The first extensive collection of Wernisch's verse to appear in English, drawing together more than one hundred poems from the whole course of Wernisch's career. From imagist haikus to long dramatic monologues, from nonsense verse to metaphysical meditation, from political grotesque to post-modern experiment, from folk songs to war poetry, Wernisch's work illustrates the poet's...(展开全部)

DECEMBER 1962, THE WEST COUNTRY. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He's been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hope...(展开全部)

Winnie, the Witch is tired of winter. She's tired of shivering in the cold and looking out at her garden covered in snow. And Wilbur is tired of frozen fur and whiskers. So, Winnie uses a little magic to bring summer and sunshine to her house. But just as she settles down in her deckchair...hordes of people arrive. With the unruly crowd comes noise, and mess, and chaos. Maybe w...(展开全部)

《女巫温妮》系列作者系澳大利亚著名儿童文学家瓦拉里•托马斯（著有多部儿童文学作品，广受全球小读者喜爱。 绘图作者为英国知名儿童画画家科奇•保罗。

1988 红房子图书奖(The Red House Children's Book Award)作品。 红房子图书奖是英国最负盛名的儿童图书奖之一，1980年，身为作家和图书馆员的帕特·托马森（Pat Thomson）开创了这个奖项，至今已有25年的历史，赞助商为红房子书友会，小读者亲自投票评选是其最大特色，他们习惯地称它是自己的“奥斯卡”图书大奖。 红房子奖依青少年不同年龄层次分三类设立（包括Books for Younger Children, Books for Younger Readers and Books for Older Readers），每年六月公布评选结果。

It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down: the fish turn venomous, bodies are red and raw, beyond the beach guns point out from the North s watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives, a French cartoonist determined to find...(展开全部)

There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and...(展开全部)