Beautiful, bored & bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of her affairs becomes too much to bear, Sabina makes a late night phone-call to a stranger from a bar, & begins a confession that captivates the unknown man & soon inspires him to seek her out ...

In `this remarkable book` (as intelligence historian Nigel West describes it in his Foreword), the reader will be struck by the vibrancy of history made real. Author Roy Berkeley has gone behind the facades of ordinary buildings, in the city that West calls `the espionage capital of the World`, to remind us that the history of intelligence has often been made in such mundane places. With his evocative photographs & compelling observations, Berkeley ensures that we will never see the streets of London
- or these particular actors on the stage of history
- in quite the same way again. The 136 sites are organised into 21 manageable walks. Among the sites: the modest hotel suite where an eager Red Army colonel poured out his secrets to a team of British & American intelligence officers; the royal residence where one of the most slippery Soviet moles was at home for years; the London home where an MP plotting to appease Hitler was arrested on his front steps in 1940.

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Aimed at the sail training sector, this practical handbook explains how the introduction of new materials has influenced design & operation. Advice is given on voyage planning, operations & safety. The different training & equipment needs for vessels with modern technology, rather than those constructed to traditional design, is covered. It is aimed at those who serve, or wish to serve, as Master, mate or boatswain on a square rigger or large fore-andaft schooner. ...

” Wise old man, won`t you help me, please? My house is a squash & squeeze.” A little old lady lives all by herself but she`s not happy
- her house is just too small, even for one. Whatever can she do? The wise old man knows: bring in a flappy, scratchy, greedy, noisy crowd of farmyard animals. When she pushes them all out again, she`ll be amazed at how big her house feels! The brilliantly funny A Squash & a Squeeze was the first ever picture book written & illustrated by the unparalleled picture-book partnership of Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo. This handy board book format is perfect for younger readers. It features the classic story with a stunning redesigned cover & beautiful finish, making it a must-have for even the smallest Donaldson & Scheffler fans! Also available in board book format & with striking redesigned covers are: The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo`s Child, Room on the Broom, The Snail & the Whale, The Smartest Giant in Town, Monkey Puzzle & Charlie Cook`s Favourite Book.
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` Wise old man, won`t you help me, please? My house is a squash & squeeze.`A little old lady lives all by herself in her house but she`s not happy
- it`s just too small, even for one. Whatever can she do? The wise old man knows: bring in a flappy, scratchy, greedy, noisy crowd of farmyard animals. When she pushes them all out again, she`ll be amazed at how big her house feels! The brilliantly funny A Squash & a Squeeze was the first ever picture book written & illustrated by the unparalleled picture-book partnership of Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo. A Squash & a Squeeze 25th Anniversary edition features the classic story with a stunning foil cover & extra content.
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”A thrilling account”. (The Times). ” As heroic as Digby himself, Moshenska has defied the tyranny of genre & made his own absorbing account”. (Observer). ”A master storyteller. Full of exquisite details, but with the grandest themes...this is a gripping adventure story”. (Zia Haider Rahman). ”A brilliant account of one of the seventeenth century`s most dashing lives` Ruth Scurr ` Gripping & extraordinary”. (Ann Wroe). On the 16th of August 1628, five battle-scarred English ships sailed into the harbour of the Greek island of Milos. Dropping anchor, the 25-year-old captain banqueted with the local lord before sitting down to write an account of his journey
- an account that would transform him entirely. Sir Kenelm Digby was one of the most remarkable Englishmen who ever lived: a trusted advisor to the King, but the sworn enemy of the all-powerful Duke of Buckingham; a pioneering philosopher & scientist, but committed to the occult arts of alchemy & astrology; a friend not only of Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes & van Dyck, but even Oliver Cromwell. He was also widely known as the `son of a traytor & husband of a whore`: a man who witnessed his father`s gruesome execution for high treason as a Gunpowder Plotter, & the lover of the most celebrated beauty of the age, Venetia Stanley. In an attempt to clear his name, & on a quest for personal glory, Digby assembled a fleet & set sail for the Mediterranean: a world of pirate cities & ancient ruins where people, ideas & exotic goods moved freely between languages & nations. His journey
- encompassing fevers, mutiny, piracy, daring rescues & heroic sea battles
- is a great & terribly overlooked adventure, & a prism through which to view Engl&, & all of Europe, during one of the most pivotal periods in its history. A Stain in the Blood is the story of an extraordinary life, & of a journey that helped to shape a nation. It is a revelatory first work of non-fiction by one of the brightest young writers & thinkers of today.


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”A brilliant account of one of the seventeenth century`s most dashing lives”. (Ruth Scurr). ”A master storyteller. Full of exquisite details, but with the grandest themes...this is a gripping adventure story”. (Zia Haider Rahman). ” Gripping & extraordinary”. (Ann Wroe). On the 16th of August 1628, five battle-scarred English ships sailed into the harbour of the Greek island of Milos. Dropping anchor, the 25-year-old captain banqueted with the local lord before sitting down to write an account of his journey
- an account that would transform him entirely. Sir Kenelm Digby was one of the most remarkable Englishmen who ever lived: a trusted advisor to the King, but the sworn enemy of the all-powerful Duke of Buckingham; a pioneering philosopher & scientist, but committed to the occult arts of alchemy & astrology; a friend not only of Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes & van Dyck, but even Oliver Cromwell. He was also widely known as the `son of a traytor & husband of a whore`: a man who witnessed his father`s gruesome execution for high treason as a Gunpowder Plotter, & the lover of the most celebrated beauty of the age, Venetia Stanley. In an attempt to clear his name, & on a quest for personal glory, Digby assembled a fleet & set sail for the Mediterranean: a world of pirate cities & ancient ruins where people, ideas & exotic goods moved freely between languages & nations. His journey
- encompassing fevers, mutiny, piracy, daring rescues & heroic sea battles
- is a great & terribly overlooked adventure, & a prism through which to view Engl&, & all of Europe, during one of the most pivotal periods in its history. A Stain in the Blood is the story of an extraordinary life, & of a journey that helped to shape a nation. It is a revelatory first work of non-fiction by one of the brightest young writers & thinkers of today.


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` Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.` Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent & lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood & adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment. Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships & doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life.. . ...

What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Five people, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant & his dancing bear, & a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city, find out the meanings of dislocation, & the desire for more. Set in contemporary India & moving between the reality of this world & the shadow of another, this novel delivers a devastating & haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life. ...

What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? A State of Freedom prises open the central, defining events of our century
- displacement & migration
- but not as you imagine them. Five characters, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant & his dancing bear, & a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city, find out the meanings of dislocation, & the desire for more. Set in contemporary India & moving between the reality of this world & the shadow of another, this novel of multiple narratives
- formally daring, fierce but full of pity
- delivers a devastating & haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.



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