What is the single greatest gift you can give your child? Vibrant good health, of course. But in a world where children as young as ten are being diagnosed with early signs of heart disease, where up to a third of young children at an infant school may be taking Ritalin, a drug that has been banned in Sweden, & where computers, not dogs, are a child ...

Po Bronson tackles the biggest, most threatening, most obvious question that anyone has to face, 'what should I do with my life?' It is a problem that is increasingly encountered not just by the young but by people who have half their lives or more behind them. The modern route to self-discovery is to trade what you have for a completely different way of life, to face the challenges & finally confront our real aims & desires. Bronson's book is a fascinating account of finding & following people who have uprooted their lives & fought with these questions in radical ways. From the investment banker who gave it all up to become a catfish farmer in Mississippi, to the chemical engineer from Walthamstow who decided to become a lawyer in his sixties; these stories of individual dilemma & dramatic
- & sometimes unsuccessful
- gambles are bound up with Bronson's account of his own search for a calling.

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Po Bronson's new book tackles the biggest, most threatening, most obvious question that anyone has to face, 'what should I do with my life?' It is a problem, he explains, that is increasingly encountered not just by the young but by people who have half their lives or more behind them. With the intoxicating days of the 80s & 90s behind us & the world entering recession, many people are being forced to confront their real aims & desires. & the modern route to self, discovery, Bronson suggests, is to trade what you have for a completely different way of life. Bronson's book is a fascinating account of finding & following people who have uprooted their lives & fought with these questions in radical ways. From the investment banker who gave it all up to become a catfish farmer in Mississippi, to the chemical enginner from Walthamstow who decided to become a lawyer in his sixties, & the institutional investor who gave up his job & moved, disastrously, to Germany on a whim; these stories of individual dilemma & dramatic
- & sometimes unsuccessful
- gambles are bound up with Bronson's account of his own search for a calling.

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Suki is 21 years old & drifting, a waitress in a Midlands transport cafe, she lives alone in a motor-home & sleeps with women. Hauned by the memory of her dead girlfriend, a bisexual American with SM tastes, she takes to the road, heading north to where they first met. Whilst there Suki is drawn back into the seductive decadence of her old life, to experience what she's secretly been missing for years. ...

Since June 2003 Xinran has been writing about China in her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of ...

Since June 2003 Xinran has been writing about China in her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of ...

' Darling, this is Younes. Yesterday he was my nephew, today he is our son'

Younes' life is changed forever when his poverty-stricken

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