` Missing a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15, height 1.55m, oval-shaped face, grey-brown eyes, grey sports jacket, maroon pullover, navy blue skirt & hat, brown gym shoes. All information to M. & Mme Bruder, 41 Boulevard Ornano, Paris.` The author chanced upon this notice in a December 1941 issue of Paris Soir. The girl has vanished from the convent school which had taken her in during the Occupation. She had apparently run away on a bitterly cold night at a time of especially violent German reprisals. Moved by her fate, the author sets out to find all he can about her. Eventually he discovers her name in a list of Jews deported to Auschwitz in September 1942 & what further fragments he is able to uncover about the Bruder family become a meditation on the immense losses of the period
- people lost, stories lost, human history lost. Modiano delivers a moving survey of a decade-long investigation that revived for him the sights, sounds & sorrowful rhythms of occupied Paris. & in seeking to exhume Dora Bruder`s fate, he in turn faces, & must come to terms with, his own family history.
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The Caravan Family are spending their summer in beautiful, sandy Seagull Cove. They are staying in their caravans, right at the edge of the sea, & are going to have the best seaside holiday ever! But a new friend, Benjy, is with them & he`s not very cheery! Will he ruin the children`s holiday, or can they cheer Benjy up & help him enjoy the seaside? ...

When travel journalist Sophie Campbell squeezed into heels & a hat to investigate the English social season, she got more than she bargained for. Why, she wondered, were events such as the Chelsea Flower Show, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Derby at Epsom, Royal Ascot, the Henley Royal Regatta, Wimbledon Fortnight & Glorious Goodwood so formal, so fashionable & so famous? Her hectic & sometimes hilarious journey through the English summer proved as exotic as any tribal rite of passage as she swam the River Thames in the dark, partied with owners & trainers at Ascot, camped out for Wimbledon, joined Irish Travellers at The Derby, infiltrated the parents' stand at the Eton v Harrow cricket match & got caught using a mobile in the Stewards' Enclosure at Henley. En route she found a fascinating & surprisingly complex social structure dating back to the time of the Stuart monarchs & involving fashion, food, art & the marriage market. The English summer will never be the same again. ...

When travel journalist Sophie Campbell squeezed into heels & a hat to investigate the English social season, she got more than she bargained for. Why, she wondered, were events such as the Chelsea Flower Show, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Derby at Epsom, Royal Ascot, the Henley Royal Regatta, Wimbledon Fortnight & Glorious Goodwood so formal, so fashionable & so famous? Her hectic & sometimes hilarious journey through the English summer proved as exotic as any tribal rite of passage as she swam the River Thames in the dark, partied with owners & trainers at Ascot, camped out for Wimbledon, joined Irish Travellers at The Derby, infiltrated the parents` stand at the Eton v Harrow cricket match & got caught using a mobile in the Stewards` Enclosure at Henley. En route she found a fascinating & surprisingly complex social structure dating back to the time of the Stuart monarchs & involving fashion, food, art & the marriage market. The English summer will never be the same again. ...

” For millennia, the passing seasons & their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But what do they mean to us now that we lead increasingly atomised & urban lives & our weather becomes ever more unpredictable or extreme? In this splendidly rich & lyrical celebration of the English seasons, Nick Groom investigates the trove of strange folklore & often stranger fact they have accumulated over the centuries & shows how tradition & our links with nature still have a vital role to play in all our lives.” ...

`[ Seaweed] is like dynamite
- [it has] fiber, nutrients, all the minerals, [it] aids digestion
- unbelievable` Jamie Oliver

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Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in the possession of a physical body, a body which can eat, drink & sleep; it is also to be integrated within a local ecosystem which overlaps with ecosystems which are larger & further away. To be a living thing is to exist in two bodies. You breathe something in, & what you breathe out is something else. Your first body is the place you live in, made out of your own personal skin. Your second body is not so solid as the other one, but much larger. This second body is your own literal & physical biological existence
- it is a version of you. It is not a concept, it is your own body. The language we have at the moment is weak: we might speak vaguely of global connections; of the emission & circulation of gases; of impacts. & yet, at some microscopic or intangible scale, bodies are breaking into one another. The concept of a global impact is not working for us, & in the meantime, your body has already eaten the distance. Your first body could be sitting alone in a church in the centre of Marseille, but your second body is floating above a pharmaceutical plant on the outskirts of the city, it is inside a freight container in the docks, & it is also thousands of miles away, on a flood plain in Bangladesh, in another man`s lungs. every animal body implicated in the whole world. Even the patient who is anaesthetized on an operating table, barely breathing, is illuminated by surgeon`s lamps which are powered with electricity trailed from a plant which is pumping out of its chimneys a white smoke that spreads itself out against the sky. It is understandably difficult to remember that you have anything to do with this second body
- your first body is the body you inhabit in your daily life. However, you are alive in both. You have two bodies. In this timely & elegant essay, Daisy Hildyard attempts to capture the second body by looking at it as a part of animal life. She meets Richard, a butcher in Yorkshire, & sees pigs turned into boiled ham; & Gina, an environmental criminologist, who tells her about leopards & silver foxes kept as pets in luxury apartments. She speaks to Luis, a biologist, about the origins of life; & talks to Nadezhda about fungi in an effort to understand how we define animal life. In her own interactions with other animals, she examines how humans & animals engage with one another, or fail to. Eventually, her second body comes to visit her first body when the river flooded her home last year. THE SECOND BODY is a brilliantly lucid account of the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth.

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After decades as a Commissario, Piero Trotti has retired. But his newfound peace is brief. An old friend calls him to Siena to give him urgent news: a known hit man has returned to Italy to kill Trotti. The former inspector must admit that he isn`t entirely undeserving, as his mistaken accusations & failed gambles have cost innocent lives in the course of his investigations. Though Trotti carries the burden of these deaths with him each day, someone else has appeared to enact his own, long-awaited retribution... ...

In an eighteen-year playing career for Cobh Ramblers, Nottingham Forest (under Brian Clough), Manchester United (under Sir Alex Ferguson) & Celtic, Roy Keane dominated every midfield he led to glory. Aggressive & highly competitive, his attitude helped him to excel as captain of Manchester United from 1997 until his departure in 2005. Playing at an international level for nearly all his career, he represented the Republic of Ireland for over fourteen years, mainly as team captain, until an incident with national coach Mick Mc Carthy resulted in Keane`s walk-out from the 2002 World Cup. Since retiring as a player, Keane has managed Sunderland & Ipswich & has become a highly respected television pundit. As part of a tiny elite of football players, Roy Keane has had a life like no other. His status as one of football`s greatest stars is undisputed, but what of the challenges beyond the pitch? How did he succeed in coming to terms with life as a former Manchester United & Ireland leader & champion, reinventing himself as a manager & then a broadcaster, & cope with the psychological struggles this entailed? In a stunning collaboration with Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle, THE SECOND HALF blends anecdote & reflection in Roy Keane`s inimitable voice. The result is an unforgettable personal odyssey which fearlessly challenges the meaning of success. ...

First published by Macmillan in 1895, & now returning to print in this beautiful edition, The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to Rudyard Kipling`s classic, The Jungle Book. Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves learns more of life & survival in the Indian jungle in the company of well-loved characters such as Baloo the brown bear & Bagheera the black panther. Including three further stories of life in India, this rich collection of adventure, fable & poetry from the master-storyteller & illustrated by his father, John Lockwood Kipling, is a classic to treasure. ...