Skinny Legs and All

Tom Robbins

When an Arab and a Jew open a restaurant across the street from the U.N., a host of tragic and triumphant characters descend on the strange establishment....

The Garden Party and Other Stories (Popular Penguins)

Katherine Mansfield

Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emo...

Slinky Malinki, Early Bird

Lynley Dodd

Slinky Malinki likes to wake up very early in the morning. He thinks his family should too, but do they agree?...