` This generation`s Wild Swans` Daily Telegraph ` One of the most startling & fascinating memoirs I`ve read in recent years...a story of China` Libby Purves` Impressive...moving...exhilarating` Financial Times` Guo is rebellious, flamboyant & fundamentally optimistic...fascinating` Scotland on Sunday` This stunning memoir picks up where Jung Chang`s 1991 bestseller Wild Swans left off... This book will make your jaw drop, then clench in anger` Five stars, Sunday Telegraph` Riveting... Guo is a bolder, angrier & more ambitious figure than her forebears` The Times Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, & suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam leaves, they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea. It`s a strange beginning.A Wild Swans for a new generation, Once Upon a Time in the East takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing, navigating the everyday peculiarity of modern China: censorship, underground art, Western boyfriends. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain. Now, after a decade in Europe, her tale of East to West resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is both an outsider & at home. Xiaolu Guo`s extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons. How to be an artist when censorship kills creativity & the only job you can get is writing bad telenovela scripts. How to be a woman when female babies are regularly drowned at birth & sexual abuse is commonplace. Most poignantly of all: how to love when you`ve never been shown how. ...

Who is the most mischievous character? Who is the bravest? Stage the ultimate fairy-tale battle as you pit 30 magical characters against each other to beat your opponents. With amazing illustrations & wickedly funny descriptions of each character, create fairy tales as you play! ...

Little Green Raincape is on her way to Rapunzel`s party, deep in the wild woods. The way is long & dark, but Green is a smart girl. Smart enough to turn down apples offered by kindly old ladies, smart enough to turn down travel advice from helpful wolves, & above all, smart enough to solve a wealth of classic fairy tale problems
- not least mend a lovelorn beast`s broken heart. Once Upon a Wild Wood is a richly imagined story packed full of familiar fairy tale characters as you`ve never seen them before. Including Red Riding Hood, Thumbelina, Rapunzel, Beauty & the Beast, Cinderella, the three bears, the seven dwarfs & many more!A visual feast on every page, illustrated with warmth & humour & full of witty details to discover
- this is Chris Riddell at his picture book best!

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The letters of our alphabet work tirelessly to make words that in turn make stories, but what if there was a story for each of the letters instead? Turn the pages of this exquisite book to find out. Here you will discover twenty-six short stories introducing a host of new characters (plus the occasional familiar face). From Edmund the astronaut with his awkward fear of heights, via the dynamic new investigative duo of the Owl & the Octopus, through to the Zeppelin that just might get Edmund a little bit closer to where he needs to be, this book is packed with funny, thrilling, perilous & above all entertaining tales inspired by every letter in the alphabet. An adventure to follow from A to Z, or a treasure trove to dip in & out of, Once Upon an Alphabet is a work of exhilarating originality from artist Oliver Jeffers, the creator of much-loved modern classics such as Lost & Found & The Incredible Book Eating Boy. ...

This is the story of Maxine & Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday her husb&, a brilliant & respected surgeon, drives their car off the road & kills her. Devastated, Sheila returns to the country of her birth, haunted by questions. How had she failed to protect her sister? Was Maxine`s death a matter of chance, or destiny? What lies in the soil of their troubled motherland that condemns its women to such violence? ...

Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2012 In the remote Kootenay Valley in western Canada, good people sometimes do bad things. Two adolescents sabotage a rope swing; a heartbroken young man chooses not to warn his best friend about an approaching car; sons challenge their fathers. Crackling with tension & propelled by jagged, cutting dialogue, D.W. Wilson`s stories reveal to us how our best intentions can be doomed to fail or injure, how our loves can fall short or mislead us. An intoxicating cocktail of adrenaline & vulnerability, doggedness & dignity, Once You Break a Knuckle explores the courage it takes to make it through another day. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 2016 WINNER OF THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016 Grace & Tippi don`t like being stared & sneered at, but they`re used to it. They`re conjoined twins
- united in blood & bone. What they want is to be looked at in turn, like they truly are two people. They want real friends. & what about love? But a heart-wrenching decision lies ahead for Tippi & Grace. One that could change their lives more than they ever asked for... This moving & beautifully crafted novel about identity, sisterhood & love ultimately asks one question: what does it mean to want & have a soulmate? The ONE book you have to read this summer! The phenomenal new novel from Carnegie-shortlisted author Sarah Crossan; incredibly moving & extraordinarily crafted, it explores the unbreakable bond & love between sisters. Shortlisted for The CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2016
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In August 1995 Alison Hargreaves became the fifth woman & the fifth Briton to climb the 28, 250-feet-high K2. The winds that she battled with on her descent were vicious, & it is likely that she was blown to her death from the summit ridge to a depression of snow more than 3000 feet below. This tribute to Hargreaves's courage is her husband's account of his trip to the base camp of K2 with his two young children, to see Mummy's last mountain & say a last goodbye. The book accompanies a BBC1 documentary. ...

1960, & Sister Conchita, the young nun with a flair for detection, has been forced to leave her beloved Malaita & assume reluctant command of a run-down mission in the lush, primitive Western District of the Solomon Islands. The group of three elderly sisters currently there are rumoured to have `gone native` & Conchita tries to grapple with these eccentric, tough-mind insurgents & the secrets they are keeping when an American tourist is murdered in their mission church but perplexingly, the colonial authorities want nothing to do with this bizarre crime. Help is at hand for Sister Conchita in the shape of her friend Sergeant Ben Kella, the local police officer but also the aofia, the traditional law-bringer of the islands. Together, the idealistic young nun & practical witch doctor set out to solve the mystery. In the process they discover links to a local independence organisation, a powerful international logging company, &, most puzzling of all, to John F. Kennedy, a former wartime US naval officer in the area but now, thousands of miles away, about to become the 35th president of the USA. Praise for ” Devil-Devil”: ” The mystery takes a back seat to [ Kent`s] knowledge of the exotic location & the combustible chemistry of his protaganists (the oddest couple since ” The African Queen”), which add immensely to his story`s charm.” (” Kirkus Review”). ...