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"Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!" Tired of spring cleaning, Mole ventures above gro...
View full details"Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!" Tired of spring cleaning, Mole ventures above gro...
View full detailsBy Arthur Ransome 'You'll start with a blank map, that doesn't do more than show roughly what's water and what isn't'When the Walker family's holid...
View full detailsPoems to Celebrate Britain's Maritime Heritage A wonderful anthology of poetry celebrating the British coastline and life above and below the deep ...
View full detailsBy Des Sleightholme Reissued by popular demand, Old Harry's Dog-Watch is a wonderful collection of Des Sleightholme's irreverent observations on t...
View full detailsBy Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin Box set includes 12 hardback books:Noggin, King of the NogsThe Ice DragonThe Flying MachineThe OmrudsThe Islan...
View full detailsBy William Grill Debut illustrator William Grill brings us a detailed visual narrative of Shackleton's epic journey to Antarctica. Grill's beautif...
View full details"Moominpappa yearns to make a fresh start, to find a rocky island and a lighthouse where he'll feel alert and important again. And so the Moomins s...
View full detailsBy Samuel Taylor Coleridge WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the ...
View full detailsBy Patrick O'Brian Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Pat...
View full detailsBy Patrick O'Brien Set sail for the read of your life ... Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series...
View full detailsBy Sam Llewellyn It is hard, if you are a girl in 1814 who is interested in ships. What you have to do is dress up as a boy, and go exploring. W...
View full detailsBy Samuel Taylor Coleridge Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, a...
View full detailsFor Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publici...
View full details'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.'Stories and poems by Herman Melville drawn from his years at seaIntrod...
View full detailsBy Rafael Sabatini With and introduction by Kate Mosse Wrongfully arrested following the Monmouth rebellion of 1685, Peter Blood, country physician...
View full detailsAnnie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unu...
View full detailsBy Patrick O'Brian Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. H.M...
View full detailsBy Erskine Childers When Carruthers receives a letter from his friend Davies suggesting a Baltic sailing trip, the vision of a manned yacht, A1 sce...
View full detailsBy Arthur Ransome 'You know what it's like. Dark at teatime and sleeping indoors: nothing ever happens in the winter holidays.'Or so Nancy thinks. ...
View full details*Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller*The Pebbles on the Beach was first published in 1954. This newly reissued edition includes a foreword by Robert Mac...
View full detailsBy Sam Llewellyn This quirky, lighthearted compilation brings together many of nautical thriller writer Sam Llewellyn's articles for "Practical Bo...
View full detailsIt is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination fro...
View full detailsJohn Masefield (1878-1967) is one of the great storytellers of English poetry, a spinner of yarns and ballads of tall ships and exotic seas, of the...
View full detailsBy Dave Eggers A teenage boy and his uncle embark on the adventure of their lives"Don't you worry, son. Whatever it is that's been killing the sai...
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