From Rachel's rascally rat to Gordon's glittering goldfish, none of the other children's pets is as big as Emma's enormous elephant.

When Emma's box turtle digs his way out of his pen, he imagines that he is have adventures in Africa, India and other faraway lands that Emma has described to him.

Create a suave high-flying rhino, a lovesick elephant who knows her way around a kitchen, and a seriously chivalrous tiger . . . With just two weeks to go before her baby Edward’s due date, yarn enthusiast Kerry Lord picked up a crochet hook for the first time, and a new obsession began. Over the next twelve months, the collection of crochet animals expanded week by week until Edward’s Menagerie was complete—with forty unique patterns. These cute animals with larger-than-life personalities are made using simple crochet techniques, and the step-by-step instructions enable a complete beginner to get hooking straight away. Each animal also has a universal pattern, allowing crocheters to change their hooks and yarns to create four different sizes, making for 160 different possibilities. Be warned—these unlikely characters, made using a super-soft yarn in a sumptuous natural color palette, will become your new best friends as you hook your way through the whole menagerie!

Leaving the Isle of Wight, nurse Emma Dewar and her husband Dr Paul Sykes move to a busy post-war London to set up a psychiatric consultancy. But life is complicated by the arrival of her friend Bea and baby twins, and George and his pregnant wife Sadie, who knows George was once in love with Emma.

Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential fantasy authors of the twentieth century. Like J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis he served during the great war. Collected here are twenty-nine stories of that terrible war. Dunsany saw the horrors of war and he was uniquely qualified to capture the experience in prose.