Even the most successful lives are often shaped by great personal struggle: here, fourteen writers discuss the secret battles that made them who they are today

A 'gentle and enormously enjoyable' (Metro) memoir detailing conductor Lev Parikian's attempt to spot 200 birds in a year

A gorgeously illustrated and extended version of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, by the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning co-author of The Lost Words

You Took the Last Bus Home is the first and long-awaited collection of ingeniously hilarious and surprisingly touching poems from Brian Bilston, the mysterious `Poet Laureate of Twitter'.