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For 30 years Oscar Marzaroli strode across Scotland's rural & urban landscape, stills camera always ready. No corner of the l&, nor any activity on it, from the Out Skerries in the turbulent seas east of Shetland to the rolling hills of the Borders, escaped his eye. Fishermen & boatbuilders, farmers & weavers, oil workers & crofters, all were his subjects, & many became friends. ...

A powerful novel from Michael Morpurgo, the nation`s favourite storyteller... Never have Aman & his mother needed a friend more than when a Springer Spaniel appears
- thin & war-ravaged
- in the mouth of their Afghan cave. Nursed back to health by Aman, the dog becomes a constant companion, a shadow, & that`s what Aman decides to call her. But life in Afghanistan becomes more dangerous by the moment. Eventually, Aman, his mother & Shadow find the courage to embark upon the treacherous journey from war-torn Afghanistan to the safely of a relative`s home in Manchester, Engl&. But how far can Shadow lead them? & in this terrifying new world, is anywhere really safe...?

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Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter & notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself to his own violent end at the hands of his neighbours. His son Lucius investigates the killing which has come to obsess him. In this bold new rendering of the Watson trilogy Matthiessen has deepened the insights & motivations of his characters, consolidating his fictional masterwork into a poetic, compelling novel of a monumental scope & ambition, with breathtaking accomplishment. ...

February 1945
- The war is almost over & Britain & America rule the waves. To enlist for a German U-boat is suicidal. But sixty
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M.M. Kaye, author of ” The Far Pavilions”, sweeps her readers back to the vast, glittering, sunbaked continent of India. ” Shadow of the Moon” is the story of Winter de Ballesteros, a beautiful English heiress who has come to India to be married. It is also the tale of Captain Alex Randall, her escort & protector, who knows that Winter`s husband to be has become a debauched wreck of a man. When India bursts into flaming hatreds & bitter bloodshed during the dark days of the Mutiny, Alex & Winter are thrown unwillingly together in the brutal & urgent struggle for survival. ...

One humid summer night in Gibraltar, lawyer Spike Sanguinetti arrives home to find an old friend, Solomon Hassan, waiting on his doorstep. Solomon is on the run, accused of a brutal murder in Tangiers. He has managed to skip across the Straits but the Moroccan authorities want him back. Spike travels to Tangiers to try to delay Solomon`s extradition, & there meets a beautiful Bedouin girl. Zahra is investigating the disappearance of her father, a trail which leads mysteriously back to Solomon. Questioning how well he really knows his friend, Spike finds himself drawn into a dangerous game of secrets, corruption & murderous lies. ...

The Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey by Colin Thubron along the greatest land route on Earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan & Uzbekistan), across northern Afghanistan & the plains of Iran & into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron travels from the Tomb of the Yellow Emperor (the Mythic progenitor of the Chinese people) to the ancient Mediterranean port of Antioch, going by local bus, truck, car, donkey-cart, horse or camel. He covers 7, 000 miles in eight months
- in perhaps the most difficult & ambitious journey he has undertaken in 40 years of travel. The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries splitting & converging across the breath of Asia. To travel it is to trace the passage not only of trade & armies, but of ideas, religions & inventions. But alongside this rich & astonishing past, Shadow of the Silk Road is also about today: a continent in upheaval. One of the trademarks of Thubron`s travel writing is the beauty of his prose; another is his gift for talking to people & getting them to talk to him. The themes in Shadow of the Silk Road include different Islams (oppressed in China; fervent in Afghanistan & Iran; cautiously monitored in Uzbekistan); changes (how China was transformed since the Cultural Revolution); contrasts (no cities could be more different than ancient Samarkand & modern Teheran); false nationalisms & the world`s discontented margins, where the true boundaries are not political borders but the frontiers of tribe, ethnicity, language & religion.
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In the early hours of 15 April 1912, after the majestic liner Titanic had split apart & the 1, 500 men, women & children struggled to stay alive in the freezing Atlantic, the sea was alive with the sound of screaming. Then, as the ship sank to the ocean floor & the passengers slowly died from hypothermia, a deathly silence settled over the sea. Yet the echoes of that night reverberated through the lives of each of the 705 survivors. Shadow of the Titanictells the extraordinary stories of some of those who survived. Although we think we know the story of the Titanic
- the famously unsinkable ship that hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Britain to America in April 1912
- little has been written about what happened to the survivors after the tragedy. How did the loss of the ship shape the lives of the people who survived? How did those who were saved feel about those who perished? & how did they remember that terrible night, in effect a disaster that has been likened to the destruction of a small town? Timed to coincide with the 100thanniversary of the sinking, Shadow of the Titanicsheds new light on this enduringly fascinating story, by showing how the disaster continued to shape the lives of a cross-section of passengers who escaped the sinking ship.

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Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s. A beautifully rendered time capsule, it captures a period of decay, turmoil, & change through innocent, unblinking eyes. Michael`s family, led by his long-suffering mother, live as though under siege, surviving his father`s drinking & rage as well as the forces of `urban renewal`. Their neighbourhood is a world of simple pleasures as well as random brutality; of family life & love as well as violence & tragedy. As Michael experiences all this with a combination of wonder & fear, he matures into a sensitive adult who can forgive but never forget. Shadowboxing is a riveting story of loss & permanence, power & weakness, stoicism & resistance. ...