Dialogue Books The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho Joseph Paterson

A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting over • Michael Kabongo is a British-Congolese teacher living in London on the cusp of two identities. On paper, he seems to have it all - he's loved by his students, popular with his colleagues, and enjoys the pride of his mother who emigrated from the Congo. But behind closed doors, he's been struggling with the overwhelming sense that he can't improve the injustices he sees - from his efforts to change the lives of his students, to his attempts to transcend the violence that marginalises young Black men around the world • Then Michael suffers a devastating loss, and his life is thrown into a tailspin. As he struggles to find a way forward, memories of his fathers' violent death, the weight of being a refugee, and an increasing sense of dread threaten everything he's worked so hard to achieve

Знали ли вы, что деревья могут влиять на вращение Земли? • Или что волки могут изменять русла рек? • Или что дождевые черви контролируют популяции диких кабанов? • Мир природы - это паутина сложных связей, многие из которых остаются незамеченными человеком. Но именно эти связи поддерживают тонко сбалансированное равновесие природы • Опираясь на последние научные открытия и многолетний опыт лесовода, в книге "Тайная сеть природы" Питер Воллебен показывает нам, как взаимодействуют различные животные, растения, реки, скалы и погодные системы, и что поставлено на карту, когда эти хрупкие системы выходят из равновесия • Книга на английском языке • An exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the entire natural world from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees • Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth? • Or that wolves can alter the course of a river? • Or that earthworms control wild boar populations? • The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by humans

Did you know that pigs frequently throw tantrums? • That chickens are capable of complex communication? • That sheep know their own names? • That cows grieve when their calves are taken away from them? • Jeffrey Masson delves deep into the mysterious world of farm animals and reveals just how sophisticated these creatures truly are - capable of joy, sadness, love and friendship - just like us

The Mothers is a dazzling debut about young love, a big secret in a small community and the moments that haunt us most • All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season • It's the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance - and the subsequent cover-up - will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth

A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave's desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels • This flight to freedom takes them on a journey that will transform them all, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest and its dense primeval wilderness reshapes reality and time itself • In the darkness, the old man grapples with the spirits of all those who have gone before him; the knowledge that the past is always with us, and the injustice that can cry out from beyond the grave • From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by Milan Kundera as the "heir of Joyce and Kafka," The Old Slave and the Mastiff fearlessly portrays the demonic cruelties of the slave trade and its human costs - a wise, loving tribute to the Creole culture of Martinique, and a vividly told journey into the heart of Caribbean history and human endurance

One morning, Deming Guo's mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her • With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson • But far from all he's ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents' desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind • Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid examination of borders and belonging. It's a moving story of how a boy comes into his own when everything he loves is taken away, and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of the past

Аида — выдающаяся рок-звезда своего времени; за каждым ее шагом наблюдает группа преданных до одержимости поклонников. Когда девушка бесследно исчезает, растворяясь в бурных и сложных любовных отношениях, фанаты полны решимости найти своего идола • Аида и Эхсан воссоединяются после десятилетней разлуки в надежде вернуть невинную, утраченную любовь своей юности. Однако по мере того, как тени прошлого просачиваются в настоящее вместе с ревностью и тайнами, напряжение в отношениях пары только возрастает… • "The Giant Dark" — отмеченный наградами дебютный роман о любви и славе, при создании которого автор вдохновлялась мифом об Орфее и Эвридике. В книге описаны разрушительные последствия использования возлюбленной в качестве музы • Это издание книги в мягкой обложке подойдёт в качестве подарка для любителей истории, мифологии, тайн и захватывающих сюжетов

Аида — выдающаяся рок-звезда своего времени; за каждым ее шагом наблюдает группа преданных до одержимости поклонников. Когда девушка бесследно исчезает, растворяясь в бурных и сложных любовных отношениях, фанаты полны решимости найти своего идола • Аида и Эхсан воссоединяются после десятилетней разлуки в надежде вернуть невинную, утраченную любовь своей юности. Однако по мере того, как тени прошлого просачиваются в настоящее вместе с ревностью и тайнами, напряжение в отношениях пары только возрастает… • "The Giant Dark" — отмеченный наградами дебютный роман о любви и славе, при создании которого автор вдохновлялась мифом об Орфее и Эвридике. В книге описаны разрушительные последствия использования возлюбленной в качестве музы • Это издание книги в твердой обложке подойдёт в качестве подарка для любителей истории, мифологии, тайн и захватывающих сюжетов

The secret life of Sherlock Holmes's nemesis, Moriarty • We think of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, but far more seductive is the pairing of Holmes and Professor James Moriarty, 'the Napoleon of crime' - a rivalry unparalleled in the world of crime fiction. Fiercely intelligent and a relentless schemer, Moriarty is the super-villain as megastar • This wonderfully diverse collection by writers such as Martin Edwards, Jurgen Ehlers, Barbara Nadel, L. C. Tyler, Michael Gregorio, Alison Joseph and Peter Guttridge reveals not just the evil side of Moriarty's personality, but his humanity, his motivations and his human failings. Some of the stories are humorous, some scary, but all are hugely entertaining

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture

The secret history of the invention that changed everything and became the most profitable product in the world • Odds are that as you read this, an iPhone is within reach. But before Steve Jobs introduced us to 'the one device', as he called it, a mobile phone was merely what you used to make calls on the go • How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? Veteran technology journalist Brian Merchant reveals the inside story you won't hear from Cupertino - based on his exclusive interviews with the engineers, inventors and developers who guided every stage of the iPhone's creation • This deep dive takes you from inside 1 Infinite Loop to nineteenth-century France to WWII America, from the driest place on earth to a Kenyan pit of toxic e-waste, and even deep inside Shenzhen's notorious 'suicide factories'

The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks and zimmers to follow the age-defying, youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old . . . 'Terrific. This geriatric Adrian Mole made me laugh' Woman and Home 'Funny and touching' BBC Radio 4 Meet Hendrik Groen. An octogenarian in a care home who has no intention of doing what he's told, or dying quietly. To that end, he creates the Old-But-Not-Dead Club and with his fellow members sets about living his final years with careless abandon. Such anarchism infuriates the care home director but pleases Eefje, the woman who makes Hendrik's frail heart palpitate. If it's never too late to have fun, then can it ever be too late to meet the love of your life? 'So much more than just a comedy' John Boyne 'A story with a great deal of heart' Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project 'Amusing and wickedly accurate