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! ...

It is late summer 2008 & forty-year-old Salinger Nash, who has been plagued since adolescence by a mercurial depression, leaves the north-west London house he shares with girlfriend for his older brother Carson`s home in New Orleans. It is Carson who has persuaded Salinger that they should visit their estranged father on his deathbed in Las Cruces, & use it as an opportunity to heal old wounds. However it is with a sense of foreboding that Salinger sets off with his brother on a road trip from New Orleans in Carson`s prized brand new Lexus, as their relationship is far from amicable. Tender, funny, unflinching, this is a road trip story in the great American literary tradition & an exploration of sibling rivalry that harks back to Cain & Abel. It is a vivid glimpse of a country through the eyes of an outsider, a profound exploration of brotherhood & a gripping journey of the soul. ...

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. ...

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 ...

Hay-on-Wye is world famous as the Town of Books. But when travel writer Oliver Balch moved there, it was not just the books he was keen to read, but the people too. After living in London & Buenos Aires, what will he make of this tiny, quirky town on the Welsh-English border? To help guide him, he turns to Francis Kilvert, a Victorian diarist who captured the bucolic rural life of his day. Does anything of Kilvert`s world still exists? & could a newcomer ever feel they truly belong? With empathy & humour, Balch joins in the daily routines & lives of his fellow residents. What emerges is a captivating, personal picture of country life in the 21st century. Some things haven`t altered for centuries, while others are changing at an alarming pace. Written with his trademark vivid, reportage style, Balch`s journey sees him meet with a king & his courtiers, publicans, hippies, mayors, old widows & young farmers. In an increasingly mobile, urban world, Under the Tump is a timely, honest account of Balch`s attempt to put down roots in a community not yet his own. ...

Hay-on-Wye is world famous as the Town of Books. But when travel writer Oliver Balch moved there, it was not just the books he was keen to read, but the people too. After living in London & Buenos Aires, what will he make of this tiny, quirky town on the Welsh-English border? To help guide him, he turns to Francis Kilvert, a Victorian diarist who captured the bucolic rural life of his day. Does anything of Kilvert`s world still exists? & could a newcomer ever feel they truly belong? With empathy & humour, Balch joins in the daily routines & lives of his fellow residents. What emerges is a captivating, personal picture of country life in the 21st century. Some things haven`t altered for centuries, while others are changing at an alarming pace. Written with his trademark vivid, reportage style, Balch`s journey sees him meet with a king & his courtiers, publicans, hippies, mayors, old widows & young farmers. In an increasingly mobile, urban world, Under the Tump is a timely, honest account of Balch`s attempt to put down roots in a community not yet his own. ...

In Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances May opens the door on a wondrous new world when she buys & restores an abandoned villa in the Tuscan countryside. Beneath whitewashed walls she finds faded frescoes, beneath overgrown brambles she finds a forgotten vineyard, & she even finds a scorpion beneath her pillow. From her traditional kitchen & simple garden, gourmet cook & travel writer Frances Mayes creates seasonal recipes which are included in Under the Tuscan Sun, & whilst roaming the surrounding hills & markets she explores the nuances of the Italian landscape, history & cuisine. Each adventure brings something to the senses, be it the perfect panettone, an unforgettable wine, or painted Etruscan tombs. ...