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Quest: Stories of Journeys from Around Europe by the Aarhus 39
Quest, a volume of seventeen stories aimed at children, will whisk you away from dark bedrooms to new dimensions and fantasy realms, via the Russian countryside and modern Rome. You`ll encounter talking field mice, invisible friends, flying kraiks, white elephants, runaway books and wardrobes that act as magic portals. Hopping across all sorts of genres
Odyssey: Stories of Journeys from Around Europe by the Aarhus 39
“Odyssey, a volume of twenty-one stories aimed at young adults, offers a variety of takes on the theme of travelling – at times funny and playful, at others dramatic and poignant – covering a wide range of themes relevant to teenagers across Europe such as coming of age, sexuality, migration, identity and displacement. Whether you`re
10:04
In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility
Fir
Moving from Stockholm to an isolated pine plantation in northern Sweden is bad enough, but when the snows come early and all links between the Strombergs and the outside world are cut off, it gets worse. With only a grudging housekeeper and increasingly withdrawn parents for company, there is nothing to do but to explore
Beautiful Landscapes of Ireland
An atmospheric collection of wonderful photographs showing the beauty and diversity of Ireland`s landscape in a handy travel-size, ideal for tourists. It includes: * Glendalough * The Giant`s Causeway * The Burren * The Skelligs * Mizen Head * Lough Derg * Rock of Cashel * Glen of Aherlow * Clew Bay * Killary Harbour
Ireland`s Wild Atlantic Way
Take a photographic journey down Ireland`s Atlantic coast from Donegal in the north to Cork in the south. This beautiful book showcases the west coast in all its wild beauty: dramatic views, abundant nature and wildlife, lighthouses, harbours and quaint seaside villages, as well as heritage, history and people.The Wild Atlantic Way is a fully-signposted
My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir
As a child in Turkey, Fethiye Cetin knew her grandmother as a happy and well respected Muslim housewife. Decades later, her grandmother revealed the truth: she was by birth a Christian Armenian, and most of the men in the village where she grew up were slaughtered in 1915. In this heartwrenching memoir, Cetin tells a
Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain
Stephen Oppenheimer`s extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the English gene pool. Two thirds of the English people reveal an unbroken line of genetic descent from south-western Europeans
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
In 1915, the Turkish government systematically organised the wholesale slaughter of a complete race, the Armenians. Under the cover of World War I, through the secret organisation of unofficial gangs of Kurds, released prisoners, German officers and Turks who had lost their lands in the war against the Balkans, over 1 million Armenians were murdered,
The Hunger Angel
`I know you`ll return.` These are his grandmother`s last words to him. Leo has them in his head as he boards the truck one freezing mid-January morning in 1945. They keep him company during the long journey to Russia. They keep him alive – through hunger, pain, and despair – during his time in the
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter
Romania, the last months of the dictator`s regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina`s friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara`s lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur
Cast Away: Stories of Survival from Europe`s Refugee Crisis
Riot police are shutting down borders, 800 lives are lost in a single shipwreck, a boy`s body washes up on a beach: this is the European Union in summer 2015. But how did a bloc founded upon the values of human rights and dignity for all reach this point? And what was driving millions of
South
The South has long since cast its spell on our collective imagination. Writers and artists, from Goethe and Poe, to Gauguin, Lawrence and Kerouac, were captivated by it. Landscapes of ice and snow, sand and sea, have lured explorers southwards for centuries, often with fatal consequences. South explores the idea of the South, following in
Ukraine Diaries
Ukrainian Diaries is acclaimed writer Andrey Kurkov`s first-hand account of the crisis in his country. Written from his flat in Kiev, just 500 metres away from Independence Square, Kurkov can smell the burning barricades and hear the sounds of grenades and gunshot. The diaries begin on the first day of the pro-European protests in November,
Directory of World Cinema: Russia
Be they musicals or melodramas, war movies or animation, Russian films have a long and fascinating history of addressing the major social and political events of their time. From Sergei Eisenstein`s anti-tsarist drama, “The Battleship Potemkin”, to socialist realism, to the post-glasnost thematic explosion, this volume explores the socio-political impact of the cinema of Russia
The Old Man and His Sons
These are the Faroe Islands as they were some fifty years ago: sea-washed and remote, with one generation still tied to the ocean for sustenance, and a younger generation turning towards commerce and clerical work in the towns. Following the blood, foam and fury of a whale kill, the normally cautious Ketil finds himself caught
Directory Of World Cinema – East Europe
Part of the “Directory of World Cinema” series, this title includes contributions from some of the leading academics in the field. It features film recommendations from a range of genres for those interested in watching more cinema from these regions. It also features comprehensive filmography as an index. Given the prevalence of important new wave
Istanbul, Istanbul
Istanbul is a city of a million cells, and every cell is an Istanbul unto itself.After a military coup, four prisoners – the doctor, Demirtay the student, Kamo the barber and Uncle Kuheylan – sit below the ancient streets of Istanbul awaiting their turn at the hands of their wardens. Between violent interrogations, the condemned
Notes from a Dead House
In 1849 the young Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years` hard labour in a Siberian prison camp for advocating socialism. Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead), the novel he wrote on his release, tells of shocking conditions, brutal punishments, and the psychological effects of the loss of
