Written by Judy Allen & Illustrated by Philip Giordano

A wonderful children’s story from Judy Allen following the adventures of a witch and her long-suffering cat, Matt, as they search for the perfect place to sleep. In spite of Matt’s insistence that a nice cosy bed is best, the witch flies off on her broom in search of a better place to rest. Matt and the witch try sleeping in the air with the swifts, on the water with a sea otter, up a tree with a gorilla, underground with the badgers and in all sorts of other places too. Is a bed really the best place to sleep, or can the witch find somewhere that’s even better?

With a wonderfully lyrical rhyming text and colourful illustrations throughout, ‘The Catnapping Cat’ is a perfect story to fall asleep to.

(Age 3-5 years)

One Good Turn

by Kate Atkinson

The new novel by the author of ‘Case Histories’ is set over four days at the height of the Edinburgh festival and begins with a violent road-rage incident. The novel is narrated from the different perspectives of those who witness this attack: Gloria, a dissatisfied housewife, crime writer and good samaritan Martin Canning, and former policeman Jackson Brodie. As events begin to take an even more sinister turn, it falls to Jackson to link together a series of seemingly unconnected murders and events and he eventually comes to discover that the innocent witnesses to the road-rage attack are not as unconnected as they appear to be. The one good turn performed by Martin Canning sets into motion a chain of events which will have life-changing consequences for all those involved.

Kate Atkinson delivers a superior detective novel which delves beyond the superficial as the central characters are forced to examine their own lives and to confront the secrets they are hiding, both from others and in some cases themselves.    

Rogue Male

by Geoffrey Household

Today’s action stories are filled with big helicopters swooping over deserts, massive
gun battles and the use of computer technology at every opportunity. A classic action novel, ‘Rogue Male’ is the tale of one man whose failed attempt to kill a European dictator results in him becoming a fugitive, pursued by the state’s security services. Set in the 1930s, the assassin, whose name we are never told, is a wealthy English sportsman who sees it as his duty to eliminate the foreign leader and has the skills to go to ground when things go wrong. There is no gadgetry or computer technology, just a thrilling adventure of man stalking man. ‘Rogue Male’ is a fast moving, tensely written
adventure yarn.