Happy one moment & sad the next
- everyone has feelings. ” The message of self-acceptance & community is heartfelt & reassuring”
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The breathtaking new novel from the multi-award-winning author of THE OTHER H&. `A cracker` Stylist, 10 Exciting Books in 2016 ` His best book to date` Esquire, 10 best novels of 2016 Guardian Literary Highlight of 2016 Independent Best Book to read in 2016 Irish News Top Picks for 2016 Washington Post 20 Books We Can`t Wait to Read in 2016 When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, & signs up. Tom Shaw decides to give it a miss
- until his flatmate Alistair unexpectedly enlists, & the conflict can no longer be avoided. Young, bright & brave, Mary is certain she`d be a marvelous spy. When she is
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- made a teacher, she instead finds herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget. Tom, meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for Mary. & when Mary & Alistair meet, it is love, as well as war, that will test them in ways they could not have imagined, entangling three lives in violence & passion, friendship & deception, inexorably shaping their hopes & dreams. In a powerful combination of both humour & heartbreak, this dazzling novel weaves little-known history, & a perfect love story, through the vast sweep of the Second World War
- daring us to understand that, against the great theatre of world events, it is the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs, that change us most.



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` Beautiful, kaleidoscopic.. .everyone should be watching Megan Bradbury from now on` Eimear Mc Bride, Baileys Prize-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing New York: A city that inspires. A city that draws people in. A city where everyone is watching, waiting to see what will happen next. 1967. Robert Mapplethorpe knows he is an artist. From his childhood home in Queens he yearns for the heat & excitement of the city, the press of other people`s bodies. He wants to be watched, he wants to be known. 1891. Walt Whitman has already found fame, & has settled into his own sort of old age. Still childlike, still passionate, he travels with his friend & biographer Bucke to the city he has always adored, the scene of his greatest triumphs & rejections. 1922. Robert Moses is a man with a vision. Standing on the edge of Long Island he knows what it could become. Walking down a street in Brooklyn he sees its future. He is the man who will build modern New York. 2013. Edmund White is back in New York. It`s the city of his youth, of his life & loves. He remembers days of lazy pleasure, nights of ecstasy & euphoria. But years have gone by since then. Everyone is Watching is a novel about the men & women who have defined New York. Through the lives & perspectives of these great creators, artists & thinkers, & through other iconic works of art that capture its essence, New York itself solidifies. Complex, rich, sordid, tantalizing, it is constantly changing & evolving. Both intimate & epic in its sweep, Everyone is Watching is a love letter to New York & its people
- past, present & future.
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Tacos are the beating heart of Mexico`s food scene. Take your pick from over 65 authentic recipes for these little pocket rocket ...

From eagles to falcons & talons to beaks, ” Everything Birds of Prey ”introduces readers to the world`s most ferocious fliers. With stunning visuals & energetic, impactful design, readers won`t stop until they`ve learned everything there is to know about birds of prey. ...

Translated into English for the first time by Rober Chandler, Vasily Grossman’s Everything Flows is a fearless epic from one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin’s death, he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. Grossman tells the stories of those people entwined with Ivan’s fate: his cousin Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, Pinegin, the informer who had Ivan sent to the camps & Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan’s lover, who tells of her involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932–3. ...

In the aching cold where night bumps into day, Hold hears noises that indicate he isn't alone. Out at the edge of his nets a rudderless dinghy is thumping against the rocks, prey to the ebbing tide. What he finds there changes everything. Grzegorz works hard, no time for rest, just work, more work & little thanks. All he needs is a hand up, one break, one chance. When it comes, with no apparent strings attached, what can he do but take it? The Big Man knows only one kind of life, but it's leaving him behind & he's struggling to keep up, longing for the days when all you needed were a code of honour & a reputation. One random technical hitch later & all three men are set on a journey that none could have foreseen, none can halt & which ends as abruptly as it began
- A startlingly realistic portrait of ordinary lives taken to extremes by the acclaimed author of The Long Dry.
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***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER***`A wonderful writer, who will surely inspire a generation the way that Caitlin Moran did before her` Julie Burchill`I loved it so much, I wanted it to go on forever, Dolly Alderton is so gifted at making people care. A rare talent` Marian Keyes`I can say with absolute certainty that you have to add it to your 2018 book list` The Pool When it comes to the trials & triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist & former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen & tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you`ve ever been able to rely on, & finding that that your mates are always there at the end of every messy night out. It`s a book about bad dates, good friends &
- above all else
- about recognising that you & you alone are enough. Glittering with wit & insight, heart & humour, Dolly Alderton`s powerful debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, & other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age
- while making you laugh until you fall over. Everything I know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its grubby, hopeful uncertainty.A spot-on, wildly funny & sometimes heart-breaking book about growing up, growing older & navigating all kinds of love along the way Praise for Everything I Know About Love` With courageous honesty, Alderton documents her life up to now, the highs & the lows
- the sex, the drugs, the nightmare landlords, the heartaches & the humiliations. Deeply funny, sometimes shocking, & admirably open-hearted & optimistic. Only this writer, in this time, could have made such a mesmerising pattern from mess & colour. A brilliant debut.` Daily Telegraph` It`s so full of life & laughs
- I gobbled up this book. Alderton has built something beautiful & true out of many fragments of daftness` Amy Liptrot I loved its truth, its self awareness, humour & most of all, its heart-spilling generosity. Just when you think it`s going one (wonderful) way, it takes you somewhere infinitely more rugged, complicated & all the more affectingly tender. A joy. In short, it`s a stone cold classic` Sophie Dahl




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On 2 May 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. The cyclone wreaked untold havoc, but the regime, in an unfathomable decision of near-genocidal proportions, blocked international aid from entering the country, & provided little relief themselves. Emma Larkin, who has been travelling to & secretly reporting on Burma for years, managed to arrange for a tourist visa in those frenzied days & arrived to chaos. Hundreds of thousands of Burmese citizens lacked food, drinking water & basic shelter. In Everything is Broken, Larkin not only exposes the extent of the damage, but provides a singular portrait of the generals responsible for compounding the tragedy, examining in revealing detail the historical, religious & superstitious setting that created Burma`s tenacious & brutal dictatorship. ...

Keri Smith`s Everything is Connected is not just a book of postcards. It`s a series of experiments designed to shake us out of our ruts. Through the ingenious use of the common postcard, Keri Smith encourages us to embark on a quest to reanimate everyday life. No matter how hard we try, everyday life always becomes predictable. From the toothpaste we use & the clothing we wear, to the way we talk & what we do in our free time, we follow the same habits, most likely because someone told us to, or we never really gave it much thought to begin with. But what if we could shape our lives into our own vision, informed with our own desires & passions? What if we had the power to create our own realities whenever we wished
- just by changing the way we perform simple tasks? Keri Smith is a bestselling author, illustrator, & thinker. Her books demonstrate a `learn by doing` approach, & are being used in school curriculums all over the world as a way of fostering non-traditional methods of creative exploration. She also teaches & conducts workshops based on her techniques throughout North America. Her works include Wreck this Journal, This is Not A Book, How to Be an Explorer of the World, Mess & Finish This Book, as well as Wreck This App & This is Not an App.
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