” When Rachael Weiss left a good job, Thelma the cat & a normal life in Sydney for the romantic dream of being a writer in Prague she intended to stay forever. She lasted just three years, exasperated by the eccentricities of her ancestral city & its mind-boggling bureaucracy & customs. In this surprising & generous memoir full of warmth & unstoppable sociability, Rachael attempts to write her great novel, buy an apartment (any apartment!), dodge unscrupulous employers, & perhaps find love. She gets lost in the woods with a Kyrgyzstani software engineer who wants to eat humans, finds herself leading services at the Spanish synagogue with no real idea of what she is doing & spends long nights drinking beer with a colourful cast of crazy, warm & slightly mad locals & expats. Rich in absurdities & gentle humour, The Thing About Prague...is rife with insight, culture clashes, friendships & above all charm.” ...

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of “ Half of a Yellow Sun” & “violet Hibiscus”, comes twelve stories in which she turns her eye on the ties that bind men & women, parents & children, Nigeria & the West. In “A Private Experience, ” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity & faith force her to confront the realities & fears she’s been pushing away. In “ Tomorrow Is Too Far, ” a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother’s death. The young mother at the center of “ Imitation” finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their home. & the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to re-examine them. Immediate & profound, full of beauty, sorrow & longing, this collection is a superb addition to the already impress canon of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. ...

From the Orange Prize-winning author of ` Half of a Yellow Sun` come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men & women, parents & children, Nigeria & the West. In `A Private Experience`, a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity & faith force her to confront the realities & fears she`s been pushing away. In ` Tomorrow Is Too Far`, a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother`s death. The young mother at the centre of ` Imitation` finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their home. & the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to re-examine them. Searing & profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow & longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie`s prodigious storytelling powers. ...

From established literary heavyweights to emerging spoken word artists, the writers in this ground-breaking collection blow away the narrow image of the ` Muslim Woman`. Hear from users of Islamic Tinder, a disenchanted Maulana working as a TV chat show host & a plastic surgeon blackmailed by MI6. Follow the career of an actress with Middle-Eastern heritage whose dreams of playing a ghostbuster spiral into repeat castings as a jihadi bride. Among stories of honour killings & ill-fated love in besieged locations, we also find heart-warming connections & powerful challenges to the status quo. From Algiers to Brighton, these stories transcend time & place revealing just how varied the search for belonging can be. ...

AN OBSERVER NEW FACE OF FICTION FOR 2017` An original & affecting coming-of-age novel` The Observer` Fuses life`s big themes with daily minutiae.. . A voice of the next generation` Stylist`A vibrant portrayal of estate life in the late nineties & an affecting story of friendship` The Independent Ravine & Marianne were best friends. They practised handstands together, raced slugs & went into the woods to play. But now everything has changed. Ten years later, Ravine lies in a bed plagued by chronic pain syndrome. & her best friend Marianne is gone. How did their last adventure go so wrong? Who is to blame? & where is Marianne? Heartbreaking, bittersweet & utterly unforgettable, The Things We Thought We Knew is a powerful novel about the things we remember & the things we wish we could forget. ...

The only North American book focusing on top-bar hives & beekeeping. Christy is the owner & founder of Gold Star Honeybees, which offers top-bar hive kits & workshops. Top- bar hives are a `greener, ` more bee-centered way to keep bees. This is chemical free beekeeping, allowing honeybees to return to the natural processes that are thwarted by the use of conventional hive equipment & practices. In September 2011 Christy gave a TEDx Talk. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. (video available). A regular blogger at Mother Earth News. The author has presented at three different Pech Kucha nights, telling the story of bees & why she founded Gold Star Honey bees (Video available), as well as presenting at the Mother Earth News Fair (WA), Green Festival & Common Ground Country Fair (60, 000 attendees). The author is a member of many organizations that would help in the promotion of ths book, including NOFA, The Green business network, North East Treatment-Free Beekeepers, & several other beekeeping associations. There is a lot of attention in the media at the moment in regards to the declining bee population ...

Ellie & her friends have achieved more than they ever thought possible as an unarmed bunch of amateur teenage fighters. But it`s not enough. The war wages on, their families are in captivity & their country is on its knees. Hiding back in Hell, the friends face a big question: what to do next? The gang have another success when they manage to rescue Kevin. He returns to them equipped with a new knowledge of explosives. Suddenly the question of what to do next becomes clear
- launch an attack on the major enemy target of Cobblers` Bay. Can Ellie, Homer, Fi, Robin, Lee & Kevin really stage a major military attack on the enemy? & in their attempt to pull it off, what will they have to sacrifice? They have already lost Corrie & Chris; who else will the group have to lose in their desperation to defend their country? The Third Day, The Frost, draws the reader deeper into the struggle of these ordinary teens attempting to survive in extraordinary times. A tense & moving read that will stay with you forever.
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN THOMPSON. The Third Man is Graham Greene`s brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a `smashed dreary city` occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend & hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, & the police are closing in on his associates... The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play. Left in the care of the butler & his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight`s holiday, Philip realises too late the danger of lies & deceit. But the truth is even deadlier. ...

Graham Greene was one of the greatest story-tellers of the twentieth century. This anthology contains the novella The Third Man, on which Carol Reed`s chilling film starring Orson Wells was based, as well as the story The Fallen Idol which Reed also filmed. Greene`s often bleak view of humanity is leavened by the somewhat camp May We Borrow Your Husband? with its hilarious ending, the tragic-comic A Shocking Accident & ten more stories that illustrate the author`s mastery of the short story. They are: Beauty, Chagrin in Three Parts, The Over-night Bag, Mortmain, Cheap in August, The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen, Awful When You Think of It, Doctor Crombie, The Root of All Evil & Two Gentle People. With an Introduction by Professor Richard Greene. ...

The Third Man Factor tells the revealing story behind an extraordinary idea: that people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, experience a benevolent presence beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive. If only a handful of people had ever experienced the Third Man, it might be dismissed as an unusual delusion but amazingly, over the years, the experience has occurred again & again: to mountaineers, divers, polar explorers, prisoners of war, solo sailors, aviators, astronauts & 9/11 survivors. All have escaped traumatic events only to tell strikingly similar stories of having experienced the close presence of a helper or guardian. The mysterious force has been explained as everything from hallucination to divine intervention while recent neurological research suggests something else. In The Third Man Factor John Geiger combines history, scientific analysis & great adventure stories to explain this secret to survival, the Third Man who
- in the words of legendary Italian climber Reinhold Messner
- `leads you out of the impossible`.

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