A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin`s ” We” is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn R&. This ” Penguin Classics” edition is translated from the Russian with an introduction by Clarence Brown. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful ` Benefactor`, the citizens of the totalitarian society of One State live out lives devoid of passion & creativity
- until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, ” We” is the classic dystopian novel & was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell`s ”1984” & Aldous Huxley`s ” Brave New World”. It was suppressed for many years in Russia & remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting & vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown`s brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years` suppression. Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) was a naval engineer by profession & writer by vocation, who made himself an enemy of the Tsarist government by being a Bolshevik, & an enemy of the Soviet government by insisting that human beings have absolute creative freedom. He wrote short stories, plays & essays, but his masterpiece is ” We”, written in 1920-21 & soon thereafter translated into most of the languages of the world. It first appeared in Russia only in 1988. If you enjoyed ” We”, you might like George Orwell`s ”1984”, also available in ” Penguin Classics”. ” The best single work of science fiction yet written”. (Ursula K. Le Guin, author of ” The Left Hand of Darkness”). ” It is in effect a study of the Machine, the genie that man has thoughtlessly let out of its bottle & cannot put back again”. (George Orwell, author of ”1984”).
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We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, & dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls & a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called D-503, keeps a journal of his life & activities: to his mathematical mind everything seems to make sense & proceed as it should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter the very foundations of the world he lives in. Written in a highly charged, direct & concise style, Zamyatin`s 1921 seminal novel
- here presented in Hugh Aplin`s crisp translation
- is not only an indictment of the Soviet Russia of his time & a precursor of the works of Orwell & the dystopian genre, but also a prefiguration of much of twentieth-century history & a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.

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Summer 1981 At a party held in the garden of a beautiful chateau in the village of Canas, in southern France, a young man takes his life. In doing so he seeks to bury a terrible family legacy, unleashed in the aftermath of WWII; but his suicide breaks his family apart. Winter 2010 Kate & Stephen Glover, a young London couple, arrive in Canas for a much needed sabbatical. Kate, seeking escape from her marriage, is irrevocably drawn to the village & to the derelict chateau at its heart. What she cannot know is that her interest in the chateau will reawaken old ghosts, forcing the family who once lived there finally to reunite & confront the tragedy of the past... Moving between the postwar years & the present day, We All Ran into the Sunlight is a heartbreaking story of love, misplaced desire & the damage done when the truth is withheld. ...

In We all Went on Safari, join Arusha, Mosi, Tumpe & their Maasai friends as they set out on a counting journey through the grasslands of Tanzania. Along the way, the children encounter all sorts of animals including elephants, lions & monkeys, while counting from one to ten in both English & Swahili. The lively, rhyming text is accompanied by an illustrated guide to counting in Swahili, a map, notes about each of the animals & interesting facts about Tanzania & the Maasai people. Read Alone: Ages 6-10 Read Together: Ages 4-8 ...

Now in a mini edition! The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed on 10th December 1948. It was compiled after World War Two to declare & protect the rights of all people from all countries. This beautiful collection, published 60 years on, celebrates each declaration with an illustration by an internationally-renowned artist or illustrator & is the perfect gift for children & adults alike. Published in association with Amnesty International, with a foreword by David Tennant & John Boyne.

Includes:: art work contributions from Axel Scheffler, Peter Sis, Satoshi Kitamura, Alan Lee, Polly Dunbar, Jackie Morris, Debi Gliori, Chris Riddell, Catherine & Laurence Anholt & many more! For more information about We Are All Born Free click here.

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We Are All Weird is Seth Godin`s cult classic on celebrating (and marketing to) the individual, now repackaged & relaunched World of Warcrafters, LARPers, Settlers of Catan? Weird. Beliebers, Swifties, Directioners? Weirder. Paleos, vegans, carb loaders, ovolacto vegetarians? Definitely weird. Face it. We`re all weird. So why are companies still trying to build products for the masses? Why are we still acting like the masses even exist? Weird is the new normal. & only companies that figure that out have any chance of survival. In this book, Seth Godin shows you how. ” Read this book slowly & read it again, for the lessons are rich & wise.” (Jacqueline Novogratz, founder, Acumen). ...

In the predawn hours, a woman`s marriage crumbles with a single confession. Across town, an immigrant family struggles to get by in the land of opportunity. Three thousand miles away, a soldier wakes up in hospital with the vague feeling he`s done something awful. In a single moment, these disparate lives intersect. Faced with seemingly insurmountable loss, each person must decide whether to give in to despair, or to find the courage & resilience to rise. We Are Called to Rise is a story about a child`s fate. It is a story about families
- the ones we have & the ones we make. It challenges us to think about our responsibilities to each other while reminding us that compassion & charity can rescue even our darkest moments.
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In the predawn hours, a woman`s marriage crumbles with a single confession. Across town, an immigrant family struggles to get by in the land of opportunity. Three thousand miles away, a soldier wakes up in hospital with the vague feeling he`s done something awful. In a single moment, these disparate lives intersect. Faced with seemingly insurmountable loss, each person must decide whether to give in to despair, or to find the courage & resilience to rise. We Are Called to Rise is a story about a child`s fate. It is a story about families
- the ones we have & the ones we make. It challenges us to think about our responsibilities to each other while reminding us that compassion & charity can rescue even our darkest moments.
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We Are Everywhere is a whirlwind collection of writings, images & ideas for direct action by people on the frontlines of the global anticapitalist movement. This is a movement of untold stories, because those from below are not those who get to write history, even though we are the ones making it. We Are Everywhere wrenches our history from the grasp of the powerful & returns it to the streets, fields & neighbourhoods where it was made. ...

`A total page-turner...very moving & touching.` JACQUELINE WILSON A brilliantly funny & wonderfully warm-hearted story about love, family, & what it means to be different. Sydney thinks her mum Amy is the best mum in the world
- even if she is a bit different. When everyone else kept growing, Amy got to four feet tall & then stopped right there. The perfect height, in Sydney`s opinion: big enough to reach the ice cream at the supermarket, small enough to be special. Sydney`s dad died when she was only five, but her memories of him, her mum`s love & the company of her brave big sister Jade means she never feels alone.. . But when the family are forced to move house, things get tricky. Sydney & Jade must make new friends, deal with the bullies at their new school & generally figure out the business of growing up in a strange new town. & Sydney doesn`t want to grow up
- not if it means getting bigger than her mum...

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