Bee and Snail are watching butterflies in the garden. Bee wants to know what's going on. They both watch eagerly as butterflies lay eggs which turn into caterpillars and finally into butterflies. Chil...
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-fa...
Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. "Five Days in August" boldly presents a different interpretation: that the ...
Beetle and Fish are watching frogs at the pond. Fish wants to know what's going on. They both watch eagerly as frogspawn turns into tadpoles and finally into frogs. Children will enjoy lifting the fla...
Reporter/film-maker Bill Carter loses his girlfriend in a tragic accident, and flees to war-torn Bosnia as a humanitarian aid worker. There he befriends members of an amazing artistic community, who h...
`An elegant, thoughtful book . . . beautifully expresses the importance and experience of liberation from the battery-hen life of constant connection and crowds.' Daily Mail `A compelling study of the...
Alek Wek grew up in the Sudan in the midst of the vicious civil war. Now, at age 28, she is one of the most sought-after supermodels in the world, and has single-handedly changed the traditional conce...
Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It's the art of anticipating your opponent's next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game t...
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to join the Foreign Legion and wear the famous kepiblanc, Bill Parris' brutally frank account is the closest you can get without handing over your passpor...
A celebration of the universal language of romance through the ages, Love Letters embraces a selection of the most famous poetry and prose of all time from some of the worlds best known paramours, inc...
Anyone can join the positive revolution. All you need is creativity. Historically, revolutions have been negative – defining, overthrowing or destroying an enemy, fuelled by a sense of mission and dir...
In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl cru...
The English tongue has never tasted more delicious than in the mouth of Stephen Fry: his chokingly brilliant sesquipedalian prose is like a shaft of sunlight through the drizzle of quotidian language....