Jon Day Books

As a boy, Jon Day was fascinated by pigeons, which he used to rescue from the streets of London. Twenty years later he moved away from the city centre to the suburbs to start a family. But in moving house, he began to lose a sense of what it meant to feel at home. Returning to his childhood obsession with the birds, he built a coop in his garden and joined a local pigeon racing club. Over the next few years, as he made a home with his young family in Leyton, he learned to train and race his pigeons, hoping that they might teach him to feel homed. Having lived closely with humans for tens of thousands of years, pigeons have become powerful symbols of peace and domesticity. But they are also much-maligned, and nowadays most people think of these birds, if they do so at all, as vermin. A book about the overlooked beauty of this species, and about what it means to dwell, Homing delves into the curious world of pigeon fancying, explores the scientific mysteries of animal homing, and traces the cultural, political and philosophical meanings of home. It is a book about the making of home and making for home: a book about why we return.

Presents illustrated instructions for a wide range of magic tricks. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

We all know killing is wrong, but what if the right people are being killed? Jon Day introduces his intriguing new detective, DC Ashley Fenway. At twenty-four, she has just been drafted into Manchester Major Crimes. A new unit created by the mayor of Manchester to fulfil his campaign pledge of bringing crime down. Their first victims have been found tied to their beds with their throats slashed, and dark pasts catching up with each of them. As Ashley delves deeper into their victims, she finds a possible link that goes back to a mysterious religious cult that hides the secrets of not only their victims, but people in high places of power, and people who would do anything to keep those secrets hidden. Once the reason why the bodies are piling up becomes clear, it becomes obvious that no one wants the murders solved, with the public and media actively encouraging it. It leaves Ashley, and the country thinking that not all justice is equal.