'A remarkable feat of imagination... I enjoyed and admired it in equal measure' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex SerpentIn 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its
From a journalist who, with her sisters, cared for her mother during many years of dementia comes an extraordinary and deeply personal memoir, a manifesto, and a call to arms, in one searingly beautif
'WONDERFUL. ONE NEVER MESSES WITH THE FAERIES' Melanie Reid, The Times'AN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH' Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus'EXTRAORDINARILY VIVD' Michelle Gallen, author of Big Girl Small TownA sp
Alchemists sought gold in it and?David Bowie refrigerated it to ward off evil. In the trenches of Ypres soldiers used it as a gas mask, whereas modern-day terrorists add it to homemade explosives. "It
Sally Magnusson's memoir of her trip to Iceland with her father Magnus Magnusson to explore their heritage is not only a record of the relationship between a father and his adult daughter, but also c
When the moon is full and the sky lights up with fire, beware the Ghost Dog. Pity nobody told Horace the Haggis. When he sets off to the Secret Loch to teach the accident-prone Professor Nut the bagpi
Horace the Haggis finds refuge among the animals of Acre Valley. But Angus McPhee, chief of the haggis-hunters, and his deadly cat are out to trap him. Can a flower-eating fox, a loyal mouse, a gossip
