Why is it taking so long? Despite huge progress since the suffragette campaigns & wave after wave of feminism, women are still fighting for equality. Why, at the present rate will we have to wait in Britain until 2069 for the gender pay gap to disappear? Why, in 2015, did 11% of women lose their jobs due to pregnancy discrimination? Why, globally, has 1 in 3 women experienced physical or sexual violence? In 2018, on the centenary of one of the greatest steps forward for women
- the Fourth Reform Act, which saw propertied women over 30 gain the vote for the first time
- suffragette descendant & campaigner Helen Pankhurst charts how the lives of women in the UK have changed over the last 100 years. She celebrates landmark successes, little-known victories, where progress has stalled or reversed, looking at politics, money, identity, violence, culture & social norms. The voices of both pioneers & ordinary women
- in all their diversity
- are woven into the analysis which ends with suggestions about how to better understand & strengthen feminist campaigning & with aims for the future. Combining historical insight with inspiring argument, Deeds not Words reveals how far women have come since the suffragettes, how far we still have to go, & how we might get there. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to explore one of the most central & pressing conversations of our time.



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Neil Ansell spent five years living between the back of beyond & the middle of nowhere, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water & effectively only the wildlife around him for company. His dilapidated cottage, rented for £100 per year, is so exposed to the elements that it appears to rain uphill, & so remote that you can walk for twenty miles west without seeing a single other dwelling. As the years pass he feels himself dissolving into, & becoming, just another part of the landscape. ...

Gorgeous new concept board book by Frann Preston-Gannon featuring underwater animals. * Author`s The Journey Home was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children`s Book Prize 2013, Junior Magazine Design Awards (Best Picture Book & Best New Talent categories) & the Cambridgeshire Picture Book Award 2013! * The first of a series of concept board books more to follow later in 2014! * Featuring colours, counting & undersea animals Descend into the depths of the sea! & meet along the way...1 Blue Whale (spouting at the surface of the water) 2 Green Turtles 3 Grey Dolphins 4 Yellow Seahorses 5 Red Starfish One Hundred Colourful fish! Approx. 20 words Age range: 0-2 Also available Sky High (Autumn 2014) (978-1-84365-269-4) ...

The heart-stopping survival story of the 33 miners trapped half a mile beneath the surface for 69 days when the San Jose Mine collapsed. More 1 billion viewers worldwide watched the rescue, & it is now being made into a major film. No other writer has been granted the deep & exclusive access to the miners that Puliter Prize-winning journlaist Hector Tobar has, & no one else can capture & recreate this unique drama so vividly, from the conflicts & the emotions that enveloped the men during their first fortnight below ground, when death by starvation loomed as their likely fate, to the subsequent weeks during which they established contact with the outside world. All the while, they remain trapped inside a still-thundering mountain that could collapse upon them at any moment. ...

What do you do when your daughter tells you it's time to leave the nest? Throw the computer into the back of the car, pack your bags & move your entire household, including your cats, to France, naturally. Celia Brayfield tells of her year in a tiny village in the Bearn, the land of the Three Musketeers & France's answer to Texas. The book gives an insight into a writer's life dans la France profonde that's full of funny & perceptive anecdotes
- trying to meet the deadlines when a good thunderstorm could blow out the computer, artichokes to pick, the wildlife in the woodpile, the low-life in the Fandango cafe, why Frenchmen are so sexy, not to mention the portraits of Peter Mayle's children, some of the half-million Brits who are out there living their dreams. Brayfield sounds thoroughly nice, brave, homorous & independent. This is a long love letter to her beloved Bearn.
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Deep in the woods was a little wooden house with nine neat windows & a red front door. When a little mouse decides it will make the perfect home, so do the other animals in the wood--including a great big bear! But will the bear be able to put everything right when their home comes tumbling down? Find out in this beautifully illustrated retelling of a classic Russian folk tale, now available in a miniature gift edition. ...

Fred Pearce is a former news editor at New Scientist magazine, & is currently its environment & development consultant. He also writes regularly for the Independent & the Times Higher Education Supplement, the Boston Globe & Foreign Policy in the US & has written reports & extended journalism for WWF, the UN Environment Programme, the Red Cross, UNESCO, the World Bank & the UK Environment Agency. He is syndicated in Japan, Australia & elsewhere & has filed articles from more than 50 countries in the past decade. He was voted BEMA Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001 & has been short-listed for the same award in 2000, 2002 & 2003. He is a past recipient of the Peter Kent Conservation Book Award & the TES Junior Information Book Award. His books (for both adults & children) have been translated into eight languages. He is a regular broadcaster on radio & TV, with interview credits from Today to Richard & Judy to the Open University. ...

Winner of the 1997 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, Paul Pritchard`s Deep Play is a unique, stylish & timeless commentary reflecting the pressures & rewards of climbing some of the world`s hardest & most challenging rock climbs. Pritchard started climbing in Lancashire before moving to join the vibrant Llanberis scene of the mid 1980s, at a time when the adventurous development of the Dinorwig slate quarries was in full swing. Many of the new slate routes were notable for their fierce technical difficulty & sparse protection, & Pritchard took a full part in this arcane sub-culture of climbing & at the same time deployed his skills on the Anglesey sea cliffs to produce a clutch of equally demanding wall climbs. Born with an adventurous soul, it was not long before Pritchard & his friends were planning exotic trips. In 1987, paired with Johnny Dawes, Pritchard made an epoch-making visit to Scotland`s Sron Ulladale to free its famous aid route, The Scoop. Pritchard & Dawes, with no previous altitude experience, then attempted the Catalan Pillar of Bhagirathi III in the Garwhal Himalaya in India, a precocious first expedition prematurely curtailed when Pritchard was hit by stonefall at the foot of the face. In 1992, Pritchard & Noel Craine teamed up with the alpinists Sean Smith & Simon Yates to climb a big wall route on the East Face of the Central Tower of Paine, Patagonia. Pritchard followed this with an equally fine first ascent of the West Face of Mt Asgard on Baffin Isl&. Other trips
- to Yosemite & Pakistan as well as returns to Patagonia
- resulted in a clutch of notable repeats, first ascents & some failures. The failure list also included two life threatening falls (one on Gogarth, the other on Creag Meaghaidh), which prompted the author into thought-provoking personal re-assessments, in advance of his later near-terminal accident on The Totem Pole in Tasmania. A penetrating view of the adventures & preoccupations of a contemporary player, Deep Play stands alone as a unique first-hand account of what many consider to be the last great era in British climbing.

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There are 100, 000 freighters on the seas. Between them they carry nearly everything we eat, wear & work with. & yet this massive global industry has remained largely unexamined: it passes by out of sight for most of us &, through the `flags of convenience` system, its dubious practices often slip under the radar of regulators. In this unique investigation, Rose George travels the high seas with their powerful naval fleets, pirate gangs, & illegal floating factories, & visits the ports & their l&-bound dockworkers, tycoons, missionaries, stevedores, border control guards, & ship-spotters. She meets the beachcombers who track the 10, 000 containers that are lost every year, the robots who are gradually replacing human crews, & the environmentalists campaigning against the tide of marine pollution. Intrepid, informed & tenacious, George steers a sure course through the murky, character-rich waters of international shipping. ...

The 110 galaxies, star clusters & nebulae catalogued by the comet hunter Charles Messier in the late 1700s are still the most widely observed celestial wonders in the heavens. They are the favourite targets of amateur astronomers, with such rich variety & detail that they never cease to fascinate. This book provides new & experienced observers with a fresh perspective on the Messier objects. Stephen James O' Meara has prepared a visual feast for the observer. Using the finest optical telescopes available for amateur work, superior eyepieces & the darkest site on Earth, he describes & sketches the view from the telescope as never before. There are new drawings, enhanced finder charts, & new astronomical data on each object, including findings from the Hubble Space Telescope. This is truly the Messier Guide for the modern age. ...