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First published by Hutchinson in 2015
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Map by Emma Lopes
Linocuts by Rob Cowen
Extract from ‘Swifts’ taken from Ted Hughes: Collected Poems for Children © Estate of Ted Hughes and reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd
‘Never Any Good’ by Martin Simpson, quoted with kind permission from Martin Simpson