Maureen T. Duffy Libri

'Dreamer.' Mum called her. 'Always miles away.' Sadie lives by the Thames at Greenwich and longs for sea adventure. She happily whiles away hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at The Cutty Sark and fills her head with dreams of ocean voyages on ancient sailing ships. 'And there inside she found a different world Where rigging sang and white winged sails unfurled.' One day she falls asleep beneath a cabinet in the museum and wakes to find herself embarking on an adventure she could only have dreamed of ... Duffy's lyrical poetry and Joice's richly imaginative illustrations combine to create an unforgettable voyage into a magical world of dolphins, mermaids, pirates and treasure.

Most of the other residents in the cavernous Victorian house - and the friends and acquaintances Al meets in tow local pubs, the bohemian and relaxed crowd at the Nevern and the slightly more ambiguous and dangerous crowd at the Knacker's - are Londoners by adoption, some temporary exiles, some permanent.

A new addition to the SF Masterwork series - the tale of the first human/gorilla hybrid, from his birth and growth to his inevitable end.

Centred on environments - human, insect and animal - some experienced personally, some observed, some imagined, Duffy's poems reflect her lifelong support for progressive social and political movements, and a beautiful lyricism and technical skill derived from her love of the classical world and Old and Medieval English

For Duffy, pictures are magical creations and recreations of the visible world - of history, mythologies, landscape, love and death - where the artists who make them attempt risk-taking feats analogous to a poet's with words.

Maureen Duffy's double-bill tells the story of two remarkable women: Hilda of Whitby and Virginia Woolf.