Love by Carol Ann Duffy DBE (hardback)

Love by Carol Ann Duffy DBE (hardback)One of the English language's best loved living poets arrays before us here, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of love, drawing on work written over four decades, and she adds to her selection one new poem. It makes for a sequence that is sensual, stimulating, irresistible.

and includes such favourites as 'The Lamb'

teaches them the true meaning of friendship and reminds us all that there is no place like home

These are damnable tales

But first he's offered one final job - an offer which is just too big to refuse

selves and others

and those who haven't quite discovered the magic of books yet

' Ruth Ozeki

Ravens love PLAYING games

Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life - both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence

to Kate Crackernuts who tried to save her stepsister from her mother's curse

'Your turn next

The problem of how to manage the city remained as intractable as ever despite significant changes in local government structures and the public housing need remained acute