Item category 2: Local Authors Collection

This collection is a glorious snapshot of 21st century Britain. Playing with the ultimate poetic form, the sonnet, Agbabi twists and reinvents it, approaching subjects ranging from love to sex, family to race and from writing to film noir.

We fight crime across time. Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift - the ability to leap through time. Elle has The Gift, but she's never used it. Until now. On her 12th birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the Time...

In 'Telling Tales' award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-century remix of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' retelling all of the stories, from the 'Miller's Tale' to the 'Wife of Bath's' in her own critically acclaimed poetic style.