1962, London during the Cuban Missile Crisis What would you do if there was a real possibility that the world might end? Ray, aware of his parents' building worry, decides to take matters into his own hands.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SECRET LIFE OF COWS We talk about people behaving like sheep, which assumes that sheep all behave in the same way.

On an extraordinary journey to the sea, a tiger boards the train, along with a jungle of other animals - all without Dad even looking up from his phone! and so does a family of hippos, and a band of crocs, and a mum with her piglets, and a pug in a boa - or two .

April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey - one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman - as they try to survive the horrors of the Belfast Blitz, These Days is an unforgettable novel about lives lived under duress.

It's a story written by big political leaders - David Lloyd George, Michael Collins, Winston Churchill and Eamon de Valera - and the millions of Irish emigrants who crossed from Ireland to Britain to begin new lives. Today demography, Brexit and political logic have brought the possibility of Irish unity into view.

But as their neighbours are gleaned by military surveys, 'cured - of identity', desensitised in retreats, They make it easier to forget ... Lost for over forty years, Kay Dick's They is a rediscovered dystopian masterpiece.

Necrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such... Following the publication In My Mind's Eye, her acclaimed first volume of diaries, a Radio 4 Book of the Week in 2018, Jan Morris continued to write her daily musings.

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