Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that though closer to home than most of his expeditions uncovers some surprising truths about Britain & the British people in the 80s in The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain". Paul Therouxs round-Britain travelogue is funny perceptive & best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure... After eleven years living as an American in London Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast & find out what Britain & the British are really like. It was 1982 the summer of the Falklands War the ideal time he found to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result makes superbly vivid & engaging reading. "A sharp & funny descriptive writer. One of his golden talents perhaps because he is American & therefore classless in British eyes is the ability to chat up & get on with all sorts & conditions of British... Theroux is a good companion". (" The Times"). " Filled with history insights landscape epiphanies meditations celebrations & laments". (" The New York Times"). " Few of us have seen the entirety of the coast & I for one am grateful to Mr Theroux for making my journey unnecessary. He describes it all brilliantly & honestly". (Anthony Burgess " Observer"). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people & places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his other non-fiction titles " Riding the Iron Rooster" " The Happy Isles of Oceania" " Sunrise with Seamonsters" " The Tao of Travel" " Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" " The Old Patagonian Express" " The Great Railway Bazaar" " Dark Star Safari" " Fresh-air Fiend" " Sir Vidias Shadow" " The Pillars of Hercules" & his novels & collections of short stories including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner " The Mosquito Coast" are available from Penguin." ...

Douglas Tallentire has at last achieved what his father & grandfather before him fought for so bitterly. Educated & independent he can carve out his own career & spread his wings. But success freedom & happiness are more elusive than ever in the fiercely competitive Seventies. From Cumbria to the frenetic whirl of sophisticated life in New York & London Douglas like all the Tallentires must come to terms with private uncertainty & pain. ...

This book accompanies the landmark television series Kingdom of Plants 3D: With David Attenborough. In the last 500 million years plants have undertaken an epic journey that has not only spanned the ages but has altered the very make-up of the planet. It was a journey that began in a dark & barren world & has culminated in a planet that is draped in rich colours & overflowing with a diversity of mystifying orchids exploding seed pods & snapping carnivorous plants. But plants are far more than just beautiful & bizarre. Through the chapters of this book we uncover how plants first began to live on land how they have become linked with a multitude of animal & fungi partners & how ultimately they have shaped both landscapes & cultures. With an introduction by Professor Stephen Hopper Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew as well as contributions from leading botanists & horticulturists this book unpicks the strands of our planet's network of botanical life. Through its pages we reveal the extraordinary ways in which plants have come to live & thrive in all habitats & we discover how they can provide us with answers to many of the problems that face humanity in our modern age. For more information please visit: www.kingdomofplants.com ...

Paris 1938. Nicholas Morath former Hungarian cavalry officer returns home to his young mistress in the 7th arrondissement. Hes been in Vienna where amid the mobs screaming for Hitler hes done a quiet favour for his uncle Count Janos Polanyi. Polanyi is a diplomat & desperate to stop his countrys drift into alliance with Nazi Germany he trades in conspiracy
- with SS renegades Abwehr officers British spies & NKVD defectors leading Morath deeper & deeper into danger as Europe edges towards war.
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Ibrahim Al-Brehm is a respectable husband a police inspector on Jeddahs murder squad. But for the past year he has been having an affair with a woman named Maria. One day though she disappears. Terrified & with nowhere else to turn Ibrahim goes to Katya one of the few women on the force. As she ventures into Saudi Arabias underworld she uncovers a murder which connects Maria to a human trafficking ring. Soon Ibrahim realises that the killer is closer to home than he had ever imagined. Kingdom of Strangers is a suspenseful story of murder & deception among Saudi Arabias shaded alleys gleaming compounds & vast lonely deserts. ...

With her master dead & her oaths foresworn necromancer & spy Isyllt Iskaldur finds herself in exile. Hounded by assassins she seeks asylum in Assar the empire she so recently worked to undermine. There warlords threaten the Empire's fragile peace & the empress is beset by enemies within the court. Even worse darkness stirs in the deep desert. Ancient spirits are waking that could destroy Assar faster than any army. Isyllt must travel into the heart of the desert to lay the darkness there to rest once more. But first she must stop an order of mages that will do anything to keep the Empire safe
- even raze it to dust.
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All animal life is to be found within the pages of The Kingfisher Animal Encyclopedia". The book is arranged simply covering every animal group from the smallest to the largest. Individual animal entries are packed with vital facts & accompanied by superb images & are complemented by panels on subjects such as metamorphosis camouflage & hibernation." ...

The Kingfisher Childrens Bible is a stunning new retelling of one of the worlds most important books for a new generation of ...

A wealth of amazing information is to be found within the pages of The Kingfisher Childrens Encyclopedia. This comprehensive reference source is superbly & concisely written & clearly arranged with information in manageable chunks for young readers. Packed with illustrations photography & detailed maps the pages are dynamic & bursting with life. ...

This amazing 160-page volume is the perfect guide to dinosaurs & the prehistoric world for children aged nine plus. It is packed with colourful illustrations step-by-step sequences & the latest photography. Arranged thematically into key areas the concise text is clear accurate & perfectly pitched making this an unbeatable resource for home & school. ...