A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller " Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise that mixed with the right materials it might survive the fire of the kiln & fuse into porcelain
- translucent luminous white Acclaimed writer & potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest
- a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China & travels on to Venice Versailles Dublin Dresden the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina & the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain Along the way he meets the witnesses to its creation; those who were inspired made rich or heartsick by it & the many whose livelihoods minds & bodies were broken by this obsession It spans a thousand years & reaches into some of the most tragic moments of recent times In these intimate & compelling encounters with the people & landscapes who made porcelain Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material the white gold& he has worked with for decades Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4

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A classic of mountaineering literature this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger the most legendary & terrifying climb in history Heinrich Harrer author of Seven Years in Tibet' & one of the twentieth century's greatest mountaineers was part of the team that finally conquered the Eiger's fearsome North Face in 1938 It was a landmark expedition that pitted the explorers against treacherous conditions & the limits of human endurance & which many have since tried
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- to emulate Armed with an intimate knowledge that comes only from first-hand experience of climbing the Eiger Harrer gives a gripping account of physical daring & mental resilience A new introduction by Joe Simpson author of Touching the Void' confirms the lasting relevance of this true adventure classic

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Tracklist You&re Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl) Hello Operator Little Bird Apple Blossom I&m Bound To Pack It Up Death Letter Sister Do You Know My Name? Truth Doesn&t Make A Noise A Boy&s Best Friend Let&s Build A Home Jumble Jumble Why Can&t You Be Nicer To Me? Your Southern Can Is Mine ...

Tracklist Jimmy The Exploder Stop Breaking Down The Big Three Killed My Baby Suzy Lee Sugar Never Tasted So Good Wasting My Time Cannon Astro Broken Bricks When I Hear My Name Do Screwdriver One More Cup Of Coffee Little People Slicker Drips St James Infirmary Blues I Fought Piranhas ...

Seven nation army Black math There&s no home for you here I just don&t know what to do with myself In the cold cold night I want to be the boy to warm your Mother&s heart You&ve got her in your pocket Ball & biscuit Hardest button to button Little acorns Hypnotise Air near my fingers Girl you have no faith in medicine Well it&s true that we love one another Fourth album from Detroit duo The White Stripes & the follow up to their critically acclaimed & commercially successful LP & White Blood Cells& which was released in 2001 A fusion of garage-rock folk-blues country & 60&s Britpop Drummer Meg White lends her vocal skills on the track & In The Cold Cold Night& & Holly Golightly makes a guest appearance on the album ...

Lets Shake Hands Black Math Little Ghost Blue Orchid The Union Forever Ball & Biscuit Icky Thump Im Slowly Turning Into You Jolene 300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues We Are Going to Be Friends I Just Dont Know What to Do With Myself Prickly Thorn But Sweetly Worn Fell in Love With a Girl When I Hear My Name Seven Nation Army ...

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 Balram Halwai is the White Tiger
- the smartest boy in his village His family is too poor for
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When Livy's accepted at Temple College a school for the very brightest no one is more surprised than her though she has always felt different Recently Livy's been drawn to the roof where among its towering stone angels she has the strangest desire to fly But her behaviour is noticed by others for whom the ability to defy gravity is a possible reality one that they'll stop at nothing to use for their own ends ...

Raised from birth in the martial arts as her people defender & hero a young girl survives an attack by a ruthless warlord to pioneer a revolution that must take back what is theirs by birthright Joined by Hollywood writer Erin Holroyd The White Viper reunites the classic artistic team of Dick Giordano & Frank Mc Laughlin (Batman Superman Green Arrow) in their first creator-owned effort ...

This is a very striking & curious story founded on fact of the West Indies of the early nineteenth century Robert Rutherford is sent to the islands to learn the planter's business from the bottom He becomes an overseer at Rosehall the property of a young widow Mrs Palmer whose three husbands have all died in suspicious circumstances She takes a violent fancy to Rutherford who is also embarrassed by the attentions of his housekeeper Millicent His housekeeper is urging him with some success to fall in with West Indian habits when Mrs Palmer arrives Millicent defies her & threatens her with the powers of Takoo an Obeah man Mrs Palmer herself skilled in Obeah magic puts a spell on the girl which Takoo's rites shattered by the white woman's stronger magic are powerless to remove ...