Category Archives: World Music
Press Out and Decorate: Dinosaurs
Make your own 3D decorations with this brilliant board book of press-out fantastic creatures! From triceratops to tyrannosaurs and stegosauruses to pterodactyls, this book features 20 unique, intricately foiled designs that can be slotted together to create 3D dinosaurs. Each page is covered in green foil, with foiled pieces which can be pressed out and
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she
The Black Leopard: My Quest to Photograph One of Africa`s Most Elusive Big Cats
This inspiring book tells the story of a photographer`s journey to find the mysterious black leopard.There are few creatures as gorgeous and elusive as the black leopard. In Africa, these magnificent cats are so rare as to be the stuff of legend. Will Burrard-Lucas`s love for leopards began during his childhood in Tanzania and propelled
Threads
In the French port town of Calais, the historic home of the lace industry, a city within a city has arisen. This new town, known as the Jungle, is the home of thousands of refugees, mainly from the Middle East and Africa, all hoping, somehow, to get to the UK. Into this squalid shantytown of
A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans survive in the Andaman Islands?
The Jarawa, one of the oldest tribes of human beings in the world, may go extinct because of a road that runs through pristine forests in the Indian-administered Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, and no one seems to care. Tourists take the road each day to try and get selfies with the tribespeople,
The Shadow King
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020`DEVASTATING` Marlon James, `A MODERN CLASSIC` Andrew Sean Greer, `BRILLIANT` Salman Rushdie, `MAGNIFICENT` Aminatta Forna, `EPIC` Mary Morris, `WONDERFUL` Laila Lalami, `UNFORGETTABLE` The Times, `REMARKABLE` New York Times, `A MASTERPIECE` Washington PostETHIOPIA. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini`s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life
City of Saints & Thieves
The Hunger Games meets The Thief Lord in this enthralling murder mystery set in Kenya. In the shadows of Sangui City, a street-thief called Tina patiently plots her revenge. Her mother has been shot dead at the home of one of Kenya`s richest businessmen, and Tina is sure she knows who`s to blame. When a
Salt Water And Spear Tips
A Danish filmmaker, under the apprenticeship of three Papua New Guinean master sailors, set off from Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea, on the 30th of August 2016 on a world-record circumnavigation of the island of New Guinea in a traditional sailing canoe called the Tawali Pasana. Over the course of 13 months and 21 days
Kintu
Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award for Fiction, with a Sense of PlaceThe breathtaking debut from the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018`A soaring and sublime epic. One of those great stories that was just waiting to be told.` (Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-winning
The Woman Next Door
Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them. Both have recently been widowed. Both are in their eighties. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility pruned with zeal. But one day an unforeseen
In Search of Elsewhere
A unique collection of previously unseen images spanning Steve McCurry`s extraordinary career.Steve McCurry is known for creating some of the most iconic images of recent times and in this new collection, he shares previously unseen photographs from his incredibly rich archive. In Search of Elsewhere takes us across the globe and reveals the diversity of
The New Threat from Islamic Militancy
In The New Threat renowned expert and prize-winning reporter Jason Burke provides the clearest and most comprehensive guide to Islamic militancy today. From Syria to Somalia, from Libya to Indonesia, from Yemen to the capitals of Europe, Islamic militancy appears stronger, more widespread and more threatening than ever. ISIS and other groups, such as Boko
Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from my Grandfather, Nelson Mandela
`You empower yourself and then you reach out to others.` Uplifting life lessons from one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known… through the eyes of the grandson whose life he changed forever.In his book Going to the Mountain, Ndaba Mandela shares the story of his coming-of-age alongside South Africa`s rebirth. It is
Something to Hide
The bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Tulip Fever is back with a warm, witty and wise novel about the unexpected twists that later life can bring…` Nobody in the world knows our secret …that I`ve ruined Bev`s life, and she`s ruined mine.` Petra`s love life is a bit of a car-crash,
Greenery: Journeying with the Spring from Southern Africa to the Arctic
A masterpiece of nature writing from the author of The Running SkyOne December, in midsummer South Africa, Tim Dee was watching swallows. They were at home there, but the same birds would soon begin journeying north to Europe, where their arrival marks the beginning of spring. Between the winter and the summer solstice in Europe,
Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons: Enchanting Dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa
In this culinary exploration of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa, Diana Henry has gathered together dishes that combine exotic flavours in ways long forgotten – or never discovered – in many Western kitchens. Colourful, aromatic and perfumed ingredients, from leathery pomegranates, with their insides bursting with ruby seeds, to flower-waters that allow you
The Big Cat Man: An Autobiography
This new autobiography by wildlife celebrity Jonathan Scott celebrates the extraordinary life of one of the world`s most popular wildlife presenters and photographers. From his childhood on a Berkshire farm in the UK to his rise to international fame as a presenter on the Big Cat Diary, one of the BBC Natural History Unit`s most
Secret Lives & Other Stories
Ngugi wa Thiong`o is renowned for his political novels and plays, yet he honed his craft as a short story writer. First published in 1975, Secret Lives and Other Stories brings together a range of Ngugi`s political short stories. From tales of the meeting between magic and superstition, to stories about the modernising forces of
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
The dictator who grew so rich on his country`s cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid
Robert Ludlum`s the Bourne Enigma
Jason Bourne is in Moscow to attend the wedding of his old friend and fellow spymaster General Boris Karpov. But amid the celebrations, the General has an important message to deliver to Bourne – `a lifeline,` he says, `for the end of the world`. Before Bourne can decipher this enigmatic warning, Karpov`s wedding ends in
