Naomi Klein
- award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine & This Changes Everything, scourge
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` An ordinary person`s guide to hope. Read this book` Arundhati Roy` As accessible as it is brilliant` Owen Jones`A genuine page turner` Michelle Alexander Naomi Klein
- award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine & This Changes Everything, scourge of brand bullies & corporate liars
- gives us the toolkit we need to survive our surreal, shocking age.` This is a look at how we arrived at this surreal political moment, how to keep it from getting a lot worse, & how, if we keep our heads, we can flip the script.` Remember when love was supposed to Trump hate? Remember when the oil companies & bankers seemed to be running scared? What the hell happened? & what can we do about it? Naomi Klein shows us how we got here, & how we can make things better. No Is Not Enough reveals, among other things, that the disorientation we`re feeling is deliberate. That around the world, shock political tactics are being used to generate crisis after crisis, designed to force through policies that will destroy people, the environment, the economy & our security. That extremism isn`t a freak event
- it`s a toxic cocktail of our times. From how to trash the Trump megabrand to the art of reclaiming the populist argument, Naomi Klein shows all of us how we can break the spell & win the world we need. Don`t let them get away with it.` Who better than Naomi to make sense of this madness, & help us find a way out? A top-of-the-stack must read` Michael Stipe` Naomi Klein`s new book incites us brilliantly to interweave our No with a programmatic Yes. A manual for emancipation` Yanis Varoufakis` Magnificent.. . a courageous coruscating counterspell` Junot Díaz


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In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one Syrian family descends into tragedy & ruin. Irrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party, & finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation. She & her siblings & mother are slowly choked in violence & decay, as their lives are plundered by a brutal regime. Set between the 1960s & 2000s, No Knives in the Kitchens of this City unravels the systems of fear & control under Assad. With eloquence & startling honesty, it speaks of the persecution of a whole society. ...

The final part of his tremendous Africa Trilogy, No Longer at Ease sees Chinua Achebe once again display why he is one of the seminal African voices of our time. Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders & corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes that are offered to him, but when he falls in love with an unsuitable girl
- to the disapproval of his parents
- he sinks further into emotional & financial turmoil. The lure of easy money becomes harder to refuse, & Obi becomes caught in a trap he cannot escape. Showing a man lost in cultural limbo, & a Nigeria entering a new age of disillusionment, No Longer at Ease concludes Achebe`s remarkable trilogy charting three generations of an African community under the impact of colonialism, the first two volumes of which are Things Fall Apart & Arrow of God.

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Very impressive & truly international 551-page anthology of First World War literature with extracts from works by 47 writers from 20 different nations. All the famous names associated with WWI writing are there: Erich Maria Remarque, Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain or Jaroslav Ha ...

No Man`s Land tells the story of George Monbiot`s journeys among some of the tribal peoples of East Africa, showing how they are confronting the forces which threaten to deprive both them & us of the life that civilization has tried to suppress. In northern Kenya he saw how bandits, equipped by the corrupt governments of both Kenya itself & some of its neighbours, have been massacring the nomads, driving the survivors into famine zones where first the cattle then the humans die. Further south he watched the open savannahs on which the nomads rely being divided up & reduced by ploughing. But he also saw that the nomads of East Africa are finding ways to survive. All nomads are opportunists, & the adaptability, the cultural flexibility that opportunism demands means that they are possibly better equipped than any other of the world`s traditional peoples to withstand dramatic change. ...

No Man`s Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell`s bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. The woman vicar of St Peter`s Church may not be popular among the community of Kingsmarkham. But it still comes as a profound shock when she is found strangled in her vicarage. Inspector Wexford is retired, but he retains a relish for solving mysteries especially when they are as close to home as this one is. So when he`s asked whether he will assist on the case, he readily agrees. But why did the vicar die? & is anyone else in Kingsmarkham in danger? What Wexford doesn`t know is that the killer is far closer than he, or anyone else, thinks. ...

` When we climb alone en cordee feminine, we are magicians of the Alps
- we make the routes we follow disappear`. The poems of
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No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father & a downtrodden mother, the ` Razor King` of Glasgow`s pre-war slum underworld, the Gorbals. The savage, near-truth descriptions, the raw character portrayals, bring to life a story that is fascinating, authentic & convincing. ...

Jack ` No Middle Name` Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked & righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child`s shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume. Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher`s past, illuminating how he grew up & developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world. The twelve stories include a brand new novella, Too Much Time. The other stories in the collection are: Second Son James Penney`s New Identity Guy Walks Into a Bar Deep Down, High Heat Not a Drill Small Wars All of which have previously been published as ebook shorts. Added to these is every other Reacher short story that Child has written: Everyone Talks Maybe They Have a Tradition No Room at the Motel The Picture of the Lonely Diner ...