Thin White Line is the sequel to Learning to Breathe, Andy Cave's bestselling debut & winner of both the prestigious Boardman Tasker Prize & the Adventure Travel Award at the Banff International Festival. In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend & climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that have defined his life so far. Will he have the courage to undertake such a challenge again? Does he want to? Thin White Line charts his struggle towards finding an answer. It is as much a journey into the mind of an extreme mountaineer as it is into the wild landscapes through which he travels. In a nail-biting narrative set in Patagonia, Norway & Alaska, Cave tackles the severest challenges modern Alpinism can pose. Juxtaposed with the stark beauty of the environment are the colourful characters populating his stories, from the adventurers around him, past & present, to the pioneer aviators who get him & his kind to those impossibly remote places. He vividly recreates the joy & despair of climbing, building the book to a desperate finale that lays bare the fragility of our carefully constructed convictions. ...

From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If?
- the man who created xkcd & explained the laws of science with cartoons
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From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If?
- the man who created xkcd & explained the laws of science with cartoons
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Through rallies & marches, in polite drawing rooms & freezing prison cells & the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. Evelyn is seventeen, & though she is rich & clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university. Enraged that she is expected to marry her childhood sweetheart rather than be educated, she joins the Suffragettes, & vows to pay the ultimate price for women`s freedom. May is fifteen, & already sworn to the cause, though she & her fellow Suffragists refuse violence. When she meets Nell, a girl who`s grown up in hardship, she sees a kindred spirit. Together & in love, the two girls start to dream of a world where all kinds of women have their place. But the fight for freedom will challenge Evelyn, May & Nell more than they ever could believe. As war looms, just how much are they willing to sacrifice? ...

Through rallies & marches, in polite drawing rooms & freezing prison cells & the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. Evelyn is seventeen, & though she is rich & clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university. Enraged that she is expected to marry her childhood sweetheart rather than be educated, she joins the Suffragettes, & vows to pay the ultimate price for women`s freedom. May is fifteen, & already sworn to the cause, though she & her fellow Suffragists refuse violence. When she meets Nell, a girl who`s grown up in hardship, she sees a kindred spirit. Together & in love, the two girls start to dream of a world where all kinds of women have their place. But the fight for freedom will challenge Evelyn, May & Nell more than they ever could believe. As war looms, just how much are they willing to sacrifice? ...

Like bubonic plague & stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras & do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling & telling the British people to f*** off at the same time. It was something we would have to get used to.` Things Can Only Get Better is the personal account of a Labour supporter who survived eighteen miserable years of Conservative government. It is the heartbreaking & hilarious confessions of someone who has been actively involved in helping the Labour party lose elections at every level: school candidate: door-to-door canvasser: working for a Labour MP in the House of Commons; standing as a council candidate; & eventually writing jokes for a shadow cabinet minister. Along the way he slowly came to realise that Michael Foot would never be Prime Minister, that vegetable quiche was not as tasty as chicken tikki masala & that the nuclear arms race was never going to be stopped by face painting alone. ...

After an Arctic winter, a British recession, & a downturn in the newspaper industry, two journalists & their dog embark on an adventure in the wild & beautiful southern Peloponnese. A perfect plan, except for one thing
- Greece is deep in economic crisis. & if fiscal failure can't overturn the couple's escapade in rural Greece, perhaps macabre local customs, a scorpion invasion, zero dog-tolerance, health scares, & touchy expats will. This is a humorous & insightful journey through one of the last unspoilt regions of Greece. It is full of encounters with warm-hearted, often eccentric, Greeks who show that this troubled country still has heroes, if not euros. In a hillside village in the Mani, the locals share their lives, their laughter & their stories & help chart the couple's own passage back to happiness. They even find a place in their hearts for their Greek nemesis
- the local pungent goat cheese. Things really can only get feta -

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` Hilarious, insightful & has that rare quality of making politics fun. A brilliant book everyone should read, whoever you vote for.` Owen Jones, author of The Establishment From the giddy heights of New Labour`s landslide victory in 1997 to the shock result of the 2017 snap election, these are the frank & funny memoirs of one bewildered Labour activist who tried to carry on as usual long after politics had stopped making sense. With a literary flair that has been compared to Donald Trump`s tweets, John O` Farrell attempts to explain the alarming rise of populist politics, Labour`s twenty-year identity crisis, & why you should never tell your mother you are doing a radio phone-in, unless you want her ringing up to tell everyone she agrees with you. On everything. Along the way, John stood for parliament against Theresa May but failed to step into her shoes; he took his campaigning skills to America (but still Obama got in); & he was dubbed `the sickest man in politics` by the Daily Mail when in truth he`s only the second or third. The long-awaited sequel to the best-selling Things Can Only Get Better is for everyone who could use a good laugh after Brexit, Trump & learning you were governed by the DUP. A twenty-year journey from hope to despair & back again, packed with political confessions even more outrageous than running through fields of wheat. ...

` Hilarious, insightful & has that rare quality of making politics fun. A brilliant book everyone should read, whoever you vote for.` Owen Jones, author of The Establishment From the giddy heights of New Labour`s landslide victory in 1997 to the shock result of the 2017 snap election, these are the frank & funny memoirs of one bewildered Labour activist who tried to carry on as usual long after politics had stopped making sense. With a literary flair that has been compared to Donald Trump`s tweets, John O` Farrell attempts to explain the alarming rise of populist politics, Labour`s twenty-year identity crisis, & why you should never tell your mother you are doing a radio phone-in, unless you want her ringing up to tell everyone she agrees with you. On everything. Along the way, John stood for parliament against Theresa May but failed to step into her shoes; he took his campaigning skills to America (but still Obama got in); & he was dubbed `the sickest man in politics` by the Daily Mail when in truth he`s only the second or third. The long-awaited sequel to the best-selling Things Can Only Get Better is for everyone who could use a good laugh after Brexit, Trump & learning you were governed by the DUP. A twenty-year journey from hope to despair & back again, packed with political confessions even more outrageous than running through fields of wheat. ...

First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe`s Things Fall Apart is one of the modern age`s defining books
- the book that marked African
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