In 1954, a young television presenter was offered the opportunity of a lifetime
- to travel the world finding rare & elusive animals
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One puff adder, one antelope, one crocodile
- This was the list of sick animals presented to Oliver Graham-Jones on his first
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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, beautiful but contrary, highly strung & blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. Their provocative presence fills Guy's head with stories so wild he can't concentrate to write them. Not that anyone reads anymore, anyway. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, however, is writing her own novel. Guy dreads the consequences... Our funniest writer at his brilliant best, Zoo Time is a novel about love
- love of women, love of literature, love of laughter.
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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung & blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother & daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy`s peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy, anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn`t expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment & universal despair, Guy wonders if it`s time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isn`t. & out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry, elegiac & rude, Zoo Time is a novel about love
- love of women, love of literature, love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.
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This title features a new environment on every colourful, artistic page. ” Zoo-ology” is filled with beautifully crafted species from the Aardvark to the Zebra connected in thought provoking & unusual groupings of creatures of all shapes & sizes. Take hold of these pages & throw yourself into the natural world. Lose yourself amidst the habitats that these animals share. A teeming wildlife sanctuary where over 300 animals leap off the page, this book allows the reader to imagine a zoo without bars, where animals gather in chaotic but innovative herds, prides & rookeries. ...

Based on the hugely popular website Zoo Borns.com, ” Zoo Borns” combines photos of the newest & cutest exotic animal babies around the world into the perfect gift for animal lovers big & small. Authors & Zoo Borns.com original site founders Andrew Bleiman & Chris Eastland have access to over 1, 500 photos of baby animals taken at accredited zoos & aquariums from all over the world, resulting in what just might be the cutest animal book ever created. Providing interesting animal facts both generally about the species & specifically about the details of the individual birth, the book is as educational as it is entertaining. ...

FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE.. .BLAST OFF! Monkey & Bird can`t sleep, so they set off on a magical journey! Join them as they count their way across the moon, past five orange meteors, four pink alien hands, three green moon buggies, two yellow ladders & one big red spaceship button that will zoom zoom zoom them all the way home. Learn to count with Monkey & Bird, two bright, bold characters that breathe new life into this ever popular children`s song. Toddlers & young children will delight in the familiar rhyme, the vibrant artwork & enjoy counting the objects on every page. With stunning, screen printed artwork & a jacketed hardback, this is a carefully conceived & beautifully produced book
- the perfect gift for any young child, & any adult with an eye for colour & design.
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Cities around the world are always on the move, & this lively book puts little ones in the driver`s seat with a cacophony of sounds right on the streets of some of the most exciting metropolises on the planet, including San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Tokyo, London, Vancouver, & more. The sturdy pages feature fire trucks, diggers, motorcycles, & boats, as well as police cars (weeeoooeee!), airplanes (swish!), & strollers in the park (whir, whir!). Zoom! Beep! Vroom! Busy Cities will surely charm any young vehicle enthusiast & the many tots that are intrigued by life in the big city. ...

Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has had a family & many lovers, has fought in the Balkan wars, has lived & loved
- he is a simple but deep man who lives every moment fully & without shame. As their friendship develops, the Englishman is gradually won over, transformed & inspired along with the reader.
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Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has had a family & many lovers, has fought in the Balkan wars, has lived & loved
- he is a simple but deep man who lives every moment fully & without shame. As their friendship develops, the Englishman is gradually won over, transformed & inspired along with the reader. Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis` most popular & enduring novel, has its origins in the author`s own experiences in the Peleponnesus in the 1920s. His swashbuckling hero has legions of fans across the world & his adventures are as exhilarating now as they were on first publication in the 1950s. ” There can never be any doubt that Kazantzakis was the possessor of genius.” (Sunday Telegraph).
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