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FFangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth by Ted Hughes
Category: Children's Fiction
Ffangs lives with the other vampires on Vampire Island, but he is different from the rest - he can't stand the sight of blood! When he arrives in London, everyone is too frightened to listen when he explains that he only wants to be human. And soon he finds himself alone in Buckingham Palace to face Tho ...Show more
How the Whale Became: and Other Stories by Ted Hughes
Category: Children's Classics
This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5 and more tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar Bear was lured to the Nor ...Show more
How the Whale Became and Other Stories by Ted Hughes
Category: Picture Books
Long ago when the world was brand new, before animals or birds, the sun rose into the sky and brought the first day. To begin with, all the creatures were pretty much alike - very different from what they are now. Those that wanted to be lions practised being lions. But there were other creatures - incl ...Show more
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
Category: Biography
This selection includes correspondence from Hughes's marriage to Sylvia Plath, and his letters to those he trusted reveal much about his feelings for her. At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a proli ...Show more
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes (selected & ed Christopher Reid)
Category: Biography
At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once reso ...Show more
Lupercal by Ted Hughes
Category: Poetry & Plays
Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'.
Nessie the Mannerless Monster by Ted Hughes
Category: Children's Classics
Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is tired of being told that she doesn't exist. In this crackling , lolloping story in verse, Ted Hughes describes how she sets out on the road to London for an audience with the Queen...
Poetry in the Making : A handbook for writing and teaching by Ted Hughes
Category: Non-Fiction
A series of chapters built round poems by a number of writers including himself, (Ted Hughes) explores, colourfully and intensively, themes such as 'Capturing Animals', 'Wind and Weather' and 'Writing about People'. The purpose throughout is to lead on, via discussion of the poems to some direct encoura ...Show more
River : Poems by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
Category: Gift
Celebrates fluvial landscapes, their creatures and their regenerative powers. This title features the poems that chronicle of change over the course of the seasons.
Season Songs by Ted Hughes
Category: Gift
Spring will marry you. A promise!Cuckoo brings the message: May.O new clothes! O get your house ready!Expectation keeps you starry.But at which church and on what day?In these poems Ted Hughes invites the reader to try and catch the spring (but she's elusive); to take a closer look at the March calf; to ...Show more
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes
Category: Gift
Ted Hughes seeks to unlock the secret of Shakespeare in his critical magnum opus - reissued with a foreword by Robert McCrum. This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attempt to show the Complete Works - ...Show more