Stories from the Animal Whisperer: What Your Pet Is Thinking and Trying to Tell You

A must-read for pet lovers, an animal communicator reveals what animals would tell us if they could speak.
Readers should be prepared to be amazed—and to laugh and cry—as fascinating experiences of communicating telepathically with animals are shared. Full of amazing insights into animal behavior, this heartwarming book is packed with remarkable stories.

Odds Against

Sid Halley, an injured jockey, becomes a private eye and carries out some work for his father-in-law, who believes a man is trying to financially ruin Seabury racecourse, so that it can be sold to property developers.

Adrian Mole And the Weapons of Mass Destruction

This fifth installment of Adrian Mole's diary (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4; Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, etc.) breaks new ground with its concern for current affairs and its sympathetic treatment of not-always-exemplary characters. Adrian, as usual, is struggling with various relationships and with constant financial problems, always trying to do the right thing, but usually giving in to his baser urges, in love and in spending.

Don't Give Up, Josephine

Josephine, a young penguin, is discouraged by her lack of success in school, but discovers that it is better to keep trying than to give up.

Worlds Made Flesh - Chronicle Histories and Medieval Manuscript Culture

This book focuses on the use of the past in two senses.

First, it looks at the way in which medieval texts from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries discussed the past: how they presented history, what kinds of historical narratives they employed, and what anxieties gathered around the practice of historiography.

Second, this study examines twentieth-century interactions with this textual past, and the problems that have arisen for critics trying to negotiate this radically different textual culture.