At the turn of the twentieth century, Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North Pole & vanishes into the icy landscape without a trace. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for decades, her dreams & devotion gradually freezing into rigid widowhood. A hundred years later, on a sweltering mid-summer`s day, Edward`s great-gr&-niece Julia moves through the old family house, attempting to impose some order on the clutter of inherited belongings & memories from that ill-fated expedition, & taking care to ignore the deepening cracks within her own marriage. But as afternoon turns into evening, Julia makes a discovery that splinters her long-held image of Edward & Emily`s romance, & her husband Simon faces a precipitous choice that will decide the future of their relationship. Sharply observed & deeply engaging, The Still Point is a powerful literary debut, & a moving meditation on the distances
- geographical & emotional
- that can exist between two people.

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Pocket-size, brilliantly colourful, & easy to use, THE STOKES BEGINNER`S GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA contains everything you need to identify & enjoy birds in your backyard & beyond. Whether you`re age 9 or 90, whether you`re a novice or advanced birder, this book will help you identify birds quickly & accurately. It offers more than 580 stunning colour photographs, coverage of more than 250 species, key identification clues, descriptions of songs & calls, notes on feeding & nesting behaviour, advice on selecting bird feeders & binoculars, important behavioural information & key habitat preferences, & up-to-date range maps. The culmination of many years of research, observation, & study, this book is factually, visually, & organisationally superior to any other beginner`s guide on the market. ...

An intimate portrait of a Taiwanese family, a history of the bicycle industry, & a collage of magical, heart-wrenching stories. The Stolen Bicycle has sold over 10, 000 copies in Taiwan! Cheng, a novelist, once wrote a book about his father`s disappearance twenty years ago. One day he receives a reader`s email asking whether his father`s bicycle disappeared as well. Perplexed & amused, Cheng decides to track down the bicycle, which was stolen years ago. The journey takes him to a scavenger`s treasure trove, the mountain home of an aboriginal photographer, deep into the secret world of antique bicycle collectors, & ultimately to his own heart. ...

Marcia Williams brings the Stone Age to life in her much-loved comic strip style. Join Marcia Williams on a journey to the Stone Age. Meet the people of Clan Woolly as they hunt mammoths & reindeer, learn how to make fire, invent stone tools & turn wild wolves into tame dogs! Full of facts, jokes & colourful comic strips, this is the perfect introduction to the Stone Age
- a time before history was even invented!
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Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to st&. I wonder if she stands there yet... Hagar Shipley
- an irascible,
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At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian
- & she was fluent in the language. As she describes the gruesome work of recovering remains & transcribing the memories of survivors, she retells her family`s own catastrophic history in Yugoslavia. Alternating chapters explore her grandmother`s life
- her childhood in Herzegovina, early widowhood, & imprisonment during the Second World War for hiding her Jewish lover. The movement throughout the book between the past & the present has a powerful effect, evoking belonging & nationality, what it is to feel rooted in a particular country, how its landscape forms you; & also shedding light on the roots of violence & genocide.

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` The problems started the day we moved to Hastings...` When Gareth E. Rees moves to a dilapidated Victorian house in Hastings he begins to piece together an occult puzzle connecting Aleister Crowley, John Logie Baird & the Piltdown Man hoaxer. As freak storms & tidal surges ravage the coast, Rees is beset by memories of his best friend`s tragic death in St Andrews twenty years earlier. Convinced that apocalypse approaches & his past is out to get him, Rees embarks on a journey away from his family, deep into history & to the very edge of the imagination. Tormented by possessed seagulls, mutant eels & unresolved guilt, how much of reality can he trust?THE STONE TIDE is a novel about grief, loss, history & the imagination. It is about how people make the place & the place makes the person. Above all it is about the stories we tell to make sense of the world. ...

In a sweeping narrative, from its mythic origins to the glittering towers of the contemporary financial capital, THE STONES OF LONDON tells the story of twelve London buildings in a kaleidoscopic & unexpected history of one of the world's most enigmatic cities. From the Roman forum to the Gherkin, Regent Street to the East End, the Houses of Parliament to Greenwich Palace, London's buildings are testament to the richness of its past. Behind the facades of these buildings lie the stories of the people, ideas & events that took place within them & that caused their creation. Above all this will be a very human story, of the men & women who dreamed & lived their lives in London, leaving their imprint upon the fabric of the capital: the mythological descendant of Aeneas, who sailed to Albion having been visited by the Goddess Diana in a dream; the king who wanted a palace to rival Louis XIV's Versailles; the West Indian heiress who commissioned the most sublime interior of the eighteenth century; the Prince Regent whose indecision on where to site his palace transformed the West End; the architect who went mad in pursuit of his gothic vision; how the East End was transformed out of the devastation of the Blitz; & how we are today planning the future by transforming the past. ...

In a sweeping narrative, from its mythic origins to the glittering towers of the contemporary financial capital, THE STONES OF LONDON tells the story of twelve London buildings in a kaleidoscopic & unexpected history of one of the world`s most enigmatic cities. From the Roman forum to the Gherkin, Regent Street to the East End, the Houses of Parliament to Greenwich Palace, London`s buildings are testament to the richness of its past. Behind the facades of these buildings lie the stories of the people, ideas & events that took place within them & that caused their creation. They all have very human stories, of the men & women who dreamed & lived their lives in London, leaving their imprint upon the fabric of the capital. ...

`I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. It was the road where I might at last find out where I belonged.` Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would tell him stories of her childhood in the ancient Romani language; the places her family stopped & worked, the ways they lived, the superstitions & lores of their people. But his own experience of life on the road was limited to Ford Transit journeys from West Sussex to Hampshire to sell flowers. In a bid to better understand his Gypsy heritage, the history of the Britain`s Romanies & the rhythms of their life today, Damian sets out on a journey to discover the atchin tans, or stopping places
- the old encampment sites known only to Travellers. Through winter frosts & summer dawns, from horse fairs to Gypsy churches, neon-lit lay-bys to fern-covered banks, Damian lives on the road, somewhere between the romanticised Gypsies of old, & their much-maligned descendants of today. In this powerful & soulful debut, Damian le Bas brings the places, characters & stories of his to bold & vigorous life.
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