**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018****A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**` An unforgettable novel.` DAILY TELEGRAPH` More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]... so powerful.` NEW YORK TIMES` One of America`s finest writers.` VOGUERomy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women`s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. & her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of Romy`s estranged mother. Inside is a new reality to adapt to: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive. The deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner details with humour & precision. Daily acts of violence by guards & prisoners alike. Allegiances formed over liquor brewed in socks, & stories shared through sewage pipes. Romy sees the future stretch out ahead of her in a long, unwavering line
- until news from outside brings a ferocious urgency to her existence, challenging her to escape her own destiny & culminating in a climax of almost unbearable intensity. Through Romy
- & through a cast of astonishing characters populating The Mars Room
- Rachel Kushner presents not just a bold & unsentimental panorama of life on the margins of contemporary America, but an excoriating attack on the prison-industrial complex.


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Sam's last adventure sent him to France in search of a missing wine collection, but he thought it'd be a while before he was back, especially with the charms of the fiery Elena Morales to keep him settled in Los Angeles. But when the immensely wealthy Francis Reboul, the recent victim of Sam's own counter-heist, asks him to take a job in Marseille, it's impossible for Sam & Elena to resist. The lure of further excitement & the pleasures of the region beckon them back to France. Quelle joie! Yet as competition over Marseille's valuable waterfront grows more hotly disputed, Sam, representing Reboul, finds himself right in the middle, with intrigue & danger following closely behind. ...

Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, wine connoisseur & expert on cultivated crime, is back in Marseille, for both work & pleasure
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The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger. Between 1951and 1958 Wilfred Thesiger spent several months of each year living among the tribal Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq. He gradually won acceptance, as he travelled from village to village by canoe, dispensing medicine & advice. He came to understand & share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Thesiger has written a testament to what was an almost untouched & yet threatened culture in 1950’s Iraq, a culture that lived an entirely water dominated existence. An introduction by Jon Lee Anderson discusses Thesiger’s views of the places he visited & the hospitable, loyal, & courageous people he encountered, as well as Saddam Hussein’s destruction of the marshlands & the possibilities for their restoration. ...

The Marsh Lions by Brian Jackman, Jonathan & Angie Scott, is a reissue by Bradt of the 1982 wildlife classic, portraying the daily life of the lions, leopards & cheetahs in Kenya’s Masai Mara game reserve. During 5 years the authors followed the drama of life & death in the African plains. The striking & intimate recordings offer a unique insight into the animals & their unforgiving world. The lions became familiar companions with real characters that earned them nicknames like the irascible Notch, majestic Scar & the Marsh sisters. Their tales also featured in the successful BBC’s TV series Big Cat Diary displaying one of the most beautiful wild places on earth. The book marks the 20th Anniversary of the first publication &

Includes:: an additional chapter & stunning new images by Angela Scott, to bring the story up to date. The Marsh Lions is a fascinating study & compelling reading for anyone interested in wildlife.

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London, present day. Jean, a failing journalist in her late thirties, finds herself entertaining a married man
- a handsome,
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Introducing the marvellous Captain Corcoran
- he is charming to ladies, courteous to true gentlemen, death to pirates & merciless
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Eddie knows her mum would love a Fluffy Squishy Itty Bitty for her birthday. The only problem is that she doesn`t know what a Fluffy Squishy Itty Bitty is, or where to find one! Join Eddie as she tours the whole town, trying to track down the perfect present. ...

”I`ve got you, & you`ve got me
- so we`ll be all right”... One day, adventurous Mouse sets off to find the moon with his Marvellous
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In The Marvels, Selznick crafts another remarkable artistic & bookmaking achievement that weaves together two seemingly unrelated stories-one in words, the other in pictures-with spellbinding synergy. The illustrated story begins in 1766 with Billy Marvel, the lone survivor of a shipwreck, & charts the adventures of his family of actors over five generations. The prose story opens in 1990 & follows Joseph, who has run away from school to an estranged uncle`s puzzling house in London, where he, along with the reader, must piece together many mysteries. Filled with mystery, vibrant characters, surprise twists, & heart-rending beauty, & featuring Selznick`s most arresting art to date, The Marvels is a moving tribute to the power of story. ...