Travelling from a base in Dubai, Adrienne Brady & her partner, Richard Chapman, set off to explore the mountains, deserts & remote coastal regions of the dramatically changing worlds of the Emirates & Oman before heading into the very heart of Africa between 1996 & 2006. Heading back to Richard ...

Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry & artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure & landscape. Published in 1961, Gwen Moffat`s Space Below My Feet tells the story of a woman who shirked the conventions of society & chose to live a life in the mountains. Some years later in 1977, Nan Shepherd published The Living Mountain, her prose bringing each contour of the Cairngorm mountains to life. These pioneering women set a precedent for a way of writing about wilderness that isn`t about conquering landscapes, reaching higher, harder or faster, but instead about living & breathing alongside them, becoming part of a larger adventure. The artists in this inspired collection continue Gwen & Nan`s legacies, redressing the balance of gender in outdoor adventure literature. Their creativity urges us to stop & engage our senses: the smell of rain-soaked heather, wind resonating through a col, the touch of cool rock against skin, & most importantly a taste of restoring mind, body & spirit to a former equanimity. With contributions from adventurers including Alpinist magazine editor Katie Ives, multi-award-winning author Bernadette Mc Donald, adventurers Sarah Outen & Anna Mc Nuff, renowned filmmaker Jen Randall & many more, Waymaking is an inspiring & pivotal work published in an era when wilderness conservation & gender equality are at the fore. ...

Adventure, memoir, storytelling & celebration of all things maritime meet in Waypoints, a beautifully written account of sea journeys from Scotland`s west coast. In the book Ian Stephen reveals a lifetime`s love affair with sailing; each voyage honours a seagoing vessel, & each adventure is accompanied by a spell-binding retelling of a traditional tale about the sea. His writing is enchanting & lyrical, gentle but searching, & is accompanied by beautiful illustrations of each vessel, drawn by his wife, artist Christine Morrison. Ian Stephen is a Scottish writer, artist & storyteller from the remote & bewitching Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He fell in love with boats & sailing as a boy, pairing this love affair with a passion for the beautiful but merciless Scottish coastline, an inspiration & motivating force behind his poems, stories, plays, radio broadcasts & visual arts projects for many years. This book will be a delightful & absorbing read for anyone with a passion for sailing & the seas, Scotland`s landscape & coastlines, stories & the origins of language & literature. ...

Adventure, memoir, storytelling & celebration of all things maritime meet in Waypoints, a beautifully written account of sea journeys from Scotland`s west coast. In the book Ian Stephen reveals a lifetime`s love affair with sailing; each voyage honours a seagoing vessel, & each adventure is accompanied by a spell-binding retelling of a traditional tale about the sea. His writing is enchanting & lyrical, gentle but searching, & is accompanied by beautiful illustrations of each vessel, drawn by his wife, artist Christine Morrison. Ian Stephen is a Scottish writer, artist & storyteller from the remote & bewitching Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He fell in love with boats & sailing as a boy, pairing this love affair with a passion for the beautiful but merciless Scottish coastline, an inspiration & motivating force behind his poems, stories, plays, radio broadcasts & visual arts projects for many years. This book will be a delightful & absorbing read for anyone with a passion for sailing & the seas, Scotland`s landscape & coastlines, stories & the origins of language & literature. ...

With superb skill & feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences & encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness ...

As a journalist, Kevin Bloom had witnessed & reported on the rising tide of violence in post-Apartheid South Africa. But when his own cousin was killed in a vicious random attack, the questions he'd been asking about the troubling political & social changes in his country took on a sickeningly personal urgency. Suddenly, it felt as though this South Africa was no longer the place he'd grown up in or the place which felt like home. Still stunned by the loss, Bloom begins to trace the path of violence from the murder of his cousin in the hills of Zululand to the fatal shooting of the historian David Rattray, linking these individual crimes to the riven political landscape, & the riots & xenophobic attacks of 2008. Visceral, complicated, & compassionate, Ways of Staying is an eloquent account of how the white community is coping with black majority rule, & in particular how one family is coping in the aftermath of their own private tragedy. ...

In a crumbling park in the crumbling back end of Copacabana, a woman stopped under an almond tree with a suitcase & a cigar. That was the last time anyone saw the famous Brazilian novelist Beatriz Yagoda. Upon hearing the news of her disappearance, her American translator Emma flies immediately to Brazil. There, in the sticky, sugary heat of Rio, Emma & Beatriz`s two grown children conspire to solve the author`s curious disappearance. But as the trio begins to uncover the bizarre & troubling affairs Beatriz has left in her wake -- an outstanding gambling debt, a rapacious loan shark, & the author`s long-time editor who is desperate for the next Yagoda manuscript -- they realise their search for her is far more cryptic than they could have imagined. Are the secrets to Beatriz s disappearance hidden in her enigmatic novels? Or are her words obscuring more than they reveal? Brilliant, suspenseful, & compulsively readable, Ways to Disappear is a fabulously inventive novel about the ways we do appear to one another. Both playful & profound, it is as much a mystery as it is a manifesto on the joys of translation. Idra Novey is a bold, unprecedented new voice in fiction. ...

My name is Sam. I am eleven years old. I collect stories & fantastic facts. By the time you read this, I will probably be dead. Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs & horror movies & airships & ghosts & scientists, & how it feels to kiss a girl. & because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer. WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER is the first novel from an extraordinarily talented young writer. Funny & honest, it is one of the most powerful & uplifting books you will ever read. ...

` Ways to Wander` is your invitation to experiment with a whole range of different ways to `go for a walk`. Rather than picking up a map & following a footpath, the book offers 54 intriguingly different suggestions, tactics & recollections, all submitted by artists (most of them involved with the Walking Artists Network). There are plenty of ideas you can just go out & try, but others are more performative or explore the psychological, cultural & philosophical aspects of walking Pop the book in your rear pocket, leave it in your rucksack, share it with friends & take them on a walk, use it in creative workshops, read it as if each instruction were poetry, engage with each page as visual art or as a performance activity, let it remind you of places you`ve been or walks you`d like to do. When the moment takes you, be inspired by the variety of inventive & reflective ideas mapped out here & then simply...wander. ...

Published in 1952, Wayward Heroes is part of the body of works for which Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1955. It is a masterfully written tragicomedy about the oath-brothers Thorgeir & Thormod, inspired by the old Icelandic sagas Saga of the Sworn Brothers & Saga of Saint Olaf. The brothers fight for glory, raid for treasure, & seduce women against the backdrop of a new cult of Christianity. But where the old sagas depict their heroes as glorious champions, Laxness does the opposite. As Thormod avenges Thorgeir`s death, he demonstrates the senselessness of violence & the endlessly cyclical nature of obsession. ...