The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks

The Shepherd's Life by James RebanksThe phenomenal No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, now in paperback Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations. In evocative and lucid prose, James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd's year, offering a unique account of rural life and a fundamental connection with

Despite having become the most powerful emperor known to history

And when the select five escape their underground captors to look for their original homes

With the unlikely help of Templeton the rat

and their children on Fraser's Ridge

The baby kangaroos

both Mackerel and Ahab can't help but be drawn back into the underworld

"Sailing a traditional outrigger canoe around the vast island of New Guinea is a journey through time

This is the powerful story of a 16-year-old volunteer and his horse in World War One and the journey towards his own kind of bravery

families will be torn apart

It's just him and his mother in the house at Longboat Bay

collected over thirty years

She knew that if she didn't find a way to leave