Category Archives: Accessories
Rising Tides: Facing the Challenges of a New Era
The world has changed more and faster than any of us could have imagined. While that may be accepted in terms of global business and financial markets, and to some degree the worldwide web, people including their political leaders may have been slower at grasping what these new interconnections mean for the way we operate
Reasons to Stay Alive
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? Aged 24, Matt Haig`s world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an
How Big is Infinity?: The 20 Big Maths Questions
What are the strangest numbers? Where do numbers come from? Can maths guarantee riches? Why are three dimensions not enough? Can a butterfly`s wings really cause a hurricane? Can maths predict the future? In How Big is Infinity?, acclaimed writer Tony Crilly distills the wisdom of some of the greatest minds in history to help
The Pure Gold Baby
The Pure Gold Baby is the story of Anna, a little girl with a luminescent quality, her mother, Jess, and the community that envelops them. A happy child, Anna is the unchanging core of this journey spanning decades and continents through the lives of those that love her. This profoundly engaging portrait of family, friendship,
Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future
We are far less free than we like to think. In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez exposes the mechanisms of control that pervade our lives and the myths on which they depend. Exploring the lottery of our birth, the coercive influence of concentrated wealth, and the consent-manufacturing realities of undemocratic power, he shows that our faith
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush
In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream of spending time on an aircraft carrier. Dyer`s stay on the USS George Bush, on active service in the Arabian Gulf, proved even more intense, memorable, and frequently hilarious, than he could ever have hoped. In Dyer`s hands, the warship becomes a microcosm for a stocktaking
A Confederate General from Big Sur
Jesse and Lee share a house owned by a very nice Chinese dentist, where it rains in the hall. They move to cabins on the cliffs at Big Sur where the deafening croaks of frogs can be temporarily silenced by the cry, `Campbell`s Soup`. Ultimately, we learn how the frogs are permanently silenced …and dreams
Weak Messages Create Bad Situations: A Manifesto
A personal message from the author: Lots of individuals in society today are feeble-minded. They don`t know what the HELL is going on. Unfortunately many of these people are responsible for running THE COUNTRY. They don`t know the difference between a PRECIOUS JEWEL and a piece of animal turd. Their ideas are MEANINGLESS, illustrated using
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man – his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred. In A Fortunate Man, Berger`s text
Herbie`s Big Adventure
A little hedgehog bravely goes on his first foraging adventure despite being nervous about leaving home.
Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010
Alive with insight, wit and Dyer`s characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces – `On
I`m Not Scared
One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he dare not tell a soul. It is a secret that will force Michele to question everything and everyone around him, and
Mabel Opal Pear and the Rules for Spying
A young spy gets entangled in an action-filled, whodunit mystery! When Mabel`s parents leave town without warning, she isn`t worried. They`re spies, after all. But when her beloved Aunt Gertie is arrested for leading a smuggling ring, then her obnoxious Uncle Frank and Aunt Stella show up, demanding to be let into the family`s private
On Cats
`A cat is only ITSELF, representative of the strong forces of life that won`t let go` For Charles Bukowski there was something majestic and elemental about cats. He considered them to be sentient beings, whose searing gaze could penetrate deep into our being. Cats see into us; they are on to something. An illuminating portrait
How to Stage a Catastrophe
ACT 1: The Juicebox Theatre is about ready for the recycling bin. ACT 2: Sidney and Folly consider a crime. [You have to read it to see if we commit a crime – that`s called suspense]. ACT 3: Sidney and Folly save the Juicebox Children`s Theatre! [It`s not giving anything away to tell you that.
Diary of a Body
From a particularly humiliating accident at scout camp, to the final stages of terminal illness, Daniel Pennac`s warm, witty and heart-breaking novel shows the rise and fall of an ordinary man, told through his observations of his own body. It is with damp eyes (not to mention underpants) that our narrator begins his diary, seeking
Hebrides
The landscape of the Outer Hebrides, with its stark cliffs, ghostly mists and lonely beaches, has become a definitive character of Peter May`s Lewis trilogy. In Hebrides, readers will accompany him on an odyssey in prose and images, through a history of the Vikings` `Long Island` and his own deep personal connection with the islands
The Old Straight Track
A beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient `ley lines` criss-crossing the English countryside. First published in 1925, THE OLD STRAIGHT TRACK described the author`s theory of `ley lines`, pre-Roman pathways consisting of aligned stone circles and prehistoric mounds, used by our Neolithic
