Bloomsbury Moondust. In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth Smith Andrew

The beautiful aurorae, or northern lights, are the stuff of legends. The ancient stories of the Sami people warn that if you mock the lights they will seize you, and their mythical appeal continues to capture the hearts and imagination of people across the globe • Aurora explores the visual beauty, ancient myths and science of the northern lights and challenges the popular theory of how the lights are formed. Plasma physicist Melanie Windridge explains this extraordinary and evocative phenomenon, a scientific marvel unlike any other in which the powers of astronomy, geology, magnetism and atomic physics combine to create one of the wonders of the natural world • As Melanie travels in search of the perfect aurora, she uncovers the scientific realities of this plasmic phenomenon full of natural power

Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search of the Dark Ages illuminates the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066 • In this new edition, Michael Wood vividly conjures some of the most important people in British history such as Hadrian, a Libyan refugee from the Arab conquests and arguably the most important person of African origin in British history, to Queen Boadicea, the leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans • Here too, warts and all, are the Saxon, Viking and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England: Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England

A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile • The bestselling Pies and Prejudice is a hugely enjoyable journey around the north of England

Join Stuart Maconie as he clock off in the north of England • Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town and have a good time. After all, working and playing hard is its specialty, and Stuart Maconie is in search of what, exactly, this entails what it tells us about the North today • Following tip offs and rumour, Stuart takes trip to forgotten corners and locals' haunts. From the tapas bars of Halifax to the caravan parks of Berwick Upon Tweed, from a Westhoughton bowling green to Manchester's curry mile, via dog tracks and art galleries, dance floors and high fells, Stuart compares the new and old North, with some surprising results

The untold story of the remarkable young men who played a central role in the history of British horticulture and helped to shape the way we garden today • In 2012, whilst working at the Royal Horticultural Society’s library, Fiona Davison unearthed a book of handwritten notes that dated back to 1822. The notes, each carefully set out in neat copperplate writing, had been written by young gardeners in support of their application to be received into the Society’s Garden • Amongst them was an entry from the young Joseph Paxton, who would go on to become one of Britain’s best-known gardeners and architects. But he was far from alone in shaping the way we garden today and now, for the first time, the stories of the young, working-class men who also played a central role in the history of British horticulture can be told

In the remote snow-covered mountains near Tibet lies a community long thought to be a mere myth called Shambhala, or Shangri-La. Here, in this place, is knowledge that has been kept hidden for centuries, and an insight that can have a profound impact on the way each of us lives our lives. Your search for Shambhala begins with the words of a child and the vision of an old friend. Those slender clues and a powerful synchronicity will lead to Kathmandu, Nepal, and then to Lhasa, Tibet • Amid blowing snows and perilous mountains, you will meet the members of the secret Tibetan sect that guards mysterious legends - the verbal instructions handed down for centuries that describe the inner changes one must undergo before entering Shambhala • Finally, with Chinese Agents in pursuit, you will pass through regions where anger and compassion struggle for ascendancy, and arrive at a place where the stunning reality about human prayer-energy - our underdeveloped ability to increase the synchronicity in our lives and influence what will happen to us in the future - is revealed

‘For 30 years I was the voice of sport at The Times – but that’s enough about me. What matters is sport.’ • This is an autobiography from which the author, award-winning writer Simon Barnes, has been surgically removed. He has reported on six World Cups, seven Olympic Games, cricket on five continents and more than 20 Wimbledons, watching Diego Maradona, Usain Bolt, Sachin Tendulkar and Roger Federer at their peak. Along the way he had soul-revealing conversations with Ayrton Senna and sat on Desert Orchid • His journalist’s experience gives him perspective, until the addictive madness of sport takes over. Epic is a stunning mosaic of some of the greatest sporting moments in recent years, which build up to provide the reader with a better idea of what sport is for, what differentiates winners from losers, and reveals how sport teaches us how better to enjoy life

For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here is Miep Gies's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives every day to bring food, news, and emotional support to its victims • From her remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange-checkered diary - Anne's legacy - into Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity. Each page rings with courage and heartbreaking beauty

"Конец пути. Путешествие по Британии в поисках мертвых" - удивительно донкихотский, очаровательный и вдохновляющий рассказ о путешествиях, в котором Джек Кук, автор всеми любимого путеводителя "The Treeclimbers Guide", разъезжает по Британским островам в потрепанном катафалке сорокалетней давности в поисках знаменитых - и не очень знаменитых - гробниц, надгробий и захоронений в других местах • По пути он отваживается проникнуть ночью на Хайгейтское кладбище, натыкается на останки валлийского друида, который популяризировал кремацию, и у него есть время посидеть и поразмышлять о непостижимом у могилы леди из Хой, жертвы самоубийства 18 века, чье тело было сохранено в почти идеальном состоянии на болоте в Шотландии. в котором она была похоронена

Более тысячелетия полинезийцы занимали самые отдаленные острова в Тихом океане, огромный треугольник, простирающийся от Гавайев до Новой Зеландии и острова Пасхи. До прибытия европейских исследователей они были единственными людьми, которые когда-либо жили там. Будучи как наиболее близкородственным, так и наиболее широко расселенным народом в мире до эпохи массовой миграции, полинезийцы могут проследить свои корни до группы легендарных путешественников, которые отважились отправиться в неизвестность в одном из величайших приключений в истории человечества • Как первые полинезийцы нашли и колонизировали эти отдаленные острова? Как люди, не имевшие письменности и металлических орудий труда, покорили самый большой океан в мире? Эта головоломка, получившая известность как проблема происхождения полинезийцев, возникла в XVIII веке как одна из величайших географических загадок человечества

Цветущие и пышущие плодородием Волшебные земли в одночасье оказываются на грани катастрофы: извержение давно спящего вулкана превращает плодородные поля в кипящие озера лавы, кругом - поваленные деревья и непроходимые завалы