Katherine Rundell
2) The explorer
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Four children endevour to survive after the light aircraft they were aboard crashes in the heart of the Amazon jungle.
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2022
Description
John Donne led myriad lives. He was a lawyer, a sea adventurer, a preacher, an MP, and a poet. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism. He was also imprisoned for marrying a 16-year old girl without her father's consent; struggled to feed a family of twelve children; and was often ill and in pain. He was a man who suffered from black surges of misery yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and...
4) Rooftoppers
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck which left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive, but that means still possible. You should never ignore a possible. So when the Welfare Agency writes to her guardian threatening to send...
Author
Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
2022
Description
A lavishly illustrated compendium of the staggering lives of some of the world's most endangered animals, 'The Golden Mole' is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck - to fall for the likes of the seahorse, the narwhal and, as astonishing and endangered as them all, the human.