Take a journey from your doorstep into outer space! Zoom through the Solar System, discovering satellites, comets & asteroids along the way. Explore craters on Mars, moon-hop around Jupiter, & get a close-up view of Saturn`s amazing rings. Just don`t travel too close to the Sun! Packed with lively illustrations to reveal our amazing universe, this book is perfect for a parent & child to read together or to explore independently. The new A Journey Through titles include: Human Body: 978-1-78493-297-8 Space: 978-1-78493-298-5 ...

It is AD 130. Rome is the dazzling heart of a vast empire & Hadrian its most complex & compelling ruler. Faraway Britannia is one of the Romans` most troublesome provinces: here the sun is seldom seen & `the atmosphere in the country is always gloomy`. What awaits the traveller to Britannia? How will you get there? What do you need to pack? What language will you speak? How does London compare to Rome? Are there any tourist attractions? & what dangers lurk behind Hadrian`s new Wall? Combining an extensive range of Greek & Latin sources with a sound understanding of archaeology, Bronwen Riley describes an epic journey from Rome to Hadrian`s Wall at Britannia`s
- & the empire`s
- northwestern frontier. In this strikingly original snapshot of Roman Britain, she brings vividly to life the smells, sounds, colours & textures of travel in the second century AD.

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Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west & Lithuania at its southern border, & now part of modern Latvia, the region was by occupied by Nazi Germany & returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991. Once ruled by descendants of the Teutonic Knights, it is now a nowhere land of wide skies & forests, deserted beaches, ruined castles & ex-KGB prisons. For years Jean-Paul Kauffmann has been irresistibly drawn to this place, the buffer between the Germanic & Slav worlds. His digressive travels at the wheel of a Skoda become an investigation into the whereabouts of a former lover, a search for an excavator of tombs, & he follows in the footsteps of Louis XVIII, for whom Courland was once a place of exile. Author of Voyage to Desolation Island & The Dark Room at Longwood
- 'a remarkable book which defies classification' (New Statesman), which won six prizes on its publication in France
- Kauffmann has come to be known as an erudite & witty observer of the world's most desolate reaches.

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Four members of the Coverdale family
- George, Jacqueline, Melinda & Giles
- died in the space of fifteen minutes on the 14th

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`A compelling & moving story, expertly told, that will draw you in & keep you in its grip until the last page.` DAILY EXPRESS` Magnificent.. . his writing is evocative & perfect. His grasp of human loneliness & longing is beautiful & comforting.` MARIAN KEYES` Atmospheric, creepy & impossible to put down.` the TIMES`I raved about Holding two years ago.. . A Keeper is even better. A powerful, very sad story, beautiful writing, two time frames that are perfectly balanced. Outstanding. Will easily be one of my books of 2018.` JOHN BOYNE`A gripping, thoughtful tale about the search for identity, belonging & self-possession.` OBSERVER` Moving & darkly funny.` GOOD HOUSEKEEPING` Smart, well-written & thoroughly entertaining.` IRISH INDEPENDENT` It`s a sad & lovely book, brimful of tenderness & compassion, where the revelations of the past upturn the perceptions of the present.` SUNDAY EXPRESS` Charming & tender, a complete joy.` SUNDAY MIRROR` Perfectly crafted, a beautiful, gripping account of Irish memory & deceit. A terrific achievement.` ANDREW O`HAGANFrom the bestselling author of Holding comes a masterly tale of secrets & ill-fated loves set on the coast of Irel&. Dear Lonely Leinster Lady, I`m not really sure how to begin... The truth drifts out to sea, riding the waves out of sight. & then the tide turns. Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother`s death, intent only on wrapping up that dismal part of her life. There is nothing here for her; she wonders if there ever was. The house of her childhood is stuffed full of useless things, her mother`s presence already fading. & perhaps, had she not found the small stash of letters, the truth would never have come to light. 40 years earlier, a young woman stumbles from a remote stone house, the night quiet but for the tireless wind that circles her as she hurries further into the darkness away from the cliffs & the sea. She has no sense of where she is going, only that she must keep on. This compelling new novel confirms Graham Norton`s status as a fresh, literary voice, bringing his clear-eyed understanding of human nature & its darkest flaws. ...

This is a Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer
- love, films & kidnapping in North Korea, the world`s wildest regime. Before
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Tommy Carr was a kind man; Eve had been able to tell that after half an hour of knowing him. There had never been a day when he had not shown her some small kindness & even after the tragic death of their young daughter, their relationship remained as strong as before. Grief takes its toll however, & it`s not surprising that by the following Christmas, Tommy is a shadow of his former self, with the look of death upon him. But what happens next is entirely unexpected, not least for the kind man... ...

A car hurtles down the driveway of a luxury villa in Switzerl&. The driver is a young woman, Lucia Bernardi. Inside the house, ...

Stan Barstow`s landmark ` Brit-Lit` novel of the sixties immortalized Vic Brown, the amiable working class lad from the North & led the way for author`s like Nick Hornby writing similar slice-of-life drama. Still as fresh & alive today, it spawned two sequels: The Watchers on the Shore (1966) & The Right True End (1976). First published in 1960, it has long been used as a set text in British schools. It has also been translated at various times into a film starring Alan Bates (1962) of the same name, a television series (1973) starring Clive Wood, a radio play & a stage play. A Kind of Loving was the first of a trilogy, published over the course of sixteen years, that followed hero Vic Brown through marriage, divorce & a move from the mining town of Cressley to London. This new edition

Includes:: an afterword by David Collard.

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The Afghan war will be remembered for its politics more than its combat. There were few, if any, major battles. The longest war in American history has left 1, 800 U.S. troops dead, fewer than half the number killed in Iraq. The violence is mostly confined to the farmlands, deserts, & mountains, playing out in small ambushes, hit-&-run attacks, & assassinations. The United States came to Afghanistan on a simple mission: to avenge the September 11 attacks & drive the Taliban from power. This took less than two months. The story of the next decade is about how the ensuing fight for power & money
- the power & money supplied to one of the poorest nations on earth in ever-greater amounts
- left the region even more dangerous than before the first troops arrived. At the centre of this story is the Karzai family. The president & his brothers began the war as symbols of a new Afghanistan
- moderate, educated, fluent with East & West
- the antithesis of the brutish & backwards Taliban regime. Now, with the war in shambles, they are in open conflict with each other & their Western allies. In their experience one can find a war`s worth of mistakes, squandered hopes, & wasted chances. Nothing encapsulates the essence of the war`s trajectory
- & the descent from optimism to despair, friends to enemies
- as neatly as the story of the Karzai family itself.





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