Profile: Julie Telford

A duck dressed in baby clothes, a horse dying on the tattie-howking, a soldier coming home from WW1, an aircraft crash-landing on the sweetshop, a boy birched for poaching rabbits, dreaded schooldays at Bell Baxter, life below stairs in the big house, hau....

Laura, Jeff, and four-year-old Annabel have come to live in a remote place in Sub-Saharan Africa, where Jeff is a doctor in the local hospital. They are surrounded by poverty and hardship, and communications are almost non-existant. How will they cope?Mrs....

Scientist Anton Pilger has finally arrived in central Africa, ready to complete his research on the terrifying disease, Nlimbo Fever, certain that he will make the breakthrough that will rescue humankind from oblivion.

Moral tales in which animals play the principal roles date back to Aesop, though many things have changed over the millenia. Even in the 21st century, animals can still remind us that the world does not need to be dog-eat-dog. In these fables it is mostly....