Child Ballad AC25 and reconstruction

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So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris

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Joseph Coelho's imaginative words will transport young readers into the world of whimsical and eerie tales

Child Ballad AC25 and reconstructionA Poetry Book Society Winter Recommendation 2023. A Sunday Times Book of the Year. In Child Ballad, David Wheatley's sixth collection, he explores a world transformed by the experience of parenthood. Conducting his children through landscapes of Northern Scotland, he follows pathways laid down by departed Irish missionaries and by wolves. He maps a rich territory of rivers, trees and mountains. Also present are histories, some evidenced, some no