Book of Longing: Popular Penguins

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M...

The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings

Robert Ferguson

For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300 years, until the final destruction of the heathen tem...

Fungus the Bogeyman (Anniversary Edition)

Raymond Briggs

Experience a day in the life of a Bogeyman in this brilliantly gross picture book for older children. Experience a day in the life of a Bogeyman in this brilliantly gross picture book for older children. Life under ground in Bogeydom is full of snot, smells, slime, scum and other unspeakable things. The...