Lorenzo Cuni is a fourteen-year-old loner. His wealthy parents think he is away on a school skiiing trip, but in fact he has stowed away in a forgotten cellar. He plans to live in perfect isolation, for a week, keeping the adult world at bay. Then a visit from his estranged half-sister, Olivia, changes everything. ...

Everybody needs somebody, sometimes... Lorenzo Cuni is a fourteen-year-old loner. His wealthy parents think he is away on a school skiing trip, but, in fact, he has stowed away in a forgotten cellar. He plans to live in perfect isolation for a week, keeping the adult world at bay. Then a visit from his estranged half-sister, Olivia, changes everything. ...

Humorous & heartbreaking debut novel with the fresh, funny, honest voice of a 14-year-old Geordie lad recounting the trials & tribulations of family life & finding first love. Danny`s mam has a new boyfriend. Initially, all is good
- Callum seems nice enough, & Danny can`t deny he`s got a nice set up; big house, fast car, massive TV, & Kim seems to really like him. But cracks begin to show, & they`re not the sort that can be easily repaired. As Danny witnesses Mam suffer & Callum spiral out of control he goes in search of his dad. The Dad he`s never met. Set between Newcastle & Edinburgh, this powerful coming-of-age drama tackles the issue of domestic violence head on but manages to find humour & hope in the most unlikely of places.
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Anyone that has read NAKED & BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including ` Me Talk Pretty One Day`, about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that `every day spent with you is like having a caesarean section`. His family is another inspiration. ` You Can`t Kill the Rooster` is a portrait of his brother, who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. & no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers of food & cashiers with six-inch fingernails. ...

This new title from Bradt tells the inspiring & emotional story of Ishbel Holmes, also known as World Bike Girl, a Scottish-Iranian woman who became a champion racing cyclist in spite of having been abandoned by her family, & who set off on the adventure of a lifetime despite her lack of experience, money or equipment. Ishbel Holmes was determined to cycle the world but her journey took a completely unexpected turn when, despite her initial instincts not to, she rescued a street dog in Turkey. Ishbel was lost & alone when she started on her epic trip, but in Lucy found a companionship never previously known. Between the two there formed a deep bond & their relationship was followed & supported by thousands of readers online, before becoming a media sensation overnight when Ishbel put out a plea for help to transport Lucy to an animal shelter three hundred miles away. This heart-rending tale is about more than just the relationship between a woman & her dog. It is a testimony to the human spirit, overcoming present-day challenges & churning up long-buried & painful memories from Ishbel s earlier life. It is also a tale of adventure, one person s determination to cross an unfamiliar country by bike & the unforgettable scenes that greet her on the Turkey-Syria border & into Syria itself. & it is a loving portrait of Lucy, the street dog that was determined not to let Ishbel go & whose dogged persistence helped to break down the barriers around her heart & in so doing change her life in ways she had never imagined. Ultimately, this is a tale of love & healing, a modern fable that touches the soul & reminds us all of the need to belong. ...

I tripped across the Charles Bridge just before first light, all alone apart from a sleepy pickpocket just clocking on for the morning shift, my heels clacking on the cobblestones, the early morning sky a beautiful deep blue. Armed only with a romantic soul & a pressing need to escape her overbearing family, Rachael Weiss heads for Prague in search of her Bohemian roots, with vague plans to write the next great Australian novel & perhaps, just perhaps, fall madly in love with an exotic Czech man with high cheekbones. They make it seem so easy, those other women who write of uprooting themselves from everything they know, crossing the world & forming effortless friendships with strangers, despite not understanding a word they say, while reinventing themselves in beautiful European cities. So it`s not surprising that Rachael is completely unprepared for the realities that confront her in her strange new world. Initially starry-eyed, she quickly has to grapple with perplexing plumbing, extraordinarily rude checkout chicks, & the near-incomprehensible Czech language. In this warm & witty tale of life in a foreign l&, Rachael, somewhat to her own surprise, finds herself gradually creating a second home in Prague, complete with an eccentric & unlikely tribe of extended family & friends; & realises along the way that while she`s been striving so hard to become someone else, she has inadvertently grown to rather like the person she has always been. Me, Myself & Prague is a sweet & surprising memoir of discovering hope, self, family & friendship, Czech-style. ...

This is a creative space for you to share with your friends or a loved one. Just flip to a random page & use the prompts to jot down whatever silly thoughts or sweet memories pop into your brain. Write fortune cookies to each other. Decide on your perfect theme song. Brainstorm ideas for your matching tattoos. You can fill out each page with a different friend, or complete the whole book with a special someone. & the best part? Not only will you have fun using your imaginations together, you`ll also end up with an amazing momento to look back on! ...

Meadowfield in 1897 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers a colliery area south-west of the Durham. Three collieries are shown, each with its coke ovens: Littleburn Colliery stands alongside the NER main line which runs down the eastern part of the map. A short spur leads to Brownhey Colliery. To the west the large Brandon Colliery, with A, B & C Pits, stands alongside the NER Bishop Auckland Branch. Part of the pit villages of Brandon Colliery & Littleburn are also shown (they continue north onto the Langley Moor map) & two small villages are shown complete: Meadowfield, on the main road with its St John`s church, & Browney Colliery village which had three chapels next to each other. On the reverse is the Brandon Parish entry from an 1894 directory. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Winner of the 2015 Thwaites Wainwright Prize. What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique & intimate account of an English meadow`s life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seasons from cowslips in spring to the hay-cutting of summer & grazing in autumn, &

Includes:: the biographies of the animals that inhabit the grass & the soil beneath: the badger clan, the fox family, the rabbit warren, the skylark brood & the curlew pair, among others. Their births, lives, & deaths are stories that thread through the book from first page to last.

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A collection of recipes to suit the relaxed nature of holidays interspersed with evocative stories of a life at a remote beach location away from the convenience of shops & markets. The recipes are pared down & adaptable, some with a seaside focus, such as those featuring several different ways to prepare crayfish, & they cover all seasons. The author outlines her beach food philosophy which

Includes:: improvising ingredients with whatever is to hand & simplifying recipes to work with less. A `waste not` approach to cooking is paramount where the nearest shops are an hour`s drive away. Combining nostalgia for the simple life with the skills of a trained Cordon Bleu chef this is a book to be savoured
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