Category Archives: Accessories
Mountain Stories: Remembered journeys in the Scottish Highlands and Islands
Mountain Stories is an illustrated memoir of journeys through some of Scotland`s most beautiful landscapes, including Skye`s Cuillin, Knoydart, Assynt and the Far North. Writing during lockdown, author and artist Heather Dawe finds telling these stories a powerful means of reconnection with the mountains when they are physically inaccessible.Dawe`s journeys are made by walking, running,
The Dragon Ark: Join the quest to save the rarest dragon on Earth
Welcome on board the Dragon Ark… Join the Dragon Protector and meet the magnificent beasts already aboard her ark, then travel the world together, seeking out these secretive creatures to observe and protect them in their natural habitat.With dragon numbers in rapid decline after being hunted almost to extinction and suffering from a loss of
Bloody Foreigners
London is angry, divided and obsessed with foreigners. A dead Asian and some racist graffiti in Chinatown might trigger the race war that the white supremacists of the Make England Great Again movement have been hoping for. They just need a tipping point. And he arrives in the shape of Detective Inspector Stanley Low. He`s
AEROFLOT – Fly Soviet: A Visual History
Despite the borders of the USSR being closed to majority of its population, Soviet citizens were among the world`s most frequent flyers. Following the 1917 Revolution, Vladimir Lenin made the development of aviation a priority. Assisted by advertising campaigns by artists such as Alexander Rodchenko, Soviet society was mobilised to establish an air fleet –
Occupation
Known and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance, Julian Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastian in a narrative alternating between the writer`s conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown Sao Paulo, his father`s sickness, and his wife`s pregnancy. With impeccable prose, the author builds associations that go beyond the
Line
Willard, his mother and his girlfriend Nyla have spent their entire lives in an endless journey where daily survival is dictated by the ultimate imperative: obey the rules, or you will lose your place in the Line. Everything changes the day Willard s mother dies and he finds an incomprehensible book hidden among her few
Trouble Brewing in the Loire
Burt, the hound of Beelzebub, has risen from the dead, Gadget the miniature horse has moved into the kitchen and Tommy has decided to expand his beer business, and on the advice of his wife Rose, is thinking about distilling gin, what can possibly go wrong? With Brexit looming, a second baby on the way,
Beirut 2020: The Collapse of a Civilization, a Journal
`The author`s home town is falling apart. Lebanon`s capital […] has morphed into a symbol of devastation and hatred and madness. Majdalani is a survivor who still finds in himself the elegance to smile and hope` Amin Maalouf, Prix Goncourt winner`It is rare to capture the moment when it first occurs, in real time, with
Body Language Decoder: 50 Cards To Reveal What They`re Really Thinking
Learning to decode nonverbal communication can help us understand other people`s thoughts and feelings, and it can help us make ourselves better understood too. Whether it`s friends, family or lovers, colleagues or strangers, there is a wealth of meaning in the body language of those around us and most of us aren`t even aware it
