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FORTHCOMING BOOKS - SEPTEMBER, AUGUST & JULY 2011

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SEPTEMBER

FICTION

HARDBACK

Ragnarok: the End of the Gods - A. S. Byatt

In the Canongate Myths series, A S Byatt’s retelling of the Norse myths, culminating in the end of the world and of the Gods. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

Daniel - Henning Mankell, trans. Steven T. Murray

Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the Kalahari Desert, determined to find a previously undiscovered insect to name after himself and advance his career. Instead, he finds a young boy, whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders. (£7.99)

Player One - Douglas Coupland

Five disparate people are trapped inside an airport cocktail lounge: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and, finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. (£7.99)

Heaven and Hell - Jon Kalman Stefansson, trans. Philip Roughton

In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barethur join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea and Barethur, who has forgotten his waterproof as he was too absorbed in 'Paradise Lost', succumbs to the ferocious cold and dies. Appalled by the death and by the fishermen's callous ability to set about gutting the fatal catch, the boy leaves the village, intending to return the book to its owner. (£7.99)

Mary Ann in Autumn - Armistead Maupin

Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now, a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her oldest friend, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, a gay gardener happily ensconced with his husband. (£7.99)

Lights Out in Wonderland - D. B. C. Pierre

Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is looking to end it all with one last journey of excess. (£7.99)

The Shadows in the Street - Susan Hill

Simon Serrailler is on sabbatical on a Scottish island when he is urgently summoned back to Lafferton. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. By the time Serrailler has reached the town, another girl has vanished. (£7.99)

The Auschwitz Violin - Maria Angels Anglada, trans. Martha Tennent

The story of one man's refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of one of history's greatest atrocities. (£6.99)

NON-FICTION

ART AND CRAFT

David Hockney: My Yorkshire - Marco Livingstone

Full-page spreads of Hockney’s Yorkshire paintings alongside interviews with the artist. (£18 at The Book Case)

Pocket Posh Tips for Knitters - Jayne S. Davis

Goes beyond knit 1, purl 2 to offer helpful tips & tricks on selecting yarn, refining patterns, and completing projects. Nice cover. (£5.99)

Best in Show: Knit Your Own Cat - Joanna Osborne; Sally Muir

The perfect gift for cat-lovers and knitters everywhere. Includes patterns for 25 cat breeds Their previous book told you how to knit your own dog. (£12.99)

Tasty Cute: 25 Amigurumi Gourmet Treats to Make - Annie Obaachan

Amigurumi is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and anthropomorphic creatures - but this variation features crocheted hamburgers, pizzas and cupcakes. (£10.99)

BIOGRAPHY

The Memory Chalet - Tony Judt

"To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head..." (£8.99)

What's Tha Up To?: Memories of a Yorkshire Bobby - Martyn Johnson

A nostalgic look at the long-gone days of the bobby on the beat in Sheffield. (£5.99)

Walking to Hollywood - Will Self

A remarkable mixture of fact, fancy, memoir and invention. (£7.99)

FOOD AND DRINK

Good Beer Guide 2012 - ed. Roger Protz (CAMRA)

The UK's best-selling independent beer & pub guide, completely revised and updated for 2012. (£15.99)

Pocket Posh Cocktails - John Townsley

What to mix and how to mix, the fundamentals of mixology and cocktail methodology will always be at your fingertips in this pocket-sized guide (£5.99)

GAMES AND HOBBIES

Pocket Posh Crosswords 3 - The Puzzle Society (£5.99)

HUMOUR

Don'ts for Mothers, 1878

e.g. Don’t wash the baby in hot water, it would weaken and enervate the babe. (£2.99)

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Faulks on Fiction - Sebastian Faulks

Paperback of his guide to characters in English Literature - heroes, lovers, snobs and villains. (£8.99)

The Writing Book: A Practical Guide for Fiction Writers - Kate Grenville

From the Orange Prize-winning, Booker Prize-shortlisted author, a practical workbook with down-to-earth ideas and suggestions for writers or aspiring writers to get you started and to keep you going. (£8.99)

My Grammar and I (or Should That be 'Me'?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English - Caroline Taggart; J. A. Wines (£5.99)

MBS

In Tune with the Moon 2012: The Complete Day-by-day Planner for Growing and Living in 2012 - Michel Gros

This detailed guide includes information on the waxing and waning moon, the constellations and the Chinese zodiac, and an abundance of gardening tips. The effects of the moon on plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables are explained in simple but ample detail, with recommendations for the ideal times to sow, transplant, rotate crops, and harvest. (£8.99)

NATURE

A Guide to British Farmland Birds (BBC CD) (£9.25)

One for Sorrow: The Origins of Old-Fashioned Lore - Chloe Rhodes (£9.99)

POLITICS

Send Up the Clowns: Parliamentary Sketches 2007-11 - Simon Hoggart (£8.99)

REFERENCE

I Before E (Except After C): Old-School Ways to Remember Stuff - Judy Parkinson (£5.99)

I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot from School - Caroline Taggart (£5.99)


AUGUST

FICTION

HARDBACK

The Stranger's Child - Alan Hollinghurst

In the late summer of 1913 an aristocratic young poet comes to stay at the home of a close Cambridge friend. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions, but it is on a sixteen-year-old girl that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a poem which will become a touchstone for a generation, an evocation of an England about to change for ever. (£18.00 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

The Charming Quirks of Others: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel - Alexander McCall
There are drawbacks to the enlightened village that is twenty-first-century Edinburgh, where every Saturday night ears burn at dinner parties across the city, and anyone requiring the investigative abilities of a philosophical soul knows where to find her. (£7.99)

Becoming Jane Eyre - Sheila Kohler

In a cold parsonage on the Yorkshire moors, in1846, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. An impoverished sick father. A son destroyed by alcohol and opiates. And three strong, intelligent young women, reduced to poverty and spinsterhood, with only their remarkable literary talent to help them. (£7.99)

REISSUES

Palladian - Elizabeth Taylor

When newly orphaned Cassandra Dashwood arrives in a secretive ramshackle house as governess to little Sophy, the scene seems set for the archetypal romance between young girl and austere widowed employer. But conventions are subverted in this atmospheric novel: one of its worlds is suffused with classical scholarship and literary romance, but the other is chaotic, quarrelsome and even farcical. Entertaining homage to Jane Eyre. (£8.99)

The Inheritors - William Golding

A startling recreation of the lost world of the Neanderthals, and a frightening vision of the beginnings of a new age. Stylish new edition. (£7.99)

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Stylish new edition of the classic story of schoolboys on a desert island. (£7.99)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story - Richard Bach

Illustrated gift edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the fable of the bird determined to be more than ordinary. (£8.99)

NON-FICTION

FOOD

River Cottage: Fruit - Mark Diacono

A practical and accessible guide to making the most of your garden and what it has to offer. Key to growing fruit trees and plants successfully is knowing which varieties will thrive in your own particular garden. (£14.99)

LANGUAGE

Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language - David Crystal

This astonishing book has 'contributed far more to English in the way of idiomatic or quasi-proverbial expressions than any other literary source' wrote David Crystal in 2004. In Begat he returns to the subject. (£8.99)

MUSIC

Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music - Rob Young

Rob Young investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations - song collectors, composers, Marxist revivalists, folk-rockers, psychedelic voyagers, free festival-goers, experimental pop stars and electronic innovators, in a sweeping panorama of Albion's soundscape. (£9.99)

POETRY

Remains of Elmet - Ted Hughes

The original 1979 version, without Fay Godwin’s pictures. "The Calder valley, west of Halifax, was the last ditch of Elmet, the last British Celtic kingdom to fall to the Angles. For centuries it was considered a more or less uninhabitable wilderness, a notorious refuge for criminals, a hide-out for refugees. Then in the early 1800s it became the cradle for the Industrial Revolution in textiles ... Throughout my lifetime, since 1930, I have watched the mills of the region and their attendant chapels die." (Ted Hughes, Preface to "Remains of Elmet" (1979). (£9.99)


JULY

FICTION

HARDBACK

Cain - Jose Saramago, trans. Margaret Jull Costa

Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ", he has done it again with this satire on the Old Testament. Written in the last years of Saramago's life, it tackles many of the moral and logical non-sequiturs created by a wilful, authoritarian God, and is part of Saramago's argument with religion. (£12.99)

PAPERBACK

Luka and the Fire of Life - Salman Rushdie

On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on a journey through the Magic World. The follow-up to the bestselling Haroun and the Sea of Stories (£7.99)

The Elephant's Journey - Jose Saramago, trans. Margaret Jull Costa

Solomon the elephant's life is about to be upturned. For two years he has been in Lisbon, brought from the Portuguese colonies in India. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for the Hapsburg archduke, Maximilian. So begins a journey that will take the stalwart Solomon across the dusty plains of Castile, over the sea to Genoa and up to northern Italy where he must cross the snowy Alps. (£7.99)

The Small Hand - Susan Hill

This is the chilling tale of a man in the grip of a small, invisible hand, from the author of "The Woman in Black" Late one summer evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn. He stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house, and compelled by curiosity, approaches the door. (£7.99)

Mother Pleiades - William Heinesen, trans. W. Glyn Jones

"A story from the beginning of time" from the great Danish/Faroese author. A limited circle of ordinary and unprepossessing figures in a small town, much of it as experienced through the eyes of Antonia’s infant illegitimate son from his very earliest days until he is some five years of age. Religion is in this novel portrayed exclusively in negative terms in stark contrast to the world of nature, the bearer of life, the supreme representative of which is Antonia. (£8.99)

The Good Hope - William Heinesen, trans. W. Glyn Jones

Winner of the 1964 Nordic Prize and the first English translation of one of the greatest novels in the Danish language. The main larger than life character, the Rev. Peder Børresen, is based on a real historical person and the bok tells a story of brutal oppression, poverty and terrible diseases, but also of resistance and of having the courage of one’s convictions. When Heinesen was asked how long it had taken to write it, he answered, "forty years. But then I did other things in between." (£12.99)

Visitation - Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. Susan Bernofsky

By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams - a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows the colour of jewels, and a bedroom with a hidden closet, all set within a beautiful garden. But the land on which he builds has a dark history of violence. (£7.99)

The Appointment - Herta Muller, trans. Michael Hulse; Philip Boehm

'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she knows it will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. 'Marry me', the notes say, with her name and address. Anything to get out of the country. (£7.99)

Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martel

The story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by a man named Henry. It begins with a mysterious parcel and ends in a place that will make you think again about one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. It also involves a howler monkey, a donkey, an enigmatic taxidermist, and a dog named Erasmus. (£8.99)

The Radleys - Matt Haig

Peter Radley and his wife Helen live a typical life in a typical suburb, or pretend to. When daughter Clara gets attacked on the walk home from a party, she discovers for herself the appetite her parents have suppressed. (£7.99)

The Very Thought of You - Rosie Alison

As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate. (£7.99)

The Misogynist - Piers Paul Read

Jomier broods and types his gloomy thoughts onto his computer screen. He has reached the age of retirement, his children have grown up and he lives alone in London, filling his time other with formulaic middle-class dinner parties. Then he falls for Judith ... . (£7.99)

The Obscure Logic of the Heart - Priya Basil

Set in Kenya - a Muslim girl defies her family by dating a non-Muslim. From the author of Ishq and Mushq. (£7.99)

When God Was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman

A debut novel and coming-of-age story in two parts, one seen through the eyes of a young girl and the second set in New York amid the events of 9/11. "A mesmerizing portrait of childhood, with very dark and quirky humor." (£7.99)

The Leopard - Jo Nesbo, trans. Don Bartlett

In the depths of winter, two young women are found dead, both drowned in their own blood. Inspector Harry Hole initially wants nothing to do with the case but his instincts take over when a prominent MP is found brutally murdered. (£6.99)

Witness - Cath Staincliffe

Four bystanders in the wrong place at the wrong time witness the shocking shooting of a teenage boy, a moment that changes their lives forever. A senseless crime, a community in fear, would you dare stand up and be counted? Would you bear witness knowing how high the cost might be? From the Bradford-based thriller writer. (£7.99)

NON-FICTION

ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Northerners - Sefton Samuels

Beyond the cliches about the North lies a region rich in its diversity, devilish in its humour and fertile in its culture, and it is these characteristics that iconic photographer Sefton Samuels has captured faithfully over four decades.(£12.99)

BIOGRAPHY

Stalin Ate My Homework - Alexei Sayle

The Sayles might not have been the only Jewish atheist communist family in Liverpool, but Alexei knew from an early age that they were one of the more eccentric. Alexei was the only child of Joe, an affable trade unionist who led the family on railway expeditions across eastern Europe, and Molly, a hot-tempered red-head who terrified teachers and insisted Alexei see the Red Army Choir instead of the Beatles. (£7.99)

COOKERY

Building a Wood-fired Oven for Bread and Pizza - Tom Jaine

13th revised edition of this handy instruction manual for the ultra-keen breadmaker and DIY enthusiast showing how to build a substantial bread oven in the yard or garden. (£9.99)

CURRENT AFFAIRS

Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War - Megan Stack

A few weeks after 9/11, LA Times journalist Megan Stack was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. She then travelled to other war ravaged countries of the Middle East including Israel and Libya, witnessing and telling the stories of the changing Muslim world. (£8.99)

Everything is Broken: Life Inside Burma - Emma Larkin

On 2 May 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. The cyclone wreaked untold havoc, but the regime, in an unfathomable decision of near-genocidal proportions, blocked international aid from entering the country, and provided little relief themselves. Emma Larkin, who has been travelling to and secretly reporting on Burma for years, managed to arrange for a tourist visa in those frenzied days and arrived to chaos. (£8.99)

Finding George Orwell in Burma - Emma Larkin

Reissue of this travel classic about the the author’s year spent travelling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply "the prophet". (£8.99)

GAMES AND HOBBIES

Chambers Card Games for One - Peter Arnold (£7.99)

Chambers Card Games for Families - Peter Arnold (£7.99)

Card Games: The Instant Guide (Icon) (£2.99)

Travel Games: The Instant Guide (Icon) (£2.99)

HISTORY

The Story of England - Michael Wood

The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. Michael Wood tells the story of the village over 2000 years, told not from the top but from the bottom - a story of Anglo-Saxon peasants, medieval reeves, Tudor vicars, Victorian frame-work knitters and First World War soldiers. (9.99)

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth - Helen Castor

Matilda, daughter of Henry I and granddaughter of William the Conquerer, came tantalisingly close to securing her hold on the power of the crown. And between the 12th and the 15th centuries three more exceptional women - Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, and Margaret of Anjou held great power as queens consort and dowager. (£10)

Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth Century England - Russia and History's Turning Point - Douglas Hay; Peter Linebaugh; E.P. Thompson

Leading historians present a fascinating collection of essays on the eighteenth century legal system and those who passed through it. (£16.99)

Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey - Rachel Hewitt

The award-winning story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map. (£9.99)

Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century - Sheila Rowbotham

From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. This is a groundbreaking new history that shows how women created much of the fabric of modern life. (£10.99)

Fred Dibnah - Made in Britain - David Hall

After retiring from steeplejacking, Fred took to the road on his beloved traction engine. The intention was to seek out the remarkable achievements of the craftsmen, engineers, inventors and industrial workers whose endeavour made engines like Fred's possible. (£7.99)

HUMOUR

Don't Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards - P.J. O'Rourke

O'Rourke reflects on his forty year career as a political commentator, spanning his addled hippie youth to his current state of right-wing grouch maturity. (£8.99)

What We French Think of You British - and Where You are Going Wrong - Marcel Lucont

France's premier misanthropist shares his disdainful opinion on all things British and offers advice on just why the French do it so much better. (£6.99)

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

A Reader on Reading - Alberto Manguel

Argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. 'We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything'. Words, in spite of everything, lend coherence to the world and offer us 'a few safe places, as real as paper and as bracing as ink', to grant us roof and board in our passage. (£12.99)

A History of English Spelling (M.Follick) 11.99

An outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxon' adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day. (£11.99)

MBS

Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing - Tim Parks

'Just when the medical profession had given up on me and I on it, just when I seemed to be walled up in a life sentence of chronic pain, someone proposed a bizarre way out: sit still, they said, and breathe'. The visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Parks' quest to overcome ill health. (£8.99)

On Balance - Adam Phillips

Are we too obsessed with excess? What can childhood teach us about bad behaviour? And should we be happy, or is there something better we might be? Adam Phillips explores a variety of urgent concerns related to how we attempt to manage our conflicting desires, needs and motives. (£9.99)

Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

Viktor Frankl is known to millions as the author of "Man's Search for Meaning", his harrowing Holocaust memoir. In this book, he goes more deeply into the ways of thinking that enabled him to survive imprisonment in a concentration camp and to find meaning in life in spite of all the odds. (£9.99)

The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called The Ark - Mikhail Naimy

The Book of Mirdad, the timeless allegorical story which has touched the hearts of so many readers, continues to show new generations how it is possible to expand one's consciousness, to uncover God in man by dissolving man's sense of duality. (£8.99)

NATURE

Stargazing: The Instant Guide (Icon) (£2.99)

POETRY

Complete Nonsense - Mervyn Peake

During his lifetime, Mervyn Peake was best known for the Gormenghast trilogy. After his death, his widow published a collection of nonsense poems wild and wonderful illustrations. Over ninety poems, together with "The Adventures of Footfruit", a narrative in poetic prose. (£12.95)

POLITICS

Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010 - Chris Mullin

Britain’s best-loved MP and bestselling diarist returns with his hilarious account of a New Labour backbencher. On the backbenches but still in the thick of it, Decline and Fall runs from Chris Mullin's sacking as a minister by Tony ('The Man') Blair in 2005 to the fall of New Labour in May 2010. (£9.99)

SCIENCE

Absence of Mind - Marilynne Robinson

In its purest form, science represents a search for answers, engaging the problem of knowledge, an aspect of the mystery of consciousness, rather than providing a simple and final model of reality. (£10.99)

Periodic Table: The Instant Guide (Icon) (£2.99)(£2.99)

SOCIETY

Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain - Owen Hatherley

New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities and British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to finance, property speculation, and the service industry - until the crash. Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage-the buildings that epitomized an age of greed and aspiration. (£9.99)

STATIONERY

Memories of Steam Desk Diary 2012 (£9.99)

Many glorious photographs featuring trains, stations, staff and passengers truly transport you back to this lovingly remembered age of transport. Great cover!

A. Wainwright Desk Diary 2012 (£13.00)

A. Wainwright Pocket Diary 2012 (£7.99)

These handsome diaries featuring the illustrations of A. Wainwright are bound with real cloth and have gold blocking on the cover and spine.

Moments 2012: Diary - Paulo Coelho

Illustrated in colour throughout, with a day to each page, with a selection of inspirational quotations from Paulo Coelho's bestselling titles. (£12.99)

My Angel Diary 2012 - Jenny Smedley

With guidance on the many ways that you can connect to and communicate with your angels, this inspirational companion will help you realise the strong presence that angels can have in your life, discover the identity of your own angelic guide, and allow you to work with them throughout the year for a brighter future. (£7.99)

The Redstone Diary of the Senses 2012, ed. Julian Rothenstein; Adam Lowe

Smooth to the touch and beguiling to the eye, a celebration of all things sensual. (£15.95)

From Ivy Press, a series of stylish birds and beasts for 2012, £9.99 each:

Beautiful Ducks Calendar 2012

Beautiful Chickens Calendar 2012

Beautiful Cows Calendar 2012

Beautiful Pigeons Calendar 2012

Beautiful Pigs Calendar 2012

Beautiful Rabbits Calendar 2012

Beautiful Sheep Calendar 2012

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Dr Xargle’s Book of Earth Tiggers - Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
Dr Xargle is instructing his class of small fellow aliens on the nature and habits of the earth creatures known to us as cats. Irresistable humour from this top class team. Age: 2+ (£5.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

Bad Cat, Good Cat - Lynne Reid Banks
This is the funny story of a very naughty cat. Cats aren't there for people, people are there for cats. At least that's how Turk believes things should be. He takes every liberty with his family, while Peony is a model of good-catliness -- until she falls under Turk's spell. Should cats be good or bad? Age: 5 - 9yrs. (£4.99)

Teenage

Reckless - Cornelia Funke
Through a mirror is a dangerous world. For years, Jacob Reckless has enjoyed its secrets and treasures. But not any more. His younger brother has followed him, and dark magic will turn the boy to beast, break the heart of the girl he loves and cause chaos to rule forever, unless Jacob can find a way to save them. An extraordinary, darkly romantic fantasy thriller, from the bestselling Cornelia Funke. Ages: 12+ ( £6.99)


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