Following the same format & style as ”A Football Fan`s Guide to Europe”, ”A Fan`s Guide to World Cricket” is New Holland`s guide to the world`s top cricket teams & their homes. The book covers all Test teams as well as places where fans are most likely to go. Each team is covered in detail, including history, their test & ODI records, championships won, key players & the grounds. The book also contains information about the cities & countries of each team, including local culture, the best attractions & great places to eat & drink.A Fan`s Guide to World Cricket is written from the fans` point of view in expert & irreverent prose that taps into the cricketing culture across Europe. ...

After young publishing assistant & war widow Mrs Hawkins crosses swords with writer Hector Bartlett the repercussions are swift. Set in postwarliterary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a mischievous & stylish tale of the cost of telling the truth. This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime. All are being published by Polygon in hardback Centenary Editions between November 2017 & September 2018. ...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded & twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway`s description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer, & the men & women he meets in Italy, with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama & uncompromising passion. ...

Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old & lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front & his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield
- weary, demoralised men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty & desertion
- this gripping, semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war & the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition collects all of the alternative endings together for the first time, along with early drafts of other essential passages, offering new insight into Hemingway`s craft & creative process & the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Featuring the Nobel Prize winner`s own 1948 introduction to an illustrated reissue of the novel, a personal foreword by the author`s son Patrick Hemingway, & a new introduction by the author`s grandson Sean Hemingway, this edition of A Farewell to Arms is truly a celebration.

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Most of the scientific establishment predict that the North Pole will be free of ice around the middle of this century. As Peter Wadhams, the world`s leading expert on sea ice, demonstrates in this book, even this bleak assessment of the future is grossly optimistic. Wadhams has visited the Polar Regions more often than any other living scientist
- 50 times since he was on the first ship to circumnavigate the Americas in 1970
- & has a uniquely authoritative perspective on the changes they have undergone & where those changes will lead. From his observations & the latest scientific research, he describes how dramatically sea ice has diminished over the past three decades, to the point at which, by the time this book is published, the Arctic may be free of ice for the first time in 10, 000 years. Wadhams shows how sea ice is the `canary in the mine` of planetary climate change. He describes how it forms & the vital role it plays in reflecting solar heat back into space & providing an `air conditioning` system for the planet. He shows how a series of rapid feedbacks in the Arctic region are accelerating change there more rapidly than almost all scientists
- & political authorities
- have previously realised, & the dangers of further acceleration are very real. A Farewell to Ice is a report from the frontline of planetary change in the Arctic & Antarctic by a leading authority, presenting incontrovertible scientific data, but always in clear language which the layman can easily underst&. It is one of the most important books published in recent years about the existential challenge which human civilization now faces.



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‘ For me, the bond I have with Peg, my border collie sheepdog is priceless. I know how very lucky I, & thousands of other shepherds & farmers, are to have these extraordinarily bright, enthusiastic dogs at our side. But we, who work the land & our flocks, are not the only beneficiaries of the extraordinary relationship between man & dog …’ In A Farmer & His Dog, Adam Henson explores the unique relationship between a farmer & his most loyal friend. Sheepdogs come in a variety of shapes & sizes from border collies to Australian kelpies (rumoured to be a distant relative of the dingo). Not only are they essential to the running of a farm, but they are also fiercely intelligent & exceptionally devoted companions, having evolved over millennia to make the make the work of a shepherd possible. But it is not just the farmer working the land who benefits from the extraordinary relationship between man & dog. Beginning by introducing us to the dogs who have been faithful companions to the Henson family over the years, Adam goes on to explore the impact made by the UK’s hardest working breeds. From traditional herding dogs & gundogs – such as the Labrador’s he grew up with & the Hungarian wire-haired Vizslas like Boo & Olive who live with him now – to the assistance dogs, sniffer dogs & even search & rescue dogs, whose stories have reinforced Adam’s belief that we humans owe an enormous debt to our wet-nosed, four-legged friends. ...

In A Farmer & His Dog, Adam Henson explores the unique relationship between a farmer & his most loyal friend. Sheepdogs come in a variety of shapes & sizes from border collies to Australian kelpies (rumoured to be a distant relative of the dingo). Not only are they essential to the running of a farm, but they are also fiercely intelligent & exceptionally devoted companions, having evolved over millennia to make the make the work of a shepherd possible. But it is not just the farmer working the land who benefits from the extraordinary relationship between man & dog. Beginning by introducing us to the dogs who have been faithful companions to the Henson family over the years, Adam goes on to explore the impact made by the UK`s hardest working breeds. From traditional herding dogs & gundogs
- such as the Labrador`s he grew up with & the Hungarian wire-haired Vizslas like Boo & Olive who live with him now
- to the assistance dogs, sniffer dogs & even search & rescue dogs, whose stories have reinforced Adam`s belief that we humans owe an enormous debt to our wet-nosed, four-legged friends.

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A spellbinding concoction of crime, history & horror
- perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes & Jonathan Creek. New Year`s Day,
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A Fez of the Heart is the tale of Jeremy Seal’s journey around Turkey in search of a hat. Setting out across Turkey in the extremes of winter, Seal traces the history of the culture- defining, cone-shaped hat. It is not long before he comes to see the fez as the key by which this enigmatic country, so beset by contradictions, might be understood. A Fez of the Heart is both an intelligent, humorous & informative travelogue, as well as being a skilled & entertaining portrait of late twentieth century Turkey. ...

A Field Guide to Getting Lost is an investigation into loss, losing & being lost. Taking in subjects as eclectic as memory & mapmaking, Hitchcock movies & Renaissance painting, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, history & philosophy, shedding glittering new light on the way we live now. ...