The Fatal Shore

Robert Hughes

"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was...

A Dragon In a Wagon

Lynley Dodd

This story by the author of Hairy Maclary and Friends about a girl who wishes she had a more exciting pet has delighted children for generations.'But just for once it might be fun if you changed from dog,' she said.'To something HUGE or something FIERCE or something ODD instead.'When Susie Fogg takes he...