Korky Paul

Jonathan Long

Following his beak and hoping for the best, the Duck, who has woken up late and missed his flight south, desperately tries to catch up with his friends. But it isn't so easy when every way he turns he comes up against pigeons, parrots and vociferous vultures and never has any luck. And when duck finally does arrive at his destination, he discovers that it's not the South Pole he's reached - but the North! However, the fun he has with his polar bear pals proves that even the worst of luck sometimes turns out for the best. . .

The Duck That Had No Luck

Relates, in rhymed text and illustrations, the misadventures of a dog who can't quite remember where he has buried his bone.

The Dog That Dug

Digger is a very determined dog. He has started looking for the bone that he buried and he just won't stop digging. Deeper and deeper he goes, unearthing all sorts of extraordinary things - an old shoe, a coal-miner, and even an underground train. But he's also getting hungrier and hungrier - will Digger ever find something to chew on for his dinner? This large format book allows Korky Paul's wonderfully zany illustrations to be celebrated in glorious detail. 'Korky Paul's contribution to children's books is very exciting. His work is crammed with humour and details, it's lively, full of movement and forces the reader to turn the page.' Books For Keeps

The Dog Who Could Dig Big Book

When prayers are answered and truth overpowers confusion; it is another milestone in life to be cherished. Every encounter with God is a humbling life changing experience. Through rich moments of prayer, we discover the strength of peace along with a joyful confidence that God in heaven speaks to earthly man about everyday affairs. Enjoy moments of reassurance and strength as Jonathan Long shares what he received as God's heart responding to the life of man.

Whispers From God

Peter Knight

The possibility that works of art and literature might be forged and that identity might be faked has haunted the cultural imagination for centuries. That spectre seems to have returned with a vengeance recently, with a series of celebrated hoaxes and scandals ranging from the Alan Sokal hoax article in Social Text to Binjamin Wilkomirski's "fake" Holocaust memoir. But as well as creating anxiety, the possibility of "faking it" has now been turned into entertainment.Traditionally these activities have been dismissed as dangerous and immoral, but more recently some scholars have begun to speculate, for example, that all forms of national identity rely on forged myths of origin. Recent cultural theory has likewise called into question traditional notions of authenticity and originality in both personal identity and in works of art. Despite critical pronouncements of the death of the author and the substitution of the simulacrum for the original, however, making a distinction between the genuine and the fake continues to play a major role in our everyday understanding and evaluation of culture, law and politics. Consider, for example, the fiasco surrounding the "forged" Hitler diaries, law suits against auction houses for failing to detect forgeries in the art market, or the problem of plagiarism at universities. It still seems to matter that we can spot the difference, especially in the historical moment when we are capable of making copies that are indistinguishable perhaps even better than the original.This collection of essays considers the moral, aesthetic and political questions that are raised by the long history and current prevalence of fakes and forgeries. The international team of contributors consider the issues thrown up by a wide range of examples, drawn from fields ranging from literature to art history. These case studies include little-known subjects such as Eddie Burrup, the Australian aboriginal artist who turned out to be an 81-year-old white woman, as well as new interpretations of familiar cases such as faked holocaust memoirs. The strength of the collection is that it brings together not only a wide range of cultural examples of fakes and forgeries from different historical periods, but also offers a wide variety of theoretical takes that will form a useful introduction and casebook on this growing field of inquiry.

Jonathan Long

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