The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal & cosmopolitan humanity. Seventeen days of sporting competition watched & followed on every continent & in every country on the planet. Simply, the greatest show on earth. Yet when the modern games were inaugurated in Athens in 1896, the founders thought them a ”display of manly virtue”, an athletic celebration of the kind of amateur gentleman that would rule the world. How was such a ritual invented? Why did it prosper & how has it been so utterly transformed? In The Games, David Goldblatt
- winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award
- takes on a breathtakingly ambitious search for the answers & brilliantly unravels the complex strands of this history. Beginning with the olympics as a sporting side show at the great Worlds Fairs of the Belle Epoque & transformation into a global media spectacular care of Hollywood & the Nazi party, The Games shows how sport & the olympics been a battlefield in the global Cold War, a defining moment for of epoch social & economic change in host cities & countries, & a theatre of resistance for women & athletes colour once excluded from the show. Illuminated with dazzling vignettes from over a century of olympic completion
- this stunningly researched history captures the excitement of sporting brilliance & the kaleidoscopic experience of the Games. It shows us how this sporting spectacle has come to reflect the world we hope to inhabit & the one we actually live in.


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India is not simply a place; it is an experience. & the Ganges is not just a river: it is an aspect of the Divine. This is Raghubir Singh`s personal pilgrimage along the Ganges: from the Himalayas, where the river rises among snows, through the villages of the Gangetic Plain, past Banaras & through Bihar, to the Bay of Bengal, between India & Bangladesh. On the way he captures the essence of the river`s many different stages & moods, its strange & stunning beauty, its turbulence & ferocity during the monsoon, & the intimate daily lives of the people who live along it. He shows the river`s powerful religious significance, attested by the millions of Hindus who take part in the ageless pilgrimages & festivals held on its banks. Singh`s camera is as fine-tuned as his sensibility. To read his introductions to each area or aspect of the Ganges & then to look at these fascinating & infinitely various photographs is to see that what he notices with his mind he can catch to an amazing degree in a visual image. In these pictures there is more than the conventionally beautiful; in them we are brought face to face with Loknadi, the river of the world. ...

India's holiest river, the Ganges, winds some 1, 550 miles through the country, from its headwaters in the Himalayan glaciers past the villages & cities of the Gangetic Plain to the Delta's thousand fingers in the Bay of Bengal. Here, Aldo Pavan & his camera trace the route of this sacred river, capturing its beauty & its many different phases & moods. ...

gannet noun 1. a large seabird with mainly white plumage, which catches fish by plunging into the water.2. British informal, a greedy person. The Gannet`s Gastronomic Miscellany goes beyond the usual food fixations. Presented in a fresh, visually inventive style, it will appeal to anyone with a passing interest in food
- which, in this gastronomy-obsessed age, is pretty much all of us. In this compendious hotpot of a book you`ll find a guide to creating a hit food profile on Instagram, a cross-section of a tiffin box, an explainer on craft beer, the origin story of chicken Marengo, a list of millennia-old products that are still edible today (should you be brave enough to try Irish bog butter or Ancient Egyptian honey) & many more delightful nuggets of information.
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For over 800 years Newgate was the grimy axle around which British society slowly twisted. This is where such legendary outlaws as Robin Hood & Captain Kidd met their fates, where the rapier-wielding playwrights Ben Jonson & Christopher Marlowe sharpened their quills, & where flamboyant highwaymen like Claude Duval & James Maclaine made legions of women swoon. While London`s theatres came & went, the gaol endured as Londons unofficial stage. From the Peasants Revolt to the Great Fire, it was at Newgate that England`s greatest dramas unfolded. By piecing together the lives of forgotten figures as well as re-examining the prison`s links with more famous individuals, from Dick Whittington to Charles Dickens, this thrilling history goes in search of a ghostly place, erased by time, which has inspired more poems & plays, paintings & novels, than any other structure in British history. ...

Historic monuments of Armagh, Down, Louth & Monaghan & the folklore surrounding them, in particular the Ring of Gullion which stands at the heart of South Armagh. The beautiful photographs of these monuments are accompanied by text, drawings & maps, locating the historic tradition of these border counties within the wider Irish tradition. ...

”A shining delight of a novel”. (New York Times). ” Clever & beautiful...it soars”. (Financial Times). A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn`t know a lot about who she is or where she`s come from
- but she`s about to find out. Jeanette Winterson`s cover version of The Winter`s Tale vibrates with echoes of Shakespeare`s original & tells a story of hearts broken & hearts healed, a story of revenge & forgiveness, a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found. ” Emotionally wrought & profoundly intelligent...A supremely clever, compelling & emotionally affecting novel that deserves multiple readings to appreciate its many layers”. (Mail on Sunday). ” There are passages here so concisely beautiful they give you goosebumps”. (Observer). ” Pulsates with such authenticity & imaginative generosity that I defy you not to engage with it”. (Independent).
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Jeanette Winterson`s cover version of The Winter`s Tale vibrates with echoes of the original but tells a contemporary story where Time itself is a player in a game of high stakes that will either end in tragedy or forgiveness. It shows us that however far we have been separated, whatever is lost shall be found. ...

The Gap Yah Plannah is the ultimate guide to your gap year bantering. Grab your lashmina & get ready to chunder. So, you didn`t get the grades, & you`ve decided to take a gap yah. Well, this is the gap year guide for you. Or, you massively love life & want to have a cheeky beer in loads of waard places around the world, & have decided to take a gap yah. This is the gap year guide for you, too. From budgeting for your time away (mummy & daddy`s credit card) & what not to bring (respect for the law
- that only inhibits your fun), to how to say `vomcano` in Spanish, this is the absolutely essential spiritual, political & cultural guide to making the most of your gap yah.
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For more than 20 years, the gap-year guidebook has provided up-to-date, unbiased & essential advice for those considering a gap-year, year out or career break. The guidebook is divided into 12 informative chapters & is the must-have reference book for anyone considering volunteering, working or studying at home or abroad, learning a new skill & much, much more. ...