It's 1950 & when Laura & Billy Hopkins return to Manchester from their honeymoon they're in seventh heaven despite the austerity that has been going on since World War II. But the euphoria gradually evaporates & they settle into a penny-pinching existence on Billy's teaching salary as babies & bills appear with alarming regularity. When Billy spots an advertisement for Education Officers in Kenya it sounds like the answer to all their prayers despite worries about the Mau Mau rebellion & the omnipresence of dangerous creatures. After much family debate Laura Billy & the junior Hopkins set off to Nairobi on a BOAC Argonaut & start on the biggest adventure of their lives... ...

Moist von Lipwig is a con artist...and a fraud & a man faced with a life choice: be hanged or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It's a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets through come rain hail sleet dogs the Post Office Workers' Friendly & Benevolent Society the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company & a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice too... ...

The post was an old thing of course but it was so old that it had magically become new again. The post office is an ailing institution belonging to the olden days. New technology overshadows its mind-numbing bureaucracy & the creakingly slow pace of change. You can call them nostalgic but there are still people who believe in the post: in the beauty of stamps & cast-iron pillar boxes & the dignity of the postman braving hail wind & troublesome dogs. & sometimes it's worth standing up for what you believe in... ...

For the many amateur photographers looking to go pro this comprehensive guide from two industry icons is the go-to sourcebook packed with insider advice on how to launch a successful photo business in any genre. Going Pro is the fastest growing phenomenon in pro photography with a blog & podcast viewed by hundreds of thousands of photographers each month & numerous accolades including recognition by Alltop.com. Now a long-awaited book joins the movement giving amateurs all the information they need to turn their hobby into a business including a complete guide to building a social media platform from the ground up. Packed with advice from such industry icons as Chase Jarvis Vincent Laforet Matthew Jordan Smith Jules Bianchi Kevin Kubota & more this is the one guide amateurs have been waiting for. ...

Frances Lincoln are delighted to reissue Sarah Garlands classic picture book series featuring a warm & very down-to-earth family as they go about their daily life. Whether they are gardening swimming picnicking or going to playschool doing the washing the shopping enjoying Christmas or a tea party Mum daughter baby & dog are always rushing around getting things done & having lots of fun. Going Shopping follows the family as they pile into the car drive to the supermarket & do the shopping. ...

In 1950 only 22% of adults were single. Today more than 50% of adults are. Eric Klinenberg explores the dramatic rise of solo living & the seismic impact it's having on our culture business & politics. Though conventional wisdom tells us that living by oneself leads to loneliness & isolation most 'solo dwellers' compared with their married counterparts are more likely to eat out & exercise sign up for art & music classes attend public events & lectures & volunteer. Drawing on over three hundred in-depth interviews with men & women of all ages & every class Klinenberg reaches some startling conclusions. With eye-opening statistics original data & vivid portraits of people who go it alone Going Solo upends common preconceptions to provide the definitive take on the rise of this major trend & how it is transforming modern society. ...

A provocative look at how & why Britain has fallen into decline from being a superpower in 1914 to being a third world economy in 2014 by two of Britains leading Economists journalists With a second recession looming Britain is facing a moment of truth. Going South examines how the leader of the Industrial Revolution came to exhibit the features of a developing country." The symptoms of this vertiginous plunge in the worlds rankings are already starkly apparent: a chronic balance of payment deficit a looming shortage of energy & food a dysfunctional labor market volatility in economic growth & a painful vulnerability to external events. & if these are the big indicators of imminent relegation to the Third World many smaller ones are too numerous to fully catalogue. So stark is the evidence that it is our contention that Britains looming relegation is not in doubt. The names change with intellectual fashion--the developing world the Third World less-developed countries "emerging markets " or simply the Global South. But the destination is the same. Britain is going south--rapidly. Assuming that Britain faces up to its plight there is no easy model for the redevelopment of the national economy. Whichever path is taken will be a hard one. The age of the quick fixes is over." ...

America is a grotesquely polarized society & becoming more so all the time. In this razor-sharp funny & terrifying collection of pieces Barbara Ehrenreich shows how the widening gap between rich & poor over the past eight years has left the country increasingly divided between the gated communities on the one hand & the trailer parks & tenements on the other. She describes a country where the super-rich travel by private jet while low-paid workers make multiple bus trips to get to their jobs; where a wealthy minority obsessively consumes cosmetic surgery while the poor often go without basic health care for their children; where members of the moneyed elite can buy congressmen while a troubling proportion of the working class can barely buy lunch. Ehrenreich writes corruscatingly about the pay of CEOs the treatment of illegal immigrants the way Wal-Mart spies on & interrogates its employees & the fact that its easier to get health insurance in America for a pet than for a child. Going to Extremes" brilliantly anatomises a nation approaching its 2008 election scarred by deepening equality & corroded by distrust." ...

When Dax receives an urgent call he knows he has to drop everything & race to the aid of his friends. But that's not as easy as it sounds. Strange things are happening-unbelievable occurrences that seem to be following Dax & his friends wherever they go. & that's not all that's after them.. . Government agents are stalking their every move-tracking them down. The very people who are supposed to be protecting them seem to be the biggest threat. Who can they trust? Where should they run? Each of the friends must call upon their special powers to try to outwit their pursuers-but will these abilities spell the end for them all? ...

Too little to go to school too big to stay at home all day Anna is off to nursery for the first time. Tom is new too & together they discover how much fun it can be! Young children & adults alike will enjoy sharing & talking about this much-loved classic picture book with its delightful & amusing insight into the joys & trepidations of starting nursery. ...