister serial killer This classic novel by the author of the best-selling Mystery in White is a gripping thriller by a neglected master of the genre"
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| "The Santa Klaus Murder" |
| "Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere So when Sir Osmond Melbury the family patriarch is discovered - by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus - with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day the festivities are plunged into chaos Nearly every member of the party stands to reap some sort of benefit from Sir Osmond's death but Santa Klaus the one person who seems to have every opportunity to fire the shot has no apparent motive Various members of the family have their private suspicions about the identity of the murderer and the Chief Constable of Haulmshire who begins his investigations by saying that he knows the family too well and that is his difficulty wishes before long that he understood them better In the midst of mistrust suspicion and hatred it emerges that there was not one Santa Klaus but two The Santa Klaus Murder is a classic country-house mystery that is now being made available to readers for the first time since its original publication in 1936"
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| "Death on the Riviera" |
| "When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera Detective Inspector Meredith is sent speeding southwards - out of the London murk to the warmth and glitter of the Mediterranean Along with Inspector Blampignon - an amiable policeman from Nice - Meredith must trace the whereabouts of Chalky Cobbett crook and forgerSoon their interest centres on the Villa Paloma the residence of Nesta Hedderwick an eccentric Englishwoman and her bohemian house guests - among them her niece an artist and a playboy Before long it becomes evident that more than one of the occupants of the Villa Paloma has something to hide and the stage is set for murderThis classic crime novel from 1952 evokes all the sunlit glamour of life on the Riviera and combines deft plotting with a dash of humour This is the first edition to have been published in more than sixty years and follows the rediscovery of Bude's long-neglected detective writing by the British Library"
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| "Death of a Busybody" |
| "The eponymous nosy parker in Death of a Busybody is Miss Ethel Tither She has made herself deeply unpopular in the quintessentially English village of Hilary Magna since she goes out of her way to snoop on people and interfere with their lives On being introduced to her the seasoned reader of detective stories will spot a murder victim in the making Sure enough by the end of chapter one this unpleasant lady has met an extremely unpleasant fate She is found floating in a cesspool having been bludgeoned prior to drowning in the drainage waterThis is in every way a murky business; realising that they are out of their depth the local police quickly call in the Yard Inspector Thomas Littlejohn George Bellairs' series detective arrives on the train and in casting around for suspects he finds that he is spoiled for choice The amiable vicar supplies him with a map showing the scene of the crime; maps were a popular feature of traditional whodunnits for many years and Bellairs occasionally included them in his books as he does here"
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| "A Kind of Anger" |
| "A car hurtles down the driveway of a luxury villa in Switzerland The driver is a young woman Lucia Bernardi Inside the house police find the body of her lover on the bedroom floor The dead man - Ahmed Fathir Arbil - was an Iraqi refugee who has been tortured and killed Lucia vanishes into hiding in the South of FrancePiet Maas a journalist for the World Reporter sets out on Lucia's trail hoping for a scoop Soon he must decide whether to publish his story - which will lead to Lucia's exposure and almost certain death - or join her in executing a perilous scheme that could net them both a fortune"
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| "The Cheltenham Square Murder" |
| "In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten houses One summer's evening the square's rivalries and allegiances are disrupted by a sudden and unusual death - an arrow to the head shot through an open window at no 6 Unfortunately for the murderer an invitation to visit had just been sent by the crime writer Aldous Barnet staying with his sister at no 8 to his friend Superintendent Meredith Three days after his arrival Meredith finds himself investigating the shocking murder two doors down Six of the square's inhabitants are keen members of the Wellington Archery Club but if Meredith and Long thought that the case was going to be easy to solve they were wrongThe Cheltenham Square Murder is a classic example of how John Bude builds a drama within a very specific location Here the Regency splendour of Cheltenham provides the perfect setting for a story in which appearances are certainly deceiving"
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| "The 12.30 from Croydon" |
| "'Crofts constructs his alibi with immense elaborationThe story is highly successful and Mr Crofts is to be congratulated upon his experiment' - Dorothy L SayersWe begin with a body Andrew Crowther a wealthy retired manufacturer is found dead in his seat on the 1230 flight from Croydon to Paris Rather less orthodox is the ensuing flashback in which we live with the killer at every stage from the first thoughts of murder to the strains and stresses of living with its execution Seen from the criminal's perspective a mild-mannered Inspector by the name of French is simply another character who needs to be dealt with This is an unconventional yet gripping story of intrigue betrayal obsession justification and self-delusion And will the killer get away with it?"
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| "The Light of Day" |
| "Arthur Simpson - 'British to the core' but without a passport to prove it - lives in Athens scraping by as a driver journalist and petty thief When Simpson spots Harper at the airport he recognises him as a tourist new to the city and in need of a private driver But an ill-judged attempt to relieve Harper of his traveller's cheques reveals him to be a highly sophisticated criminal and entangles Simpson in a complex double blackmail Simpson becomes an unwilling member of an armed gang in Istanbul tasked with driving a suspicious car across the border Soon he is an even less willing agent for the Turkish secret police who suspect Harper of planning a coup - but his plans are far more audacious than that and Simpson is in very deep water indeedThe Light of Day won the Edgar Award for best novel in 1964 and was the basis for the classic film Topkapi Like much of Ambler's finest work the novel focuses on an innocent man caught in a web of intrigue and deceit and Simpson is one of the most memorable heroes in any classic thriller"
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| "The Dead Shall be Raised and Murder of a Quack" |
| "Two classic cases featuring Detective-Inspector LittlejohnIn the winter of 1940 the Home Guard unearths a skeleton on the moor above the busy town of Hatterworth Twenty-three years earlier the body of a young textile worker was found in the same spot and the prime suspect was never found - but the second body is now identified as his Inspector Littlejohn is in the area for Christmas and takes on the investigation of the newly reopened case Soon it becomes clear that the murderer is still at large Nathaniel Wall the local quack doctor is found hanging in his consulting room in the Norfolk village of Stalden - but this was not a suicide Wall may not have been a qualified doctor but his skill as a bonesetter and his commitment to village life were highly valued Scotland Yard is drafted in to assist Quickly settling into his accommodation at the village pub Littlejohn begins to examine the evidenceAgainst the backdrop of a close-knit village an intriguing story of ambition blackmail fraud false alibis and botanical trickery unravels"
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| "Bloomsbury : Beyond the Establishment" |
| "Bloomsbury lies at the heart of cultural and intellectual London famed for its museums universities and literary heritage Matthew Ingleby's new history ranges across the neighbourhood to explore hidden corners and reveal unexpected connections between Bloomsbury's past and present its buildings and its people its austere towers and its garden squares Ingleby examines the facets of Bloomsbury that have shaped its identity - its long association with youth and beginnings; its proud secularism and scepticism; and its role as London's centre of thinking writing and publishing He draws on the voices of Bloomsbury's most observant residents such as Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf to explain the character of the place in a fresh and engaging new way"
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| "Crimson Snow : Winter Mysteries" |
| "Crimson Snow brings together a dozen vintage crime stories set in winter Welcome to a world of Father Christmases behaving oddly a famous fictional detective in a Yuletide drama mysterious tracks in the snow---- and some very unpleasant carol singers The mysterious events chronicled by a distinguished array of contributors in this volume frequently take place at Christmas There's no denying that the supposed season of goodwill is a time of year that lends itself to detective fiction On a cold night it's tempting to curl up by the fireside with a good mystery And more than that claustrophobic house parties when people may be cooped up with long-estranged relatives can provide plenty of motives for murderIncluding forgotten stories by great writers such as Margery Allingham as well as classic tales by less familiar crime novelists each story in this selection is introduced by the great expert on classic crime Martin Edwards The resulting volume is an entertaining and atmospheric compendium of wintry delights"
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| "Out of the Deep : And Other Supernatural Tales" |
| "A visitor from an alternate world is glimpsed in a snowy churchyard; a box contains a creature that resembles (but not quite closely enough) a human being; two schoolboys spend a holiday with a sinister aunt In many of these stories ordinary settings in the English countryside possess a hallucinatory quality - a sense of meaning beyond our grasp and events running out of kilter with reality Like all the best ghost stories these haunting tales offer an enduring sense of mystery with an explanation that remains tantalisingly out of reach They grow richer with each reading - lingering in the mind and becoming ever more sinister and more profound"
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| "Continental Crimes" |
| "A man is forbidden to uncover the secret of the tower in a fairy-tale castle by the Rhine A headless corpse is found in a secret garden in Paris - belonging to the city's chief of police And a drowned man is fished from the sea off the Italian Riviera leaving the carabinieri to wonder why his socialite friends at the Villa Almirante are so unconcerned by his death These are three of the scenarios in this new collection of vintage crime stories compiled by Martin Edwards Detective stories from the golden age and beyond have used European settings - cosmopolitan cities rural idylls and crumbling chateaux - to explore timeless themes of revenge deception and haunting Including lesser-known stories by Arthur Conan Doyle GK Chesterton and J Jefferson Farjeon - and over a dozen other classic writers - this collection reveals many hidden gems of British crime"
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| "The Long Arm of the Law : Classic Police Stories" |
| "In classic British crime fiction dazzling detective work is often the province of a brilliant amateur - whereas the humble police detective cuts a hapless figure The twelve stories collected here strike a blow for the professionals with teasing mysteries to challenge hard-working police officers' persistence and scrupulous attention to detail As in his previous anthologies for the British Library Crime Classics series Martin Edwards introduces readers to fascinating neglected gems of British crime writing as well as uncovering lesser-known stories by the great novelists of the golden age Each of these stories combines realism with entertainment skillfully blending the conduct of a criminal investigation with a compelling murder-mystery plot"
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| "Death Makes a Prophet" |
| "'Small hostilities were growing; vague jealousies were gaining strength; and far off wasn't there a nebulous hint of approaching tragedy in the air?' Welworth Garden City in the 1940s is a forward-thinking town where free spirits find a home - vegetarians socialists and an array of exotic religious groups Chief among these are the Children of Osiris led by the eccentric High Prophet Eustace K Mildmann The cult is a seething hotbed of petty resentment jealousy and dark secrets - which eventually lead to murder The stage is set for one of Inspector Meredith's most bizarre and exacting cases This witty crime novel by a writer on top form is a neglected classic of British crime fiction"
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| "Science Fiction : A Literary History" |
| "Science fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years This book offers a survey of the genre from nineteenth-century pioneers to contemporary authors introducing the plural versions of early SF across the world before examining the emergence of the 'scientific romance' in the 1880s and 1890s The 'Golden Age' of writers' expansive SF pulp was concentrated in the 1930s consolidated by best-selling writers like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein The contributors to this volume also track the increasingly diverse forms SF took from the 1950s onwards Leading international scholars writing in an accessible style consider SF as a 'world' literature referencing works from diverse traditions in Latin America Europe Russia and the Far East This book combines discussion of central figures of the tradition with a new global reach"
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| "Around the World in 80 Maps" |
| "Sumptuously illustrated with eighty maps from the British Library's unrivalled collection this gorgeous children's book whisks its reader around the globe Like that of Jules Verne's famous hero the journey begins and ends in London plotting an eastwards route with stop-offs at some of the world's most fascinating places There are extraordinary details to pore over as well as stories about how and why these maps were made and by whom Fascinating snippets explore each place in more depth revealing its history famous people landmarks wildlife culture or customs Helpful fact files provide at-a-glance information to broaden geographical knowledge"
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| "The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books" |
| "The main aim of detective stories is to entertain but the best cast a light on human behaviour and display both literary ambition and accomplishment Even unpretentious detective stories written for unashamedly commercial reasons can give us clues to the past and give us insight into a long-vanished world that for all its imperfections continues to fascinate This book written by award-winning crime writer and president of the Detection Club Martin Edwards serves as a companion to the British Library's internationally acclaimed series of Crime Classics Long-forgotten stories republished in the series have won a devoted new readership with several titles entering the bestseller charts and sales outstripping those of highly acclaimed contemporary thrillers"
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| "A History of Children's Books in 100 Books" |
| "While the modern children's book intended specifically for the enjoyment of children did not emerge until 18th-century Europe its roots span centuries and continents children's literature began with fables myths and folk tales from the oral tradition A History of the Children's Book in 100 Books takes a global perspective and traces the development of the genre from ancient stories such as Aesop's Fables and the Indian Panchatantra through the Puritan primers of the 17th century to the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm to the highly collectable Ladybird books of the 20th century and up to modern classics and bestsellers such as the Harry Potter series Illustrations have often been key components of children's stories visualizing fantastic scenes and making them instantly recognizable Original artwork from iconic illustrators such as Arthur Rackham Walter Crane and John Tenniel is beautifully reproduced throughout"
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| "The Lake District Murder by John Bude (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "'Luke flung the light of his torch full onto the face of the immobile figure Then he had the shock of his life The man had no face! Where his face should have been was a sort of inhuman uniform blank!' When a body is found at an isolated garage Inspector Meredith is drawn into a complex investigation where every clue leads to another puzzle was this a suicide or something more sinister? Why was the dead man planning to flee the country? And how is this connected to the shady business dealings of the garage? This classic mystery novel is set amidst the stunning scenery of a small village in the Lake District It is now republished for the first time since the 1930s"
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| "Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "'This detective novel is much more than interesting The numerous characters are well differentiated and include one of the most feckless exasperating and lifelike literary men that ever confused a trail' Dorothy L Sayers Sunday Times 1934 When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station her fellow-boarders in the Frampton Hotel are not overwhelmed with grief at the death of a tiresome old woman But they all have their theories about the identity of the murderer and help to unravel the mystery of who killed the wealthy 'Pongle' Several of her fellow residents - even Tuppy the terrier - have a part to play in the events that lead to a dramatic arrest This classic mystery novel is set in and around the Northern Line of the London Underground It is now republished for the first time since the 1930s"
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| "Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries by The British Library Publishing Division (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all So in a different way do detective stories This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy this new selection shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme These fourteen stories range widely across the golden age of British crime fiction Stellar names from the past are well represented - Arthur Conan Doyle and G K Chesterton for instance - with classic stories that have won acclaim over the decades The collection also uncovers a wide range of hidden gems Anthony Berkeley - whose brilliance with plot had even Agatha Christie in raptures - is represented by a story so (undeservedly) obscure that even the British Library seems not to own a copy The stories by Phyllis Bentley and Helen Simpson are almost equally rare despite the success which both writers achieved while those by H C Bailey Leo Bruce and the little-known Gerald Findler have seldom been reprinted"
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| "The Philosophy of Beards by Thomas S. Gowing (Hardback, 2014)" |
| "'The absence of Beard is usually a sign of physical and moral weakness' 'Take two drawings of the head of a lion one with and the other without the mane You will see how much of the majesty of the king of the woods as well as that of the lord of the earth dwells in this free-flowing appendage' 'There is scarcely a more naturally disgusting object than a beardless old man The Beard keeps gradually covering varying and beautifying and imparts new graces even to decay by heightening all that is still pleasing veiling all that is repulsive' This eccentric Victorian book argues a strong case for the universal wearing of a beard - that essential symbol of manly distinction since ancient times Thomas S Gowing contrasts the vigour and daring of bearded men through history with the undeniable effeminacy of the clean-shaven He reminds the modern man that 'ladies by their very nature like everything manly' and cannot fail to be charmed by a 'fine flow of curling comeliness' Gowing's book is now republished for the first time since 1850 accompanied by illustrations of impressive beards from history"
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| "Murder in Piccadilly by Charles Kingston (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "'Scores of men and women died daily in London but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart Death had become something very real' When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night club in Soho he has every hope of an idyllic marriage But Nancy has more worldly ideas about her future she is attracted not so much to Bobbie as to the fortune he expects to inherit Bobbie's miserly uncle Massy stands between him and happiness he will not relinquish the ten thousand a year on which Nancy's hopes rest When Bobbie falls under the sway of the roguish Nosey Ruslin the stage is set for murder in the heart of Piccadilly - and for Nancy's dreams to be realised When Chief Inspector Wake of Scotland Yard enters the scene he uncovers a tangled web of love affairs a cynical Soho underworld and a motive for murder"
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| "The Sussex Downs Murder by John Bude (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "&39;Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder and what was more a murder without a corpse!&39; Two brothers John and William Rother live together at Chalklands Farm in the beautiful Sussex Downs Their peaceful rural life is shattered when John Rother disappears and his abandoned car is found Has he been kidnapped? Or is his disappearance more sinister - connected perhaps to his growing rather too friendly with his brother&39;s wife? Superintendent Meredith is called to investigate - and begins to suspect the worst when human bones are discovered on Chalklands farmland His patient careful detective method begins slowly to untangle the clues as suspicion shifts from one character to the next This classic detective novel from the 1930s is now republished for the first time with an introduction by the award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards"
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| "The Hog's Back Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage Inspector French is called in to investigate At first he suspects a simple domestic intrigue - and begins to uncover a web of romantic entanglements beneath the couple's peaceful rural life The case soon takes a more complex turn Other people vanish mysteriously one of Dr Earle's house guests among them What is the explanation for the disappearances? If the missing people have been murdered what can be the motive? This fiendishly complicated puzzle is one that only Inspector French can solve Freeman Wills Crofts was a master of the intricately and ingeniously plotted detective novel and The Hog's Back Mystery shows him at the height of his powers"
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| "The Cat That Walked by Himself and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling (Hardback, 2010)" |
| "'HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was O my Best Beloved when the Tame animals were wild The Dog was wild and the Horse was wild and the Cow was wild and the Sheep was wild and the Pig was wild-as wild as wild could be-and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat He walked by himself and all places were alike to him' So begins the story of 'The Cat That Walked by Himself' one of many stories Kipling created to entertain his own children and those of his friends inventing ingenious explanations for such conundrums as 'How the Camel Got His Hump' In 1902 he wrote down these gloriously fanciful tales for publication as the Just So Stories This beautiful gift edition presents the best-loved story 'The Cat that Walked by Himself' alongside 'How the Camel Got His Hump' 'How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin' and 'The Elephant's Child' and reproduces the author's delightfully evocative original illustrations"
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| "Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge by Terence McKenna (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "A journey to some of the Earth's most endangered people in the remote Upper Amazon a look at the rituals of the Bwiti cults of Gabon and Zaire a field watch on the eating habits of 'stoned' apes and chimpanzees - these adventures are all a part of ethnobotanist Terence McKenna's extraordinary quest to discover the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge He wonders why as a species we are so fascinated by altered states of consciousness Can they reveal something about our origins as human beings and our place in nature? As an odyssey of mind body and spirit Food of the Gods is one of the most fascinating and surprising histories of consciousness ever written And as a daring work of scholarship and exploration it offers an inspiring vision for individual fulfilment and a humane basis for our interaction which each other and with the natural world 'Brilliant provocative opinionated poetic and inspiring Essential reading for anyone who ever wondered why people take drugs' Rupert Sheldrake"
Price: 9.60 |
| "RSPB My First Book of Garden Birds" |
| "A beautiful picture book about garden birds that will appeal to families with young children Rachel Lockwood's wonderful illustrations will delight children aged from two to seven and will help them to discover and identify the most common birds in their everyday surroundings Each bird is introduced on a right-hand page in an illustration where it is partly obscured or turned away from the viewer The text gives some clues and invites readers to guess the bird's identity The reader then turns the page to find out more 'A beautiful picture book that will appeal to children aged 2 to 7 and will help them identify common birds in their everyday surroundings' Publishing News 'This beautifully illustrated book by the RSPB is a lovely way to introduce younger juniors to the UK's birds' Scholastic's Junior Education April 2007"
Price: 6.99 |
