Sometimes just one person can change your whole world If not for her loving but controlling parents Beth might never have taken charge of her life If not for her friend Nichole Beth would never have met Sam Carney
- a tattooed mechanic who is her conservative parents' worst nightmare & if not for Sam
- who witnessed a terrible accident & rushed to her aid
- Beth might have never survived & fallen in love Yet there are skeletons in Sam's closet that prevent him from ever trusting a woman again Will he be able to overcome his past & fight for love?


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From the critically acclaimed poet & classicist Anne Carson a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho together with the original Greek During her life on the island of Lesbos Sappho is said to have composed nine books of lyrics Only one poem has survived complete In IF NOT WINTER Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse employing brackets & white space to denote missing text
- allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written Carson says of her method of translation 'I like to think that the more I stand out of the way the more Sappho shows through' & certainly her translation illuminates Sappho's reflections on love & desire her companions & rivals the goddess Aphrodite her own daughter Kleis IF NOT WINTER gives us an extraordinary ancient poet brought alive by a brilliantly empathetic contemporary poet Complete with Carson's introduction & notes it will become the standard translation of Sappho for our time
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If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she & her long-time friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes & persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities Their friendship-between a secular American & a madrasa
- trained sheikh
- had always seemed unlikely but now they were frustrated & bewildered by the battles being fought in their names Both knew that a close look at the Quran would reveal a faith that preached peace & not mass murder; respect for women & not oppression & so they embarked on a yearlong journey through the controversial text A journalist who grew up in the Midwest & the Middle East Power offers her unique vantage point on the Quran's most provocative verses as she debates with Akram at cafes family gatherings & packed lecture halls conversations filled with both good humour & powerful insights Their story takes them to madrasas in India & pilgrimage sites in Mecca as they encounter politicians & jihadis feminist activists & conservative scholars Armed with a new understanding of each other's worldviews Power & Akram offer eye-opening perspectives destroy long-held myths & reveal startling connections between worlds that have seemed hopelessly divided for far too long

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Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story a detective story & a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story & the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of same book
- IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT by Italo Calvino
- are constantly & comically frustrated THE ARABIAN NIGHTS of our day

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You go into a bookshop & buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino You like it But alas there is a printer's error in your copy You take it back to the shop & get a replacement But the replacement seems to be a totally different story You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure a romance a satire an erotic story a diary & a quest But the real hero is you the reader ...

'I grew up reading James Herriot's book & I'm delighted that thirty years on they are still every bit as charming heartwarming & laugh-out-loud funny as they were then' Kate Humble Fresh out of Veterinary College & shoulder-deep in an uncooperative cow James Herriot's first job is not panning out exactly as expected To a Glaswegian like James 1930s Yorkshire appears to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world But even life in the sleepy village of Darrowby has its challenges On the one hand there are his new colleagues Siegfried & Tristan Farnon two brothers who attract a constant stream of local girls to whom James is strangely invisible On the other he must contend with herds of semi-feral cattle gruff farmers with incomprehensible accents & an overweight Pekingese called Tricki Woo Heartbreaking & hilarious in equal measure If Only They Could Talk is a book for all those who find laughter & joy in animals & who know & understand the magic & beauty of Britain's wild places ...

As the BBC's North America Editor Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world Jon has travelled the length & breadth of the United States experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of he has flown aboard Air Force One interviewed President Obama & has even been described as a beauty' by none other than Donald Trump Through music film literature TV & even through the food we eat & the clothes that we wear we all have a highly developed sense of what America is & through our shared tangled history we claim a special relationship But America today feels about as alien a country as you could imagine It is fearful angry & impatient for change Reflecting on his journey across the continent to cover the most turbulent race in recent history Jon Sopel lifts a lid on the seething resentments profound anxieties & sheer rage that found its embodiment in a brash unpredictable & seemingly unstoppable figure In this fascinating insightful portrait of American life & politics Jon sets out to answer our questions about a country that once stood for the grandest of dreams but which is now mired in a storm of political extremism racial division & increasingly perverse beliefs ...

As the BBC's North America Editor Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world Jon has travelled the length & breadth of the United States experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of he has flown aboard Air Force One interviewed President Obama & has even been described as a beauty' by none other than Donald Trump Through music film literature TV & even through the food we eat & the clothes that we wear we all have a highly developed sense of what America is & through our shared tangled history we claim a special relationship But America today feels about as alien a country as you could imagine It is fearful angry & impatient for change Reflecting on his journey across the continent to cover the most turbulent race in recent history Jon Sopel lifts a lid on the seething resentments profound anxieties & sheer rage that found its embodiment in a brash unpredictable & seemingly unstoppable figure In this fascinating insightful portrait of American life & politics Jon sets out to answer our questions about a country that once stood for the grandest of dreams but which is now mired in a storm of political extremism racial division & increasingly perverse beliefs ...

If I were paper & you picked me from the pile I'd become for you a folded swan Just to see you smile This collection of heartfelt poems & adorable illustrations captures some of the sweetest most whimsical & romantic gestures that could ever be imagined
- the perfect way to show your loved one just how much you care!
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' One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILDAs Berlin prepares for the 1936 Olympic Games Bernie is caught between violently opposing factions in a story that comes full circle in 1950s' Cuba Berlin 1934 The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations
- a blatant example of discrimination Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel Two bodies are found
- one a businessman & the other a Jewish boxer As Bernie digs to unearth the truth he discovers a vast labour & construction racket designed to take advantage of the huge sums the Nazis are spending to showcase the new Germany to the world It is a plot that finds its dramatic & violent conclusion twenty years later in pre-revolutionary Cuba

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