The LambMargot and Mama have lived by the forest since Margot can remember. When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies. But Mama's want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a white toothed stray named Eden turns up

The result is a surprising and uplifting story of how we have influenced the landscape and wildlife of these crowded islands

Josie is at rock bottom

As their past is re-written

but there is a parallel history which has set the template for the future

Crammed full of funny

and everyone around her is getting engaged and having babies

It is an incredible story that spans hunter-gatherer societies to ancient Egyptians

Drawing on previously untranslated German

The first biography of one of the most controversial champions of the Tour de France

Nor has Greta actually ever been to Switzerland

brings home his Turkish fiancée

' is an essential addition to Pam Ayres' incomparable collection of works