Bloomsbury

It is the year 5012 and the Milky Way galaxy is under attack. After the Universal War, a war that almost brought about the destruction of every known universe, the planets in the Milky Way banded together to create the Intergalactic Force - an elite fighting team sworn to protect and defend the galaxy. Only the brightest and most promising students...

The third in the critically acclaimed Writer and the City Series - in which some of the world’s finest novelists reveal the secrets of the cities they know best - Florence is a lively account of expatriate life in the ’city of the lily’.Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century,...

Aunti-ji - noun. a term sometimes used to address women older than oneself. Ji is traditionally used after someone’s name to show respect, mainly by the communities of the Indian sub-continent. Somewhere in the city live three elderly, South Asian auntijies who have found themselves together in a refuge for abused women, empty of memories and...

Most outboard motors will be troublesome at some point in their lives, but armed with the right knowledge a skipper neednt worry.The Reeds Outboard Motor Troubleshooting Handbook is a compact, pocket-sized guide to finding solutions to all of the most common outboard problems, and many of the less common ones too. The perfect format for quick...

The Chateau Letoric is the ancestral home of the highly respected Larche family obsessed with the past, with bitterness, rancour and revenge.Solange is one of France's most poignant Resistance heroines but, badly tortured, now senile, the repository of many dark secrets, she has been confined to a wheel chair since the end of the war.Her husband...

From Thoreau to Edward Abbey to Annie Dillard, American writers have looked at nature and described the sublime and transcendent. Now comes Akiko Busch, who finds multitudes of meaning in the practice of swimming across rivers. The notion that rivers divide us is old and venerated, but they also limn our identities and mark the passage of time;...