The mountains of the Three Peaks Challenge
- Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike & Snowdon – on extracts from the Ordnance Survey 1:25, 000
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Hailed by the ” New York Times Book Review” as `one of the most brilliant illustrators at work today`, Tomi Ungerer has been making beautiful, anarchic & unique books for children for more than 40 years. He has been described by the ” Guardian” as `the direct natural descendant of the Brothers Grimm & Hans Christian Andersen` &, like all the best fairy tales, his classic story of ” The Three Robbers” is by turns scary, charming & surprising. The book tells the story of three fierce black-clad robbers who terrorize the countryside, scaring everyone they meet. One robber stops carriage horses with his pepper spray, the second destroys the wheels of the carriage with his axe, & the third robs the passengers by holding them up with his blunderbuss. One day the robbers stop a carriage only to find a small orphan girl called Tiffany inside. On her way to live with a strange aunt, Tiffany is delighted to meet the robbers, who take her back to their cave instead of their usual haul of money, gold & jewels. The next day, Tiffany sees the treasures the robbers have amassed & asks what they plan to do with their riches. The men are baffled, as they had never thought about spending their money. So they decide to buy a castle & welcome all the lost, unhappy & abandoned children they can find. The robbers dress them in tall hats & long capes, just like the ones they wear themselves, only in red instead of black. Years later, when they are grown up, the children build a village near the castle, full of people wearing red hats & red capes. They also build three tall towers, in honour of the three robbers. First published in 1962, ” The Three Robbers” has been translated into 16 languages, but has been unavailable in English for years. Now, this beautifully woven sequence of entertaining text & colourful eye-catching illustrations is back to delight children aged 4-8 & above. ...

Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It`s Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty & filth of the people on the streets, the Scaglias & their friends hide lives of infidelity, alcoholism, & abusive marriage. Claudia Pineiro`s novel eerily foreshadowed a criminal case that generated a scandal in the Argentine media. But this is more than a story about crime. The suspense is a by-product of Pineiro`s hand at crafting a psychological portrait of a professional class that lives beyond its means & leads secret lives of deadly stress & despair. It takes place during the post 9/11 economic melt-down in Argentina but it`s a universal story that will resonate among credit-crunched readers of today. ...

25th Anniversary Edition
Includes: a New Preface by Jon Kabat-Zinn Over 3 Million Copies Sold`I couldn`t give this book
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One of the greatest works created by any culture & overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has had a number of distinguished translations, but strangely all of these have always been partial abridgements. Now the entire text has not only been made available in English but in an entirely new translation. A comprehensive guide to living & dying, The Tibetan Book of the Dead contains exquisitely written guidance & practices related to transforming our experience in daily life, on the processes of dying & the after-death state, & on how to help those who are dying. As originally intended this is as much a work for the living, as it is for those who wish to think beyond a mere conventional lifetime to a vastly greater & grander cycle.” Extraordinary … this work will be a source of inspiration & support to many” His Holiness the Dalai Lama ...

Kaddy Benyon`s second collection, The Tidal Wife, is concerned with islands: both as physical landforms & as emotional states; the need to retreat & be cut off as much as the need to reconnect & come to trust the pulse of one`s internal tide. The poems address the day-to-day realities of being wife, mother, daughter, poet while drawing on nature`s rage & beauty to describe the shifting states of `I`. ...

It's December 1997, & a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote Russian village. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, & a team of men & their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren't random: the tiger is apparently engaged in a vendetta. Injured, starving, & extremely dangerous, the tiger must be found before it strikes again. As he re-creates these extraordinary events, John Vaillant gives us an unforgettable portrait of this spectacularly beautiful & mysterious region. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped & lived alongside tigers, even sharing their kills with them. We witness the arrival of Russian settlers in the nineteenth & early twentieth centuries, soldiers & hunters who greatly diminished the tiger populations. & we come to know their descendants, who, crushed by poverty, have turned to poaching & further upset the natural balance of the region. Beautifully written & deeply informative, The Tiger circles around three main characters: Vladimir Markov, a poacher killed by the tiger; Yuri Trush, the lead tracker; & the tiger himself. It is an absolutely gripping tale of man & nature that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the taiga. ...

Little Tiger is not like other tigers. Not content to spend her days alone, roaming the snow forests of Siberia hunting prey, she prefers instead to ponder the ways of the world. One day, eager to discover her own place within it, she sets out on a remarkable journey to discover the secret of life, & to meet the creatures she has heard most about: humans.A moving tale of bravery & spirit, The Tiger & the Acrobat is a celebration of the power of friendship, & a testament to the courage it takes to be true to ourselves. ...

In 1841, Nigel Halleck set out from Britain for Calcutta as a clerk in the East India Company. He served in the colonial administration for eight years before taking leave of his post, eventually disappearing in the mountain kingdom of Nepal, never to be heard from again. Despite most traces of his life being destroyed in the bombing of his home town of Coventry during the Second World War, Nigel was never quite forgotten
- the family myth of the man who headed east would reverberate through the generations.A century-&-a-half later Kief Hillsbery, Nigel`s nephew many times removed, embarked upon his own journey east, having promised his mother that he would search for the final resting place of their ancestor. What follows is a remarkable tale, beautifully rendered, weaving together a clash of civilizations in history, the quest to discover one`s own identity & the moving tale of one man against an empire. A work of transportive power, The Tiger & the Ruby bestows upon us a very personal sense of a time & a place deep in the heart of British & Indian history.
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This is a Vintage Murder Mystery
- With a new introduction by Susan Hill. Agatha Christie called her `a shining light`. Have you
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