In The Songs of Trees, award-winning nature writer David Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring the trees` connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative & destructive animals, & other plants. In doing this he shows that every living being is not only sustained by biological connections, but is made from these relationships, & that holding a networked view of life enriches our understanding of biology, human nature, & ethics. ...

” Luke Nguyen, of Red Lantern fame, is going home. Travelling on a personal & culinary tour through Vietnam, Luke visits his family & friends, & is invited into the homes of local Vietnamese food experts & cooks, to learn more about one of the richest, most diverse cuisines in the world. Starting in the northwest of Vietnam, in the villages & hills around Sapa, Luke explores the roots of traditional cooking. Moving south, he travels to the capital, Hanoi, renowned for its French-Vietnamese cuisine. He explores the imperial cooking of Hue, discovers the famed cau lau noodles in Hoi An, & tastes a host of simple seafood dishes of coastal Nha Trang & Quy Nhon, his journey culminating in Saigon, where he is reunited with family. The Songs of Sapa is a vibrant, visual essay of Luke`s journey, the stories & recipes from each region, with stunning photographs bursting with colour & texture, capturing the beauty of Vietnam, her people & their deep connection to food.” ...

New York, 1916. Monroe Simonov, a song-plugger from Brooklyn, is in love with a Ziegfeld Follies dancer who has left him for California. Inez Kennedy, a fashion model in a department store, has just one season remaining to find a wealthy husband before she must return to the Midwest. Anna Denisova, a glamorous political exile, gives lectures & writes letters while she waits for the Russian people to overthrow their Tsar. Although the world is changing faster than they could ever have imagined, Monroe, Inez & Anna discover that they are still subject to the tyranny of the heart. In this richly atmospheric & deftly plotted novel, their paths cross & re-cross leaving a trail of passion, infidelity & betrayal, before hurtling towards an explosive climax ...

Part of Penguin`s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When this volume of Shakespeare`s poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets
- all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous `dark lady`
- contain some of the most exquisite & haunting poetry ever written, & deal with eternal subjects such as love & infidelity, memory & mortality, & the destruction wreaked by Time. Also included is A Lover`s Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

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Humour & high adventure combine in the biggest, new action adventure in years
- even if its characters are very small. Infinity
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It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain
- the poetry that did
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It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain
- the poetry that did
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After their father`s funeral, Erik & Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from an unknown woman among his papers, dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice in New York, Erik sets about reading his father`s memoir, hoping to discover the man he never fully understood. At the same time, another woman enters Erik`s lonely, divorced life
- a beautiful Jamaican who moves into his garden flat with her small daughter. As Erik gets drawn into the cat-&-mouse tactics of someone who appears to be stalking her, he finds out that his sister Inga is also being threatened, by a journalist in possession of a wounding secret from her past. A multi-layered novel that probes the mysteries of the heart & mind, The Sorrows of an American is compulsive, thought-provoking & profoundly affecting.
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Veering between carnival & apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten years become the epicentre of the international drug trade. The so-called ”war on drugs” has been a brutal & chaotic failure (more than 160, 000 lives have been lost). The drug cartels & the forces of law & order are often in collusion, corruption is everywhere. Life is cheap & inconvenient people
- the poor, the unlucky, the honest or the inquisitive
- can be ”disappeared” leaving not a trace behind (in September 2015, more than 26, 798 were officially registered as ”not located”). Yet people in all walks of life have refused to give up. Diego Enrique Osorno & Juan Villoro tell stories of teenage prostitution & Mexico`s street children. Anabel Hernandez & Emiliano Ruiz Parra give chilling accounts of the ”disappearance” of forty-three students & the murder of a self-educated land lawyer. Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez & Marcela Turati dissect the impact of the violence on the victims & those left behind, while Lydia Cacho contributes a journal of what it is like to live every day of your life under threat of death. Reading these accounts we begin to understand the true nature of the meltdown of democracy, obscured by lurid headlines, & the sheer physical & intellectual courage needed to oppose it. This is reportage at its bravest & most necessary
- writing that has the power to change the world`s view of Mexico & by the force of its truth to start to heal the country`s many sorrows.


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With contributions from seven of Mexico`s finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest & most necessary
- it has the power
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