Dear LifeAuthor: Munro, Alice Canada Published on 3 October 2013 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 336 pages 197 x 131 x 21 238g **WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE****WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE**Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant collection of short stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in

When a striking visitor turns up

' Shappi Khorsandi

snoozing with sea otters or ice bathing with a walrus

gives you an inside look at the world of demigods that NO regular human child is allowed to see

loneliness

and modern master Lewis Hamilton

colour illustrations

But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus

leaving behind his haunting masterpiece The Goldfinch

The character observations are wonderful

this is a must-have introduction for young readers intrigued by the ancient civilisation of China

to magnificent mathematicians and phenomenal physicists