You`ll tell her your darkest secrets Susan Svendsen has an unusual talent. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel compelled to confide in her & unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her whole life, she has exploited this talent, but now her family is in jeopardy & there is a prison sentence hanging over her head. Then Susan gets a timely offer from a former government official: use her power one more time & have all charges dropped. But there are some powerful people determined to stop her. ...

A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics ...

` Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned & cleverly executed murder, &, what was more, a murder without a corpse!` Two brothers, John & William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm in the beautiful Sussex Downs. Their peaceful rural life is shattered when John Rother disappears & his abandoned car is found. Has he been kidnapped? Or is his disappearance more sinister
- connected, perhaps, to his growing rather too friendly with his brother`s wife? Superintendent Meredith is called to investigate
- & begins to suspect the worst when human bones are discovered on Chalklands farml&. His patient, careful detective method begins slowly to untangle the clues as suspicion shifts from one character to the next. This classic detective novel from the 1930s is now republished for the first time, with an introduction by the award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards.

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The Sutherland Trail
- A Journey Through North-west Scotl&, is the long awaited latest book by the UK's best known hillwalker
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Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen & his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed. Mosheen`s dream of becoming a diplomat has been shattered & Zunaira can no longer even appear on the streets of Kabul unveiled. Atiq is a jailer who guards those who have been condemned to death; the darkness of prison & the wretchedness of his job have seeped into his soul. Atiq`s wife, Musarrat, is suffering from an illness no doctor can cure. Yet, the lives of these four people are about to become inexplicably intertwined, through death & imprisonment to passion & extraordinary self-sacrifice. The Swallows of Kabul is an astounding & elegiac novel of four people struggling to hold on to their humanity in a place where pleasure is a deadly sin & death has become routine. ...

In this elegant & insightful book, Dutch sociologist Benjo Maso identifies the truth behind the legends of cycle racing, & the Tour de France in particular, as he effortlessly weaves this compelling history of the sport together with tall tales rooted in truth. For a century professional cycle racing has been shaped by a complex relationship between three groups: the newspapers & television which organised the races & reported them; industry which sponsored the teams of riders; & the riders themselves. They ...

The Swedes, in the Xenophobe guide series; consisting of a range of pocket-sized guides which take a humorous & irreverent approach to a wide range of world cultures. Each guide explores the characteristics of a country’s people in a series of dedicated sections, encompassing nationalism & identity, behaviour, manners, character, obsessions, beliefs & values, leisure & pleasure, culture, custom & tradition, business, systems, health & hygiene, crime & punishment, government & bureaucracy, conversation & gestures & language. Written in a wholly irreverent style, Xenophobes guides attempt to forewarn readers of the main stereotypes & foibles that are associated with individual nationalities. ...

Swedish country houses are among Europe`s best-kept secrets. Little known to the outside world & rarely illustrated, they survive in surprisingly large numbers, often with their original furniture & decoration. This book is the first to tell their story. The twenty examples examined in detail range in type from royal palace to farmhouse, & in date from 15th-century Torpa to 19th-century Stjernsund. They all reflect the talents of many important architects & designers who together forged a distinctive national style. ...

This is the number one bestseller in France & Italy, from Francoise Heritier, The Sweetness of Life is a beautiful & poetic list of the everyday reasons that make life worth living. If you assume an average life expectancy of 85 years, & deduct the hours we spend daily on sleeping, shopping, eating, working, tending to our relationships & on everything else that is obligatory, then how much time is left for the average person to enjoy those activities that are the sweetness of life? For Francoise Heritier, it is those activities, those moments that make up pure sensuality, the actual experience of humanity. These are the moments we all cherish: wild laughter, coffee in the sun, the bliss of fresh autumn evenings, running in warm rain, long conversations at twilight, kisses on the back of the neck, the moment when all nature falls silent, those times when you know that someone likes you, is looking at you & listening to you, cooking a complicated dish, feeling agile & sprightly, getting back together with friends you haven`t seen in ages, watching a craftsman at work, listening to other people.” There`s still so much else that I forget”, says Heritier, & she goes on to list, with heart-warming & heart-breaking specificity, all that we so easily miss if we do not attend to the lightness & grace in the simple fact of existence, life`s sweetness. What about you, what would you miss if all this had to disappear from your life forever? ”A series of perceptions, sensations, eddies, & happiness of writing that gives a real intensity to the existence.. .a true wonder”. (Laure Adler). Francoise Heritier, an anthropologist, is Emeritus Professor at the College de France & the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of such highly successful works as Masculin/feminin & De la violence, translated into more than ten languages. Le Sel de la Vie (translated into English as The Sweetness of Life) is a French bestseller. ...

Centuries have passed since the time of the The 1001 Arabian Nights, but those classic tales, with their romance, passion, & vibrancy, continue to inspire & ignite imaginations. Within Scheherazade `s brilliant stories for her husb&, King Shahryar, we learn of the vibrant life of Baghdad, Damascus, & Cairo in the 9th century as well as of certain key persons & how they functioned in society. Food sweets, specifically plays an important part in The 1001 Arabian Nights; it is currency, temptation, sustenance. Delicious sweets are the link between that historical work & this modern one. The Sweets of Araby offers us exotic treats & the translated tales they come from. Sisters Leila Salloum Elias & Muna Salloum worked with the ancient Arabic text of The 1001 Arabian Nights to find recipes & translate their stories, literally bringing back to life evocative stories with recipes transformed to suit modern kitchens & tastes. Beautifully illustrated with original paintings by Linda Dalal Sawaya, this delectable treasure belongs in every 21st-century kitchen. ...