In 1912, wearing a tweed three-piece suit & a flat cap, Carl Stearns Clancy undertook the longest, most difficult & most perilous journey ever attempted on a motorcycle. By June 1913 he had made history, becoming the first person ever to circumnavigate the globe on a motorbike. One hundred years on, bestselling author & motorcycle adventurer Geoff Hill recreates Clancy`s historic journey. Following the route taken by his illustrious predecessor, & with Clancy`s own account of his journey echoing in his head, Geoff rides down through Europe & north Africa, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China & Japan, all the way to America & Clancy`s hometown of San Francisco. Join Geoff on an epic motorbike adventure, as he relives Clancy`s grand tour, discovering first-hand how the world has changed since Clancy`s first motorbike journey over a century ago, & as he pays tribute to a motorcycling legend. ...

This travel text by a direct descendent of Clive of India retraces his ancestor's journeys around south-eastern India, interweaving a biography of Clive & the East India Company with accounts of the author's own adventures. Holt's plans often don't work out but his disasters reveal as much of India & Indians as his successes. Along the way he meets a faith-healing American Methodist minister, Bangladeshi refugees, taxi drivers, a bizarre array of fortune-tellers, museum curators, many local characters. He also visits a leper colony & is frank about the country's poverty, crowds, dirt, stench & corruption. ...

Controversial & compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife & both their children. Truman Capote`s comprehensive study of the killings & subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime & the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith & Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely & frighteningly human. The book that made Capote`s name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill & powerfully evocative narrative. ...

In ” Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder & its Consequences” is considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre. In this groundbreaking book, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family from information provided by newspaper articles & interviews. ` Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, ”a natural killer”
- absolutely sane, but conscienceless, & capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows`. On 15 November 1959, the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife & their two young children were found brutally murdered. Blood all over the walls, the telephone lines cut, & only a few dollars stolen. Heading up the investigation is Agent Al Dewey, but all he has are two footprints, four bodies, & a whole lot of questions. Truman Capote`s detailed reconstruction of the events & consequences of that fateful night, ” In Cold Blood” is a chilling, gripping mix of journalistic skill & imaginative power. ” The American dream turning into the American nightmare. A remarkable book”. (” Spectator”). ” One of the most stupendous books of the decade”. (” Sunday Express”). Truman Capote was one of the most significant American authors of the twentieth century, known for his highly acclaimed books, including: ” Breakfast at Tiffany`s”, ”A Tree of Night & Other Stories” & ” The Grass Harp”. In ” Cold Blood” & ” Breakfast at Tiffany`s” have been selected for the ” Penguin Essentials” series of books considered some of the twentieth century`s most important reads.
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In Court brings together stories written over a span of many years. Some stories draw on feelings of exile & homesickness in America, some on friendships with others from South Africa, some on events during visits back. On the surface, some deal only with Americans. All probe dislocation & imposed identity. They reach out to readers who feel out of place or recall being in place somewhere else. ...

What would dogs ask for, if they knew how? In the ” Sunday Times” bestseller ” In Defence of Dogs” John Bradshaw, an anthropologist at Bristol University who has been at the centre of the latest research into what makes dogs tick, gives us the answers. Overturning the most common myths about dogs` emotions & behaviour, this book shows how we should really treat our pets, & stands up for dogdom: not the wolf in canine clothes, not the small furry child, not the trophy-winner, but the real dog, who wants to be part of the family & enjoy life. ...

In this volume, English historian Richard Evans offers a defence of the importance of his craft. At a time of deep scepticism about our ability to learn anything from the past, even to recapture any serious sense of past cultures & ways of life, Evans shows us why history is both possible & necessary. His demolition of the wilder claims of post-modern historians, who deny the possibility of any realistic grasp of history, seeks to be witty & well-balanced. He takes us into the historians` workshop to show us just how good history gets written, & explains the deadly political dangers of losing a historical perspective on the way we live our lives. This new edition contains an extensive afterword by the author. ...

Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia, a pretty shop-girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming & forceful, & she takes his h&. They marry & soon have two children; for Natalia it is an awakening, both good & bad. When Joe decides to breed pigeons, the birds delight his son & daughter
- & infuriate his wife. Then the Spanish Civil War erupts, & lays waste to the city & to their simple existence. Natalia remains in Barcelona, struggling to feed her family, while Joe goes to fight the fascists, & one by one his beloved birds fly away. A highly acclaimed classic that has been translated into more than twenty languages, In Diamond Square is the moving, vivid & powerful story of a woman caught up in a convulsive period of history.
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In 2001, three year old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident. Not long thereafter Dina`s mother dies under mysterious circumstances, & Dina`s father Jonas is convicted of her murder. In 2016, the cold case ends up on the desk of Detective Henrik Holme, who tries to convince his mentor Hanne Wilhelmsen that the father might have been wrongly convicted. Holme & Wilhelmsen discover that the case could be connected to the suicide of an eccentric blogger as well as the kidnapping of the grandson of a Euro Jackpot millionaire. Don`t miss this unforgettable, explosive finale to Anne Holt`s bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen series. ...

Don Mc Cullin`s view of England is rooted in his wartime childhood & growing up around Finsbury Park in the fifties. His first published photograph was a picture of a gang from his neighbourhood, which appeared in a newspaper after a local murder; Mc Cullin always balanced his anger at the unacceptable face of the nation with tenderness or compassion.” In England” combines some of his greatest work with an entirely new body of photographs. Mc Cullin sees his home country with its perpetual social gulf between the affluent & the desperate in mind. He continues in the same black & white tradition as he did between foreign assignments for the ” Sunday Times” in the sixties & seventies, when his view of a deprived Britain seemed as dark as the conflict zones from which he`d just escaped. This book marks his return to the cities & landscape he knew as a young photographer. At a time when we might believe the world has changed beyond our imagination, Mc Cullin shows us a view of England where the line between the wealthy & the deprived is as defined as ever. This time he adds wry humour to his lyricism, as if the nation is as absurd as it is tragic. ...