Eat salami & mountain cheeses with red wine in the tiny grotto restaurnats in the remote valleys of Southern Switzerland & soft ice cream flavoured with the unique Sardegan bitter honey in the harbours of the mediteranean. Join Maneula`s journey as she revisits the memories, sights, smells & taste of her home town. ...

Under the Olive Tree is a story of family life & food in Lugano, an elegant city clinging to the edges of a Swiss Lake near the northern Italian border, & the sapphire seas of the Costa Smeralda in Sardegna, Italy. Manuela Darling- Gansser, along with photographer Simon Griffiths, goes on an inspirational journey as she revisits the memories, sights, smells & tastes of her home town & the summer holidays of her childhood. Eat salami & mountain cheeses with red wine in the tiny grotto restaurants in the remote valleys of southern Switzerl&. Sample traditional Sardinian fare of Culligiones, large pasta cushions filled with potato & wild mint & Semifreddo Di Miele Amaro, a soft ice cream flavoured with the unique Sardegnan bitter honey in the picturesque harbours on the Mediterranean. Manuela Darling-Gansser has cooking in her blood, her greatgrandfather founded a restaurant in Lugano 120 years ago & his son, her grandfather, made it famous. She is your perfect guide, intimately translating the food & flavours of her heritage. Under the Olive Tree is a celebration of Mediterranean al fresco living at its best! ...

A bold & original exploration of landscape, nature & literature by one of Britain`s most acclaimed novelists; Carved from the valley side above Mytholmroyd in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, Scout Rock is a steep crag overlooking wooded slopes & flat weed-tangled plateaus. To many it is unremarkable, to others it is a doomed place where 18th-century thieves would hide out; where the town tip once sat, suicides leapt to their death & the asbestos that claimed so many lives was buried in the soil. Scout Rock is also the subject of Ted Hughes`s 1963 essay ` The Rock`, in which the poet describes growing up across the valley from `my spiritual midwife...both the curtain & backdrop to existence`. Into this beautiful, dark & complex landscape steps Benjamin Myers, asking: are unremarkable places made remarkable by the minds that map them? The result is a lyrical & unflinching investigation into nature, literature, history, memory & the very meaning of place in modern Britain. ...

We sing the same songs, caught on the breeze... We sing the same songs, across the same seas. Written & illustrated by the award-winning Britta Teckentrup, this beautiful & heart-warming peek-through picture book celebrates the closeness of the world`s communities through their shared hopes & dreams. ...

Deep in the dewy forest sits an only, lonely panda bear. “I wish I had a friend, ” Panda sighs, as playful sifakas & graceful flamingos dance around him. But who’s that peeking through the bamboo? & can Panda work out how to be her friend? With stunning illustrations from Jonny Lambert (Little Why, Tiger Tiger, The Great Aaa-Ooo), The Only Lonely Panda is a funny & uplifting celebration of friendship & individuality. Perfect for little ones who are learning to make friends at a new nursery or school! ...

This unique book opens a window on to the lives of animals from different habitats around the world, namely the Amazon rainforest, the North American Rockies, European scrubl&, African savanna & the forests of Asia. The book introduces the animals of each biome in the flat spreads, & then tells their stories in the five multi-layered spreads, which are made up of either two or three flaps. Each scene works in tandem with sound effects
- activated upon lifting the final layer
- to bring each habitat to brilliant life. The book features wild creatures including mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects & arachnids.

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Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East--caught between the West & ISIS, Syria & Russia, & governed by an increasingly forceful leader. Acclaimed writer Kaya Genc has been covering his country for the past decade. In Under the Shadow he meets activists from both sides of Turkey`s political divide: Gezi park protestors who fought tear gas & batons to transform their country`s future, & supporters of Erdogan`s conservative vision who are no less passionate in their activism. He talks to artists & authors to ask whether the New Turkey is a good place to for them to live & work. He interviews censored journalists & conservative writers both angered by what has been going on in their country. He meets Turkey`s Wall Street types who take to the streets despite the enormity of what they can lose as well as the young Islamic entrepreneurs who drive Turkey`s economy. While talking to Turkey`s angry young people Genc weaves in historical stories, visions & mythologies, showing how Turkey`s progressives & conservatives take their ideological roots from two political movements born in the Ottoman Empire: the Young Turks & the Young Ottomans, two groups of intellectuals who were united in their determination to make their country more democratic. He shows a divided society coming to terms with the 21st Century, & in doing so, gets to the heart of the compelling conflicts between history & modernity in the Middle East. ...

` Has all the hallmarks of a classic summer read` The Times Anna`s friends & family think she is living the dream in her beautiful finca under the Spanish sun. But the reality is far from perfect. The handsome, complicated man she was building a life with has left with little more than a note to say goodbye & the future she imagined has crashed around her ears. Anna has secretly embarked on an ill-advised affair & lives above the dingy bar she runs in the sleepy beach town of Marea, surrounded by British expats as homesick & stuck as she is. When Simon, a local businessman, offers to rent the finca, Anna hopes it will pave the way for her escape. But there is more to him than meets the eye, & when a body washes up on the beach in mysterious circumstances, Anna realizes she may be the only one with the power to unravel the truth. But how can she prove that Simon is connected, & how can she reclaim her house? Anna is prepared to risk everything to get home
- even though she`s no longer sure where home really is. Urgent, gripping & brilliantly observed, Under the Sun is an exhilarating novel about heartbreak, identity, migration & finding a place to call home.
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Bruce Chatwin is one of the most significant British novelists & travel writers of our time. His books have become modern-day classics which defy categorisation, inspired by & reflecting his incredible journeys. Tragically, Chatwin`s compelling narrative voice was cut off just as he had found it. ` Bruce had just begun` said his friend, Salman Rushdie, `we saw only the first act`. But Chatwin left behind a wealth of letters & postcards that he wrote, from his first week at school until shortly before his death at the age of forty-eight. Whether typed on Sotheby`s notepaper or hastily scribbled, Chatwin`s correspondence reveals more about himself than he was prepared to expose in his books; his health & finances, his literary ambitions & tastes, his uneasiness about his sexual orientation; above all, his lifelong quest for where to live. Comprising material collected over two decades from hundreds of contacts across five continents, Chatwin`s letters are a valuable & illuminating record of one of the greatest & most enigmatic writers of the twentieth century. ...

A fascinating portrait of a pre-Gaddafi society on the verge of change. Tripoli in the 1960. A sweltering, segregated society. Hadachinou is a lonely boy. His mother shares secrets with her best friend Jamila while his father prays at the mosque. Sneaking through the sun drenched streets of Tripoli, he listens to the whispered stories of the women. He turns into an invisible witness to their repressed desires while becoming aware of his own. ` This is a fascinating portrait of a closed society. On the surface this quiet vignette of a story could be read as gently nostalgic, but underneath the author reveals the seething tensions of a traditional city coming to terms with our modern world. The book gives us privileged access to a place where men & women live apart & have never learned to respect each other.` Meike Ziervogel, Peirene Press ...