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| Uruguay |
| "This new fully updated third edition of Bradt's Uruguay remains the only dedicated English-language guide to a country that's small yet bursting with character Bradt's Uruguay provides in-depth coverage of the capital Montevideo where the once-derelict colonial Old City is undergoing a historic resurgence plus detailed information on the UNESCO-listed coastal city of Colonia del Sacramento as well as Punta del Este where the Buenos Aires glitterati decamps to the beaches each summer There's advice too for active travellers who can rattle their whips on cattle-ranching estancias and spin their sticks in a game of polo or two and for nature enthusiasts keen to watch wildlife in the western wetlands and birds in Cabo Polonio and Santa Teresa The guide also investigates the Brazilian influences behind Uruguay's music and dance an active and upcoming food and wine scene and the country's distinctive Afro-Uruguayan heritage most noticeable during the world-beating 80-day Carnaval season In addition it covers the recent development of marijuana tours following the legalisation of marijuana Uruguay caters for all tastes whether you want to ride with gauchos and spend time on a traditional estancia like La Sirena visit Fray Bentos and discover the history of the town's former meat-packing plant or take a tour of the Canelones department wineries Montevideo's Splendid Art Deco architecture and colourful annual Carnaval are covered and so too are the stunning sandy beaches of boho-chic fishing village Jose Ignacio and the Termas de Dayman - Uruguay's largest hot baths Also included are San Javier an ideal base for bird-watching trips along the Rio Uruguay and details of hiking in Quebrada de los Cuervos National Park - a subtropical canyon filled with flowers and birds Most commonly known for winning the first soccer World Cup electing the world's so-called 'poorest president' and raising a whole lot of beef on the pampa Uruguay remains among South America's safest and most stable destinations an destination replete with interest waiting to be discovered by both leisure and adventurous travellers"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Wild About Britain : A Lifetime of Award-Winning Nature Writing" |
| "A new collection of award-winning journalist and author Brian Jackman's nature and travel writings from the past 40 years This is a nationwide celebration of Britain's unspoiled coast and countryside concentrating in particular on Britain's wildlife and the wild places in which its most spectacular species are found but also touching on fishing sailing and the way Britain's history has shaped the landscape 'Wild about Britain is not a guidebook' says Brian Jackman 'It's an extended love letter to the British countryside; a personal view covering more than four decades of travels in the wilder parts of Britain' Complementing Brian Jackman's writing are a small number of illustrations from Jonathan Truss one of the UK's leading wildlife artists who has twice won the Frozen Planet category of the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year competition What makes the British countryside so special is its chameleon quality - the way its character changes with every few miles Sometimes it can change dramatically; elsewhere the landscape undergoes more subtle shifts; but every region has its own distinctive qualities and is possessed of its own special magic Brian Jackman writes eloquently and evocatively conjuring up the sights and sounds of everything from barnacle geese on the salt marsh of an Islay loch to star gazing on Exmoor of a seascape of headlands cliffs and wave-smashed rocks at Lands End of eagles on the Ardnamurchan peninsula and the autumn rut in the New Forest Ancient oaks red kites huge mirror carp the oldest path in Britain and Border reivers are all included As a pioneer of eco-tourism Brian Jackman has been writing on these subjects for 40 years first as a travel writer for The Sunday Times and currently for The Daily Telegraph Although more widely known for his knowledge of African wildlife and safaris - he is the author of The Marsh Lions and Savannah Diaries - it is his love of the British countryside that has brought him most of his awards From Cornwall to Hermaness and from East Anglia to the Welsh Marches Wild About Britain showcases Jackman's writing at its best"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The 51 Day War : Resistance and Ruin in Gaza" |
| "On July 8 2014 Israel launched air strikes and a ground invasion of Gaza that lasted 51 days leaving over 2000 people dead the vast majority of whom were Gazan civilians During the assault at least 10000 homes were destroyed and according to the United Nations nearly 300000 Palestinians were displaced Max Blumenthal was on the ground during what he argues was an entirely avoidable catastrophe In this explosive work of reportage Blumenthal reveals the harrowing conditions and cynical deceptions that led to the ruinous war Here for the first time Blumenthal unearths and presents shocking evidence of atrocities he gathered in the rubble of Gaza"
Price: 10.49 |
| "My First Life : Conversations with Ignacio Ramonet" |
| "Hugo Chavez military officer turned left-wing revolutionary was one of the most important Latin American leaders of the twenty-first century This book tells the story of his life up to his election as president in 1998 Throughout this riveting and historically important account of his early years Chavez's energy and charisma shine through As a young man he awakens gradually to the reality of his country-where huge inequalities persist and the majority of citizens live in indescribable poverty-and decides to act He gives a fascinating description of growing up in Barinas his years in the Military Academy his long-planned military conspiracy-the most significant in the history of Venezuela and perhaps of Latin America-which led to his unsuccessful coup attempt of 1992 and eventually to his popular electoral victory in 1998 His collaborator on this book is Ignacio Ramonet the famous French journalist (and editor for many years of Le Monde diplomatique) who undertook a similar task with Fidel Castro (Fidel Castro My Life)"
Price: 20.49 |
| "Violent Borders : Refugees and the Right to Move" |
| "Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional but rather the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities We may live in an era of globalization he writes but much of the world is increasingly focused on limiting the free movement of people In Violent Borders Jones crosses the migrant trails of the world documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects and their dire consequences for countless millions While the poor are restricted by the lottery of birth to slum dwellings in the aftershocks of decolonization the wealthy travel without constraint exploiting pools of cheap labor and lax environmental regulations With the growth of borders and resource enclosures the deaths of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate change environmental degradation and the growth of global wealth inequalityWith the growth of borders and resource enclosures the deaths of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate change environmental degradation and the growth of global wealth inequality"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Brave New World: Special 3D Edition by Aldous Huxley (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future the World Controllers have created the ideal society Through clever use of genetic engineering brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old imperfect life still continues may be the cure for his distress Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Young gay William Beckwith spends his time and his trust fund idly cruising London for erotic encounters When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man Lord Nantwich is seeking a biographer Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich's diaries But in the story he unravels a tragedy of twentieth-century gay repression lurk bitter truths about Will's own privileged existence"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "The complete and enhanced editionThis edition contains extra information and archival material that tells the fascinating story behind The Well's controversial publication trial and ban in 1928 As a little girl Stephen Gordon always felt different A talent for sport a hatred of dresses and a preference for solitude were not considered suitable for a young lady of the Victorian upper-class But when Stephen grows up and falls passionately in love with another woman her standing in the county and her place at the home she loves become untenable Stephen must set off to discover whether there is anywhere in the world that will have her"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRENDA BOWENMrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot cowed and neglected by their husbands make a daring plan they will have a holiday Leaving a drab and rainy London one April and arriving on the shores of the Mediterranean they discover a flower-filled paradise of beauty warmth and leisure Joined by the beautiful Lady Caroline and domineering Mrs Fisher also in flight from the burdens of their daily lives the four women proceed to transform themselves and their prospects"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSSebastian is young handsome and romantic the heir to a vast and beautiful English country estate He is a fixed feature in the eternal round of lavish parties intrigues and traditions at the cold decadent heart of Edwardian high society Everyone knows the role he must play but Sebastian isn't sure he wants the part Position privilege and wealth are his if he can resist the lure of a brave new world"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Iliad by Homer (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBCNETFLIX EPIC SERIES TROY FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander Greek ships decay men languish exhausted and behind the walls of Troy a desperate people await the next turn of fate This is the Iliad an ancient story of enduring power; magnetic characters defined by stirring and momentous speeches; a panorama of human lives locked in a heroic struggle beneath a mischievous or indifferent heaven Above all this is a tale of the devastation waste and pity of war Caroline Alexander's virtuoso translation captures the rhythms and energy of Homer's original Greek while making the text as accessible as possible to a modern reader accompanied by extensive extra material to provide a background to the poem The result of 3000 years of story-telling Homer's epic tale of the fall of Troy has resonated with every age and every human conflict this is the Iliad at its most electrifying and vital"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics Bronte Series) by Charlotte Bronte (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "2016 CHARLOTTE BRONTE BICENTENARYWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELLAs an orphan Jane's childhood is full of trouble but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school A position as governess at the Thornfield Hall promises a kind of freedom But Thornfield is a house full of secrets its master a passionate tormented man and before long Jane faces her greatest struggle in a choice between love and self-respect"
Price: 6.99 |
| "To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye surrounded by family friends The novel's opening section teems with the noise complications bruised emotions joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever But time passes bringing with it war and death and the summer home stands empty until one day many years later when the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse One of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century To the Lighthouse is at once an intensely autobiographical and universally moving masterpiece"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival Regarded by many as her greatest work The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf's response to the loss of her brother Thoby who died when he was twenty-six"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Orlando (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN DUNMOREAs his tale begins Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court By the close he will have transformed into a modern 36-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "The circus arrives without warning It is simply there when yesterday it was not Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white A sign hanging upon iron gates readsOpens at NightfallCloses at DawnAs dusk shifts to twilight tiny lights begin to flicker all over the tents as though the whole circus is covered in fireflies When the tents are aglow sparkling against the night sky the sign lights upLe Cirque des RevesThe Circus of DreamsThe gates shudder and unlock seemingly by their own volition They swing outward inviting the crowd inside Now the circus is openNow you may enterBACKSTORY Read an interview with Erin Morgenstern about how she invented her circus"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES'It isn't running away they're afraid of We wouldn't get far It's those other escapes the ones you can open in yourself given a cutting edge'Offred is a Handmaid She has only one function to breed If she refuses to play her part she will like all dissenters be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaid's but her role is fixed her freedom a forgotten concept Offred remembers her old life - love family a job access to the news It has all been taken away But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire Includes exclusive content In The 'Backstory' you can read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Boris Pasternak (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKYDoctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told Yuri Zhivago physician and poet wrestles with cruel experience of the new order and the changes it has wrought in him and is torn between love for his wife and family and the passionate beautiful Lara Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988 Doctor Zhivago was nonetheless published covertly in Russian by the CIA and translated into many languages In 1958 Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature The Vintage Classic Russians Series Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution these are must-have beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy censorship and suppression to influence decades of thought and artistic expression"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Leo Tolstoy (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "TRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDEAnna is a beautiful intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin But her story is also about a search for meaning and by twinning it with that of Levin an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials form the backdrop for a similar quest Tolstoy creates a rich and complex masterpiece that has captured the imagination of readers for decades The Vintage Classic Russians Series Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution these are must-have beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy censorship and suppression to influence decades of thought and artistic expression"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Crime And Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKYConsumed by the idea of his own special destiny immured in poverty and deprivation Rashkolnikov is drawn to commit a terrible crime In the aftermath Rashkolnikov is dogged by madness guilt and a calculating detective and a feverish cat-and-mouse game unfolds The only hope for redemption if Rashkolnikov can but recognise it lies in the virtuous and faithful Sonya The Vintage Classic Russians Series Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution these are must-have beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy censorship and suppression to influence decades of thought and artistic expression"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "Richard Cantrell is an American colonel living in Venice just after the Second World War The fighting has left him scarred and embittered a middle-aged man with a heart condition It seems that only the love of Renata a nineteen-year-old countess can save him But Cantrell is living in the shadow of war every move he makes dictated by old battle instincts and it is possible that for him the longed-for peace may have come too late"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Liquidation by Imre Kertesz (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "Liquidation suspenseful and bleakly comic reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide A compelling if deeply unsettling work' Independent Kingbitter an editor at a failing publishing house believes himself to have been the closest friend of B a celebrated writer and Auschwitz survivor who recently committed suicide Amongst the papers B has left him Kingbitter finds a play entitled Liquidation that uncannily predicts the behaviour of B's ex-wife his mistress and Kingbitter himself As he obsessively reads and rereads the play Kingbitter becomes transfixed with the idea that buried within these papers is B's great novel the book that will explain his relationship with Auschwitz"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Years (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters a large middle-class London family from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s We see them each endure and remember heart-break loss radical change and stifling conformity marriage and regret Written in 1937 this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime and is a powerful indictment of 'Victorianism' and its values"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Jungle Book : A Special Edition from Johanna Basford" |
| "With a beautiful cover and chapter-heading illustrations throughout from queen of colouring Johanna Basford The Jungle Book tells the story of the irrepressible Mowgli who is rescued as a baby from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan Raised by wolves and guided by Baloo the bear Mowgli and his animal friends embark on a series of hair-raising adventures through the jungles of India"
Price: 4.99 |
| "The Door" |
| "Emerence is a domestic servant - strong fierce eccentric and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper When Magda a young Hungarian writer takes her on she never imagines how important this woman will become to her It takes twenty years for a complex trust between them to be slowly carefully built But Emerence has secrets and vulnerabilities beneath her indomitable exterior which will test Magda's friendship and change the complexion of both their lives irreversibly Szabo manages to conjure up as many cliffhangers as an Indiana Jones film The Door is a triumph Clever moving frightening it deserves to be a bestseller' Tibor Fischer Daily Telegraph"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Walden (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau a Harvard-educated 28-year-old went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts He stayed for over two years living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands Walden is his personal account of the experience in which he documents the beauty and fulfilment to be found in the wilderness and his philosophical and political motivations for rejecting the materialism which continues to define our modern world"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Death : Vintage Minis" |
| "When it comes to death is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end He reflects on what it means to miss God whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents Barnes is the perfect guide to the weirdness of the only thing that binds us all Selected from the book Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian BarnesVINTAGE MINIS GREAT MINDS BIG IDEAS LITTLE BOOKS A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis seriesCalm by Tim ParksDrinking by John CheeverBabies by Anne EnrightPsychedelics by Aldous Huxley"
Price: 3.49 |
| "Desire : Vintage Minis" |
| "You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world you tell them a story The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire whether it takes the form of hunger lust sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart Selected from Haruki's Murakami's short story collections The Elephant Vanishes Blind Willow Sleeping Woman Men Without WomenVINTAGE MINIS GREAT MINDS BIG IDEAS LITTLE BOOKS A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series Love by Jeanette WintersonPsychedelics by Aldous HuxleyEating by Nigella LawsonSummer by Laurie Lee"
Price: 3.49 |
| "Eating : Vintage Minis" |
| "In this inspiring witty and eminently sensible book Nigella Lawson sets out a manifesto for how to cook (and eat) good food every day with a minimum of fuss From basic roast chicken and pea risotto to white truffles and Turkish Delight figs Nigella brings the joy back into the kitchen Selected from the books How to Eat and Kitchen by Nigella LawsonVINTAGE MINIS GREAT MINDS BIG IDEAS LITTLE BOOKS A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis seriesDrinking by John CheeverHome by Salman RushdieSummer by Laurie LeeLiberty by Virginia Woolf"
Price: 3.49 |
