A Lion in the Meadow

Margaret Mahy

When the little boy tells his mother he has seen a big, roaring, yellow, whiskery lion in the meadow, she decides to make up a story for him too and gives him a matchbox with a tiny dragon inside....

And Finally: Matters of Life and Death

Henry Marsh

'Magnificent.' Rachel Clarke 'A book to treasure and reread; I'm very grateful for it.' Gavin Francis As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to m...