With a touch of Bill Bryson`s humour, this wacky, fun book takes readers on a fascinating journey to parts of the world that few people visit. The Ten-Letter Countries is a story of a unique blend of countries visited by David based solely on their spelling... David Jenkins is The Alphabet Traveller. Having previously made an 85 000 mile journey to visit all countries in the world whose names are made up of four letters, David is now off to explore 12 countries which all have ten letters to their name. He heads to Bangladesh in search of the elusive Bengal tiger but disaster strikes quickly & worse is to follow. After a bungled attempt to break into a Luxembourg jail he sets off to cross the Stans of Central Asia by horse, jeep & bicycle only to stumble upon the world`s most notorious heroin trail. Assaulted by customs officials & hi-jacked at gunpoint, he manages to escape across the mountains & make it safely over the Steppes in a Lada full of vodka. To a land of oil, pelicans & naked men beating themselves with branches. He follows the Silk Road & the spread of Islam to the deserts of Mauritania & makes the rail journey of a lifetime through the mountains of tiny Montenegro. In the sparkling Indian Ocean he uncovers the sinister side of the seductive Seychelles, finds himself at the helm of an aircraft over the islands of Mozambique & takes a razor attack in his stride to enjoy the wacky wildlife of magical Madagascar... David Jenkins hitchhiked to France the day he left school & has trotted the globe ever since. He has waited tables in Switzerl&, sprayed crops in Israel, crewed yachts around the Pacific & cleaned urinals at Sydney Cricket Ground. He became a professor in Japan & then ran a business school in Rio de Janeiro before setting up his own company delivering newspapers across Africa. Now based in Cambridge, David`s first book The Four-Letter Countries, was widely featured in the national media. ...

When the mysterious & beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover, Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot easily overcome. ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte ` She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it` In this sensational, hard-hitting & passionate tale of marital cruelty, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a `wicked woman` as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a brutal alcoholic bully, desperate to protect her son. Using her own experiences with her brother Branwell to depict the cruelty & debauchery from which Helen flees, Anne Bronte wrote her masterpiece to reflect the fragile position of women in society & her belief in universal redemption, but scandalized readers of the time. The Penguin English Library
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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When the mysterious & beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover, Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot easily overcome. ...

A special, limited edition, with a brand new cover & the first two chapters of The Invisible Ones. Winner of the Costa Book ...

For the 70s child, summer holidays didn`t mean the joy of Centre Parcs or the sophistication of a Tuscan villa. They meant being crammed into a car with Grandma & heading to the coast. With just a tent for a home & a bucket for the necessities, we would set off on new adventures each year stoically resolving to enjoy ourselves. For Emma Kennedy, & her mum & dad, disaster always came along for the ride no matter where they went. Whether it was being swept away by a force ten gale on the Welsh coast or suffering copious amounts of food poisoning on a brave trip to the south of France, family holidays always left them battered & bruised. But they never gave up. Emma`s memoir, The Tent, The Bucket & Me, is a painfully funny reminder of just what it was like to spend your summer holidays cold, damp but with sand between your toes. ...

His parting gift to her was a new beginning... Julia Lovat walks away from her seven-year affair with Michael with a broken heart & a book of secrets. Her book tells the true story of Cat Tregenna, kidnapped by Barbary pirates & sold into slavery in Morocco four hundred years ago. When Julia travels to Morocco to discover Cat`s fate, she is quickly lost in an exotic & vibrant l&. Yet her guide is Idriss, a man so charismatic & beguiling that their meeting feels like destiny. & so, in the heat & dust, two love stories, separated by four centuries, entwine & blossom... The Tenth Gift is an enthralling story of secrets & discovering love where you least expect it. ...

In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves
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Eliza Griswold`s ” The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline between Christianity & Islam” charts the struggle over who speaks for God in the latitudes where rival beliefs come to blows. The tenth parallel
- the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator
- is the front line where Christianity & Islam collide. Here, from Nigeria, Sudan & Somalia to Indonesia, Malaysia & the Philippines, both religions are experiencing huge & sometimes violent reawakenings. Award-winning journalist Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years travelling this area & meeting its people, asking where belief ends & secular conflict begins, & examining how encounters between faiths will shape the future. ” Her dispatches are compelling. She writes beautifully.. .and explains, more than any newspaper headline, what has gone wrong”. (Michael Binyon, ” The Times”). ”A fascinating journey.. .full of arresting stories woven around a provocative issue, which Griswold investigates through individual lives rather than caricatures or abstractions”. (Linda Robinson, ” The New York Times”). ” The author brings to her book a sharp eye for telling details & a keen sense of place.. .she visits some of the riskiest places on the planet & tracks down terrorists, warlords, renegade priests & aspiring Christian martyrs”. (Michael Mewshaw, ” Washington Post”). ” Her book is a richly textured fugue that dramatizes the dizzying interplay between notions
- faith, morality, identity
- & nations”. (Julie Cline, ” Los Angeles Times”). Eliza Griswold, a fellow at the New America Foundation, received both the first Robert I. Friedman Award for investigative reporting & a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Her journalism has appeared in ” The Atlantic”, ” The New Yorker”, ” The New York Times Magazine”, & ” Harper`s Magazine”, among others. A collection of her poems, ” Wideawake Field”, was published by FSG in 2007.



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In his bestselling book Tequila Mockingbird, Tim Federle combines delicious cocktail recipes with beloved classic novels & witty humor. Existing readers, newcomers, & drink enthusiasts of every persuasion will love this clever, portable kit, which

Includes:: 15 cocktail recipe cards (plus five cards with tips for perfect drinks every time), a stainless steel bartender`s jigger, & 4 cocktail stirring sticks.

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