Colm Toibin’s Homage to Barcelona celebrates the cosmopolitan hub, vibrant architecture, art scene, culture & nightlife of the Spanish city. Written with knowledge & affection, the book moves from the story of Barcelona’s founding & its huge expansion in the nineteenth century to the lives of Gaudí, Miró, Picasso, Casals & Dalí. It also explores the history of Catalan nationalism, the tragedy of the Civil War, the Franco years & the transition from dictatorship to democracy which Colm Tóibín witnessed in the 1970s. ...

` Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism & for democratic Socialism as I understand it`. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in ” Homage to Catalonia”. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion & clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes & cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona, the courage of ordinary Spanish men & women he fought alongside, the terror & confusion of the front, his near-fatal bullet wound & the vicious treachery of his supposed allies. Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author & journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent & influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory ” Animal Farm” was published in 1945, & it was this novel, together with the dystopia of ” Nineteen Eighty-Four” (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. All his novels & non-fiction, including ” Burmese Days” (1934), ” Down & Out in Paris & London” (1933), ” The Road to Wigan Pier” (1937) & ” Homage to Catalonia” (1938) are published in ” Penguin Modern Classics”. If you enjoyed ” Homage to Catalonia”, you might like Orwell`s ” The Road to Wigan Pier”, also available in ” Penguin Modern Classics”. ” An unrivalled picture of the rumours, suspicions & treachery of the civil war”. (Anthony Beevor, author of ”D-Day”). ”A war story that is both brutally honest & lyrically beautiful”. (Michael Shelden, ” Daily Telegraph”, Books of the Century). ...

When their traditional business
- selling saris
- is increasingly sidelined by the new fashion for jeans & stitched salwar kameez,

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Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled & delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson`s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes HOME, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period & same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jack`s story. Jack
- prodigal son of the Boughton family, godson & namesake of John Ames, gone twenty years
- has come home looking for refuge & to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble & pain. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings & with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton`s most beloved child. His sister Glory has also returned to Gilead, fleeing her own mistakes, to care for their dying father. Brilliant, loveable, wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory & engages painfully with his father & his father`s old friend John Ames.

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From the author of ” Earth From the Air” comes a moving & beautifully photographed new book. ” Home”, scheduled to release in conjunction with a film of the same name, is a globe-spanning exploration of the planet, complete with Yann Arthus-Bertrand`s unforgettable images & an informative text by the team at Good Planet, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable development. ” Home” is a celebration of Earth`s beauty & an impassioned call to protect it from destruction. Voyaging through over 50 countries, the book covers topics relevant to the environment`s current condition & factors which will play a role in determining its future: Earth, Agriculture, Cities, Oil, Global Warming, Sea, Water, Forest & Humanism. Compelling & consistently optimistic, the book focuses on practical solutions for today`s environmental challenges. As Arthus-Bertrand says, ` It isn`t the 50 per cent of forest that has disappeared that`s important, but the 50 per cent that`s left`. With vocal support from Luc Besson, who produced the film, ” Home” will have tremendous impact on readers & viewers alike. ...

Home might be a house in the country, a flat in the city, or even a shoe. Home resides on the road or the sea, in the realm of myth, or in the space where the artist created this book. A soulful meditation on the concept of home & a visual treat that invites many return visits, this loving look at the places where people live marks the picture-book debut of Carson Ellis, famed illustrator of the Wildwood series & artist for the indie folk-rock band The Decemberists. ...

The picture book debut of Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of the Wildwood series & Lemony Snicket`s The Composer is Dead, this is a gorgeous, imaginative celebration of the many possibilities of home. Home might be a house in the country, a flat in the city, or even a shoe. There are clean homes, messy homes, sea homes & bee homes. Home resides on the road or the sea, in the realm of myth, or in the artist`s own studio. This loving look at the places where people live brims with intriguing characters & is a visual treat that demands many a return visit. ...

WINNER OF THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE 2011 In Home Boy, H. M. Navqi`s superb debut novel, we Meet the Metrostanis: ...

Four friends decide to run away from the horror of their everyday lives in a children`s home in the English countryside. They head for the woods, their sense of freedom surprises them, & for the first time they feel the exhilaration of adolescence. Yet the forest slowly asserts its own power & what happens there will affect the four boys` lives forever. With his trademark humour, compelling narrative directness, & rhythmic prose, Alex Wheatle here shows himself to be an author of real calibre, exposing the social stigma associated with children`s homes, & the psychological consequences of their impact on sensitive children. Never losing pace or failing to engage the reader at every moment, ` Home Boys` is an unflinchingly honest depiction of childhood. ...

TV chef Lorraine Pascale, author of the phenomenal bestseller Baking Made Easy, is back with her second cookery book
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