In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum Mc Donald set sail from the Scottish highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey, Calum settles his family in ”the land of the trees” until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan, with its own identity & history. ...

Naomi Klein
- award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine & This Changes Everything, scourge
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` An ordinary person`s guide to hope. Read this book` Arundhati Roy` As accessible as it is brilliant` Owen Jones`A genuine page turner` Michelle Alexander Naomi Klein
- award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine & This Changes Everything, scourge of brand bullies & corporate liars
- gives us the toolkit we need to survive our surreal, shocking age.` This is a look at how we arrived at this surreal political moment, how to keep it from getting a lot worse, & how, if we keep our heads, we can flip the script.` Remember when love was supposed to Trump hate? Remember when the oil companies & bankers seemed to be running scared? What the hell happened? & what can we do about it? Naomi Klein shows us how we got here, & how we can make things better. No Is Not Enough reveals, among other things, that the disorientation we`re feeling is deliberate. That around the world, shock political tactics are being used to generate crisis after crisis, designed to force through policies that will destroy people, the environment, the economy & our security. That extremism isn`t a freak event
- it`s a toxic cocktail of our times. From how to trash the Trump megabrand to the art of reclaiming the populist argument, Naomi Klein shows all of us how we can break the spell & win the world we need. Don`t let them get away with it.` Who better than Naomi to make sense of this madness, & help us find a way out? A top-of-the-stack must read` Michael Stipe` Naomi Klein`s new book incites us brilliantly to interweave our No with a programmatic Yes. A manual for emancipation` Yanis Varoufakis` Magnificent.. . a courageous coruscating counterspell` Junot Díaz


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In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one Syrian family descends into tragedy & ruin. Irrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party, & finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation. She & her siblings & mother are slowly choked in violence & decay, as their lives are plundered by a brutal regime. Set between the 1960s & 2000s, No Knives in the Kitchens of this City unravels the systems of fear & control under Assad. With eloquence & startling honesty, it speaks of the persecution of a whole society. ...

The final part of his tremendous Africa Trilogy, No Longer at Ease sees Chinua Achebe once again display why he is one of the seminal African voices of our time. Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders & corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes that are offered to him, but when he falls in love with an unsuitable girl
- to the disapproval of his parents
- he sinks further into emotional & financial turmoil. The lure of easy money becomes harder to refuse, & Obi becomes caught in a trap he cannot escape. Showing a man lost in cultural limbo, & a Nigeria entering a new age of disillusionment, No Longer at Ease concludes Achebe`s remarkable trilogy charting three generations of an African community under the impact of colonialism, the first two volumes of which are Things Fall Apart & Arrow of God.

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From the slums of London to the riches of an Edwardian country house; from the hot, dark seams of a Yorkshire coalmine to the exposed terrors of the trenches, Adam Raine`s journey from boy to man is set against the backdrop of a society violently entering the modern world. Adam Raine is a boy cursed by misfortune. His impoverished childhood in the slums of Islington is brought to an end by a tragedy that sends him north to Scarsdale, a hard-living coalmining town where his father finds work as a union organizer. But it isn`t long before the escalating tensions between the miners & their employer, Sir John Scarsdale, explode with terrible consequences. In the aftermath, Adam meets Miriam, the Rector`s beautiful daughter, & moves into Scarsdale Hall, an opulent paradise compared with the life he has been used to before. But he makes an enemy of Sir John`s son, Brice, who subjects him to endless petty cruelties for daring to step above his station. When love & an Oxford education beckon, Adam feels that his life is finally starting to come together
- until the outbreak of war threatens to tear everything apart.
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No Man`s Land tells the story of George Monbiot`s journeys among some of the tribal peoples of East Africa, showing how they are confronting the forces which threaten to deprive both them & us of the life that civilization has tried to suppress. In northern Kenya he saw how bandits, equipped by the corrupt governments of both Kenya itself & some of its neighbours, have been massacring the nomads, driving the survivors into famine zones where first the cattle then the humans die. Further south he watched the open savannahs on which the nomads rely being divided up & reduced by ploughing. But he also saw that the nomads of East Africa are finding ways to survive. All nomads are opportunists, & the adaptability, the cultural flexibility that opportunism demands means that they are possibly better equipped than any other of the world`s traditional peoples to withstand dramatic change. ...

No Man`s Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell`s bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. The woman vicar of St Peter`s Church may not be popular among the community of Kingsmarkham. But it still comes as a profound shock when she is found strangled in her vicarage. Inspector Wexford is retired, but he retains a relish for solving mysteries especially when they are as close to home as this one is. So when he`s asked whether he will assist on the case, he readily agrees. But why did the vicar die? & is anyone else in Kingsmarkham in danger? What Wexford doesn`t know is that the killer is far closer than he, or anyone else, thinks. ...

` When we climb alone en cordee feminine, we are magicians of the Alps
- we make the routes we follow disappear`. The poems of
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No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father & a downtrodden mother, the ` Razor King` of Glasgow`s pre-war slum underworld, the Gorbals. The savage, near-truth descriptions, the raw character portrayals, bring to life a story that is fascinating, authentic & convincing. ...