Bookbot

Tom De Freston

    Leila and the Blue Fox
    Wreck
    Tom De Freston - I Saw This
    Strange Bodies
    Julia and the Shark
    • Julia and the Shark

      • 240pages
      • 9 heures de lecture
      4,4(2317)Évaluer

      A captivating, powerful and luminous story from a bestselling, award-winning author about a mother, a daughter, and the great Greenland shark. With mesmerising black and yellow illustrations and presented as a deluxe hardback with tracing paper inserts, this is a perfect gift for 9+ fans of David Almond and Frances Hardinge.

      Julia and the Shark
    • A deeply moving love letter from an artist to his wife as they struggle with the loss of multiple pregnancies, exploring how powerful bonds transform as lovers become family.

      Strange Bodies
    • I Saw This is a collaborative arts project by artist Tom de Freston, documentary filmmaker Mark Jones and Oxford-based academic Ali Souleman. Inspired by the Syrian war and the terrorist explosion that left Souleman blind, the project explores trauma and suffering, sight and memory, inner and outer worlds, and questions of hope, life and death.

      Tom De Freston - I Saw This
    • An artist's intensely personal reckoning that delves deep inside the making of art, and explores the value of facing, and depicting, the darkest of horrors.

      Wreck
    • She was very tired.She lay down, her soft head on her soft paws.The sunset licked her face.The snow covered her like a blanket. Fox wakes, and begins to walk. She crosses ice and snow, over mountains and across frozen oceans, encountering bears and birds beneath the endless daylight of an Arctic summer, navigating a world that is vast, wild and wondrous.Meanwhile, Leila embarks on a journey of her own – finding her way to the mother who left her. On a breathtaking journey across the sea, Leila rediscovers herself and the mother she thought she’d lost, with help from a determined little fox.Based on the true story of an Arctic fox who walked from Norway to Canada in seventy-six days, a distance of two thousand miles.

      Leila and the Blue Fox