NILE ANTHOLOGY

WRONG TURNING, THE: ENCOUNTERS WITH GHOSTS

Ten cheeky, bouncy, noisy owls are playing in a tree. It's bedtime, but they're having far too much fun to go to sleep! Uh-oh. Will Mummy Owl ever convince all her little owlets to fly down to the nest? Learn to count from one to ten in this hilarious new counting book with gorgeous illustrations as well as fun peek-through pages and a useful counting guide. Tiny fingers will love popping them through the owl shapes and spotting the cats and berries and birds and bees and snails and spiders we meet along the branches of this sleepy time story book. 32 board pages, 18.7 x 28.7cm, ages 1-4 years.

Booklist said, 'Chainani takes 12 time-honoured tales and overhauls their traditional tellings, adding an astonishing amount of depth and beauty in the process. Lush, transporting, and occasionally eerie, easily conjuring fantastical worlds... An intriguing and inclusive update for modern audiences.' For all lovers of fairy tales who seek alternative endings we are taken through horrifying and humorous, sweet and scary and of course beastly and beautiful, sly and subversive dangerous tales - Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast, Bluebeard, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Rumpelstiltskin, and Peter Pan. And the best part about this edition is the full page colour artworks and other beautiful decorations throughout the text by Julia Iredale. A lovely big substantial heavyweight hardback, 324pp.

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics, often hailed as the world's first textbook, shaped 2,000 years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths. 13 volumes of mathematical definitions, propositions and proofs, writing in 300 BC, Euclid could not have known his logic would go unsurpassed until the 19th century and that he was laying down the very foundations of human knowledge. This volume offers a vibrant history of mathematics, told through people and invention and also a broader story of culture with stories from every continent, ranging between Ptolemy and Isaac Newton, Hobbes and Lewis Carroll, from Ancient Greece to medieval Byzantium, early modern China, Renaissance Italy, the age of European empires and our world today, and how geometry has sat at the beating heart of sculpture, literature, music and thought. We go to the workshops of Restoration London, from the Jesuit mission in China, to the artisans of medieval Baghdad and meet artists, philosophers, teachers, playwrights, painters, poets and more in this brilliant feat of storytelling. 400 magnificent pages, illustrated. William Collins first edition 2020.

Barnaby Carder, aka Barn the Spoon, reveals the meditative nature of the whittling process. Whittling is a renowned and rewarding craft which draws on the traditions of green woodworking. Barn the Spoon has created 20 modern makes ranging from simple and classic spoons to decorative items, a brush to a peg board and letter opener, a plant label, button, comb, drawer knob, light pull in the shape of a fish. 'Be aware of how it feels when a shaving peels off cleanly.' He shares the basic techniques and shows how these can be adapted for different projects, as well as sustainable suggestions for sourcing materials. Step-by step instructions, beautiful photography and clear illustrations in colour. 144pp.

Enjoy the thrill of being a real-life palaeontologist on your very own dino dig! Kit includes two archaeological bricks each containing a dinosaur fossil replica, one chisel, one dusting brush and a 48 page paperback. Chip away at each of the two rocks in this exciting pack with the chisel and dusting brush provided to reveal two roar-some discoveries - real dinosaur fossils and the hidden secrets of the prehistoric world. Learn about the fascinating world of dinosaurs as you explore fun facts, history and intriguing reasons for their extinction in the colourful 48 page book of facts softback enclosed with the pack. Thankfully there are phonetic pronunciations as we go through the glossary A-Z from Acrocanthosaurus to Zalmoxes. For each there is a meaning of the name like ancient god, how long ago they lived like 70-65 million years ago, period like Cretaceous, length up to 4.5 metres or 15 feet for example, weight 230kg or 500lbs, a diet of plants and a location like Europe (Romania).

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EARTH IS MY WITNESS: The Photography of Art Wolfe

Hannah grew up loving birds and her parents taught her about the wonders of the British countryside from a young age. Years later she moved to Ghana for her husband's work. Without a job or purpose of her own, and striving to belong in the rural grasslands far from home, she felt any sense of normal life and connection falling away. It was the birds that offered a glimmer of hope and, fuelled by their quiet nature, her book is the raw and uplifting account of Hannah's unexpected bonds with two wild birds that she rescued, hand-raised, and released back into the wild. 'My reward was one of purpose, tinted with magic. There he was, a wild bird, born from a little egg high up in a grass nest between the dark leaves of a mango tree. Now he was with me, comforted by the beat of my heart and the sound of my voice. A wild creature in the palm of my hand...' A memoir brimming with determination and compassion exploring our instinctive connection to nature and a timely reminder that wildlife can provide solace in the most unexpected ways. 290pp.