From the Orange Prize long-listed and award-winning author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak, Honour is a novel of love, betrayal and a clash of cultures. \"A powerful book; thoughtful, provoking and compassionate\". (Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat). \'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten...\' Leaving her twin sister behind,

Matt Shore is a pilot who finds himself in the middle of a racing scam when he gets a job ferrying high class punters around England\'s race course.

Call yourself a man? You do? Do you even know what a real man is? Are you a six-foot-one Adonis who wears all the latest fashions, moisturises regularly, visits spas for pleasure and never does anything wrong? Or do you drink twenty pints every Friday night, guzzle a kebab on the way home and then fart yourself to sleep? It\'s time to stop being the man everyone expects you to be and be the one you

Vacations increasingly offer us more than just a chance to laze about and pursue our favorite pastimes. This handy guide profiles accommodations where your pleasure in your surroundings goes hand-in-hand with concern for the environment. Showcasing contemporary, eco-friendly lodging in locales as varied as the Caribbean and the Australian Outback, this guide profiles green accommodations across the

Since the mid 1970s Roman Signer\'s work has examined the forces of the elements - air, fire, earth and water - in a combination of performance (documented by photography and video) and sculpture (the physical remains of his acts). With a Dadaist love for the absurd, his artworks include \"Race\" (1981), a video performance in which the artist races a lit fuse across a field (hopelessly behind from

An innovative concise format \'working edition\' of Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson\'s World Atlas of Wine, the pre-eminent and internationally acclaimed guide to the wines of the world. This brand-new concise edition of the World Atlas of Wine contains every one of the 200 maps core to the appeal of its original format. An ideal self-purchase, the Concise World Atlas of Wine combines essential information

The Taliban have disappeared from Kabul’s streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remain. In his short life eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most: his father and brother have been killed, his sister has been abducted, and Fawad and his mother, Mariya, must rely on the charity of family to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence. Then Mariya finds a position as housekeeper for

It is Christmas Eve, 1957. Flying home, on leave from Germany, he is alone in the cockpit of the Vampire. Sixty-six minutes of flying time, with the descent and landing - destination Lakenheath. No problem, all routine procedures. Then, out over the North sea, the fog begins to close in. Radio contact ceases and the compass goes haywire. Suddenly, out of the mist appears a World War II bomber. It is

A guided journal for people seeking new ways to unplug, get active, inspire creativity, cultivate mindfulness, and improve well-being. Afoot and Lighthearted is the first interactive journal of its kind for walkers who want to expand their physical and creative worlds through acts of mindfulness. Afoot and Lighthearted will teach readers how to harness the power of walking to cultivate and nourish

Jack Reacher is six foot five and dangerous, adrift in the hellish heat of Texas, moving like a shark in the water, and looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A Cadillac stops. A ride, but with a hitch. A pretty young woman, alone. Her husband\'s in jail. When he comes out, he\'s going to kill her. Her family\'s hostile, she can\'t trust the cops, and lawyers won\'t help. Reacher is her

Over the course of the last 12 years, Hanif Kureishi has written short fiction. The stories are, by turns, provocative, erotic, tender, funny and charming as they deal with the complexities of relationships as well as the joys of children.

These ten classic stories are masterful depictions of the underside of life, deep in the American South. On receiving an early copy, Evelyn Waugh remarked \'If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable. \"She\'s horrifyingly funny ...It\'s that cool, removed style combined with very black stories.\" (Donna Tartt). \"No one has written better about the reality of

Your Emperor needs you! The year is ad 100 and Rome stands supreme and unconquerable, from the desert sands of Mesopotamia to the misty highlands of Caledonia. But the might of Rome rests entirely on the shoulders of the legionaries, who stand strong against the barbarian hordes, pushing back the frontiers of the empire. This book - a kind of `unofficial guide\' for the new recruit, and part of Thames

Bob Mizer spent 48 years making photos and films for his Athletic Model Guild, and 41 years publishing Physique Pictorial, America\'s first, and most explicitly gay physique magazine. His diaries, kept from the age of eight, make it clear that he was openly homosexual from his late teens, but until the age of 42 he lived and worked in his mother\'s L.A. rooming house, where his strict ethical code

100 Marvel comics that built a universe. Which comic books have helped define Marvel Comics and make them the pop-culture phenomenon they are today? Find out in Marvel Greatest Comics, a compelling showcase of some of the most trailblazing and inspiring comic books ever created. From the groundbreaking original Human Torch and his aquatic adversary Namor, the Sub-Mariner in 1939 to the game-changing

Csöndlegyen úr. ? Ez az abesszín név ragadt rá gróf Széchenyi Zsigmondra, amikor szerte a világon már ismerték műveit, a szafarikon várták felbukkanását, amikor csodálták vadászművészetét. Mert a vadászat sporttá, és egyesek szerint művészetté vált a tizenkilencedik század utolsó éveitől a második világháborúig. Gróf Széchenyi Zsigmond nem tett mást, mint megvalósította gyermekkori álmát. Volt honnan

Rudyard Kipling\'s epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Born in India and growing into early manhood, Kim wants to play the \"great game\" of imperialism. He is also spiritually bound to the lama, an old ascetic priest. As the two men become fired by a quest that takes them across the country, Kim tries to reconcile these opposing impulses. A celebration

From Lonely Planet, the world\'s leading travel guide publisher, Better Than Fiction 2, the follow-up to 2012\'s Better Than Fiction, is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the world\'s best fiction writers including Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley and Karen Joy Fowler. Varied in place, plot and voice, these are stirring and evocative pieces that all share one common characteristic-they

Discover the work of Paul Cézanne, whose exploration of technique and form defined the Post-Impressionism movement in painting and set the artistic stage for the advent of Cubism. His bold use of strong colours influenced artists for generations to come and continues to surprise and delight us today. In Mega Square of this important French painter are collected in a compact volume-the perfect gift