Bloomsbury

How Lincoln Learned to Read tells the American story from a fresh and unique perspective: how do we learn what we need to know?Beginning with Benjamin Franklin and ending with Elvis Presley, author Daniel Wolff creates a series of intimate, interlocking profiles of notable Americans that track the nation’s developing notion of what it means to...

Denzil is the only kid in the school without a pair of Rainbow Boots. So he pretends he's waiting for a special handmade pair. As the lies pile up, what will Denzil do when he can't pretend any more? School comedy. Wired Connect is a series of titles for struggling readers aged 9-11, published in association with Catch Up, the reading recovery...

Cape Town, 1899. Diamond tycoon Cecil Rhodes believes that he has only months to live, and that the only thing that can save him is the sound of English birdsong. He recruits Francis Wills to transport 200 birds to Cape Town, but on arrival the birds refuse to sing. This is but the first obstacle for Wills, who finds himself irresistibly drawn to...

The year is 1937, and Hitler has just walked into Austria. Wilfred and Duncan live in a big old house in Sussex, England; they spend their days catching butterflies, and only ever see their parents on Wednesdays for lunch. When their mother elopes and their father takes up with other ladies, they decide that enough is enough: they will leave home,...

Powerful and poetic, Symptomes, is a deeply moving threnodyinspired by the horrific aftermath of 9/11. Adopting the heightenedprose of epic Greek tragedy the play inventively explores anddeconstructs the ideologies underlying the ’war on terror’ that wecurrently face. Shocking, heartbreaking and poignant, Symptomes is a parable of our...

’Interdisciplinarity’ has become a rallying cry among funders and leaders of research. Yet, while the creative potential of interdisciplinary research is great, it poses many challenges. If you don’t have disciplinary boundaries, how do you decide what to include or leave out? And what are the parameters for evaluating the...