* Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2013 (winner announced in March 2013) Junior Magazine Design Awards (best Picture Book & Best New Talent categories) & the Cambridgeshire Picture Book Award 2013! * 'A thought-provoking story with a powerful message about conservation' says The Guardian's Julia Eccleshare * Other titles from Frann Preston-Gannon include Dinosaur Farm (March 2013) both in paperback & box set The ice is melting so Polar Bear sets off in search of a new home. Join him on his adventures across the seas & discover the many friends he meets along the way. This beautifully illustrated story has a powerful message of conservation & is full of things for parents & children to talk about. Frann was the winner of an amazing Sendak Fellowship & spent a month living with the great Maurice Sendak himself at his home in Connecticut USA. She worked on The Journey Home during her stay. ...

It is 1940 & Mr Graham a quietly-spoken engineer & arms expert has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. & now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room so terrified he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. As he journeys home
- alongside among others an entrancing French dancer an unkempt trader a mysterious German doctor & a small brutal man in a crumpled suit
- he enters a nightmarish world where friend & foe are indistinguishable. Graham can try to run but he may not be able to hide for much longer!

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The iconic broadcasting legend dusts down his suitcase for a final journey around the globe revisiting locations of significance to his life & career. You might say Im set in my airways. Im one of those lucky people whose professional & private lives blend exactly." Alan Whicker 2007 Published to coincide with a major BBC TV series of the same name Alan Whickers Journey of Lifetime is a glorious celebration of 50 years in front of the camera. For as long as most can remember Whicker has roamed far & wide in search of the eccentric the ludicrous & the socially-revealing aspects of everyday life as lived by some of the more colourful of the worlds inhabitants. Since the late 1950s when the long-running Whickers World documentary was first screened he has probed & dissected the often secretive & unobserved worlds of the rich & famous rooting out the most implausible & sometimes ridiculous characters after gaining admittance to the places where they conduct their leisure hours. The great mans legacy contains a number of genuine TV firsts. As well as landmark interviews with figures as diverse as Papa Doc Paul Getty & The Sultan of Brunei he was a pioneer covering subjects like plastic surgery gay weddings polygamy swinging & following gun-toting cops fly-on-the-wall style for British screens long before anyone else. This wonderful new book is the end product of a very personal journey. Whicker retraces his steps catching up with some past interviewees & reflecting on how the world has changed
- for good & bad
- over the passing of time. Journey of a Lifetime is lyrical uplifting & peppered with our favourite globetrotters brand of subtle satire."

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Journey of a Thousand Miles tells the remarkable story of a boy who sacrificed almost everything
- family financial security childhood
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This remarkable book uncovers--for the first time--the mystery of life in the spirit world after death on earth. Dr. Michael Newton a hypnotherapist in private practice has developed his own hypnosis technique to reach his subjects hidden memories of the hereafter. The resulting narrative acts as a progressive travel log" of the accounts of twenty-nine people who were placed in a state of superconsciousness. While in deep hypnosis these subjects movingly describe what has happened to them between their former reincarnations on earth. They reveal graphic details about how it feels to die who meets us right after death what the spirit world is really like where we go & what we do as souls & why we choose to come back in certain bodies." ...

Scholar churchman diplomat & theologian Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages & The Journey Through Wales" describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188. In a style reminiscent of a diary Gerald records the day-to-day events of the mission alongside lively accounts of local miracles folklore & religious relics such as Saint Patricks Horn & eloquent descriptions of natural scenery that

Includes:: the rugged promontory of St Davids & the vast snow-covered panoramas of Snowdonia. The landscape is evoked in further detail in " The Description" which chronicles the everyday lives of the Welsh people with skill & affection. Witty & gently humorous throughout these works provide a unique view into the medieval world."

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This is the story of love commitment & the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die thirteen-year-old Naledi & her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother who works there as a maid. Their journey illustrates at every turn the grim realities of apartheid
- the pass laws bantustans racism the breakdown of family life. The opulence of the white Madam's" house contrasts starkly with the reality that Naledi & Tiro face
- that their baby sister is suffering from starvation not an incurable disease. This new edition of Beverley Naidoo's classic story

Includes:: a special " Why You'll Love This Book" introduction by Michael Rosen the Children's Laureate."



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The missile streaked across the wave tops at the speed of sound. A single metallic sliver packed with high explosive & spouting smoke. It shimmered against the dull blue of the South Atlantic swell its warhead primed its homing radar locked onto the British destroyer. In November 1981 at just 17 years old & only a few weeks out of his naval training Adam Joe Lawton was drafted onto HMS Sheffield a type 42 destroyer. What began as an adventure soon changed into a nightmare when Sheffield on her way home from protection duties in the Iran/ Iraq war was deployed to the South Atlantic following the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentinian forces. Journey to Peace tells the story of the author's baptism by fire onboard HMS Sheffield when she was hit by an Exocet missile. Twenty of his shipmates died in appalling circumstances which for a young man on his first watch was beyond comprehension. In the months following the war Adam became what he himself called 'a nightmare'. Unable to grieve he was filled with anger hatred & aggression. To the despair of his family one violent episode followed another. Forced by a particularly astute Naval Lieutenant to confront his behaviour he promised to reform. Some years later now living in Australia Adam found the events of 1982 replaying themselves in his head. Increasingly affected by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder he resolved to return to the Falklands & then to travel to Argentina to meet the two fighter pilots carrying the Exocets one of which sank HMS Sheffield. Only two other sailors on Sheffield were younger than Adam Joe Lawton at the time of the war. One is now in psychiatric care. The other is dead having taken his own life. In writing this book the author hopes to refuel the agenda so that those who take the nation's young men & women into war do so with the knowledge of what it can do to those who survive. ...

From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve the travels of Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago are a passionate rediscovery of his own l&. Setting off in his veteran motor car Saramago wants to travel to Portugal as well as through it: by making it his destination the acclaimed writer hopes to take stock of his native land as it hovers on the edge of the modern world. He is no typical guide
- he avoids the sights" in favour of a remote Romanesque church a cobweb-ridden chapel the local & the domestic
- but with his deep fount of memory & erudite knowledge each encounter evoking the span of Portugals history he is anyones idea of a delightful travelling companion."

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What a stunning discovery: an old coded note that actually contains directions for reaching the Earths very core! & once he ...