Author: Ted Hughes

This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. Dedicated...

Newly re-jacketed, this is the strange tale of a vampire who longs to be human.Ffangs lives with the other vampires on Vampire Island, but he is di...

Cold, delicately as the dark snowA fox's nose touches twig, leaf;Two eyes serve a movement, that nowAnd again now, and now, and nowSets neat prints...

Why is itThe roustabout Rooster, raging at the dawnWakes us so early?A warrior king is on fire!His armour is all crooked daggers and scimitarsAnd i...

The Iron Wolf, the Iron WolfStands on the world with jagged fur.The rusty Moon rolls through the sky.The iron river cannot stir.The iron wind leaks...

Spring will marry you. A promise!Cuckoo brings the message: May.O new clothes! O get your house ready!Expectation keeps you starry.But at which chu...

A stunning new version of a much-loved children''s classic. Part modern fairy tale, part science fiction myth, The Iron Man describes the unexpe...

This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attemp...

Stunning illustrations by Chris Mould make this one of the most exciting editions of The Iron Man to be published.The Iron Man came to the top of t...

A classic is something utterly strange and original, and yet as deeply familiar and necessary as your own hands. The Iron Man is like no other stor...

'Other folks get so well known,And nobody knows about my own,'Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grand...

This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Wha...

A very ordinary boy. Nobody noticed him, he was just like everyone else.But Fred knew he was different.He just didn't know quite how different.And ...

Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into b...

A beautiful 50th Anniversary edition of The Iron Man, the bestselling classic by Ted Hughes, with the stunning original wood engravings from Andrew...

A beautiful 25th anniversary edition of Ted Hughes's The Iron Woman, the incredible sequel to The Iron Man, with the stunning original wood engravi...

The award-winning illustrated edition of Ted Hughes' classic tale in paperback.Part modern fairy tale, part science fiction myth, The Iron Man desc...

A stunning, new, limited edition version of a much-loved children's classic.Part modern fairy tale, part science fiction myth, The Iron Man describ...

Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is tired of being told that she doesn't exist. In this crackling, lolloping story in verse, Ted Hughes describes how...

'The Calder valley, west of Halifax, was the last ditch of Elmet, the last British Celtic kingdom to fall to the Angles. For centuries it was consi...

First published in 1983, River celebrates fluvial landscapes, their creatures and their regenerative powers.Inspired by Hughes's love of fishing an...

What has happened to the lost art of memorising poems? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in ...