In the early hours of December 27th 1985, Dian Fossey was murdered in her cabin by an unknown attacker
- ' No One Loved Gorillas
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It is December 2001 & Argentina is in political & economic meltdown. Pablo Martelli, once in an elite branch of the police force known to all as the ` National Shame`, is a shadow of his former self, scraping by as a bathroom salesman. He cannot forget the enigmatic woman he met in a dance hall. She left him when she found out who he was working for, & he has never recovered from the blow. Late one evening, Martelli is summoned to a friend`s coastal retreat. He arrives to find his friend dead & is drawn into a bewildering sequence of events, on an odyssey that leads him through vast, empty pampas, along endless highways & into ghost towns seething with danger & brutality, to the ailing heart of his country. Before long he is forced to uncover the truth of his past life. It is a dangerous confession: after all, no-one loves a policeman. A highly original crime novel with a rich, dark humour, a host of extraordinary characters & plenty of smoking guns. ...

The colonel took the top off the coffee can & saw that there was only one little spoonful left. Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel & his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty & monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food & medicine that keeps them alive. But on Fridays the postman comes
- & that sets a fleeting wave of hope rushing through the General's aging heart. For fifteen years he's watched the mail launch come into harbour, hoping he'll be handed an envelope containing the army pension promised to him all those years ago. Whilst he waits for the cheque, his hopes are pinned on his prize bird & the upcoming cockfighting season. But until then the bird
- like the Colonel & his wife
- must somehow be fed...


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Hope, resignation, despair, sadness, humour, confusion, ruthlessness, compassion, kindness, generosity & love inhabit Pete Ayrton`s anthology of writings from the Spanish Civil War: there is little sense of certainty & still less of triumphalism among the bewilderingly diverse Republican & Nationalist coalitions, all shades of which are represented here. Previous collections privileged the writings of the International Brigades over those of the Spanish, sometimes excluding them altogether.! No Pasaran! corrects the balance: by far the largest contingent of its thirty-five writers are Spanish, including Luis Bunuel, Manuel Rivas, Javier Cercas, Arturo Barea, Joan Sales & Chaves Nogales. The remainder offer contrasting perspectives of participants in the conflict from America (among them John Dos Passos, Muriel Rukeyser & Langston Hughes); Italy (Curzio Malaparte & Leonardo Sciascia); France (Jean-Paul Sartre, Andre Malraux & others); Germany (Gustav Regler); Russia (Victor Serge); Great Britain (including Arthur Koestler, George Orwell & Laurie Lee); Cuba, Argentina & Mexico. Pete Ayrton brings together hauntingly vivid stories from a bitterly fought war. This is powerful writing that allows the reader to witness life behind & at the front lines of both sides. ...

A rediscovered mountaineering classic & the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war. When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, prisoner of war Felice Benuzzi is transfixed. The tedium of camp life is broken by the beginnings of a sudden idea
- an outrageous, dangerous, brilliant idea. There are not many people who would break out of a P.O.W. camp, trek for days across perilous terrain before climbing the north face of Mount Kenya with improvised equipment, meagre rations, & with a picture of the mountain on a tin of beef among their more accurate guides. There are probably fewer still who would break back in to the camp on their return. But this is the remarkable story of three such men. No Picnic on Mount Kenya is a powerful testament to the human spirit of revolt & adventure in even the darkest of places.
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When Pen Farthing brought two dogs home from his tour of Afghanistan, little did he know what he had begun. Twelve months later, he has left the Marines, after 20 years service, to run his charity full time. But he barely has a chance to miss life in action, as he is inundated with requests from marines & soldiers to give more rescued dogs the chance of a new life in the West. Whether it`s little Helm&, Fubar or Beardog
- or the unruly litter known as the Char Badmashis or Four Hooligans
- Pen does his upmost to give these dogs the chance they deserve. It is a frustrating & sometimes dangerous process, & while some dogs make it out to safety, others, tragically, do not. But a look out the window to see his own Afghan hounds, Now Zad & Tali, with bright eyes & glossy coats tells him it`s all worthwhile. Like his ” Sunday Times” bestseller ” One Dog at a Time”, ” No Place Like Home” is the story of one man`s courage & persistence in the face of often insurmountable odds. It will warm
- & break
- the hearts of dog lovers everywhere.



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` Nowzad was a gentle giant when it came to taking treats. He never, ever snatched. To me it was just further evidence that, deep inside, there was a great dog struggling to find his way out` When Pen Farthing brings stray dogs Nowzad & Tali back from his tour of Afghanistan, little does he know what he has begun. Suddenly he has four dogs to look after
- two of whom have never been house-trained. & soon he is inundated with requests from other Marines & soldiers to help bring their rescued dogs home. Whether it`s little Helm&, Fubar or Beardog, Pen does his utmost to give these dogs the chance they deserve. No Place like Home is the true story of one man`s courage & persistence as he struggles to give his dogs at home, & those still in Afghanistan, the best possible chance. It will warm
- & break
- the hearts of dog lovers everywhere.


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The charming mole returns with his friends for some spring-themed fun in the sequel to Bringing Down the Moon. Mole thinks his burrow is small & dark & dull. So he sets off to find somewhere big & bright & beautiful instead. His friends are full of ideas, but finding a new home that is just right is, as Mole discovers, no simple matter! ...

This is the inside account of the events documented in Laura Poitras Citizenfour. Glenn Greenwald`s No Place to Hide is the story of one of the greatest national security leaks in US history. In June 2013, reporter & political commentator Glenn Greenwald published a series of reports in the Guardian which rocked the world. The reports revealed shocking truths about the extent to which the National Security Agency had been gathering information about US citizens & intercepting communication worldwide, & were based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden to Greenwald. Including new revelations from documents entrusted to Greenwald by Snowden, this essential book tells the story of Snowden & the NSA & examines the far-reaching consequences of the government`s surveillance program, both in the US & abroad. ” The first thing I do when I turn on the computer in the morning is go to Glenn Greenwald`s blog. He is truly one of our greatest writers right now.” (Michael Moore). ” The most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years.” (Bill Moyers). Glenn Greenwald is the author of several US bestsellers, including How Would A Patriot Act?, & A Tragic Legacy. Acclaimed as one of the twenty-five most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, Greenwald is a former constitutional law & civil rights attorney. He has been a columnist for the Guardian since August 2012 & his work has appeared in numerous newspapers & political news magazines, including The New York Times & the Los Angeles Times. ...