Beautifully written & full of wonderful descriptions & intriguing tales In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwins travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast & his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road. ...

Stephen Vizinczey's remarkable acclaimed worldwide bestseller In Praise of Older Women" is published in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I am not an expert on sex but I was a good student of the women I loved & I'll try to recall those happy & unhappy experiences which I believe made a man out of me ' writes the narrator of this novel. Originally published by the author himself in 1965 " In Praise of Older Women" became an international bestseller & renowned classic & its title is now part of the language. Stephen Vizinczey (b.1933) is a poet playwright & novelist best known for his novels " In Praise of Older Women" (1965) & " An Innocent Millionaire" (1983). Born in Hungary he was only two years old when his father was assassinated by the Nazis & later also lost his uncle to the communists. Having studied under George Lukacs at the University of Budapest he graduated from the city's Academy of Theatre & Film Arts in 1956. He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 & later emigrated to Canada speaking only fifty words of English. He learned the language while writing scripts for the National Film Board of Canada; subsequently he founded & edited a literary-political magazine " Exchange" & joined CBC/ Radio Canada as a writer & producer. In 1966 he moved to London where he still lives. If you enjoyed " In Praise of Older Women" you might like Anais Nin's " Delta of Venus" also available in " Penguin Classics". "A tender & beautiful book." (" Michael Frayn"). " You cannot put down: witty moving & it's all about sex. Truly original." (Margaret Drabble author of " The Needle's Eye"). "A masterpiece...dazzling...like all great novels it shows the truth about life." (Pierre Lepape Le Monde)." ...

DONT HURRY BE HAPPY. Almost everyone complains about the hectic pace of their lives. These days our culture teaches that faster is better. But in the race to keep up everything suffers
- our work diet & health our relationships & sex lives. Carl Honore uncovers a movement that challenges the cult of speed. In this entertaining & hands-on investigation he takes us on a tour of the emerging Slow movement: from a Tantric sex workshop in London to a meditation room for Tokyo executives from a Super Slow exercise studio in New York to Italy home of the Slow Food Slow Cities & Slow Sex movements.
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Brazenly kidnapped from her sister Heather's engagement ball Eliza Cynster is spirited north from London to Edinburgh. Desperate & determined to escape she seizes upon the first possible champion who happens along
- gentleman scholar Jeremy Carling. Villains & rescues are a far cry from Jeremy's area of expertise yet he cannot abandon a damsel in distress. But danger lurks & hurdles abound in their race to elude the mysterious laird until a final confrontation on a rugged windswept cliff reveals what their future life could hold
- if both are bold enough to seize & submit to their passionate desires.. .

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Bradley Wiggins is the son of a professional cyclist & he first competed at twelve immediately realising that this was what he wanted to do as a career. By the age of twenty he won his first Olympic medal in Sydney before turning to professional road cycling in 2001. Since then Wiggins has developed into one of the UKs most successful cyclists of all time winning a gold in Athens & double gold in Beijing. However it was when his team Cofidis was suspended from the 2007 Tour de France that he made his most outspoken comments yet on the issue of doping in cycling & earned the respect of all followers of sport for his st&. Wiggins is an inspirational figure to many: immensely talented dedicated & cool he has brought his sport to a whole new audience & was awarded the OBE in 2004 for his efforts. This honest & compelling account of his life & career not only reveals the sheer hard work required to get to the very top but also provide a fascinating & controversial insight into the sometimes murky world of cycling. ...

Indie experimentalists Radiohead are one of the most creative & ground-breaking bands of recent years. This their seventh studio album was controversially released as a pay-what-you-want digital album for online download courting publicity & creating a furore within the industry. Many are already calling this album the true heir to OK Computer" one of the best rock albums of all time. This songbook contains all the tracks arranged for piano voice & guitar with four pages of colour photographs." ...

A year living with ten scientists in a hut buried deeply within an ice shelf eight hundred miles from the South Pole is an unusual experience. Aside from the climatic problems & the care with interpersonal relationships essential in such circumstances the authors project was even more unusual & challenging. A few miles from this scientific station there was a rookery of about ten thousand Emperor Penguins. Captain Scotts friend & biologist Dr Edward Wilson was determined to discover whether these creatures were fish which could fly or birds which could swim like fish
- or even reptiles for they were primitive creatures in evolutionary development. Wilson died with Scott on the way back from the South Pole & the scientific puzzle drifted into obscurity. The author who was on National service fifty years later & certainly not a professional explorer was asked to provide a timed series of Emperor Penguin embryos at twelve hourly intervals for ten days. Ignorant of what the project entailed he agreed & so started an adventure which coloured the rest of his life. No one told him that the penguins laid their eggs in pitch darkness in the depth of the polar winter nor that the average temperature would be in the minus forties. Penguins like sheep are not easy to tell apart so how was he to time an embryo unless he saw the egg laid? How also was he to pick out the same penguin several days later to harvest the embryo? It was a mission which seemed close to impossible but then the challenge had been handed out to a daft Scotsman with the genes of a Scotch terrier.
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Written for the educated non-scientist & scientist alike it spans a variety of scientific disciplines from observational astronomy to particle physics. Concepts that the reader will encounter along the way are at the cutting edge of scientific research. However the themes are explained in such a way that no prior understanding of science beyond a high school education is necessary. ...

This is an updated edition of the classic bestseller
- the most famous book by the world's most trusted management guru. In 1999
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One of the worlds most renowned chefs Heston Blumenthal has made his name creating such original
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