Acclaimed writer Lloyd Bradley explores the influence of immigrant cultures on the capital`s music scene. For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music. An essential link to home, music also has the power to shape communities in surprising ways. Black music has been part of London`s landscape since the First World War, when the Southern Syncopated Orchestra brought jazz to the capital. Following the wave of Commonwealth immigration, its sounds & styles took up residence to become the foundation of the city`s youth culture. Sounds Like London tells the story of the music & the larger-than-life characters making it, journeying from Soho jazz clubs to Brixton blues parties to King`s Cross warehouse raves to the streets of Notting Hill
- & onto sound systems everywhere. As well as a journey through the musical history of London, Sounds Like London is about the shaping of a city, & in turn the whole nation, though music. It features contributors that include Eddy Grant, Osibisa, Russell Henderson, Dizzee Rascal & Trevor Nelson, with an introduction by Soul 2 Soul`s Jazzie B. Sounds Like London will be dramatised on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
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Explore ten diverse habitats from the Great Plains to the Sonoran Desert, & listen to birds in the wild with this extraordinary sound book. Full of fun facts about each bird species, you can press each page & listen out for the sounds of tropical birds, birds of paradise & even songbirds from your own back garden, in this stunning interactive book for young nature lovers. ...

In this second volume of memoir, following his acclaimed ” Colours of the Mountain”, Chen arrives in Beijing, armed with a dogged determination to learn English & familiarise himself with `all things Western`, he must compete with every other student to win a chance to study in the US
- a chance that rests in the shrewd & corrupt hands of the all
- powerful professors. In this remarkable book
- by turns poetic, ribald, hilarious, & heartbreaking
- Chen retains his indomitable spirit, but will he be any closer to attaining his goal?



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Come on a safari adventure across breathtaking African landscapes
- with intricate diorama pop-ups & multi-layered sounds throughout.
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Immerse yourself in the fascinating lives of insects, with intricate diorama pop-ups & multi-layered sounds throughout. Listen to the honeybees busy at work & watch as a preying mantis munches on its prey, as you find out just how vital these creatures` roles are in the larger world around us. Featuring bugs from a variety of habitats including woodl&, mountains, wetlands, desert & rainforest. ...

Immerse yourself in the depths of the world`s forests, with intricate diorama pop-ups & multi-layered sounds throughout. Listen to a wildcat hiss as it stealthily hunts on the forest floor, step into a clearing to hear a cuckoo call, & clamber over the Rocky Mountains to hear a bear roar! Push the branches aside to reveal he private lives of these creates & how they survive. Featuring creatures from the northern boreal forestm Rocky Mountains & European forests (including a winter scene). ...

The next exciting title in our popular Maurice Pledger series. Immerse yourself in the delights of the seashore, with intricate pop-ups & sounds. Hear a scarlet ibis on a tropical beach, the roar of a polar bear in the Arctic, & the sound of seals as they bask beneath a cliff side in the northern hemisphere. Also featuring a northern hemisphere rock pool & a mangrove swamp. ...

` There are sounds all around you... Which sounds do you like?` This is a simple non-fiction book about the wide variety of sounds we head & how they are made. The text is illustrated with lively photographs of children listening, & making noise! * Blue/ Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns withsequential events & integrated literary & natural language. * Text type
- An information book. * A pictorial index is included on pages 14 & 15, giving the children a chance to recap & discuss the text. * Curriculum links
- Science: ourselves, sound & hearing. * This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

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The world has failed Syria`s refugees & some of the world`s wealthiest countries have turned their backs on this humanitarian disaster. Syria`s neighbours-Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey & Iraq-have together absorbed more than 3.8 million refugees. The need for food relief is great & growing. Acclaimed chefs & cookbook authors from all corners of the world have come together to help food relief efforts to alleviate the suffering of Syrian refugees. Each has contributed a recipe to this beautifully illustrated cookbook of delicious soups. Contributors include: Joe Barza, Mark Bittman, Anthony Bourdain, Sally Butcher, Alexis Couquelet, Aglaia Kremenzi, Carolyn Kumpe, Greg Malouf, Yotam Ottolenghi, Claudia Roden, Ana Sortun, Sami Tamimi, Alice Waters, Paula Wolfert, & many others. Profits from the sale of this cookbook will be donated to help fund food relief efforts to Syrian refugees. ...

Winner of the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction A Guardian, Nylon, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Vulture & Shelf Awareness Book of the Year 2017` Relegate anything else you`re reading
- there is no other book to be seen with now` The Times` Obscene, beautiful, moving` New Yorker Centred on a community of immigrants precariously balanced on the edge of poverty in 1990s New York City, the stories that make up Sour Heart examine the ways that family & history can weigh us down, but also lift us up. From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother`s role in the Cultural Revolution, to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends & she begins, these vibrant, raw & powerful stories introduce a bold & singular new voice.
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