This book is a collection of poems by someone living with Parkinson's during the Coronavirus crisis.This collection includes poems which attempt to put Parkinson's in its place, poems which make cynical observations on life during the pandemic and poems on a variety of stuff which was rattling around inside the author's head.Mark Coxe was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease fin 2013 after it had crept up on him for years. He was fifty when he received his diagnosis and has...

You've got Parkinson's, but consider yourself lucky because unlike all of the other neurological conditions, it won't kill you, it'll just make your life miserable. That was how I was diagnosed, by an expert. Well, he got the first bit right, I do have Parkinson's. The bit in the middle is up for debate, since the medical profession keep on changing their minds (it might kill me) but the third part was totally wrong. Looking on the bright side my glass is always half full, mostly because o...

Laugh yourself silly with Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book, filled with over 400 hilarious jokes, limericks and riddles, illustrated by Quentin Blake.Which famous writer goes best with a hot dog?Roll Dahl of course!Based on Roald Dahl's most famous characters, you'll be chortling away with Matilda, Charlie, George, The BFG, James and many more!This side-splitting book includes Dahl's own 'knock-knock' jokes, keeping all practising j...

Sari doesn't like being the only Muslim student in her class, especially when kids like Andrew ask difficult questions. Then, a trip back in time takes them both to September 11, 2001. A tragic day in U.S. history helps them see their world in a whole new way. This graphic novel introduces the events of 9/11 to students and explores important social issues such as religious prejudice. This hi-lo book will capture the interest of kids who enjoy graphic novels involving time travel, tragic e...

‘A FIERCELY INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER’ PAULA HAWKINS‘WRITTEN PRE-COVID – GRIPPING, SCARY AND PERSUASIVE’ IAN RANKIN‘THE STUFF THAT CLASSICS ARE MADE OF’ A.J. FINN‘GRIPPING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. WHAT A DEBUT!’ SARAH PEARSE, author of The Sanatorium‘BRILLIANT, PRESCIENT, UNPUTDOWNABLE’ JENNY COLGAN‘AN ENGROSSING DEBUT’ STYLIST

They're invaders from another world. Your imagination.Kip is a quiet kid in a loud city. She's easy to miss and that's the way she likes it.Then, one day, Kip's quiet life is suddenly interrupted. Ten of her favourite characters have stepped out of their worlds and into hers.But what happens when a dragon-hunting rabbit leaves his comic strip? When an old man leaves his picture book? When a ninja leaves her TV show, a race-car driver leaves their vi...

Legendary recording artist Billie Eilish shares an intimate inside look at her life - both on and off the stage - in this stunning, photo-filled book.Billie Eilish is a phenomenon. With distinctive visual flair and darkly poignant lyrics that are unparalleled among music icons of the 21st century, Billie is a musician who stands out from the crowd. Between her record-shattering, award-winning music and her uncompromising and unapol...

This volume provides easy-to-use horse whispering techniques and principles that can help readers develop better bonds with horses

Let's face it: your GP has never swallowed a bumble bee at 70mph; been declared clinically dead (twice); presided over The Most Dysfunctional Family in Western Civilisation; endured weeks of rabies injections (thanks to a misunderstanding with a bat); received a mistaken diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease; broken his neck in a quad bike accident; survived a (near) direct hit by a plane; or personally tested every drug known to modern science.Ozzy Osbourne has.So why not join ...

READING MY NEW BOOK IS JUST LIKE LISTENING TO ME ON THE RADIO . . .WARNING: THIS IS A COLLECTION OF MY GENUINE DISTRACTIONS AND MAY PROMPT LAUGHTER.I AN DISTRACTED BY:Comments sent in by my listeners:'Once I took some black puddings out of the freezer only to find a mole! I had found it in the garden and intended to send it to Chris Packham for Springwatch' Mrs D'My mum ...

**New Statesman's Best Books of the Year, 2018Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year, 2018We plan, as the old proverb says, and God laughs. But most of us don't find it all that funny when things go wrong. Most of us want love, a nice home, good work, and happy children. Many of us grew up with parents who made these things look relatively easy and assumed we would get them, too. So what do you do if you don't? What do you do when you f...

*'The Republic of Motherhood' Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem*‘I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhoodand found it a queendom, a wild queendom.’In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative experience of new motherhood. Her poems sing the body electric, from the joy and anguish of becoming a mother, through its darkest hours to its brightest da...