A useful guide for aspiring ski reps, providing insight into a typical winter season Explores Swedish culture & traditions- portrays Sweden in an honest, different light Andrew Reed spent a winter as a ski rep for a well known UK travel company in the resort of Are, Sweden. The book is a humorous account of his experiences from the daunting first week of the selection process in Austria, the convoluted journey by road, ship & rail to the resort itself & through the hectic first month of setting up in resort. The chapters that follow reveal a very different type of ski resort to the normal alpine resort with activities that included snowmobile safaris, husky dog sledging, chaotic reindeer rides & visits to the spectacular frozen waterfall. Even the Northern Lights & the real Santa Claus make brief appearances. The book offers a realistic, honest perspective & explains the strains & pressures of the job, including working in close proximity to others over such a long, hard season which finished well beyond the alpine resorts. It will help aspiring reps to prepare by offering useful advice & encouragement, but it is also of interest to the wider ski & travel community. Snow Business is based on Andrew`s Nordic adventures & it provides a fascinating insight into the country, its people & its traditions, along with the quirks of the language. It will appeal to those who love all things skiing, or those with an interest in Swedish culture. ...

Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful & innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, & lives a life of servitude & seclusion that is alien to Shimamura, & their love offers no freedom to either of them. ” Snow Country” is both delicate & subtle, reflecting in Kawabata`s exact, lyrical writing the unspoken love & the understated passion of the young Japanese couple. ...

A snowy day, a deserted school & the teacher you least want to see. Welcome to Snow Day, the most magical day of the year... When Danny goes to school one quiet, snowy morning, the last thing he expects to find is a deserted school & his least favourite teacher. But that`s exactly what he does find. & what starts as the worst day imaginable, ends as the most life-affirming & magical day of the year. It is an incredibly moving story about finding friendship in the most unexpected of places. ...

A snowy day, a deserted school & the teacher you least want to see. Welcome to Snow Day, the most magical day of the year... When Danny goes to school one quiet, snowy morning, the last thing he expects to find is a deserted school & his least favourite teacher. But that`s exactly what he does find. & what starts as the worst day imaginable, ends as the most life-affirming & magical day of the year. An incredibly moving story about finding friendship in the most unexpected of places. ...

” It`s going to be woof-onderful!” There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum & Dad don`t want a dog. Then Granddad has an idea
- he & Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog. Even better, he has some special clay, found at the end of a rainbow, so that the dog will be extra-special. Maybe even magic... Colour First Readers are perfect for new readers & include notes be reading specialist Prue Goodwin, honorary fellow of the University of Reading.
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A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Snow Falling on Cedars, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list ...

” Join Jane Lawson as she takes you on a culinary journey through the magnificent cold-climate cuisines of the snow-cloaked regions of northern, central & eastern Europe. Celebrate the season of winter & enjoy this irresistible selection of simmering soups, hearty meals & indulgent desserts that will warm you to the core. From humble & satisfying classics to glamorous feasts worthy of a celebration, you are sure to be inspired by the mythical winter wonderland of Snowflakes & Schnapps. ` Get cosy on the couch with this opulently styled new release & remind yourself of all the good things cold weather brings.`
- delicious. ` This is winter comfort fare at it`s best`
- Vogue Entertaining + Travel ”

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Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, & to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily`s feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman`s eligibility is judged by the shape & size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage & change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women`s writing, & make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything. ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE The stories of Kseniya Melnik`s debut collection are small-town miracles, each a miniature epic. Their focus is Magadan, a town in the Northern Far East of Russia, & the unvisited lives of its inhabitants & emigrants
- schoolchildren, doctors, teachers, mothers, daughters. Some characters span several stories. Some of their stories span decades & continents. The measure of their telling, though, is invariably the measure of everyday existence. Their dramas, too, are made from"idian stuff, each life with its own sly or suppressed tragedies, & its brief, often unexpected ecstasies. Kseniya Melnik`s sensibility is sober & humorous; her stories are moving & funny. In their patient, deliberate unfolding
- at once surprising & convincing
- & in the fitness of their details
- vital because they are suggestive
- we sense, above all, an assurance that is dazzling.




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Smuggling has been a way of life in Galicia for millennia. The Romans considered its windswept coast the edge of the world. To the Greeks it was from where Charon ferried souls to the Underworld. Since the Middle Ages, its shoreline has scuppered thousands of pirate ships. But the history of Cape Finisterre is no fiction & by the late twentieth century a new & exotic cargo flooded the cape`s ports & fishing villages. In Snow on the Atlantic, the book the Spanish national court tried to ban, intrepid investigative journalist Nacho Carretero tells the incredible story of how a sleepy, unassuming corner of Spain became the cocaine gateway into Europe, exposing a new generation of criminals, cartels & corrupt officials, more efficient & ruthless than any who came before. ...