Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaine

Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaineNew Hardback This richly illustrated book explores the huge creative endeavour behind Tolkiens enduring popularity. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images of his manuscripts, drawings, maps and letters, the book traces the creative process behind his most famous literary works 'The Hobbit', 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Silmarillion' and reproduces personal photographs and private papers, some of which have never been seen before in print.

Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games

Women had to stay small

Eugene Grant

Wyrd Sisters is the second book in the Witches series and sixth Discworld novel but you can read the Discworld novels in any order

atmospheric read about six fascinating and charismatic women

the birthplace of public railways

from the crack in a church steeple)

Her grandfather had amassed a sizeable estate of fertile grazing land and made a small fortune in sheep farming

She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop

Wohlleben also shares emerging scientific research about how forests shape climates both locally and across continents

the Discworld's most magical establishment

art and poetry