Winner of the Hayes & Jarvis Fiction, with a Sense of Place at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2018” What you could change & alter could never be finished or complete or dead. This is what I had been told back then, & what I had tried very hard to believe in since.” Beside a lake in the northern Canadian wilderness, fifteen year old Zachary Tayler lives a lonely & isolated life with his father. His only neighbours are a leech trapper, an eccentric millionaire, & an expert in snow. But then one summer the enigmatic & shape-shifting Eva Spiller arrives in search of the remains of her parents & together they embark on a strange & disconcerting journey of discovery. Nothing at Sitting Down Lake is quite as it seems. The forest hides ruins & mysteries; the past can never be fully understood. & as Zach & Eva make their way through this haunted landscape, they move ever closer towards an acceptance of what in the end is lost & what can truly be found. ...

Winner of the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place. Beside a lake in the northern Canadian wilderness, fifteen-year-old Zachary Tayler lives a lonely & isolated life with his father. His only neighbours are a leech trapper, an eccentric millionaire, & an expert in snow. But then one summer the enigmatic & shape-shifting Eva Spiller arrives in search of the remains of her parents & together they embark on a strange & disconcerting journey of discovery. Nothing at Sitting Down Lake is quite as it seems. The forest hides ruins & mysteries; the past can never be fully understood. & as Zach & Eva make their way through this haunted landscape, they move ever closer towards an acceptance of what in the end is lost & what can truly be found. In his fourth novel, award-winning author Tristan Hughes returns to the landscape of his youth in this vivid & poetic coming-of-age story about death, life, & the changes they bring. Set against the harsh, unforgiving beauty of the forests of northern Ontario, Hummingbird unravels a moving tale of loss, absence & redemption. ...

Like dazzling jewels, hummingbirds tirelessly dart among flowers, probing for nectar with their needlelike bills. They are poetry in motion, their purring wings tracing a perpetual figure eight. Now you can marvel at a year of their delicate beauty, iridescent feathers, animated energy & extraordinary diversity. Watch them work & play, shimmer & flash in the sky with their stained-glass radiance. In HUMMINGBIRDS 2013, world-renowned nature photographers Michael & Patricia Fogden celebrate these tiny, alluring creatures. Informative captions shed further light on the secret & very busy lives of hummingbirds. ...

Hummingbirds have always held popular appeal, with their visual brilliance, extraordinary flight dexterity & jewel-like size & colour. Only recently has their serious scientific study started to gain the attention it demands. With the increasing interest in biodiversity, they are a subject growing in significance with every new species discovery made. Hummingbirds presents every species, with over 300 birds shown in dazzling, life-size, cut-out photography. ...

This is a beautifully produced collection of stories written & illustrated by Radiohead`s celebrated cover artist. Welcome to Stanley Donwood`s fictional universe: a landscape of dark streets & high-rise concrete, creeping shadows & shifting perspectives; its citizens forever caught between boredom & paranoia, alive to the threat of menacing machines & Aliens from Outer Space. Here disappearances (people, things) are everyday. Relationships are unstable. Nature has turned unnatural. Unsettling dreams segue into waking nightmares. In Humor, Stanley Donwood reveals himself as a contemporary master of the micro-narrative, riffing on the four humors of the human body
- sanguine, phlegm, choler & melancholy
- to rummage beneath the veneer of sanity that passes for civilised society. Apocalyptic, funny & hallucinogenic in their intensity, these stories present a series of brief, haunting episodes in a world drained of meaning, sense & consequence.

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Founded in 1982 by Mr Peng, Hunan is a legendary London restaurant which attracts customers from all over the world. At Hunan, diners don`t choose
- they simply say what they don`t eat & how spicy they like their food. Mr Peng then does the rest, serving up small portions with the emphasis on sharing many courses. The orders are h&-written & are sent down to the kitchen by a chute & the food travels up in a dumb waiter. Mr Peng is a firm believer in simplicity. Hunan is a landmark book that captures the essence of a unique menu from a unique character. Among the 70 must-have recipes are Mr Peng`s `absurdly delicious` prawn dumplings, lettuce wraps filled with diced chicken, `which you just pop into your mouth & scrunch` & mouth-melting double-cooked pork. As Mr Peng says: `I often say to people I`ve only just met: I`m a very strange person. & then I have to explain: food is my life. Despite being close to 70 I`m still in the kitchen at Hunan, on the floor almost every day doing prep, working the wok & talking to guests, most of whom have been regulars for years. The food is the only thing which has changed, & which changes almost daily. It is really about bringing out the most in the ingredients. Subtle blends of chilli & Sichuan peppercorns push enormous pearly scallops to the edge while the gentle salty miso cuts through the tenderest slivers of corn-fed chicken. It is possible because the ingredients I use are fresh & of faultless quality.
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Nick Lloyd`s Hundred Days: The End of the Great War explores the brutal, heroic & extraordinary final days of the First World War. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent. The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an end, marked a seminal moment in modern European & World history. Yet the story of how the war ended remains little-known. In this compelling & ground-breaking new study, Nick Lloyd examines the last days of the war & asks the question: How did it end? Beginning at the heralded turning-point on the Marne in July 1918, Hundred Days traces the epic story of the next four months, which included some of the bloodiest battles of the war. Using unpublished archive material from five countries, this new account reveals how the Allies
- British, French, American & Commonwealth
- managed to beat the German Army, by now crippled by indiscipline & ravaged by influenza, & force her leaders to seek peace. Nick Lloyd is Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at King`s College London, based at the Joint Services Command & Staff College in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire. He specialises in British military & imperial history in the era of the Great War & is the author of two books, Loos 1915 (2006), & The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day (2011).

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Nick Lloyd`s Hundred Days: The End of the Great War explores the brutal, heroic & extraordinary final days of the First World War. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent. The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an end, marked a seminal moment in modern European & World history. Yet the story of how the war ended remains little-known. In this compelling & ground-breaking new study, Nick Lloyd examines the last days of the war & asks the question: how did it end? Beginning at the heralded turning-point on the Marne in July 1918, Hundred Days traces the epic story of the next four months, which included some of the bloodiest battles of the war. Using unpublished archive material from five countries, this new account reveals how the Allies
- British, French, American & Commonwealth
- managed to beat the German Army, by now crippled by indiscipline & ravaged by influenza, & force her leaders to seek peace. ” This is a powerful & moving book by a rising military historian. Lloyd`s depiction of the great battles of July-November provides compelling evidence of the scale of the Allies` victories & the bitter reality of German defeat”. (Gary Sheffield (Professor of War Studies)). ” Lloyd enters the upper tier of Great War historians with this admirable account of the war`s final campaign”. (Publishers Weekly). Nick Lloyd is Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at King`s College London, based at the Joint Services Command & Staff College in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire. He specialises in British military & imperial history in the era of the Great War & is the author of two books, Loos 1915 (2006), & The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day (2011).

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The Papyrus of Hunefer is one of the most beautiful & famous items in the British Museums Egyptian collections, illustrated with detailed coloured paintings of the highest quality. Hunefer (his name means Mr Happy Day) was an official of high rank. The papyrus was buried with him & contains his personal selection of spells from what we now call the ” Book of the Dead”. He expected the papyrus to help him to reach a happy eternal life, in which he could continue to enjoy the many pleasures of the living world without any of its sorrows or troubles. Hunefers papyrus

Includes:: lovely, detailed images of various important stages or rites on the way, including the opening of the mouth ceremony outside the tomb, in which priests carry out rites to give the mummy back its human senses, & the weighing of the heart in which the gods put Hunefers heart is on the scales with the feather of truth to show if he had been a good person in life. This book follows Hunefer on his magical journey &, in a very simple, accessible & visual way, demonstrates Ancient Egyptian beliefs about religion, life & death.

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Take a gruesome trip through time with this grisly compendium of death! From the best way to shrink a head to making a mummy in eight simple steps, & with fascinating facts about botched beheadings, greedy royals & the plague, Hung, Drawn & Quartered looks at the most gruesome facts from the past. ...