Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckShocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel West in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a

a series of exquisitely coloured cut pages of increasing size introduce woodland families - bears

and Notes on a Nervous Planet comes a new novel celebrating life's possibilities

This courageously trenchant account of journalistic conflict and hubris also forensically examines his very public fall from grace in 2017

it would be a critical learning exercise before Operation OVERLORD

the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred

a whiff of regret

hoofed heckles

cruel worlds

From Irish women who made changes in Ireland to those who made changes abroad

and she feared she would lose her house

Buffeted by the harsh winds of circumstance towards the one thing that might save him from himself

while the superb illustrations of over 200 bird species by Michael O'Clery highlight these features in lifelike detail