"One Monday morning the king, the queen, and the little prince came to visit me. But i wasn't home . . . "

On a cold winter morning a young boy wonders what he can give to his family on Christmas. Does he have anything he can give? April and Beagle One Monday Morning, by Margie Young, is a gentle story about the desire to be a giver. This story told in the form of a poem will delight young listeners with its rhythm and rhyme. April and Beagle One Monday Morning is an inspirational pre-reading book, a story about the joy of giving, and at the same time it introduces or reinforces the sounds and shapes of the alphabet. Readers will want to draw their little ones close to share the story of April and Beagle One Monday Morning.

The king and the queen and their growing entourage return each morning to a tenement street until the little boy they have come to visit is home to greet them.

The king and the queen and their growing entourage return each morning to a tenement street until the little boy they have come to visit is home to greet them.

'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick Hornby 'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell. 'Beyond the fact that it was, in face of a vivid and calamitous ending, to reveal from his own experience the ardent splendours of Youth's adventure, he didn't quite know what his novel was going to be about.' Monday Morning wryly tells the story of Anthony, a young man taking his passionate first steps in life, in London, and in love. Not yet worn down by the world, Anthony is determined to write the novel that will bring him fame and fortune - and to marry the beautiful Diane. Patrick Hamilton's witty, playful first novel introduces us to the grimy world of metropolitan boarding houses and provincial theatrical digs that would be the setting for his later masterpieces Hangover Square and The Slaves of Solitude, and the hopes, dreams and regrets those who live there.