This is the extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go & the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro`s first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge & war. The Romans have long since departed, & Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl & Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist & rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards
- some strange & other
- worldly
- but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark & forgotten corners of their love for one another.


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The extraordinary novel from the author of Never Let Me Go & the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. The Romans have long since departed, & Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl & Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist & rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards
- some strange & other-worldly
- but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark & forgotten corners of their love for one another. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro`s first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge & war.

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A lavishly photographed cookbook & historic travelogue, tracing contemporary & colonial Burmese dishes over the past century. With its rich traditions of empire, The Burma Cookbook highlights the best of present-day Myanmar, including foods of its immigrant populations
- from the subcontinent, down the Malay peninsula, & Britain itself. The authors spent some ten years researching the book, while organising & hosting culinary tours to uncover the country`s most popular dishes. The authors had exclusive access to The Strand Hotel`s collection of historic menus, pictures & photos, while contemporary photography by Morrison Polkinghorne portrays Myanmar street life.
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The discovery of a traditional Welsh blanket in the palace of the former ruler of Yemen took Patricia Aithie on a fascinating journey of discovery. In the Yemeni seaman of the steam age, she finds a surprising link between her hometown of Cardiff, once the world`s biggest coal-exporting port, & Aden, where the coal which fuelled the Empire was bunkered. On her journey, Aithie discovers an ancient & until recently hidden Arab country a world away from industrial south Wales. From Cardiff`s Yemeni community, she travels to remote mountain passes, deserts, ports & the ancient cities of southern Arabia, encountering former seamen & isolated communities in which stories of Cardiff loom large. This is a remarkable & timely account of the way in which two cultures unexpectedly touch one another. ...

Bringing sixteenth-century Languedoc vividly to life, Kate Mosse`s The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love & betrayal, mysteries & secrets; of war & adventure, conspiracies & divided loyalties... Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father`s bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever. For Piet has a dangerous mission of his own, & he will need Minou`s help if he is to get out of La Cite alive. Toulouse: As the religious divide deepens in the Midi, & old friends become enemies, Minou & Piet both find themselves trapped in Toulouse, facing new dangers as sectarian tensions ignite across the city, the battle-lines are drawn in blood & the conspiracy darkens further. Meanwhile, as a long-hidden document threatens to resurface, the mistress of Puivert is obsessed with uncovering its secret & strengthening her power... ...

`I am looking for something more mysterious. For the path you read about in books, the old lane choked with undergrowth, whose entrance the weary prince could not discover.`
- Alan Fournier Walkers, like lovers of literature, are driven by the urge to explore, & writers have blessed their fictional characters with itchy feet since the earliest of narratives. Milton`s Adam & Eve leaving Eden, Mrs Yeobright`s maternal anxiety spurring her across country in Hardy`s The Return of the Native, militant miners in Zola`s Germinal. Walks found in novels, short stories & even drama can have a multitude of meanings. Editor Duncan Minshull here forges a bold path through the greatest of the world`s literature, collecting extracts from Dickens & Dostoevsky, Proust & Poe, Kipling, Kafka & many more to show imaginations time & again set in motion by the simple act of walking.
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In the LAPD`s Open Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually non-existent. Now Bosch & his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Starting with the bullet that`s been lodged for years in the victim`s spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information which soon reveals that this shooting may have been anything but random. ...

Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters & crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew`s Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful & it became the location of London`s most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor Engl&, Smithfield had another, more sinister use: the public execution of heretics. Spanning the reigns of British history`s most remarkable dynasty, The Burning Time is a vivid insight into an era in which what was orthodoxy one year might be dangerous heresy the next. The first martyrs were Catholics, who cleaved to Rome in defiance of Henry VIII`s break with the papacy. But with the accession of Henry`s daughter Mary
- soon to be nicknamed ` Bloody Mary`
- the charge of heresy was levelled against devout Protestants, who chose to burn rather than recant. At the centre of Virginia Rounding`s vivid account of this extraordinary period are two very different characters. The first is Richard Rich, Thomas Cromwell`s protege, who, almost uniquely, remained in a position of great power, influence & wealth under three Tudor monarchs, & who helped send many devout men & women to their deaths. The second is John Deane, Rector of St Bartholomew`s, who was able, somehow, to navigate the treacherous waters of changing dogma & help others to survive. The Burning Time is their story, but it is also the story of the hundreds of men & women who were put to the fire for their faith. It is a gripping insight into a time when people were willing to die, & to kill, in the name of religion.

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Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters & crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew`s Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful & it became the location of London`s most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor Engl&, Smithfield had another, more sinister use: the public execution of heretics. Spanning the reigns of British history`s most remarkable dynasty, The Burning Time is a vivid insight into an era in which what was orthodoxy one year might be dangerous heresy the next. The first martyrs were Catholics, who cleaved to Rome in defiance of Henry VIII`s break with the papacy. But with the accession of Henry`s daughter Mary
- soon to be nicknamed ` Bloody Mary`
- the charge of heresy was levelled against devout Protestants, who chose to burn rather than recant. At the centre of Virginia Rounding`s vivid account of this extraordinary period are two very different characters. The first is Richard Rich, Thomas Cromwell`s protege, who, almost uniquely, remained in a position of great power, influence & wealth under three Tudor monarchs, & who helped send many devout men & women to their deaths. The second is John Deane, Rector of St Bartholomew`s, who was able, somehow, to navigate the treacherous waters of changing dogma & help others to survive. The Burning Time is their story, but it is also the story of the hundreds of men & women who were put to the fire for their faith. It is a gripping insight into a time when people were willing to die, & to kill, in the name of religion.

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Set in Finland in 1939, this is the story of one man who remains in his home town when everyone else has fled, burning down their houses in their wake, before the invading Russians arrive. Timo remains behind because he can`t imagine life anywhere else, doing anything else besides felling the trees near his home. This is a novel about belonging
- a tale of powerful & forbidden friendships forged during a war, of unexpected bravery & astonishing survival instincts. The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles is not a novel about war, but about the lives of ordinary people dragged into war, each of whom only wants to find the path back home. Roy Jacobsen uses the dramatic natural landscape of light & darkness, fire-blazing heat & life-robbing cold to spectacular effect.
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