Joined by an ever-growing company of other elephants as they carry the tusks across the plains of Africa to The Place of Peace, they face man-made and natural hazards and have to use every ounce of their resourcefulness to overcome these. The hunter, Walt Schwiner, and his disgraced Maasai guide, Moses, are determined to capture the sacred tusks whilst a Bushman and his friends, both human and elephant try to prevent this.The final scenes in the Place of Peace, the traditional elep...

A spellbinding story to rival Watership Down or Duncton Wood, The Second Wave is packed full of adventure, intrigue and heroism in this triumphant follow up to Michael Tod's first book, The Silver Tide.

In this engrossing and utterly convincing adventure Michael Tod has created a world to rival Watership Down and Duncton Wood – and has succeeded in putting a mirror up to contemporary human problems as well. The Silver Tide is the first book in the trilogy, The Dorset Squirrels (also known as The Woodstock Saga).

The dazzling finale to The Dorset Squirrels Saga. If harmony is to be restored in Ourland, the Reds must draw upon all their resources and loyalties, calling on help from unexpected quarters including the dolphins and mute swans.

Michael Tod’s thrilling novel tells the story of the dissolving of the communications barrier between humans and dolphins through music. The recording of their heart-rending but beautiful Songs of Truth leads to unforeseen and dramatic consequences both for the humans involved and for the whole of Whalekind. If you love dolphins – you’ll love Dolphin Song.

In a remote coastal village in medieval Wales, the King's tax assessor and a woman he knows only as The Ferryman's Daughter, sit up by a fire of driftwood through a long winter's evening and far into the night. She tells him how she once stupidly helped the man she loved, Jack Ladd, steal into a castle to woo Lord Cedric's spoilt daughter who Jack wrongly believed was in love with him. So traumatic has her life been as a result of this that she has forgotten her real name and her guest set...

When author Michael Tod was thirteen, he looked up at the star-filled night sky and realised that he was just a tiny speck of humanity on a small planet circling a minor sun in a far corner of a vast universe. If God was bigger than the Universe, as he had been taught to believe, then such a God could not possibly be interested in him. With this bleak realisation he abandoned the faith the nuns at his primary school had instilled in him and decided he was an atheist.Later, when his...

When an airman gets on to an aircraft at Nairobi Airport to fly home for demobilisation, he has no idea of the background of his fellow passenger, wildlife photographer, 'Tigerface' Townsend. When Tigerface relates a story of a magical summer spent in the mountains of Wales whilst recuperating from a car crash as a teenager, the listener's credibility is strained to the utmost. The story is so compulsive, however, that he is constantly urging Tigerface to continue.Could his compani...

When Lucky is returned to the animal shelter, she is detemined to find her way back to her family. Lonely and sad, Lucky finds herself lost and homeless. She comes across a new family that holds the key to the little dog's happiness. Half of the proceeds from this book benefit the Orphans of the Storm Animal Shelter in Kittanning PA.

Like so many dog owners, we adopted a dog expecting fun and games but what we got was a dog who turned our world upside down with bad behavior, dirty tricks, frustration and destruction.Adopting Dakota was like adopting a street-wise teenager who'd bounced from foster home to foster home leaving mayhem in her path. She was ready for us but we weren't ready for her.I don't know why we chose to commit ourselves to transforming this dog. We aren't professional dog trainers and...

Gordon Thorburn has worked as a copywriter, journalist, scriptwriter, editor and author. Books include Bombers, First and Last, Animal Spy, and the bestselling Men and Sheds. He lives in Norfolk.

‘A perfect story to read now the colder weather is drawing in’ - Book Reviews by ClaireDo you believe in ghost stories?‘I’m coming to find you, ready or not.’There's not much that scares Annie Graham. Not even the horrors she has witnessed during her years on the police force.When she agrees to look after her brother's farmhouse, she finds herself drawn to the crumbling old mansion in the woods nearby. But an innocent exploration of...