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Soggy and the Mermaid
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I found a rag doll mermaid on the beach many years ago, and it too ended up as a resident of the Rescue Chair. For the third book in the now ‘Soggy’ series I again remained within the bounds of my mix of fact and fiction. |
| Lulu's Secrets to Looking Good
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Lulu is the ultimate beauty icon for women -- small in stature, but big in personality and attitude, she's renowned for looking fantastic for her age. How does she do it?
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The Ferry Birds - Helen Dunmore
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A classic in the making by the award winning Dunmore, illustrated by Rebecca Cobb. Two Turnstones have hitched a ride on the river ferry every day for six years -
"I wonder why they go back and fourth everyday"
"That's their secret" said Great Gran
"Maybe one day they'll tell you"
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| SOLAR - Ian McEwan
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Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering.
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The Coral Thief - Rebecca Stott
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It's a hot August night in 1815, a few weeks after Napoleon's surrender to the Allied Forces at Waterloo. Daniel Connor, a brilliant and ambitious student from Edinburgh Medical School, is travelling to Paris by mail coach carrying rare historical specimens and letters of introduction to the illustrious Professor Cuvier at the Jardin des Plantes, a botanical and zoological garden on the banks of the Seine.
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| Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel - Andrew Graham-Dixon
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Five hundred years ago Michelangelo put the first brushstroke to his most ambitious creation. As he started work on his vast fresco cycle for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he began putting into pictures the awe-inspiring legends recounted in the Book of Genesis.
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