Award-winning reporter Emily Dugan`s Finding Home follows the tumultuous lives of a group of immigrants, all facing intense challenges in their quest to live in the UK. Syrian refugee Emad set up the Free Syrian League & worked illegally in the UK to pay for his mother to be smuggled across the Mediterranean on a perilous trip from Turkey. Even if she survives the journey, Emad knows it will be an uphill struggle to get her into Britain. Australian therapist Harley risks deportation despite serving the NHS for ten years & being told by the Home Office she could stay. Teaching assistant Klaudia is one of thousands of Polish people now living in Boston, Lincolnshire
- a microcosm of poorly managed migration. Aderonke, a leading Manchester LGBT activist, lives in a tiny B&B room in Salford with her girlfriend, Happiness, & faces deportation & persecution. Dugan`s timely & acutely observed book reveals the intense personal dramas of ordinary men & women as they struggle to find somewhere to call home. It shows that migration is not about numbers, votes or opinions: it is about people.
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God may move in a mysterious way, but his son is a real devil to track down. Seek & ye shall find Jesus in a multitude of unexpected places
- crowded rock concerts, bustling supermarkets & packed weddings, to name but a few. It might take a miracle, but the clear-sighted can spot him if they keep the faith. Readers of all ages will be in raptures with this eternally enjoyable gift book that your neighbour is sure to covet!
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Never lose the thrill of trying something for the first time. Fifty years ago, Sir Richard Branson started his first business. In his new autobiography, Finding My Virginity, the Virgin Founder shares his personal, intimate thoughts on five decades as the world`s ultimate entrepreneur. Following on from where bestselling Losing My Virginity left off at the dawn of the new millennium, Finding My Virginity reveals how Branson created 12 different billion dollar businesses & hundreds more companies across dozens of sectors, whilst breaking world records on l&, sea & air. It takes us behind the scenes as Sir Richard Branson creates the world`s first commercial spaceline, Virgin Galactic, & handles the biggest crisis he has ever faced. Join Sir Richard as he juggles working life with raising his children Holly & Sam, building a marriage with his wife Joan & creating a unique company culture. Discover how he created a new life on Necker Isl&, while continuing to grow the Virgin brand into all corners of the world. Get the real story behind adventures & run-ins with everyone from Bill Gates & Kate Moss to Nelson Mandela & Barack Obama. This is the true account of how the Virgin Founder reinvented himself & his brand for the 21st century, while continuing to push boundaries, break rules & reach for the stars in more ways than one. This is the story of the man behind the beard, the business, the bravado & the br&. Find out how the ultimate entrepreneur did it for the first time
- all over again.
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` The boat appeared when I didn`t expect or, frankly, need her. My bucket list was empty. Life was full... But sailing towards me was a boat that would stir the waters, waking decades of loss, revealing history untold, & restoring a legacy that was lost in the wind. For her & for me, I had to wade into that water. I had to go, to search, to find.` This is a love story
- about a woman & a boat. Having fallen hopelessly in love with a 1930s Danish spidsgatter, a beautifully constructed 25 ft wooden double-ender, Kaci embarks on an international search to unravel the mystery of the boat`s past, & discovers the many lives Pax touched since she first hit the water in 1936. Kaci Cronkhite`s seven year search for Pax`s history is an elegant little gem, taking the reader aboard not only for sublime, wind-filled sails but also to eavesdrop the conversations & relationships that are built as she learns more about Pax`s past, whilst hugely enjoying her present. Finding Pax is a story of discovery & reconnection like no other. The writing is poetic, spare, & full of wisdom: ` In sailing, in weather, in life & death, answers are not endings & questions are not to be feared. The unknowns keep us moving forward.` Kaci originally published the story of her & Pax in a limited number of bespoke editions, but they proved so popular, reaching readers she never expected to reach, & provoking unexpected questions from those who wanted to find out more, that she revised & expanded the book for this new international edition.
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Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany & the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly`s great grandmother & her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that took them, & many thousands like them, on a journey stretching from Siberia to Pakistan, & beyond. Their male relatives endured a parallel journey; arrested, exiled, & held as prisoners of war. Countless numbers were summarily executed by the Red Army. They saw the steppe, they were put to work in labour camps, they built sections of the trans-Siberian railway, they cleared forests, they toiled on collective farms. They knew hunger, exhaustion, disease & death. Persecuted by the Soviet Union, Poland was to become its unexpected ally following the German invasion in 1941. A new Polish army, ` The Anders Army` was assembled in Palestine. For a brief moment, in Kazakhstan, families were reunited, before being evacuated; to India, to Britain, to Mexico & East Africa; & from there, across the world. The experiences of these Poles had consequences far reaching & enduring, both to Pol&, to Polish identity, & to the families that survived; reverberating through generations. These incredible stories remain largely untold. In ” Finding Poland” Matthew Kelly embarks on a journey through his ancestor`s footsteps, travelling through places they lived, & landscapes they survived, to provide an account of these extraordinary people & their unique history. Part memoir, history & travel book, it is also a profound meditation on the experience of displacement & exile, of the impact of such seismic disruption, & the deep legacies such trauma bequeaths. ...

The heart of the book presents detailed information on specific parks, trails, riverbanks, marshes, & other natural areas where wildflowers thrive. Detailed maps of the locations & directions show readers how to get to each site. A final section lists some 450 wildflower species found in the region, noting each flower`s blooming period, its preferred habitat, the locations where it can be found, & whether it is common, uncommon, or rare. ...

It`s surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie has an eye & an ease with the nature & landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In ” Findings” she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary writer. Whether she is following the call of a peregrine in the hills above her home in Fife, sailing into a dark winter solstice on the Orkney islands, or pacing around the carcass of a whale on a rain-swept Hebridean beach, she creates a subtle & modern narrative, peculiarly alive to her connections & surroundings. ...

This is a guide to the ultimate dining experience in restaurants throughout Great Britain & a comprehensive guide to the very best restaurants in Britain, rated & reviewed by professional AA inspectors. The restaurant quality ranges from 3 to 5 rosettes & each entry provides an in-depth review of the food, the style & the atmosphere. Using the finest ingredients with flair & originality, all of the restaurants included offer the ultimate dining experience. Illustrated with stunning food photography, Fine Dining is the perfect guide to finding that special restaurant with perfectly balanced menus, fine wine & service to match. ...

For gardeners & beginners alike, this is the perfect guide & reference for adding appeal & dazzle to any garden. Planting or improving beds & borders is a simple, low-cost way to enhance a home`s landscape. A collection of the most popular design ideas, planting solutions & quick front & backyard fixes that the editors of ” Fine Gardening” have to offer. ” Fine Gardening Beds & Borders” offers easy planting solutions for creating gardens that add colour & texture, help zone a property & offer maximum impact for minimum investment of time & money. Whether the goal is as ambitious as a front yard makeover or as simple as a little spruce-up in one area, ” Beds & Borders” is packed with eye-catching garden designs, advice on choosing the best plants & strategies for keeping plants healthy & lush all season long. ...

` Fine Just The Way It Is` marks Annie Proulx`s return to the Wyoming of ` Brokeback Mountain` & the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries, & capture the voices & lives of the settlers this sagebrushed & weatherworn country has known, from the native Indian tribes to the modern day ranch owners & politicians, & their cowboy forebears. In `A Family Man`, an old man nearing the end of his life unburdens himself of the weighty family secrets that were his father`s unwelcome legacy. ` Them Old Cowboy Songs` follows Archie & Rosie, a young pioneer couple, & their hardships in their attempt to homestead in the exposed wintry expanses of the prairie, & ` Testimony of the Donkey` finds a young international couple, Marc & Caitlin, struggling with much more modern concerns, & confronting uncertainty as their relationship comes to its end. These are stories of desperation & hard times, often marked by an inescapable sadness, set in a landscape both brutal & magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, & details of ranch & rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming`s traditional character & attitudes -- confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty -- with the more benign values of the new west. These are bold, elegant & memorable pieces, & once more confirm Annie Proulx as one of the most talented, unique short story writers in the language. ...