In a church in Battersea, Mary-Margaret O` Reilly sees blood on her hands & believes she has witnessed a miracle. The consequences are both profound & devastating
- not just for her but for others, too: Father Diamond, the parish priest, struggling with his own faith. Stella, adrift in her marriage & aching for her ten-year old son, away at boarding school. Alice, counting the days until her soldier son comes home. & Mary-Margaret`s mother, imprisoned in a tower block with nothing but her thoughts for company...
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Sammar is a young Sudanese widow, working as an Arabic translator at a British university. Following the sudden death of her husb&, & estranged from her young son, she drifts, grieving & isolated. Life takes a positive turn when she finds herself falling in love with Rae, a Scottish academic. To Sammar, he seems to come from another world & another culture, yet they are drawn to each other. ” The Translator” is a story about love, both human & divine. Leila Aboulela`s first novel, first published in 1999, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction & the IMPAC Dublin Award, & was shortlisted for the Saltire Prize. It has subsequently appeared in editions worldwide. ...

A harrowing tale of selfless courage in terrifying conditions, “ The Translator” tells the story of Daoud Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman in the Darfur region of Sudan who found a new calling in the wake of conflict. Hari grew up racing camels across the desert, attending gloriously colourful weddings &, when his work was done, playing games under the moonlight. But in 2003, helicopter gunships swooped down on Darfur`s villages & shattered that way of life forever. Soon, Sudanese government-backed militias, attacking on horseback, came to murder, rape & burn. To drive the tribesmen from their lands. When Hari`s village was attacked & destroyed, his family was decimated & dispersed. He escaped, & together with a group of friends roamed the battlefield deserts, helping the weak & vulnerable find food, water & a path to safety. & when international aid groups & reporters arrived, Hari gave his services as a translator & guide. To do so was to risk his life, for the Sudanese government had outlawed journalists, punishing aid to `foreign spies` with death. Yet Hari did so time & again. Until, eventually, his luck ran out & he was captured... ...

A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts & the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city`s underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage. Yuri Herrera`s novel is a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico. With echoes of Romeo & Juliet, Roberto Bolano & Raymond Chandler, The Transmigration of Bodies is a noirish tragedy & a tribute to those bodies
- loved, sanctified, lusted after, & defiled
- that violent crime has touched.

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Johnny worries when his grandfather doesn`t return home from checking his trap line. The elderly Indian has packed ample supplies on his snowmobile, but has stayed out far too long in the plummeting temperatures of the Alaskan winter. Only readers know that he has caught his leg in his own trap, several feet from his supplies, & is unable to free himself. Chapters alternate between his predicament, & Johnny`s failed attempts to raise concern among his family. As the old man progressively uses every technique he knows to stay alive
- from creating a rabbit snare from a shoelace to fending off wolves with a newly made cedar spear, this suspenseful page-turner shows that the old man`s survival is a race against time.
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This is the ultimate world atlas for globetrotters. Combining our extensive mapping experience & unrivalled destination insight & knowledge, our first dedicated altas makes it easy for you to plan adventures & discover remarkable places around the planet. With Lonely Planet’s The Travel Atlas in your hands, you can explore every part of the world & plan upcoming trips with one simple & easy-to-use resource. Inside, you’ll find detailed maps to every country on Earth, with popular regions & destinations presented at greater scale. Each large page of mapping is accompanied with the area’s top sights & activities, while our themed itineraries, ranging from two days to two weeks, will ensure you don’t miss the best sights. You’ll also find trip planning tools like climate information & transport hubs to help you get there & away. ...

After the success of The Travel Book, Lonely Planet brings you the second edition of this celebration of travel in a new handy mini-format. Like its elder brother, this book is the definitive pictorial dedicated to travel & the world, capturing every country on the planet with stunning photographs & atmospheric text that captures the essence of being there. Featuring more than 800 breathtaking photographs capturing the soul of each destination in this volume, the images are selected from the immense Lonely Planet image library & are brought together to celebrate travel & the world as a whole. The 230 countries are listed from A to Z & described by Lonely Planet`s expert staff & authors, with entertaining text & informative cultural insights, key facts & maps on double-page spreads. Inspirational, inviting & beautiful, this volume will make travel from your armchair a delight & perhaps inspire more plans for exciting trips in the future. ...

Shortlisted for a 2016 Edward Standford Travel Writing Award. Take a journey through every country in the world. 850 images. 230 countries. One complete picture. With details of every United Nations-approved country in the world, & a few more principalities & dependencies besides, Lonely Planet’s Travel Book is the ultimate introduction to a world of travel & the essential travel reference book for every household! Each country is profiled by Lonely Planet’s expert authors & features details of when to visit, what to see & do, & how to learn more about the country’s culture from its film, music, food & drink. Every entry has a map & statistics about the country. All brand new, incredible photography illustrates each country, depicting what life is like in each nation from photographic portraits of people, beautiful landscape photographs & vibrant street photography. ...

Take a journey through every country in the world. 850 images. 230 countries. One complete picture. With details of every United Nations-approved country in the world, & a few more principalities & dependencies besides, Lonely Planet`s Travel Book is the ultimate introduction to a world of travel & the essential travel reference book for every household! Each country is profiled by Lonely Planet`s expert authors & features details of when to visit, what to see & do, & how to learn more about the country`s culture from its film, music, food & drink. Every entry has a map & statistics about the country. All brand new, incredible photography illustrates each country, depicting what life is like in each nation from photographic portraits of people, beautiful landscape photographs & vibrant street photography. ...

Albert Einstein`s travel diary to the Far East & Middle East In the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-&-a-half-month voyage to the Far East & Middle East, regions that the renowned physicist had never visited before. Einstein`s lengthy itinerary consisted of stops in Hong Kong & Singapore, two brief stays in China, a six-week whirlwind lecture tour of Japan, a twelve-day tour of Palestine, & a three-week visit to Spain. This handsome edition makes available the complete journal that Einstein kept on this momentous journey. The telegraphic-style diary entries record Einstein`s musings on science, philosophy, art, & politics, as well as his immediate impressions & broader thoughts on such events as his inaugural lecture at the future site of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a garden party hosted by the Japanese Empress, an audience with the King of Spain, & meetings with other prominent colleagues & statesmen. Entries also contain passages that reveal Einstein`s stereotyping of members of various nations & raise questions about his attitudes on race. This beautiful edition features stunning facsimiles of the diary`s pages, accompanied by an English translation, an extensive historical introduction, numerous illustrations, & annotations. Supplementary materials include letters, postcards, speeches, & articles, a map of the voyage, a chronology, a bibliography, & an index. Einstein would go on to keep a journal for all succeeding trips abroad, & this first volume of his travel diaries offers an initial, intimate glimpse into a brilliant mind encountering the great, wide world. ...