A celebration of inspirational women from all over the world & throughout history, told in Marcia Williams` much-loved comic-strip style. Join Marcia Williams as she celebrates incredible women from around the world & throughout history. From writers to warriors & astronauts to activists, discover their awesome stories & be amazed by their achievements. Featuring Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo, Wangari Maathai, Mae C. Jemison, Cathy Freeman & Malala, & packed with facts, "es & jokes
- hip, hip, hooray!
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Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson is the story of one man’s mission to promote peace…one school at a time. In 1993, after a disastrous attempt to climb K2, Greg Mortenson drifted, cold & dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the kindness he was shown by local inhabitants, he promised to return & build a school. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty five schools in remote villages in Pakistan & Afghanistan. ‘ Here we drink three cups of tea to do business: the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, & the third you join our family, & for our family we are prepared to do anything
- even die.’
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* As mentioned on BBC`s Desert Island Discs*`A fascinating exploration of faith & friendship, rich & poor, & the devastating clash of tradition & modernity` Independent Set across Istanbul & Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith & friendship, tradition & modernity, love & an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife & mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground
- an old polaroid of three young women & their university professor. A relic from a past
- & a love Peri had tried desperately to forget. The photograph takes Peri back to Oxford University, as nineteen year old sent abroad for the first time. To her dazzling, rebellious Professor & his life-changing course on God. To the house she shares with her two best friends, Shirin & Mona, & their arguments about identity, Islam & feminism. & finally, to the scandal that tore them all apart. Shirin, Peri & Mona, they were the most unlikely of friends. They were the Sinner, the Believer & the Confused.

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Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground
- an old polaroid of three young women & their university professor. A relic from a past
- & a love
- Peri had tried desperately to forget. The photograph takes Peri back to Oxford University, as an eighteen year old sent abroad for the first time. To her dazzling, rebellious Professor & his life-changing course on God. To her home with her two best friends, Shirin & Mona, & their arguments about Islam & femininity. & finally, to the scandal that tore them all apart.


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It`s 28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians & Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ten hours the battle is over, & the Muslims possess the field; an outcome that has haunted the vanquished ever since. 28 June 1989, the Serb Leader Slobodan Milosevic launches his campaign for a fresh massacre of the Albanians, the majority population of Kosovo. In three short narratives, Kadare shows how legends of betrayal & defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century. ...

Discover the sights of London as Panda, Fox & Donkey journey through the capital aboard a red tour bus on a royal adventure. See if you recognise all the tourist attractions that these three friends see on their journey as they are introduced many interesting characters. This Top That Publishing storybook comes with a press out & build London bus model that kids will enjoy slotting together during this interactive story telling experience. For children aged 3+. ...

Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in the Odyssey Guides series; aimed at travellers particularly interested in the culture & history of their destination; the guides focus on the atmosphere, customs, & distinctive character of a country, region or city. As the only English language publisher based in China, Odyssey Guides specialize in Asian destinations, relying on the expertise of local writers. This gives readers more of an insider’s perspective, in companion with the practicalities of navigating through remote Asian landscapes. Each title is heavily dedicated to the culture of the destination, all with accompanying colour photography. The guides also showcase a range of literary excerpts which are taken from travel writers together with translations from the work of indigenous writers & poets, creating a distinctive tone unique to the publisher. There are also basic overview location maps & concise practical advice for visitors, including information on getting there & around, itineraries, climate, health, clothing & equipment, money, photography, communications, security, shopping, media, food & drink, holidays & behavior, customs & etiquette. ...

”A major achievement”. (Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield). A Cotswold vicarage. A former girls` boarding school in Surrey. A Jacobean house now buried in inner London. Three Houses, Many Lives tells the stories not only of the houses themselves but of the lives of the many people who lived in them. From Eugenia Stanhope who sold Lord Chesterfield`s scandalous letters, to the autocratic vicar who held the same parish from age 28 to 82, from the just-literate wife of a parish clerk who wrote riddles in his registers, to the cow-keeper who farmed 226 acres in Hornsey till he sold them profitably when the railways came through. Gillian Tindall is a master of miniaturist history, making a particular place, person or situation stand for a much larger picture. ...

A Cotswold vicarage, a former girls' boarding school in Surrey & a Jacobean house now buried in inner London -- these three houses represent the changing face of England over four centuries through the lives of the many people who lived in them. Many lives indeed, from the wealthiest to the poorest. The pages of Gillian Tindall's fascinating new book teem with pen portraits, from Eugenia Stanhope who sold Lord Chesterfield's scandalous letters, to the autocratic vicar who held the same parish from age 28 to 82, from the just-literate wife of a parish clerk who wrote riddles in his registers, to the cow-keeper who farmed 226 acres in Hornsey till he sold them profitably when the railways came through. The railways bypassed the Cotswold village, famous for its stone-masons, which remains rural to this day; whereas some Surrey inhabitants were, like the Jane Austen characters they resembled, already commuting to London in coaching days. Each house has gone through a series of physical transformations, most of all the seventeenth century merchant's house which eventually became the Conservative Club & then a drinking club for lorry drivers. Gillian Tindall is a master of miniaturist history, making a particular place, person or situation stand for a much larger picture, & it is with the skill of an accomplished researcher & elegant writer that she paints this panorama, from the Reformation to the Oxford Movement, from poor relief run by church vestries to the age of the blogger. ...

This book is the result of what happened when three best friends left their wallets & their trepidation at home
- Tim, Thom &
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