Rediscover the crucial roles held by women within the heart of Christianity. Favourite disciple, influential woman, true believer and follower of Jesus: how do we see Mary Magdalene today? Witness to Jesus' crucifixion and his burial, the first to announce the resurrection, she is without a doubt the most recognizable of the gospels' female figures, a central character in Christianity's foundational story. But centuries of alteration and resizing, of merging several female figures into one, have erased Mary Madgalene's apostolic role and left us with a misrepresentation. They delivered the figure of a quintessential repentant sinner, one in whom sensual beauty and mortification of the body are combined. When we reflect on the "Magdalene case", delving into the folds of history and the arts, and removing misunderstandings and manipulations, we rediscover the crucial roles women have always held within the heart of Christianity, despite their stories often going untold. Adriana Valerio's engrossing retelling of Magdalene's story, founded as it is in historical fact, is an unmissable opportunity to reclaim such roles in a church that remains largely patriarchal to the present day.

NETFLIX SERIES TO BE RELEASED OCTOBER 2022 WINNER OF THE 2020 YOUTH STREGA PRIZE "Mencarelli writes with the grace and power of a poet. His words illuminate truth like a flash of lightning."-Il Sole 24 Ore "Moving and engaging. This novel will stay with you."-Goffredo Fofi, Internazionale "Extraordinary for its intensity and empathy."-Radio Tre June 1994. Twenty-year-old Daniele wakes up in a hospital room surrounded by strangers. Slowly, memories of the previous night return to him: a spiral of anxiety and anger, an explosion of violence so intense that it almost inflicted irreparable damage to him and his family. To his horror, he learns that he's been sentenced to a week of mandatory treatment in a psychiatric ward. Writing with lucid realism and stunning emotional force and drawing from the author's own personal experience of mental illness, Mencarelli chronicles seven days in the hospital as he struggles to find a way out of the darkness. Daniele finds unexpected companions in his fellow patients-men who, like him, have felt the full brunt of life's pain. Together they will realise the hidden strength and value of their common fragility and the boundless empathy they feel towards others. By focusing on some of the most marginalized people in our society, Mencarelli has written a heart-breaking and unforgettable novel that challenges our notion of normality and celebrates the salvific power of solidarity and vulnerability.

They may be small, they may be weak (and Krowfin is certainly very confused), but their adventures are huge Follow these endearing green fur-balls through a series of hilarious adventures. How will they stop the spiky Skraks from stealing their crops? Can they help little Cringe, a reluctant visit from a parallel time? Will they succeed in their quest to discover how the Willigrews began? How can they save their village from the terrible Gloopudds - without actually fighting? What is the answer to the Big Sneeze epidemic? And where have the Dranglebinders gone?

Throughout most of my life, I have enjoyed reading to children, especially the little ones, who are, in my experience, the most responsive audience of all. Children love nursery rhymes and poems and so do I. I love the simple stories they tell, as do the children. However, it is the rhythm that really grabs their imagination. One little girl told me that a nursery rhyme was like singing without music. Most of the rhymes we know and love, with certain exceptions, were written in the nineteenth century. They tell of kings and queens, of wonderful times and of tragic times. So what about now, what about the twenty-first century? I was thinking one day and wondered if, perhaps I could write some that were fresh and new. This book is my humble attempt to do just that. I do hope you enjoy it.