Chatto & Windus Snakes and Ladders. The great British social mobility myth Todd Selina

This is the story of how we came to Frith. And we're never, ever, ever leaving.' • Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood, growing up on a West Country farm - three families, a couple of lodgers, goats, dogs and an orphaned calf called Gabriella Christmas • The parents are best friends too. Originally from the city, they're learning about farming: growing their own vegetables, milking the goats, slaughtering chickens and scything the hay

In her early twenties, Christie Watson was convinced she'd found her soulmate, in a glowing flash of light that turned out to be a tealight setting her quilt on fire. Twenty years later, her bed is burning once again... as she wakes in a perimenopausal sweat, night after night • This is the story of her journey through midlife: of the joy of letting go and the pain of the morning after, of the unstoppable power of female friendship and the struggle to raise teenagers as a single parent. It lays bare the exhilaration, agony, wonder and fears of being a middle-aged woman with a wild heart, a changing body and a new set of challenges. And as her world takes on a different shape, there's something else she starts to feel: the hot flush of possibility

Рассказы, вошедшие в сборник Old Babes in the Wood, посвящены самым разным темам. Путешествия женатой пары; двое друзей, которые по-разному видят свое прошлое; правильный способ помочь человеку, если он подавился; дочь, которая пытается выяснить, является ли ее мать ведьмой; унаследованные мечи с парадов Второй мировой… • Герои рассказов – любимые кошки, запутавшаяся улитка, Марта Геллхорн, Джордж Оруэлл, философ-астроном-математик Гипатия, целая толпа пожилых женщин-ученых и инопланетянин, которому было поручено задание собирать человеческие сказки • Old Babes in the Woods – это сборник рассказов канадской писательницы Маргарет Этвуд, ее первое произведение со времен «Заветов». Используя свои превосходные творческие способности, Этвуд вызывает у читателей целый спектр эмоций

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60 achievable adventures that celebrate the best of Britain and Britishness – must-do things that are on your doorstep rather than the other side of the world • If you want to ski off a cliff or swim with sharks, stop reading now. This book is about achievable adventures that celebrate the best of Britain and Britishness • The 60 mini adventures included are graded in difficulty from comically easy to mildly challenging, making them suitable for a wide range of ages and abilities. They include the most beautiful place to go for a stroll, the easiest place for a wild swim and, more importantly, the most spectacular place to have a cup of tea. Not to mention flying in a Spitfire and finding delicious food among the hedgerows • So what's on this Great British Bucket List? Well, a host of alternative UK adventures to get you out of the house

Britain's empire has gone. We no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim superpower status: our popular culture • It is extraordinary to think that one British writer, J. K. Rowling, has sold more than 400 million books; that Doctor Who is watched in almost every developed country in the world; that James Bond has been the central character in the longest-running film series in history; that The Lord of the Rings is the second best-selling novel ever written (behind only A Tale of Two Cities); that the Beatles are still the best-selling musical group of all time; and that only Shakespeare and the Bible have sold more books than Agatha Christie. To put it simply, no country on earth, relative to its size, has contributed more to the modern imagination

Вдохновленная историей Британии, от дерева, под которым был создан первый профсоюз, до ветвей, на которых вешали преступников, биография Великого британского дерева подробно описывает увлекательные истории, связанные с деревьями на протяжении всей истории Британских островов • Как много вы знали о боярышнике Гластонберийском? Дерево на месте аббатства Гластонбери, которое цветет на Рождество и, как полагают, происходит от оригинального шипа, посаженного на территории аббатства Иосифом Аримафейским. А еще есть дерево Освальда, где, как говорили, Пенда, король Мерсии, повесил расчлененное тело Освальда, христианского короля Нортумбрии, в назидание другим – и откуда город Освестри получил свое название • Есть липа, которая упрямо растет на крикетном поле в Кенте, ясень, окруженный надгробиями 19-го века на кладбище Сент-Панкрас, и дуб Ноул, увековеченный на странице в "Орландо" Вирджинии Вулф и в видеоклипе на песню The Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever"

The malodorous horrors of Sports Day • Bracing yourself for Parents' Evening • Refereeing teenage relationship dramas • This is not what you see in the adverts • From the age of eight, Ryan Wilson dreamt of being a teacher. This is the inside story of his time at the chalkface, from fresh-faced trainee with grand ideals to exhausted assistant head battling ever-changing government demands. It is a tribute to the colleagues who befriended him and to the chaotic, brilliant, maddening students who inspired and enraged him. From Sean, the wannabe gangster with a soft heart, to David, the king of innuendo, and terrifyingly clever Amelia. And, above all, it's about the lessons they taught him: how to be patient and resilient, how to live authentically and how to value every day

Why was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in in the eighteenth century? And more importantly, why is it no longer there? How did one of the great symbols of an Indian king's power, a pair of Persian-inscribed cannon, end up in rural Wales? And who is the Moroccan man that stole British hearts depicted in a long forgotten portrait hanging in a west London stately home? • Throughout Britain's galleries and museums, civic buildings and stately homes, relics can be found that beg these questions and more. They point to a more complex national history than is commonly remembered. These objects, lost, concealed or simply overlooked, expose the diversity of pre-twentieth-century Britain and the misconceptions around modern immigration narratives

Enlightenment Britain was ablaze with ambition and energy. Great writers like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Samuel Johnson, John Wilkes and Catharine Macaulay were part of a pioneering generation that shaped and inspired the American Dream. For the first time, bestselling historian Peter Moore vividly traces the transatlantic friendships and revolutionary ideas that inspired the Declaration of Independence • 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness' is the best-known phrase from that document, which was drafted by Thomas Jefferson in the summer of 1776. Today this line is evoked as a shorthand for that ideal we call the American Dream. But the vision it encapsulates – of a free and happy world – has its roots in Great Britain • This book tells the story of the years that preceded the Declaration