Nearly drowned at birth, left for dead on a rubbish tip and hounded by dog-catchers - Dog's puppyhood is tough. All alone in the world, he decides to find himself an owner, someone he can train and love.

The Rights of the Reader grew from celebrated French writer Daniel Pennac's experiences of teaching in challenging schools. This is a translation of this edition.

The wolf has lost nearly everything on his journey to the zoo - including his eye and his beloved pack. The boy has lost nearly everything too, and seen many terrible things. As they face each other on either side of the wolf's enclosure they share their stories.

Manuel Pereira, the dictator of the state of Teresina in Brazil, develops agoraphobia the day a fortune-teller predicts he will be killed by an angry mob. He decides to hire a double to stand in. But, he is astonished to discover that his stand-in doesn't look anything like him and reacts in a way that can only precipitate his meeting with Fate.

Kamo won't get on a bike. Not even his friend's grandfather's classic. He says he has a bad feeling - it turns out he was right. As he lies in his hospital bed it seems to his friends that their funny, crazy pal is turning into someone else - someone firece and strong who can escape from anywhere.

Latest in the increasingly popular Belleville Quintet, which includes 'The Fairy Gunmother', 'The Scapegoat' and 'Write to Kill'. Translated from the French.

The cult crime novel of 1997, does for Paris what Carl Hiaasen did for Miami.

Benjamin is a scapegoat. Under the official title of Quality Controller, he works for the complaints department of a large Parisian department store where he bears the brunt of customer complaints. When a bomb goes off in the toy department, he finds himself the prime suspect.

Manuel Pereira da Ponte Martins, beloved dictator of Teresina, in the Brazilian sertao, becomes agoraphobic the day a fortune-teller predicts he will die torn to pieces by an angry mob. From then on, his life turns out to be so unbearable that he decides to hire a double to replace him while he will be enjoying himself in Europe.

Features photography of Liberto Macarro, which presents one nature - landscape, animals and men all closely intertwined. Macarro, a French photographer, has photographed cows and other large mammals in the Alps, Spain, India and Tibet. His photographs blend together the close ups of the animals and the surrounding landscape.

Born worlds apart - a wolf from the North and a boy from Africa. The wolf has lost nearly everything on his way to the zoo, including his eye and his pack. The boy too has lost much and seen terrible things. They stand either side of the wolf's enclosure and make their stories known to each other.

Benjamin Malaussene is a downtrodden publisher at Vendetta Press. Treated as a scapegoat by Queen Zabo, doyenne of publishing, he finally resigns, only for Zabo to offer him a starring role. All he has to do is to impersonate the world's best-loved, but hitherto anonymous author, J.L.B.