Published just one year after ” On The Road”, this is the story of two men engaged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude. ...

” The Dharma Bums” appeared just one year after the author`s explosive ” On The Road” had put the Beat Generation on the literary map & Kerouac on the best-seller list. The same expansiveness, humour & contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novels sparks this one too, but through a more cohesive story. The books follow two young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude. ...

Meet the Diamond Brothers, the world`s worst private-detective agency, in this Chandler-esque spoof from the creator of the bestselling Alex Rider series. Tim Diamond is the world`s worst private detective, but unfortunately for his younger brother Nick, the cases keep coming in. First a man runover by a steamroller, & then a remote Scottish island where the guests are dying. Can Nick & Tim find the murderers before it`s too late? ...

Meet the Diamond Brothers, the world`s worst private-detective agency, in this Chandler-esque spoof from the creator of the bestselling Alex Rider series. Life as the younger brother of the world`s most defective detective can be tough
- & these two adventures will test Nick to the full. What connects them? Murder! & if the Diamond Brothers don`t play their cards right, they could be next...
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Julia Golding`s award-winning adventure series is perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Katherine Woodfine & Robin Stevens. This Modern Classics editions features special bonus material.`I am Cat Royal
- Orphan, Adventurer, Actress... ` Reader, you are set to embark on an adventure about one hidden treasure, two bare-knuckle boxers, three enemies & four hundred & thirty-eight rioters. I was brought up in Drury Lane, so I have become accustomed to a life less than ordinary. But this turn of events, I have to say, surprised even me. Follow me, & I will show you in The Diamond of Drury Lane.` Exciting, funny & packed with adventure... Cat Royal never fails to stir up trouble wherever she goes. Julia Golding`s award-winning adventure series has all the ingredients of a Philippa Gregory book for children aged 9 years & up. Have you read all of Cat`s extraordinary adventures? The Diamond of Drury Lane Cat Among the Pigeons Den of Thieves Cat O` Nine Tails Black Heart of Jamaica Cat`s Cradle Look out for Julia`s fantastic new historical titles: Mel Foster & the Demon Butler Mel Foster & the Time Machine Julia Golding is the author of the award-winning Cat Royal & Girl on the Run series. Julia Golding read English at Cambridge before completing a doctorate in Literature of the Romantic Period at Oxford. She has won the Nestle Children`s Book Prize, the Waterstone`s Children`s Book Prize & been shortlisted for the Costa Children`s Book Award.
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Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown
- Scotland`s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100, 000 books, spread over
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Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry & hilarious account of life in Scotland`s biggest second-hand bookshop & the band of eccentrics & book-obsessives who work there` Utterly compelling & Bythell has a Bennett-like eye for the amusing eccentricities of ordinary people.. . I urge you to buy this book & please, even at the risk of being insulted or moaned at, buy it from a real live bookseller.` (Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express) Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown
- Scotland`s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100, 000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors & roaring fires, & all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover`s paradise? Well, almost.. . In these wry & hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials & tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates & auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics & new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, & evokes the rhythms & charms of small-town life, always with a sharp & sympathetic eye.
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In the archives of the Memorial International Human Rights Centre in Moscow is an extraordinary diary, a rare first-person testimony of a commander of guards in a Soviet labour camp. Ivan Chistyakov was sent to the Gulag in 1937, where he worked at the Baikal-Amur Corrective Labour Camp for over a year. Life at the Gulag was anathema to Chistyakov, a cultured Muscovite with a nostalgia for pre-revolutionary Russia, & an amateur painter & poet. He recorded its horrors with an unmatchable immediacy, documenting a world where petty rivalries put lives at risk, prisoners hacked off their fingers to bet in card games, railway sleepers were burned for firewood & Siberian winds froze the lather on the soap. From his stumbling poetic musings on the bitter landscape to his matter-of-fact grumbles about his stove, from accounts of the conditions of the camp to reflections on the cruelty of loneliness, this diary is unique
- a visceral & immediate description of a place & time whose repercussions still affect the shape of modern Russia.
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In the archives of the Memorial International Human Rights Centre in Moscow is an extraordinary diary, a rare first-person testimony of a commander of guards in a Soviet labour camp. Ivan Chistyakov was sent to the Gulag in 1937, where he worked at the Baikal-Amur Corrective Labour Camp for over a year. Life at the Gulag was anathema to Chistyakov, a cultured Muscovite with a nostalgia for pre-revolutionary Russia, & an amateur painter & poet. He recorded its horrors with an unmatchable immediacy, documenting a world where petty rivalries put lives at risk, prisoners hacked off their fingers to bet in card games, railway sleepers were burned for firewood & Siberian winds froze the lather on the soap. From his stumbling poetic musings on the bitter landscape to his matter-of-fact grumbles about his stove, from accounts of the conditions of the camp to reflections on the cruelty of loneliness, this diary is unique
- a visceral & immediate description of a place & time whose repercussions still affect the shape of modern Russia.
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`I fail to see
- because I do not happen to be a ” Somebody”
- why my diary should be not be interesting` Mr Pooter is a man

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