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. ...

John Barlow, a self-confessed glutton, finds himself in a meat-lover`s dream in northern Spain. Galicia, the misty-green north-west corner, reveres & consumes every part of the pig. This starts Barlow thinking about the nature of our relationship with food
- what`s delicious, what`s nasty & what sort of obligation we have to the animals we eat. Over the course of one glorious, bilious year, Barlow tries the patience of his vegetarian wife as he goes the whole hog & vows to eat everything but the squeal, from cocido in a cantina to a chorizo feast at Carnival, from ribs to roast ham, all washed down with local wine
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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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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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Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez`s enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations from each individual character in the picture, as well as his own memories of & relationship to this extraordinary work. From Jacobs` first trip to Spain, to the complex politics of Golden Age Madrid, to his meeting with the man who saved Las Meninas during the Spanish Civil war, via Jacobs` experiences of the sunless world of the art history academy, Jacobs` dissolves the barriers between the past & the present, the real & the illusory. Cut short by Jacobs` death in 2014, & completed with an introduction & coda of great sensitivity & insight by his friend & fellow lover of art, the journalist Ed Vulliamy, this visionary, meditative & often very funny book is a passionate, personal manifesto for the liberation of how we look at painting. ...

Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez`s enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations from each individual character in the picture, as well as his own memories of & relationship to this extraordinary work. From Jacobs` first trip to Spain to the complex politics of Golden Age Madrid, to his meeting with the man who saved Las Meninas during the Spanish Civil war, via Jacobs` experiences of the sunless world of the art history academy, Jacobs` dissolves the barriers between the past & the present, the real & the illusory. Cut short by Jacobs` death in 2014, & completed with an introduction & coda of great sensitivity & insight by his friend & fellow lover of art, the journalist Ed Vulliamy, this visionary, meditative & often very funny book is a passionate, personal manifesto for the liberation of how we look at painting. ...

Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Spending summers in the brutal heat of coastal New South Wales, she fell for the creatures. Their teeth, their skin, their eyes; their hunters & their victims. Everything is Teeth is a delicate & intimate collection of the memories she brought home to Engl&, a book about family, love & the irresistible forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point. ...

Just like it was taken for granted that houses could be abandoned & slowly decay, so it was taken for granted that people died in prisons, & that it was possible that no-one would really ever know the cause of death. This is the nature of totalitarianism. In 1993-94 Sigrid Rausing completed her anthropological fieldwork on the peninsula of Noarootsi, a former Soviet border protection zone in Estonia. Abandoned watch towers dotted the coast line, & the huge fields of the Lenin collective farm were lying fallow, waiting for claims from former owners, fleeing war & Soviet & Nazi occupation. Rausing`s conversations with the local people touched on many subjects: the economic privations of post-Soviet existence, the bewildering influx of western products, & the Swedish background of many of them. In Everything Is Wonderful Rausing reflects on history, political repression, & the story of the minority Swedes in the area. She lived & worked amongst the villagers, witnessing their transition from repression to freedom, & from Soviet neglect to post-Soviet austerity. ...