Doubleday This Shining Life Kline Harriet

For Rich, life is golden • He fizzes with happiness and love • When Rich dies, he leaves behind a family without a father, a husband, a son and a best friend • His wife, Ruth, can't imagine living without him and finds herself faced with a grief she's not sure she can find her way through. At the same time, their young son Ollie becomes intent on working out the meaning of life. Because everything happens for a reason. Doesn't it? • But when they discover a mismatched collection of presents left by Rich for his loved ones, it provides a puzzle for them to solve, one that will help Ruth navigate her sorrow and help Ollie come to terms with what's happened • Together, they will learn to lay the ghosts of the past to rest, and treasure the true gift that Rich has left them: the ability to embrace life and love every moment

‘To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . . . these are great things. Every field should have a hare.’ • The hare, a night creature and country-dweller, is a rare sight for most people. We know them only from legends and stories. They are shape-shifters, witches’ familiars and symbols of fertility. They are arrogant, as in Aesop’s The Hare and the Tortoise, and absurd, as in Lewis Carroll’s Mad March Hare. In the absence of observed facts, speculation and fantasy have flourished. But real hares? What are they like? • In The Private Life of the Hare, John Lewis-Stempel explores myths, history and the reality of the hare. And in vivid, elegant prose he celebrates how, in an age when television cameras have revealed so much in our landscape, the hare remains as elusive and magical as ever

"How to describe the ecstatic song of larks? How the writers and poets have tried..." • Skylarks are the heralds of our countryside. Their music is the quintessential sound of spring. The spirit of English pastoralism, they inspire poets, composers and farmers alike. In the trenches of World War I they were a reminder of the chattering meadows of home • Perhaps you were up with the lark, or as happy as one. History has seen us poeticise and musicise the bird, but also capture and eat them. We watch as they climb the sky, delight in their joyful singing, and yet we harm them too • The Soaring life of the Lark explores the music and poetry; the breath-taking heights and struggle to survive of one of Britain's most iconic songbirds

'The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.' • The oak is our most beloved and most common tree. It has roots that stretch back to all the old European cultures but Britain has more ancient oaks than all the other European countries put together. More than half the ancient oaks in the world are in Britain • Many of our ancestors - the Angles, the Saxons, the Norse - came to the British Isles in longships made of oak. For centuries the oak touched every part of a Briton's life - from cradle to coffin It was oak that made the 'wooden walls' of Nelson's navy, and the navy that allowed Britain to rule the world. Even in the digital Apple age, the real oak has resonance - the word speaks of fortitude, antiquity, pastoralism

'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light • Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, Hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-o.' • There is something about owls. They feature in every major culture from the Stone Age onwards. They are creatures of the night, and thus of magic. They are the birds of ill-tidings, the avian messengers from the Other Side • But owls - with the sapient flatness of their faces, their big, round eyes, their paternal expressions - are also reassuringly familiar. We see them as wise, like Athena's owl, and loyal, like Harry Potter's Hedwig. Human-like, in other words • No other species has so captivated us

"Я обожаю лис за их роскошную красоту. Я не выношу лис за охоту на моих цыплят • Любовь и ненависть к лисам - типичная британская черта." • Лиса - высший хищник, красивейший и умнейший убийца. Все мы сталкивались с их дикой животной натурой, замечали среди ночи, как они роются в мусорных баках, и вздрагивали от холодных мурашек, услышав их пронзительные крики. И все же руки так и тянулись погладить детенышей, кувыркавшихся возле лисьих нор, а глаза любовались лисицей, бродящей по кукурузному полю • Что-то есть в лисах. Нечто, пленяющее нас так сильно, как ни один из других видов • Рассказывая про долгие и иногда сложные взаимоотношения, "Дикая жизнь лис" - это яркая и лиричная история любви - и временами ненависти - к этим великолепным созданиям

Громкие дела об убийствах зачастую привлекают наше внимание — ведь у каждой противозаконной смерти есть своя история. Но, в отличие от нас, судья не может перевернуть страницу и жить дальше. Как и подсудимый, и семья жертвы, и многие другие люди, которые находятся в зале суда • И все же нам интересно, что там происходит. И хотя большинство людей имеют лишь самое приблизительное представление о том, что происходит в британском Суде короны, любой человек может стать свидетелем или даже оказаться на скамье подсудимых • С захватывающим дух мастерством и глубоким состраданием автор Unlawful Killings описывает судебный процесс и наглядно показывает, каково это — быть судьей • Линии разлома нашего общество становится все труднее игнорировать. И Джозеф Уэнди считает, что мы делаем это на свой страх и риск

'Extraordinarily mature - technically as well as emotionally' Sunday Times • Arthur Machin's life changes when he is picked for the Rugby league team in his local town. Once a struggling coal miner's son, now he can buy what he likes - a car, a fur coat for his widowed landlady, Mrs Hammond, who is becoming something more. But fame makes a mess of things. Machin is troubled by advances from the boss's wife, he challenges the sensibilities of the comfortable classes and struggles to understand why his success fails to impress Mrs Hammond • Gritty, full of ambition and anger, This Sporting Life is an unflinching and surgical dissection of one man's life and a rare foray onto the sports field in British fiction

In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat characters, so maybe his enthusiasm would carry the day. Or, you know, maybe it wouldn't • In Gotta Get Theroux This, Louis takes the reader on a joyous journey from his anxiety-prone childhood to his unexpectedly successful career. Nervously accepting the BBC's offer of his own series, he went on to create an award-winning documentary style that has seen him immersed in the weird worlds of paranoid US militias and secretive pro-wrestlers, get under the skin of celebrities like Max Clifford and Chris Eubank and tackle gang culture in San Quentin prison, all the time wondering whether the same qualities that make him good at documentaries might also make him bad at life

Артист: Roger Waters, • Жанр: Rock, • Альбом: IsThisTheLifeWeReallyWant, • Формат носителя: LP