Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city & returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal & the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. It`s a peaceful existence
- ideal for the rehabilitating man. But his recovery is rudely interrupted by a brutal attack on Charles Bourgoyne, a prominent member of the local community. Suspicion falls on three young men from the local Aboriginal community. But Cashin`s not so sure & as the case unfolds amid simmering corruption & prejudice, he finds himself holding on to something that it might be better to let go. The relentless story of a town with a hidden past versus a man who is trying to forget his, The Broken Shore delivers powerful, lean writing, pumping more muscle & feeling into one paragraph than other writers can muster in a page.
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Archaeologists date the Bronze Age in Europe from about the 5th to the last millennium BC. That span of time saw dramatic changes in civilizations from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, & from Scandinavia to the Aegean. The discovery of Bronze, an alloy of copper & tin, was a remarkable technological development, permitting the casting of much stronger tools & weapons. Across Europe, the people of the Bronze Age forged metal & traded its products, raised monolithic standing stones, practised similar funerary & religious rites, & decorated their products with the same motifs & symbols. From Cretan palaces to Swiss lakeside dwellings, a common culture arose. In this text the authors explore the story of the Bronze Age, tracing it back beyond the borders of history. ...

`I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, & so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain.. .` So begins Paul Auster`s remarkable novel, ” The Brooklyn Follies”. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan & Tom, an uncle & nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, & estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career, &, indeed, from life in general. Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood, they discover a community teeming with life & passion. When Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives, there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption. ...

Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City--6, 000 miles in all--to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Now he has re-walked Brooklyn--some 816 miles--to write this one-of-a-kind walking guide to the city`s hottest borough. Drawing on hundreds of conversations he had with residents during his block-by-block journeys, The Brooklyn Nobody Knows captures the heart & soul of a diverse, booming, & constantly changing borough that defines cool around the world. The guide covers every one of Brooklyn`s forty-four neighborhoods, from Greenpoint to Coney Isl&, providing a colorful portrait of each section`s most interesting, unusual, & unknown people, places, & things. Along the way you will learn about a Greenpoint park devoted to plants & trees that produce materials used in industry; a hornsmith who practices his craft in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens; a collection of 1, 140 stuffed animals hanging from a tree in Bergen Beach; a five-story Brownsville mural that depicts Zionist leader Theodor Herzl--and that was the brainchild of black teenagers; Brooklyn`s most private--yet public--beach in Manhattan Beach; & much, much more. An unforgettably vivid chronicle of today`s Brooklyn, the book can also be enjoyed without ever leaving home--but it`s almost guaranteed to inspire you to get out & explore one the most fascinating urban areas anywhere. * Covers every one of Brooklyn`s 44 neighborhoods, providing a colorful portrait of their most interesting, unusual, & unknown people, places, & things* Each neighborhood section features a brief overview & history; a detailed, user-friendly map keyed to the text; & a lively guided walking tour* Draws on the author`s 816-mile walk through every Brooklyn neighborhood*

Includes:: insights from conversations with hundreds of residents

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Saddle manufacturer Brooks England have been a British household name & an international cycling icon for 150 years. What continues to motivate & inspire this classic marque? With the help of a variety of writers, artists, journalists, designers, photographers & illustrators, this eclectic compendium of cycling`s joys depicts Brooks`s unique & idiosyncratic view of the wide-ranging impact of the bicycle & its place in the world, alongside their dedication to function, quality & style. While Brooks is, at its heart, a British company, the team explore the bicycle as a worldwide phenomenon that has connected people
- the Tour de France luring professional cyclists of all nationalities to the continental countryside
- & continues to provide lone travellers with a gateway to all corners of the earth, celebrating journeys undertaken in some of the planet`s most extreme environments, from South America`s Atrato Swamp to Siberia. Alongside these ambitious projects, the simple joy of cycling to work, the sense of freedom & adventure afforded to all those who cycle for leisure, & the satisfaction gleaned from crafting the bicycle itself are exalted. The result isn`t a book about a saddle maker, but a collection of fascinating contributions from leading creatives from a broad cultural spectrum who are as passionate about their work as they are about their cycling.

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Smart, gripping & urgent, the new blockbuster from the bestselling author of The Swimmer. Growing up poor, Yasmine vowed she would always protect her little brother from harm. She broke her promise on the day she left home, abandoning Fadi to his life in the Stockholm slums. Now, five years later, Yasmine still carries the guilt of leaving him behind. Then she hears a rumour that he is dead, killed by a US drone in Syria. What happened to turn her sweet-natured brother into one of the CIA`s most wanted men? The answer will shock her. It will shock you too. * Now a top-ten bestseller in Germany* ...

” The Brother Gardeners” begins one January morning in 1734, when cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London`s Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants & seeds. Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hundreds of American species to Engl&, where Collinson was one of a handful of men who would foster a national obsession & change the gardens of Britain forever: Philip Miller, author of the bestselling ” Gardeners Dictionary”; the Swede Carl Linnaeus, whose standardised botanical nomenclature popularised botany; &, the botanist-adventurer Joseph Banks & his colleague Daniel Solander who both explored the strange flora of Tahiti & Australia on Captain Cook`s Endeavour. This is the story of these men
- friends, rivals, enemies, united by a passion for plants. Set against the backdrop of the emerging empire & the uncharted world beyond, ” The Brother Gardeners” tells the story how Britain became a nation of gardeners.
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Finl&, 1809. Henrik & Erik are brothers who fought on opposite sides in the war between Sweden & Russia. With peace declared, they both return to their snowed-in farm. But who is the master? Sexual tensions, old grudges, family secrets: all come to a head in this dark & gripping saga. ...

” The Brothers Karamazov” is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, & an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Karamazov & his three sons
- the impulsive & sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; & the healthy young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the social & spiritual strivings in what was both a golden age & a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky`s powerful meditation on faith, meaning & morality, ” The Brothers Karamazov” is translated with an introduction & notes by David Mc Duff in ” Penguin Classics”. When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family`s rifts; & the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation & trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky`s dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence & corruption, good & evil, blur & everyone`s faith in humanity is tested. This powerful translation of ” The Brothers Karamazov” features & introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky`s recurrent themes of guilt & salvation, with a new chronology & further reading. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow. From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison, & in later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt. His other works available in ” Penguin Classics” include ” Crime & Punishment”, ” The Idiot” & ” Demons”. If you enjoyed ” The Brothers Karamazov” you might like Nikolai Gogol`s ” Dead Souls”, also available in ” Penguin Classics”. ” There is no writer who better demonstrates the contradictions & fluctuations of the creative mind than Dostoyevsky, & nowhere more astonishingly than in ” The Brothers Karamazov”. (Joyce Carol Oates). ” Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life”. (Friedrich Nietzsche). ” The most magnificent novel ever written”. (Sigmund Freud). ...