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  • Ten Sorry Tales

    by Mick Jackson ...
    From the pen of Mick Jackson, author of The Underground Man and Five Boys, come these ten acclaimed tales. Featuring undertakers, dark forests, resurrected butterflies and a singularly mean-spirited horse, the stories are nevertheless rooted in the realistic and all too recognisable world of retirement, loneliness, and childhood boredom.By turns funny, scary and heartbreaking, they are always ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • We're Moving House

    by Mick Jackson ...
    Illustrated by Rashin Kheiriyeh ...
    Any young child anticipating a move will connect with—and smile at—this fanciful, warmly humorous picture book debut from a literary author and an award-winning illustrator.When a little boy learns that his family will be moving house, he’s curious and excited. What else could that mean but having their house hoisted up by cranes and moved from one location to another? He imagines his wonderful ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Underground Man

    by Mick Jackson, Nick Wood, Nick Wood ...
    A life of fascination, obsession and deep scientific curiosity.William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck is an eccentric Nottinghamshire aristocrat whose imagination and curiosity know no bounds. This deceptively simple man struggles to come to terms with a world that is teeming with new knowledge, ill-founded opinion and gossip.Why does he hide himself away? What is his fascination with tunnels? Will he ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Temple Grandin: The Stories I Tell My Friends

    by Anita Lesko, Temple Grandin ...
    Temple Grandin is the most famous person with autism in the world. Whether you know her from the HBO movie Temple Grandin, her decades of work in the meat and cattle industry, or her unmatched contribution to the autism world, surely you know a thing or two about Temple. Well, prepare to meet a whole new side of her! Temple’s close friend and author, Anita Lesko, conducts personal and unique ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Junior Science

    by Mick Jackson ...
    Published to tie in with Mick Jackson's appointment as the first writer-in-residence at the Science Museum, Junior Science comprises three stories - 'Zero Gravity', 'The Answering Machine', and 'Back to School'. Commissioned by BBC Radio 4, they were originally broadcast in November 2011.Full of wonder, pathos and mystery, the stories are marked by Jackson's unique sensibility, as they explore the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • While You're Sleeping

    by Mick Jackson ...
    Illustrated by John Broadley ...
    Have you ever wondered what's happening in the world while you're asleep in your bed? Bakers, firefighters, postal workers, doctors, nurses, wildlife and more! This is the perfect book for bedtime, opening up a whole world of wonder and imagination for children.Have you ever wondered what's happening in the world while you're asleep in your bed?There's a whole world of activity out there – from ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Sleeper Train

    by Mick Jackson ...
    Illustrated by Baljinder Kaur ...
    When a child is too excited to fall asleep on the night train, she tries thinking about all the places she’s ever slept in this comforting moonlit adventure.Just as it’s starting to get dark, a child and her family board the sleeper train, where they’ll travel through the night and reach their destination in the morning. But as the train rocks from side to side, rolling through the vast Indian ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Five Boys

    A Novel

    by Mick Jackson ...

    $6.99 USD

  • Yuki chan in Brontë Country

    by Mick Jackson ...
    'They both stop and stare for a moment. Yuki feels she's spent about half her adult life thinking about snow, but when it starts, even now, it always arresting, bewildering. Each snowflake skating along some invisible plane. Always circuitous, as if looking for the best place to land...'Yukiko tragically lost her mother ten years ago. After visiting her sister in London, she goes on the run, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • We're Going Places

    by Mick Jackson ...
    Illustrated by John Broadley ...
    The second children’s book from the wonderful illustrator John Broadley, working with Booker-shortlisted novelist Mick Jackson, following their glorious debut While You’re Sleeping.The second children’s book from the wonderful illustrator John Broadley, working with Booker-shortlisted novelist Mick Jackson, following their glorious debut picture book While You’re Sleeping.Mick Jackson’s poetic ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Widow's Tale

    by Mick Jackson ...
    A newly-widowed woman has done a runner. She just jumped in her car, abandoned her (very nice) house in north London and kept on driving until she reached the Norfolk coast. Now she's rented a tiny cottage and holed herself away there, if only to escape the ceaseless sympathy and insincere concern.She's not quite sure, but thinks she may be having a bit of a breakdown. Or perhaps this sense of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Alberto's Lost Birthday

    by Diana Rosie ...
    A little boy and his grandfather embark on a quest to find the old man's missing birthday in Diana Rosie's debut novel, Alberto's Lost Birthday.Alberto is an old man. But he doesn't know how old - he remembers nothing before his arrival at an orphanage during the Spanish civil war.He rarely thinks about his missing childhood, but when seven-year-old Tino discovers his grandfather has never had a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD