I hadn't even sat down yet, one buttock still hovering, my hand on the car door, & already my sister-in-law was on the attack: At last! Didn't you hear the horn? We've been waiting here for ten minutes! Good morning, I replied. On the car journey to a family wedding, Garance reflects on how adult life, with its disappointments & responsibilities, has not always gone to plan for herself or her three siblings. But just around the corner lies the chance for them to revisit their younger, carefree selves in a delightfully unplanned escapade. ...

On a car journey to a family wedding, Garance reflects on how adult life, with its disappointments & responsibilities, has not always gone to plan for herself or her three siblings. But just around the corner lies the chance for them to revisit their younger, carefree selves in a delightfully unplanned escapade. In this exquisitely told story, Anna Gavalda explores the themes of time passing & the highs & lows of family life with characteristic wit, warmth & brilliant characterisation. ...

Featuring 20 different postcards depicting scenes & locations from Breaking Bad. Send a postcard from the DEA Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from a Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant or the candlelit shrine to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Wish you were here! ...

Israeli baking encompasses the influences of so many regions
- Morocco, Yemen, Germany, & Georgia, to name a few & master baker
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A LIZ CARLYLE INVESTIGATION` Rimington tells her story with the crisp authority one would expect of James Bond`s M` New York Times Book Review Recovering from a gruelling terrorist investigation, Liz Carlyle has been posted to MI5`s counter-espionage desk. Her bosses hope the change of scene will give her some breathing space, but they haven`t counted on Putin`s increased aggression towards the West. Soon Liz is on the hunt for a Russian spy who threatens to plunge Britain back into the fraught days of the Cold War. Meanwhile, MI6 has hired Jasminder Kapoor, a controversial young civil rights lawyer, to explain issues of privacy & security to the public. But in this world of shadowy motives & secret identities, Jasminder must be extra-careful about whom she can trust.. . ...

Discover an astonishing collection of extraordinary characters in this brand new compilation of women`s travel writing. Spanning three centuries, this assortment of writings reveals a rich treasure trove of anecdotes & adventures from incredible women worth celebrating & remembering. Celia Fiennes travelled the length & breadth of Engl&, riding side-saddle, at the dawn of the eighteenth century. Discover the multiple journeys around the world undertaken in the 1840s by the Austrian Ida Pfeiffer. Dora d` Istria, a mountain-climbing duchess & polymath, travelled widely through Europe but her account of ascending Mont Blanc in 1860 is perhaps the most striking. Read about Isabel Burton`s adventures as a government employee`s wife stationed all over the world. Explore the writing of Isabella Bird who travelled around the world on doctor`s orders
- until finally retraining as a doctor & missionary in her sixties for a trip to India & its surrounding countries. Find out what motivated Marie Kingsley to travel solo to the deepest parts of West Africa & how her journeys shaped not only her own way of thinking but that of Europe as whole. Learn how May Kellogg Sullivan undertook her journey to Alaska & the Yukon to seek her fortune in the gold-mining world. Astonish yourself by finding out that, on a trip to Burma, India, Ceylon & Indonesia with her husb&, Fanny Bullock Workman cycled 15, 000 miles (as a welcome break from glacier-climbing in the Himalayas). Follow investigative journalist Nellie Bly as she takes up Jules Verne`s gauntlet to travel around the world in eighty days. Or find out how Ella Sykes once rode on horseback from the Caspian Sea all the way to India.
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Wry, satirical & bawdy, Tamer`s stories are always informed by his dark view of humanity & of Syrian society in particular. Through these glimpses of corrupt, fearful lives under a violent dictatorship, it is possible to discern echoes of the storm that has brought Syria to near-disintegration. Tamer`s stories explore taboos & power relations, bringing together religion, politics & sexuality (often all at once) & implying that these forms of oppression are connected. An assault is deflected when the victim responds enthusiastically; a woman is spared stoning because the streets have no cobbles, & her neighbours cannot afford any; A comatose man awakens after years to find the regime unchanged, & tries to escape back into the coma; a newborn baby curses the hospital staff that delivers him, & when his mother tries to quiet him, retorts: ` You`re talking like our leaders!`; a man is warned by two apples not to eat them, & anxiously questions them about their political connections. Unsentimental & brilliantly compressed, these sixty-three stories are the work of a virtuoso, & translator Ibrahim Muhawi has found exactly the right deadpan style with which to express them. ...

After decades of civil war, the people of southern Sudan voted to secede from the north in an attempt to escape the seemingly endless violence. On declaring independence, South Sudan was one of the least developed places on earth, but with the ability to draw upon significant oil reserves worth $150 million a month, the foundation for a successful future was firmly in place. How, then, did the state of the new nation deteriorate even further, to the point that a new civil war broke out two years later? Today, with both Sudans still hostage to the aspirations of their military & political leaders, how can their people escape the violence that has dominated the two countries` recent history? By giving voice to those who, after the break-up of Sudan, have had to find ways to live, trade & communicate with one another, Jok Madut Jok provides a moving insight into a crisis that has only rarely made it into our headlines. Breaking Sudan is a meticulous account, analyzing why violence became so deeply entrenched in Sudanese society & exploring what can be done to find peace in two countries ravaged by war. ...

NASA`s history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America`s space agency wasn`t created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. In the 1930s, rockets were all the rage in Germany, the focus both of scientists hoping to fly into space & of the German armed forces, looking to circumvent the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. One of the key figures in this period was Wernher von Braun, an engineer who designed the rockets that became the devastating V-2. As the war came to its chaotic conclusion, von Braun escaped from the ruins of Nazi Germany, & was taken to America where he began developing missiles for the US Army. Meanwhile, the US Air Force was looking ahead to a time when men would fly in space, & test pilots like Neil Armstrong were flying cutting-edge, rocket-powered aircraft in the thin upper atmosphere. Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story of America`s nascent space program, its scientific advances, its personalities & the rivalries it caused between the various arms of the US military. At this point getting a man in space became a national imperative, leading to the creation of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, otherwise known as NASA. ...

From its humble origins in the backstreets & rooftops of Paris`s urban jungle, to the tops of London & New York`s skyscrapers, Parkour, has become an adrenaline-fuelled implosion on the urban landscape. But more than a sport that most jaw-dropped onlookers can hardly comprehend, Parkour is an exploration of movement & a return to our body`s natural ability to run, jump, hang & move with fluidity. For the first time, Julie Angel tells the story of Parkour`s beginnings
- the diverse, intriguing & unusual characters who went to the rooftops, hung off the stairwells & drain pipes as they trained through the night, often risking their lives & created something that has become a worldwide phenomenon. Breaking the Jump tells the unknown story behind Parkour`s rise, & asks what is it that drives those who stand on the edge & think `go`.
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