This original & colourful guide to British summer wildlife experiences is packaged into daily suggestions for what, when, where & how to see the best of British summer wildlife. For both the experienced wildlife tourist & the novice, the suggestions criss-cross Engl&, Scotland & Wales, complete with inspiring itineraries, engaging descriptions, detailed directions & tips on how to find, identify & enjoy British animals, butterflies, birds & plants. Each entry gives an informative & inspiring suggestion focusing on one or two species, with full-colour photography & a helpful box covering Practicalities such as grid references, useful websites, access arrangements to specific sites, flexibility details such as flight periods for butterflies or flowering weeks for orchids, & alternative sites to make viewing possible if you don`t live near the suggested site but want to view the suggested species. From delicate orchids to gargantuan basking sharks, from seabird skyscrapers to ostentatious otters, this is the only guide of its type to offer full details of how to get the most out of British summer wildlife watching. ...

Rico has been banished to society has neither a roof over his head nor a steady income on which to depend. When a friend & fellow clochard dies of exposure after a night spent in the Paris metro, Rico decides to flee the northern cold for his beloved south, for Marseilles & the Mediterranean. From the celebrated author of the Marseilles trilogy, this is both an affecting on-the-road novel & a tender exploration of love heal & to destroy. ...

In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hotel des Mille-Collines. It is a magnet for a privileged group of residents, a place where middle-class Rwandans drink with melancholy expatriates & prostitutes. But beyond the walls of the hotel exists a chaotic society in which millions live in poverty, surrounded by violence & disease. In this troubled world, Valcourt, a Canadian journalist, falls for Gentille, a beautiful Hutu waitress.A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a poignant love story, a stirring hymn to humanity & a modern classic of spellbinding power, confronting the nightmare that ravaged Rwanda in the 1990s. ...

John Stow first published his ” Survey of London” in 1598 during the reign of Elizabeth I. His detailed description of the city & its suburbs was an immediate success when it first appeared & has remained a popular classic of English history ever since. ...

Life in the wild teaches us invaluable lessons. Extreme situations force us to seize opportunities, face up to dangers & rely on our instincts. But living a purpose-driven, impactful life can be an even greater challenge... In A Survival Guide for Life, Bear Grylls shares the hard-earned lessons he's learned from some of the harshest environments on earth. How do you keep going when all the odds are stacked against you? How can you inspire a team to follow you in spite of obvious danger? What are the most important skills to learn if you really want to achieve your maximum potential? Bear's instantly inspiring tales from his adventures in all four corners of the globe include his personal life lessons you will never forget. We're all capable of living life more boldly & of having more fun along the way. Here's to your own great adventure! ...

Nigeria is a country where petroleum prices & polio are both booming, where small villages challenge giant oil companies, & scooter drivers run their own mini-state. The oil-rich Delta region at the heart of it all is, as Peel shows us, a troublespot as hot as the local pepper soup. Through a host of characters, from the prostitutes of Port Harcourt to the Area Boys of Lagos, from the militants in their swamp forest hideouts to the oil company executives in London, Peel tells the story of this extraordinary country, which grows ever more wild & lawless by the day as its crude oil pumps through our cities. ...

Bittersweet & startling, A SWEET OBSCURITY is a novel of childhood, love & the consequences of how lives are lived. ` Intriguing & impressive. A memorable study of a child forced cruelly, even tragically, to grow up too soon` Sunday Times Since her mother`s death, nine year old Dido has been living with her eccentric aunt, acting as peacekeeper between Eliza, her estranged husband Giles & his girlfriend. They are each cruelly burdened in different ways. Chance draws them down to Cornwall, where a country idyll offers to lighten their urban cares. Eliza falls in love with local farmer, Pearce, an event that causes the four adults to re-assess their lives, with some painful & unforeseen consequences for adults & child alike. ...

A Guardian ` Readers` Choice` Best Book of 2017; Birdsong is the soundtrack to our world. We have tried to capture its fleeting, ephemeral beauty, & the feelings it inspires, for millennia.; In this captivating & lively account, Richard Smyth explores science, music, literature, landscape & the thousand different ways in which birdsong has moved us. A bright song on a lonely street can lift our mood, bringing comfort, wonder or joy. But can we learn to listen, really listen, to what the birds are saying? Or do they just tell us back our own tales? ...

`A real & rare gem, this is the must-have book on Venice & its cooking`
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` Hi! My name is Nao, & I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you.` Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes & dreams of a young girl. She suspects it might have arrived on a drift of debris from the 2011 tsunami. With every turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery. In a small cafe in Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao Yasutani is navigating the challenges thrown up by modern life. In the face of cyberbullying, the mysteries of a 104-year-old Buddhist nun & great-grandmother, & the joy & heartbreak of family, Nao is trying to find her own place
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- through a diary she hopes will find a reader & friend who finally understands her. Weaving across continents & decades, & exploring the relationship between reader & writer, fact & fiction, A Tale for the Time Being is an extraordinary novel about our shared humanity & the search for home.

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