Sub-titled 'Poems and Prose to Rewild the Spirit' here is a book of timeless, irrepressible, rebel song. With global pandemics, economic collapse, the climate emergency, species extinction, war, genocide and social injustice all interconnected, how do we face our fears? This galvanising collection of poems spans 4,000 years of human history, ranging from Nikolai Duffy's Against Metaphor and Lord Byron's Darkness, to Allen Ginsberg's evocative Sunflower Sutra, William Shakespeare's Ariel's Song, John Clare's The Badger, Robert Herrick's Two Daffodils, Li Bo's Drinking Alone Under the Moon, W. H. Davies' The Kingfisher and Robinson Jeffers' Carmel Point: 'The extraordinary patience of things!... We must unhumanise our views a little, and become confident as the rock emotion that we were made from.' With index of poets and first lines, beautiful big clear layout and design, this is an inspiring anthology to lift your spirits. 176pp.

Sub-titled 'Bright, Brave Poems About Escape and Freedom by Women' here is an uplifting collection from the ancient world to the present day. There are poems on wanderlust, travel, daydreams, flights of fancy, escaping into books, tranquillity, courage, hope and resilience from frustrated housewives to passionate activists, servants and suffragettes to some of today's most gifted writers. It is a bold choir of voices demanding independence and celebrating their hard-won power. Immerse yourself in poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Christina Rossetti, Stevie Smith, Sarah Crossan, Emily Dickinson, Nikita Gill, Fiona Benson to name but a few. 'A book is a thing of power. On the shelves of any library are stacked time machines, stately galleons, space shuttles and trap doors ready to plunge the reader into unfamiliar landscapes, seen through new eyes. These poems celebrate the sheer giddy delights of reading.' 130 poems with many female poets here to discover. Fairly large print, 284pp with satin page marker.

In the very collectable Everyman Library Pocket edition with two pagemarkers, this unique collection of poetic tributes to the silver screen ranges over a full century from B-movies to Bollywood. From the silent film era to the present here are movie stars and bit players, art films and horror flicks, acclaimed directors and popcorn palaces. From Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau, more than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories - John Updike on theatres of his youth, Jack Kerouac and Robert Lowell on Harpo Marx, Sharon Olds on Marilyn Monroe, Louise Erdrich on John Wayne, May Swenson on the James Bond films, Terrance Hayes on early Black cinema, Maxine Kumin on Casablanca, and Richard Wilbur on The Prisoner of Zenda. Orson Welles, Leni Riefenstahl, and Ingmar Bergman share the spotlight with Shirley Temple, King Kong and Carmen Miranda, Ridley Scott, Hitchcock and Bresson. Beautiful design, 255pp. Remainder mark.

Volume one for beginners to intermediate level designed to give a sense of achievement and most importantly enjoyment. There are eight stories in a variety of exciting genres from science fiction and crime to history and thriller introducing a wide range of new vocabulary including the thousand most frequent words in Italian. It will all help you progress confidently. There are authentic spoken dialogues to help you learn conversational expressions and approve your speaking ability and accessible grammar so that you learn new structures naturally in these carefully curated stories. There is a glossary for bolded words in each text, a bilingual word list, full plot summary and comprehension questions after each chapter. There are tips on how to read effectively and a six-step reading process encouraging us to look at the illustration and read the chapter title and think about what the story might be about without stopping to look up all the words but simply following the plot on your first read through before going back and studying the story and language in more depth. 'Take time to focus on all that you have understood and congratulate yourself.' The first two short stories are titled La Pizza Pazza and La Creatura. 208pp, illustrated paperback in the Teach Yourself popular series.

Clement C. Moore's classic A Night Before Christmas or Account of A Visit From St Nicholas begins ''Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; the stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds while visions of sugarplums danced in their heads...' Exquisitely drawn silhouette illustrations show the house with the spinning wheel in the attic, a child kneeling in prayer, the rocking horse, the parents in their room. Each room is beautifully decorated, the tree in the hallway by the sweeping staircase and the stockings hanging on the mantlepiece over the chimney, the church and bare trees in the background. With sometimes black night-sky pages, Santa and the reindeer with their beautiful antlers, a half moon and spiny trees cutaway in white turn to black and red on white on the next page as we read 'Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donner and Blitzen!' The second story is The Nutcracker page 35 and finally Jingle Bells on page 61 by James Lord Pierpont, and all three stories in these exquisite silhouette black and white illustrations with flashes of bright green for the Christmas trees and red for presents, gold for clock faces and decorations and lit windows. Natee Puttapipat was born in Thailand and is one of our finest book illustrators, here capturing all the magic and excitement of Christmas. For youngsters or adult collectors, 78 page Walker Book.

Step into a world of star-crossed lovers, magical winds, mischievous giants, and trolls, through some of the most exquisite illustrations in publishing history. In this gorgeous abridged edition, Taschen revives the most ambitious publication project of beloved Danish artist Kay Nielsen, one of the most famous children's book illustrators of all time. The 10 tales included are: East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Blue Belt, Prince Lindworm, The Lassie and Her Godmother, The Husband Who Was to Mind the House, The Three Princesses of Witheland, The Giant With No Heart in His Body, The Widow?s Son, he Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Three Princesses in the Blue Mountain. First published in 1914, 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon' is a celebrated collection of fairy tales gathered by legendary Norwegian folklorists Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe on their journeys across Norway in the mid-19th century. Nielsen's illustration edition of Asbjørnsen and Moe's tales is considered a jewel of early 20th century children's literature, highly sought-after by art and book collectors worldwide. An original signed copy of the book sold at auction in 2008 commanded the highest price ever paid for an illustrated children's book. This finely crafted volume presents ten of the original fairytales, and restores the artistry of Nielsen's images to their original splendour. Featuring 41 enchanting illustrations, including many enlarged details from Nielsen's rare original watercolours, lovely fonts used, the decorative mono panelling on the text pages and book illustration from the era, this is so much more than a book of folk tales. The book has small details picked out and used as chapter headers and comes with three accompanying essays, illustrated with dozens of rare and previously unseen artworks by Nielsen, that explore the history of Norwegian folktales, Nielsen's life and work, and how this masterpiece came to be. New from Taschen. With ribbon bookmark, 23.5 x 30.5 cm, 168 pages.

The Nameless City, Herbert West - Reanimator, The Hound, The Lurking Fear, The Rats in the Walls, The Festival, The Shunned House, The Horror at Red Hook, He, The Call of Cthulhu and The History of the Necronomicon are the 11 short stories by Howard Philips Lovecraft, the pioneer of modern horror fiction. Unknowable evils, horrifying cosmic beings and supernatural terrors haunt these pages as ordinary men and women discover the truth about the Elder Gods and their dangerous ways, begin to doubt their own sanity, and must battle against their fears and their own worst instincts as they struggle to survive in the darkness. New full price gift edition with dark purple blue page edges and silver embossed hardback cover. 224 small pages.

Before Dracula there was Carmilla, a haunting, revolutionary tale of love and vampirism in the early 19th century. Nothing is what it seems when a wealthy English widower and his daughter Laura unexpectedly welcome the young Carmilla into their isolated Styrian castle. Although Laura is quickly charmed by Carmilla's grace and beauty, she thereafter falls victim to a strange, unidentifiable illness that threatens to take her life. And when an old family friend reappears to shed light on Carmilla's mysterious past, Laura realises her dear friend may prove deadly after all. The novel is testament to Le Fanu's extensive literary career and brilliant imagination, and has immortalised sensationalist romance-horror, much like the alluring vampiress herself. 128pp, new full price paperback.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, Thou Art the Man!, The Purloined Letter and The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall are these wonderful detective stories here in new reprinted paperback. Poe established not only the brilliant amateur sleuth and his highly dumb sidekick, but also witness interviews, the armchair detective, solving a real murder abandoned by police, hiding critical evidence in plain sight, false clues, and even the first supposed murder committed by an animal. Having invented and made the detective genre wildly popular, Poe moved on. He felt that people overestimated the worth of the stories, because Dupin, his detective, was so ingenious. It was the chain of logic that interested the writer and without him there would be no Holmes, no Poirot and no Famous Five. Enjoy an early Poe detective story Thou Art the Man! which seeks to uncover the murder of the wealthy Barnabus Shuttleworthy, and the tale of an adventure to reach the Moon in a revolutionary new balloon. 206 page new full price paperback.

'The Writings that Shaped the US Constitution' is the sub-title of these essays which first appeared in 1787-88 as a series of articles in New York City's newspapers to explain and defend the proposed Constitution of the United States. Ever since they have been read and studied around the world. The authors were three of the greatest politicians in American history - Alexander Hamilton and John Jay of New York, and James Madison of Virginia. Hamilton and Madison were delegates to the Federal Convention, which framed the Constitution, and Jay helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris in 1783 which won British recognition of American Independence. Each paper appears from The Federalist, numbers 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15, 37, 39, 40, 47, 48, 49, 51, 70, 78, 84 and 85 plus an Address to the People of the State of New York and the Constitution of the US. The Federalist no.37 saw Madison present a careful analysis of the difficulties the Convention faced while not disclosing his part in framing the Constitution, posing as an anonymous citizen of New York. These were tough-minded, practical politicians and sophisticated political and constitutional theorists who saw each role as a valuable buttress for the other. 255 page new full price paperback.