There was someone standing further along the beach, facing out to sea. An old man dressed in...I blinked...battle fatigues? Second World War U.S. by the looks of the helmet. I looked on for a moment, squinting into the sun-streaked coconut smoke. ` You won`t like Bonga`s Guest House, I can tell you now. Maximo Bonga...` said the fisherman`s wife. She was lost for words, shaking her head. ` Maximum Bongo?` I asked.` Bonga, ` she said. ` It means flamboyant.` Based on a true story On one of South East Asia`s most remote beaches, a young woman`s body is found. The corrupt local police think they have found the perfect fall guy in Maximo Bonga
- cantankerous World War Two veteran & owner of the weirdest guesthouse in town. But unbeknownst to them, an unlikely friendship has been forged between Maximo & John, one of the boarders of Maximo`s guest-house-cum-boot-camp, where an old machine gun & camouflaged mantraps stand guard, sandbags form fences & a tyrannical pet rooster terrorises the guests. Along with an eccentric bunch of modern-world rejects, John sets out to defend the old soldier in a kangaroo court set up at the local cockpit, in a paradise like no other.
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Enter the Wundrous world of Morrigan Crow & Nevermoor
- the most fantastical children`s release of the year. Morrigan Crow is cursed.
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Eccentric, shy aristocrat.. . or mad, bad & dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen found the 3rd earl of Portsmouth a model gentleman & Lord Byron maintained that, while the man was a fool, he was certainly no madman. Behind closed doors, though, Portsmouth delighted in pinching his servants so that they screamed, asked dairy-maids to bleed him with lancets & was obsessed with attending funerals. After he`d lived this way for years, in 1823 his own family set out to have him declared insane. Still reeling from the madness of King George, society could not tear itself away from what would become the longest, costliest & most controversial insanity trial in British history. ...

The Triangle: Raleigh
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- Chapel Hill area of North Carolina on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive

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This work displays & defines the fruits of thousands of years of black African creative endeavour. All the objects included were made by Africans for their own use, spanning a period from the beginning of the first millennium to the early 20th century, before the commercial production of art aimed at the tourist trade. Jean-Baptiste Bacquart, has divided Africa south of the Sahara into 49 cultural areas. Each section studies the most important tribe within the area, surveying its social & political structures as well as its artistic production. The art is analyzed according to type
- in most instances masks, statues, & everyday objects, such as utensils, furniture & jewelry. Where appropriate, further information on artistically related tribes is then provided. Each section contains its own bibliography. A detailed reference section with information on key collectors, collections open to the public & a glossary completes this publication.
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From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover & mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows
- to negotiating each day, each encounter, each second; to finding the trick to keep living. Told with shattering clarity & wry wit, this is a Scottish classic fit for our time.
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On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdin&. Yet the events Princip triggered were so monumental that his own story has been largely overlooked, his role garbled & motivations misrepresented. The Trigger puts this right, filling out as never before a figure who changed our world & whose legacy still has an impact on all of us today. Born a penniless backwoodsman, Princip`s life changed when he trekked through Bosnia & Serbia to attend school. As he ventured across fault lines of faith, nationalism & empire, so tightly clustered in the Balkans, radicalisation slowly transformed him from a frail farm boy into history`s most influential assassin. By retracing Princip`s journey from his highland birthplace, through the mythical valleys of Bosnia to the fortress city of Belgrade & ultimately Sarajevo, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding both of Princip & the places that shaped him. Tim Butcher uncovers details about Princip that have eluded historians for a century & draws on his own experience, as a war reporter in the Balkans in the 1990s, to face down ghosts of conflicts past & present. The Trigger is a rich & timely work that brings to life both the moment the world first went to war & an extraordinary region with a potent hold over history. ...

On a summer morning in 1914, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. A hundred years later, Tim Butcher undertakes an extraordinary journey to uncover the story of this unknown boy who changed our world forever. By retracing Princip`s journey from his highland birthplace, through the mythical valleys of Bosnia to the fortress city of Belgrade & ultimately Sarajevo, he illuminates our understanding both of Princip & the places that shaped him while uncovering details about Princip which have eluded historians for a century. ...

Identical twins Sonja & Charlotte are musical prodigies with extraordinary powers. Born on All-Hallows-Eve, the girls could play music before they could walk. They were found one night by Tatty, the Tattooed Lady of the circus, in a pail on her doorstep with only a note & a heart-shaped locket. They`ve been with Tatty ever since, roaming the Outskirts in the circus caravans, moving from place to place. But lately, curious things have started to happen when they play their instruments. During one of their performances, the girls accidentally levitate their entire audience, drawing too much unwanted attention. Soon, ominous Enforcers come after them, & Charlotte & Sonja must embark on a perilous journey through enchanted lands in hopes of unlocking the secrets of their mysterious past. ...

This is shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award. Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity & drink in the work & lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever & Raymond Carver. Beautiful, captivating & original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert. ...