Veteran Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed in February 2012 when covering the uprising in Syria. Winner of the Orwell Special Prize ' On the Front Line' is a collection of her finest work a portion of the proceeds from which will go to the Marie Colvin Memorial Fund. Marie Colvin held a profound belief in the pursuit of truth & the courage & humanity of her work was deeply admired. On the Front Line

Includes:: her various interviews with Yasser Arafat & Colonel Gadaffi; reports from East Timor in 1999 where she shamed the UN into protecting its refugees; accounts of her terrifying escape from the Russian army in Chechnya; & reports from the strongholds of the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers where she was hit by shrapnel leaving her blind in one eye. Typically however her new eye-patch only reinforced Colvin's sense of humour & selfless conviction. She returned quickly to the front line reporting on 9/11 Afghanistan Iraq Gaza & lately the Arab Spring. Immediate & compelling On the Front Line is a street-view of the historic events that have shaped the last 25 years from an award-winning foreign correspondent & the outstanding journalist of her generation.

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Babies will love lifting the flaps in this delightful board book to find out all about themselves! Focusing on different aspects of babies abilities this book encourages interaction & discussion. Designed to support the Health & Well-being strand of Every Child Matters. ...

It would always be summer on the isl&...A love story with a twist Tracey Garvis Graves On The Island" is a US word-of-mouth success story to rival " Fifty Shades of Grey" with 1500 5; reader reviews online (and counting!) & sales taking it top 10 in the " New York Times" Wall Street Journal & Amazon.com bestseller lists. Film rights have been optioned by MGM with Temple Hill Productions (responsible for Twilight) slated to produce. When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a summer job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his familys holiday home in the Maldives she accepts without hesitation: a tropical island beats the library any day. T.J. has no desire to leave town not that anyone asked him. Hes almost seventeen & if having had cancer wasnt bad enough he now has to spend his first summer in remission with his family instead of his friends. Anna & T.J. are en route to join T.J.s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack & crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Marooned on an uninhabited island Anna & T.J. work together to obtain water food fire & shelter but as the days turn to weeks then months & finally years Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man... As romantic as " One Day" or " The Time Travelers Wife" US readers have fallen in love with Tracey Garvis-Graves " On the Island": " If youre looking for something to fill the gap after reading Fifty Shades...here it is!" (Danielle). "I couldnt put this down. I rooted for this couple from the beginning." (Kelkeligan). "A bit Castaway Survivor & Lost all rolled together the minute I opened the book I read till it was finished." (Michele). "I loved loved loved this. It was a perfect way to spend a cold Friday night stuck at home." (Kelly Tracey). Garvis-Graves lives in a suburb of Des Moines Iowa with her husband & two children." ...

Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world & they log our progress but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers & explorers through to Google Maps & beyond Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate & realign our history. His compelling narratives range from the quest to create the perfect globe to the challenges of mapping Africa & Antarctica from spellbinding treasure maps to the naming of America from Ordnance Survey to the mapping of Monopoly & Skyrim & from rare map dealers to cartographic frauds. En route there are pocket map tales on dragons & undergrounds a nineteenth century murder map the research conducted on the different ways that men & women approach a map & an explanation of the curious long-term cartographic role played by animals. On The Map is a witty & irrepressible examination of where weve been how we got there & where were going. ...

Summer 1985 & the very future of English football is in question. With hooliganism rampant & depressing & devastating tragedies at Birmingham Bradford & Heysel the sport had reached a pitiful & deplorable nadir; English sides banned from Europe; grounds old & decaying; racism on the terraces; attendances in freefall; & a petty & fractious TV dispute meaning no televised games until January. The beautiful game appeared to be destroying itself from within. Outside of football the country was doing the same -- unprecedented levels of unemployment rising crime & serious disturbances in Tottenham Brixton & Toxteth were signs of Thatchers new non-society. Britain seemed increasingly polarised around class money & geography. In Liverpool the far-left Militant Tendency was in the process of setting an illegal budget -- for the second year in a row. Amidst this social & sporting chaos Liverpool FC -- trophyless for the first time in 10 years & with a new inexperienced manager in charge of what many saw as an ageing & failing side -- had ended the 1984/85 season with its reputation at home & abroad in tatters. City rivals Everton had won the previous seasons championship at a canter & they rather than Liverpool were viewed as the side of the future. When the new season ended however it was Kenny Dalglishs men who were crowned champions beating Everton to the league on the last day & defeating them again in the first all-Merseyside FA Cup final just a week later. How was this possible! How did Dalglish sculpt a supposedly waning side into one that won not only the League but also the FA Cup becoming only the fifth side at the time to do so. Placing Liverpools season in its wider social context with match-by-match analysis fan & player recollections profiles & numerous photographs this book tells the in-depth story of this incredible feat for the very first time; the key signings the new tactics the TV dispute Manchester Uniteds 10 game winning start to the season surprise package West Ham & the sensational & enthralling finish. Few seasons were as riveting as this & didnt football need it! ...

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Published amid a firestorm of controversy in 1859 this is a book that changed the world. Reasoned & well-documented in its arguments it offers coherent views of natural selection adaptation the struggle for existence survival of the fittest & other concepts that form the foundation of evolutionary theory. ...

Now in paperback this richly illustrated edition of Charles Darwin's paradigm-shattering masterpiece brings his life & controversial theories into full view. Edited & with an introduction by award-winning science journalist David Quammen it features more than 300 illustrations including paintings personal photographs botanical & zoological studies & newspaper engravings. Excerpts from Darwin's other works (especially The Voyage of the Beagle") & facsimile pages from his letters & diaries invite readers to experience Darwin's journey & scientific breakthrough." ...

Five decades after it was first published Jack Kerouac's seminal beat novel On the Road" finally finds its way to the big screen in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (" Motorcycle Diaries") starring Sam Riley (" Control Brighton Rock") Garret Hedlund (" Friday Night Lights") Kristen Stewart (" Twilight") Kirsten Dunst Amy Adams & Viggo Mortensen. Sal Paradise (" Sam Riley") a young innocent joins his hero Dean Moriarty (" Garrett Hedlund") a traveller & mystic the living epitome of Beat on a breathless exuberant ride back & forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink sex drugs & jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom a test of the limits of the American dream. A brilliant blend of fiction & autobiography Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance poignancy & autobiographical passion. One of the most influential & important novels of the 20th century " On the Road" is the book that launched the Beat Generation & remains the bible of that literary movement. Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist poet artist & part of the Beat Generation. His first published novel " The Town & the City" appeared in 1950 but it was " On the Road" published in 1957 that made Kerouac famous. Publication of his many other books followed among them " The Subterraneans" " Big Sur" & " The Dharma Bums". Kerouac died in Florida at the age of forty-seven. " The most beautifully executed the clearest & the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as "beat"' The New York Times ' Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world making me yearn for fresh experience." (Hanif Kureishi " Independent on Sunday"). "" On the Road" sold a trillion Levis & a million espresso machines & also sent countless kids on the road." (" William Burroughs")." ...

On the Road" swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America jazz sex generosity chill dawns & drugs with Sal Paradise & his hero Dean Moriarty traveller & mystic the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald & it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance poignancy & autobiographical passion." ...