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. ...

In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length & breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, & later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable achievement was not surviving three armed robberies or the thous&-mile trail, but the gradual growth of affection for & understanding of another race. ...

Geert Mak spent the year 1999 in Europe criss-crossing the continent, tracing its history from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence & witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. The result is mesmerising: Mak`s rare double talent as a sharp-eyed journalist & a hugely imaginative historian makes ” In Europe” a dazzling account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports & memoirs, & the voices of prominent figures & unknown players; from the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adriana Warno in Pol&, with her holiday job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau. But Mak is above all an observer. He describes what he sees at places that have become Europe`s well-springs of memory, where history is written into the landscape. At Ypres he hears the blast of munitions from the Great War that are still detonated twice a day. In Warsaw he finds the point where the tram rails that led to the Jewish ghetto come to a dead end in a city park. And in an abandoned creche near Chernobyl, where tiny pairs of shoes still stand in neat rows, he is transported back to the moment time stood still in the dying days of the Soviet Union. Mak combines the larger story of twentieth-century Europe with details that suddenly give it a face, a taste & a smell. His unique approach makes the reader an eyewitness to his own half-forgotten past, full of unknown peculiarities, sudden insights & touching encounters. ” In Europe” is a masterpiece; it reads like the epic novel of the continent`s most extraordinary century. ...

‘ It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, & that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.’ MARIE COLVIN, 2001`A stunningly good biography` WILLIAM BOYDMarie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled & rackety personal life. She reported from the most dangerous places in the world, going in further & staying longer than anyone else. Like her hero, the legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn, she sought to bear witness to the horrifying truths of war, to write ‘the first draft of history’ & to shine a light on the suffering of ordinary people. Marie covered the major conflicts of our time: Israel & Palestine, Chechnya, East Timor, Sri Lanka – where she was hit by a grenade & lost sight in her left eye, resulting in her trademark eye-patch – Iraq & Afghanistan. Her anecdotes about encounters with dictators & presidents – including Colonel Gaddafi & Yasser Arafat, whom she knew well – were incomparable. She was much admired, & as famous for her wild parties as for the extraordinary lengths to which she went to tell the story, including being smuggled into Syria where she was killed in 2012. Written by fellow foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum, this is the story of the most daring war reporter of her time. Drawing on unpublished diaries & interviews with Marie`s friends, family & colleagues, Hilsum conjures a fiercely compassionate, complex woman who was driven to an extraordinary life & tragic death. In Extremis is the story of our turbulent age, & the life of a woman who defied convention. ...

The Inflight Essential Travel Kit is a collection of must-have travel items in vintage air travel inspired print packaging. The PVC bag with slide fastener contains:- 30ml Moisturising Hand Cream- Lip Balm- 1 Packet of 10 Mini Wipes- 1 Packet of 10 Tissues. ...

Travel the globe & find a fresh perspective with ` In Focus Cities’. This super-sized book delves into the cultural, social & historical identities of ten world-famous cities. Lift the giant flaps on every spread to find out more about the iconic cities on the map. ...

Stanfords Children`s Book of the Month July 2016 Ten illustrators place ten subjects under the microscope to uncover what lies beneath the surface. From famous landmarks to fruit & veg & from the natural world to everyday inventions, In Focus investigates a fresh perspective by looking at 10 wonders of the world from the outside, in. ...