`I know you`ll return.` These are his grandmother`s last words to him. Leo has them in his head as he boards the truck one freezing mid-January morning in 1945. They keep him company during the long journey to Russia. They keep him alive
- through hunger, pain, & despair
- during his time in the brutal Soviet labour camp. &, eventually, they will bring him back home. Leo spends the next five years shovelling coal, lugging bricks, mixing mortar, & battling the relentless calculus of hunger that governed the gulag: 1 shovel load = 1 gram bread. Herta Muller calls upon her unique combination of poetic intensity & detached precision to conjure the distorted world of that Soviet camp. The heart is reduced to a pump, the breath mechanized to the rhythm of a swinging shovel, & coal, s&, & cement have a will of their own. Hunger becomes an insatiable angel who haunts the camp, but also a bare-knuckled sparring partner, delivering blows that keep Leo feeling the rawest connection to life. Muller has distilled Leo`s struggle into words of breathtaking intensity that take us on a journey far beyond one man`s physical travails & into the depths of the human soul.

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First in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys & twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister`s place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature. ...

First in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy, this new foiled edition of THE HUNGER GAMES is available for a limited period of time. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys & twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister`s place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature. ...

The sudden death of David Bryant, the charismatic owner of a rambling Derbyshire wildlife park, leaves an indelible mark on three very different people. David`s young widow, Maggie, struggles to preserve the park & to forge friendships untainted by the suspicions of others. His old friend Louisa, a falconer who lives on the grounds, just wants to be left alone with her hawks & the dark secret she has shared with David since their youth. Meanwhile, Christopher, David`s eccentric teenage son from an earlier marriage, strives for a life beyond the park & trawls the internet for a woman who shares his family values. With the arrival of a stranger, & unforeseen disaster amid the worst rains for a hundred years, the loyalties of Maggie, Louisa & Christopher will be stretched to breaking point, & each must face the decisions which will define them... ...

The morning after
- the drilling headache, the waves of nausea, the paranoia, the guilt, the shame
- yes, it`s the dreaded

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The Hungry Cyclist sees Tom Kevill-Davies pedalling the Americas, from New York City to Rio de Janeiro in search of the perfect meal in a book about one man, one bike, one huge appetite & 15, 000 miles to ride. Whilst Tom’s pedal-powered quest sees him tasting the real flavours of South America from eating guinea pigs one day & armadillos the next to dining with beauty queens & avoiding ending up as dinner to a hungry bear. Above all this is a book about cycling yourself to where you want to be – one bite at a time. ...

`A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire` Max Hastings, Sunday Times WINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018 The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave trader… Surveyors in British Columbia eat tinned Australian rabbit… Diamond prospectors in Guyana prepare an iguana curry… In twenty meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of commerce & trade in foodstuffs that moved people & plants from one continent to another, reshaping landscapes & culinary tastes. The Empire allowed Britain to harness the globe’s edible resources from cod fish & salt beef to spices, tea & sugar. Lizzie Collingham takes us on a wide-ranging culinary journey, revealing how virtually every meal we eat still contains a taste of empire. ...

The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave trader.. . Surveyors in British Columbia eat tinned Australian rabbit.. . Diamond prospectors in Guyana prepare an iguana curry... In twenty meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of commerce & trade in foodstuffs that moved people & plants from one continent to another, re-shaping landscapes & culinary tastes. To be Britishwas to eat the world. The Empire allowed Britain to harness the globe`s edible resources from cod fish & salt beef to spices, tea & sugar. By the twentieth century the wheat to make the working man`s loaf of bread was supplied by Canada & his Sunday leg of lamb had been fattened on New Zealand`s grasslands. Lizzie Collingham takes us on a wide-ranging culinary journey, charting the rise of sugar to its dominant position in our diets & locating the origins of the food industry in the imperial trade in provisions. Her innovative approach brings a fresh perspective to the making of the Empire, uncovering its decisive role in the shaping of the modern diet & revealing how virtually every meal we eat still contains a taste of empire. ...

A novel for those who loved Behind the Scenes at the Museum, The Poisonwood Bible & The Lovely Bones. Raped then murdered in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in 1942, Lin Shui`s ` Hungry Ghost` clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, which is destined to become a school, just in time she finds a host off whom to feed. It is twelve-year-old Alice Safford, the deeply-troubled daughter of a leading figure in government. The parasitic ghost follows her to her home on the Peak. There, the lethal mix of the two, embroiled in the family`s web of dark secrets & desperate lies, unleashes chaos. All this unfolds against a background of colonial unrest, riots, extremes of weather & the countdown to the return of the colony to China. As successive tragedies engulf Alice, her ghostly entourage swells alarmingly. She flees to Engl&, then France, in a bid to escape the past, only to find her portable Hungry Ghosts have accompanied her. It seems the peace she longs for is to prove far more elusive that she could ever have imagined. The Hungry Ghosts is a remarkable tour de force of the imagination, full of instantly memorable characters whose lives intermesh & boil over in a cauldron of domestic mayhem, unleashing unworldly spirits into the troubled air. ...

At the funeral, several priests remarked how appropriate it was that Father Conroy should have returned on his last day to Rosnagree, the parish in which he was born. Father Tom Conroy
- a spiky, difficult man
- dies at a reunion of his seminary colleagues. As this masterly novel unfolds, we are taken through the years that formed this troublesome priest, who knew his life had been a failure. The Hungry Grass is a sharply witty & moving novel of a world on the cusp of change.

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