Red Sky at Sunrise is Laurie Lee's celebrated autobiographical trilogy in one fascinating volume. Beginning with Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee writes evocatively of his idyllic childhood in the Cotswolds of the twenties, a world of rich sensuousness & native innocence. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning picks up the story as he leaves his valley for London & then for Spain. There, equipped only with a violin & his wits, he crossed the dramatic landscape of a vibrant & still almost medieval Spain for which he developed an abiding affection. In the winter of 1937 he returned to a country now in the grip of Civil War & joined the International Brigade, describing in A Moment of War his journey into the dark side of Spain with unsparing honesty & poignancy. Stirring stuff that will stay with you long after you've put it down. ...

This is a beautiful new edition of Laurie Lee`s celebrated autobiographical trilogy: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning & A Moment of War. `I was set down from the carrier`s cart at the age of three; & there with a sense of bewilderment & terror my life in the village began.` ` This trilogy is a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights & sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long. For nineteen years this was the limit of my world, then one midsummer morning I left home & walked to London & down the blazing length of Spain during the innocent days of the early thirties. Never had I felt so fat with time, so free to go where I would. Then such indulgence was suddenly broken by the savage outbreak of the Civil War...” (Laurie Lee). ...

Red Snow is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Dark Pines, selected for ITV`s Zoe Ball Book Club TWO BODIESOne suicide. One cold-blooded murder. Are they connected? & who`s really pulling the strings in the small Swedish town of Gavrik?TWO COINSBlack Grimberg liquorice coins cover the murdered man`s eyes. The hashtag Ferryman starts to trend as local people stock up on ammunition.TWO WEEKSTuva Moodyson, deaf reporter at the local paper, has a fortnight to investigate the deaths before she starts her new job in the south. A blizzard moves in. Residents, already terrified, feel increasingly cut-off. Tuva must go deep inside the Grimberg factory to stop the killer before she leaves town for good. But who`s to say the Ferryman will let her go? ...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton & Jeremy Irons. Dominika Egorov, former prima ballerina, is sucked into the heart of Putin`s Russia, the country she loved, as the twists & turns of a betrayal & counter-betrayal unravel. American Nate Nash, idealistic & ambitious, handles the double agent, codenamed MARBLE, considered one of CIA`s biggest assets. He needs to keep his identity secret for as long as the mole can keep supplying golden information. Will Dominika be able to unmask MARBLE, or will the mission see her faith destroyed in the country she has always passionately defended? `A great & dangerous spy-game is being played today between Russian intelligence & the CIA. Very few people know about it, including many of our politicians in Washington. But Jason Matthews does, & his thrilling Red Sparrow takes us deep inside this treacherous world. He`s an insider`s insider. He knows the secrets. & he is also a masterful story-teller. I loved this book & could not put it down. Neither will you` Vince Flynn ` Not since the good old days of the Cold War has a classic spy thriller like Red Sparrow come along. Jason Matthews is not making it up; he has lived this life & this story, & it shows on every page. High-level espionage, pulse-pounding danger, sex, double agents & double crosses. What more can any reader want?` Nelson De Mille ...

The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung & the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao`s life, as well as a history of the famous Long March & the men & women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution. Out of that experience came Red Star Over China, a classic work that remains one of the most important books ever written about the birth of the Communist movement in China. This edition

Includes:: extensive notes on the military & political developments in China, further interviews with Mao Tse-tung, a chronology covering 125 years of Chinese revolution & nearly a hundred detailed biographies of the men & women who were instrumental in making China what it is today.

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Unafraid of a challenge, Lois Pryce began the kind of adventure most of us could only ever dream of. She put on her sparkly crash helmet, armed herself with maps & a baffling array of visas, & got on her bike. Destination: Cape Town
- & the small matter of tackling the Sahara, war-torn Angola & the Congo Basin along the way
- this feisty independent woman`s grand trek through the Dark Continent of Africa is the definitive motorcycling adventure. Colourful & hilarious, ” Red Tape & White Knuckles” is an action-packed tale about following your dreams that will have you packing your bags & jetting off into the sunset on your own adventure before you know it.

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Natalie Mac Lean spent three years sipping her way through sun-drenched vineyards & cobwebbed cellars to bring us this witty, knowledgeable book about the world of wine. In the ancient vineyards of Burgundy, she uncovers the secrets of Pinot Noir, then moves on to the labyrinthine cellars of Champagne to examine the mystique of luxury bubbly. She compares notes with novelist Jay Mc Inerney at a bacchanalian dinner, goes undercover as a sommelier in a five-star restaurant, & explores the influence of powerful critics Jancis Robinson & Robert Parker. You may have a head for wine, but ” Red, White & Drunk All Over” will show you its heart. ...

Following World War II, China found itself struggling with a conversion to communism that had wreaked havoc on the nation`s economy, causing a devastating famine & extreme economic depression. In 1966 China`s leader, Mao Zedong, gave his support to radicals within the communist party who envisioned a revolutionary social upheaval that would destroy all traces of the reactionary past. This was the beginning of a ten-year period of violence & chaos known as the Cultural Revolution. Many top officials lost their positions & numerous provincial governments came under the control of the radicals. The radical movement was primarily led by students who formed organizations known as ” Red Guards, ” which used violent methods to punish people they saw as ”anti-Maoists” or counter-revolutionaries. At the height of the Cultural Revolution (1966-70) China`s universities were closed & much of its populace was sent to rural ”re-education centres” where they were indoctrinated with Maoist policies. It is during this period that Li Zhensheng worked as a photojournalist for the ” Heilongjiang Daily”, shooting film both for the paper &, as we know now, for himself. While Li worked for a newspaper supporting the Maoist movement & admits he did not think Mao`s policies to be incorrect at the beginning of his tenure at the newspaper, his hiding of film was a highly subversive action. As a photographer, Li wanted to document the Cultural Revolution for himself & for others in the future. He put himself at risk by hiding film stills that the government would have destroyed, capturing events of which little or no other visual record exists. Looking at the photos in this book, one sees the difference between the photos published in the ” Daily” & those Li hid for himself, allowing for a rare understanding of how the Chinese government controlled media during the Cultural Revolution. The Heilongjiang province where Li worked was crucial because of its proximity to the then Soviet Union. Its main city, Harbin, had been occupied by the Soviets following World War II & was later set up as a communication hub between the Soviet Union & China. It was the communist centre which bred the revolutionary movement, leading to China`s unification under communist control in 1949. This Russian influence can be seen in the details of Li`s photographs, right down to the city`s typically Russian-style architecture. Many of Li`s techniques as a photographer borrow from his training as a filmmaker, including his creation of ”handheld panoramic” photos by shooting overlapping frames of large panoramas & pasting the stills together to create the illusion of one continuous shot. His inventive techniques & powerful images make Li one of the premier Chinese photographers alive today. This book, which takes its name from the literal translation of Li`s accreditation as a photographer approved by the Communist Party headquarters in Beijing, is part of the key to understanding one of the most turbulent & still notorious eras of modern history. The book

Includes:: a preface, introduction, text by the photographer, chronology, maps, & extensive photo captions for over 400 photos (almost all of which have never been seen before).

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A blue crayon mistakenly labeled as ”red” suffers an identity crisis in the new picture book by the New York Times-bestselling creator of My Heart Is Like a Zoo & It`s an Orange Aardvark! Funny, insightful, & colorful, Red: A Crayon`s Story, by Michael Hall, is about being true to your inner self & following your own path despite obstacles that may come your way. Red will appeal to fans of Lois Ehlert, Eric Carle, & The Day the Crayons Quit, & makes a great gift for readers of any age! Red has a bright red label, but he is, in fact, blue. His teacher tries to help him be red (let`s draw strawberries!), his mother tries to help him be red by sending him out on a playdate with a yellow classmate (go draw a nice orange!), & the scissors try to help him be red by snipping his label so that he has room to breathe. But Red is miserable. He just can`t be red, no matter how hard he tries! Finally, a br&-new friend offers a br&-new perspective, & Red discovers what readers have known all along. He`s blue! This funny, heartwarming, colorful picture book about finding the courage to be true to your inner self can be read on multiple levels, & it offers something for everyone! ...