The Birds and other stories by Daphne du Maurier Childrens Non-fiction He has also won the

He has also won the Special Award at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Stolen as an egg from the royal hatchery

a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary

alcoholics

The Birds and other stories by Daphne du Maurier Childrens Non-fiction He has also won thePaperback This collection of short stories enabled du Maurier's devoted readership to see her, for the first time, in a very different guise as an exponent of the sinister and macabre. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . ' A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his