What an absolute delight The Little Book of Dragons and is an absolute delight for all those older children and adults who have always had a soft spot for a good dragon story. Carolyne Larrington is an Emeritus Professor of Medieval European Literature at the...
Who could resist such a wonderful title as Great Writers and the Cats Who Owned Them! The author suggests that cats and writers have bonded together for comfort, companionship, inspiration and possibly warmth, for many generations. She has also included fun features...
People and Places that Inspired Wonderland Professor Hunt introduces Alice’s Oxford by telling the reader how the stories told to Alice by Charles Dodgson evolved into the most treasured tales, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Dodgson, (Lewis...
If you are a lover of words, their origins and meanings, this small book with a big title, is for you. David Crystal is a professor of linguistics at Bangor University. The anthology that he has compiled shows the way words have shaped our writing and reading over the...
Leon Conrad has spent a life time researching story, or stories, teaching, lecturing and tutoring in the art of story creation, analysis and restructure and also in pursuit of the answer to the time old question, where do stories come from. In the Preface Conrad...
