The Wild BookThirteen year old Juan's summer is off to a terrible start. First, his parents separate. Then, almost as bad, Juan is sent away to his strange Uncle Tito's house for the entire holiday! Who wants to live with an oddball recluse who has zigzag eyebrows and lives inside a mysterious library? As Juan adjusts to his new life among dusty shelves, he notices something weird: the books move on their own! Uncle Tito lets his nephew in on a secret: Juan is a

in the ancient way

That Hughes still holds the reader’s attention until the final shattering revelation is a tribute to his skill

"this will delight - and frighten a lot of people"

what’s more

to the life of the translator as someone constantly hovering between the foreign and the native

based loosely on the life of Kate O'Brien

Excerpts from the poems The Raising of the Ashes and Ephemeral Childhood

slackness and ganja for Jamaican minds

Scott Fitzgerald claimed that a good short story could “be written on a bottle

Michael Tolkien on 'The Red Zone' in Ambit

landscape and animals

Ragan presents a gallery of marvels — poems of nature