How do you become an explorer? It`s a question every child has asked. &, Steve Backshall was no different. But after a rainy-day visit to an exhibition of artefacts from Papua New Guinea, it was a question that began to obsess the seven-year old Backshall. Due to this childhood interest, the vast, untamed wildness of Papua New Guinea was where Backshall forged his unlikely path. From crushing lows of early failures to the extraordinary highs of the BBC`s Lost Land of the Volcano expedition, it was this dark island which gave Backshall his opportunity. Full of incredible wildlife, extraordinary wilderness, jungles, cannibals, pitfalls, triumph, danger & excitement, Looking for Adventure is the irresistible, inspiring story of a little boy who let his heart rule his head. ...

The unmissable first novel from bestselling & award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. ” If people were rain, I was drizzle & she was a hurricane.” Miles Halter`s whole life has been one big non-event, until he meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous, clever & undoubtedly screwed-up, Alaska draws Miles into her reckless world & irrevocably steals his heart. For Miles, nothing can ever be the same again. ` Looking for Alaska` brilliantly captures the exquisite painful joy of living & loving. Poignant, funny, heartbreaking & compelling, this novel will stay with you forever. ...

Chrissie Docherty returns to the southern Africa of her childhood & tracks down Evelyn Fielding, the woman at the centre of an explosive scandal involving a traditional colonial officer & a gifted black African artist. Together, the two women uncover the secrets that shattered a remote expatriate outpost in the Zambian bush in the 1970s. Switching deftly between today & the recent past, & set against a background of tense post-colonial race relations, political turmoil & witchcraft, ` Looking for Evelyn` powerfully evokes the very special colours, sounds & smells of Africa. ...

The rewards you can reap from exploring this amazing planet are incalculable. Every year, more & more of us are discovering the joy, the excitement, the sheer sense of adventure in roaming the world. But travelling, particularly to the more remote & volatile corners of the globe, can be a dangerous business. If you don`t prepare properly
- by looking for potential hazards (or ”lemons”) & learning how best to deal with them
- you may wish you`d never started out. Looking for Lemons is a unique new travel guide & essential reading for anyone planning an overseas trip, whether on business, as a tourist or a gap-year traveller. If you want no-nonsense, easy-to-follow, practical advice on how to recognise the warning signs, how to prevent problems, & how to cope with emergencies (should they occur), this is the book for you.

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In the process of decommunisation, Ukraine has toppled all its Lenin monuments. The authors have hunted down & photographed these banned Soviet statues, revealing their inglorious fate. As Russia celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, Ukraine struggles to achieve complete decommunization. Perhaps the most dramatic demonstration of this process is the phenomenon of Leninopad (Lenin-fall)—the toppling of Lenin statues. In 2015 the Ukrainian parliament passed legislation banning these monuments as symbols of the obsolete Soviet regime. From an original population of 5500 in 1991, today not a single Lenin statue remains standing in Ukraine. Photographer Niels Ackermann & journalist Sébastien Gobert, both based in Kyiv, have scoured the country in search of the remains of these toppled figures. They found them in the most unlikely of places: Lenin inhabits gardens, scrap yards & store rooms. He has fallen on hard times—cut into pieces; daubed with paint in the colors of the Ukrainian flag; transformed into a Cossack or Darth Vader—but despite these attempts to reduce their status, the statues retain a sinister quality, resisting all efforts to separate them from their history. These compelling images are combined with witness testimonies to form a unique insight, revealing how Ukrainians perceive their country, & how they are grappling with the legacy of their Soviet past to conceive a new vision of the future. ...

Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in Engl&, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria
- a country she viewed as an annoying
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How can tomorrow ever be as good as today? Afraid of tomorrow, a little boy puts all his scientific knowledge to use in an attempt to turn back time & stay in the wonderful past. Luckily, his grandfather discovers him exploring the wormholes in the garden, trying to find a way back
- & by showing him the photos of some of his wonderful past experiences, reassures the boy that there is plenty to look forward to & that every day gives the chance for a new adventure. Nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2018.
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” Looking Up in Edinburgh” is a photographic guide to what is usually an ignored aspect of the urban landscape: the surprising, witty & often hidden architectural features above eye-level. It is an interactive book, which combines a treasure hunt with a travel guide. The introduction gives a light-hearted potted history of Edinburgh. Following this, the book presents a host of architectural gems each covered by an original full-colour photograph, brief quirky anecdotes about its story, cryptic clues to its location, & historical information about the building in the photograph or the immediate area. All buildings are presented on easy to follow maps, making this book ideal as a walking guide or treasure hunt. This is the first book to introduce readers to a fascinating dimension of Edinburgh`s townscape that they might otherwise never have seen. It offers a compendium of stunning photographs & fascinating facts relating to one of the world`s most beautiful cities (which welcomes over 4 million visitors each year!). It combines a tour guide with a treasure hunt. It will appeal to Edinburgh`s residents & visitors alike. It follows hot on the heels of ” Looking up in London”. Praise for ” Looking up in London”: ` Full of fascinating facts & intriguing images, it`s sure to appeal to all explorers of the city, leaving the rest scurrying along the streets looking straight ahead`
- ” What`s on in London”.` Any resident or visitor to the Big Smoke could benefit from this intriguing pocket-sized book...go on, hold your head up high!`
- ”OK! Magazine”. `...a small jewel of a book that will guide you to the best high-up hotspots...`
- ” Time Out”. ` This interesting book will no doubt start a new hobby for many readers...I found the book very entertaining & can recommend it to anyone interested in architecture or the history of London`
- ” Building Design”. `A compendium of stunning photographs & fascinating facts, it will appeal to all explorers of the city who appreciate their surroundings
- visitors & residents alike`
- ” This is London”.





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Alice nearly didn`t go to the sleepover. Why would Savvy, queen of the school, invite someone like her? Now Alice is lying unconscious in a hospital bed. Lost in a wonderland of dreams & half-formed memories, she`s surrounded by voices
- the doctor, her worried friends & Luke
- whose kisses the night of the fall took her by surprise... When the accident happened her world vanished
- can Alice ever find her way back? It is a wonderful modern-day reimagining of Lewis Carroll`s timeless classic, an unforgettable tale of friendship & love from one of the UK`s best-loved authors.


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Welcome to London’s best bogs. Get behind closed doors all over the city, from the fancy facilities at The Shard, to the oldest pub toilets in Covent Garden, enter the most secret room in the Cabinet War Rooms, or spend a penny onboard HMS Belfast. Capital toilet humour. ...