Cairo Swan Song (Said Mekkawi)(Paperback)

Cairo Swan Song (Said Mekkawi)(Paperback)

In the shadows of great wealth, and among Cairo's famous monuments, runs a world of street children. Mustafa, a former student radical who never really believed in the slogans, sets out to tell their story through a documentary he is making with his American girlfriend, Marcia. Alienated from a

Swan Song Part 1 (Dorison Xavier)(Paperback)

Swan Song - Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 (Greenberg-Jephcott Kelleigh)(Paperback / softback)

Forsyte Saga 6: Swan Song (Galsworthy John)(Paperback / softback)

Jon Forsyte is back. After years living in America with his mother Irene, he is excited to be home and can't wait to show off his roots to his new bride. When Fleur Forsyte, now Fleur Mont, his first love, hears of his arrival, she doesn't know what to feel. She's married too, though, with a little

Selected Works of Edward Said - 1966-2006 (Said Edward)(Paperback / softback)

Giovanni Bellini: The Last Works (Bellini Giovanni)(Pevná vazba)

Bellini's last works, examined here in new scholarship, represent a triumphant swan song An emblematic master painter of the Quattrocento, Giovanni Bellini remained active beyond that period and into the era now known as the High Renaissance. While his colleagues died or faded from view, Bellini,

Electric Light Orchestra: Song by Song (Van Der Kiste John)(Paperback)

Pink Floyd: Song by Song (Wild Andrew)(Paperback)

Pink Floyd Song by Song takes a fresh look at the songs which led to Pink Floyd becoming the third best-selling band of all time. From 'Arnold Layne' to 'Louder Than Words', Pink Floyd wrote about anger, isolation, regret, dismay, and fear. These themes, not always obvious starting points in

Angels of Cairo (Raymond Gary)(Paperback)

Robert Clifford is in Cairo to present his latest film for a festival prize. It has taken seven gruelling years of his life to make and is definitely NOT a film about his mother. But his moment in the spotlight is not quite as he

The Ice Swan (Ciesielski J'Nell)(Paperback)

Cairo: City of Sand (Golia Maria)(Paperback)

Cairo is a 1,400-year-old metropolis whose streets are inscribed with sagas, a place where the pressures of life test people's equanimity to the very limit. Virtually surrounded by desert, sixteen million Cairenes cling to the Nile and each other, proximities that color and shape lives. Packed with

Cairo in the War - 1939-45 (Cooper Artemis)(Paperback / softback)

A history of the glamorous and military critical city of Cairo during the Second World

Hippospotamus (Willis Jeanne)(Paperback / softback)

Hippopotamus had a spotamus . . . on her bottomus! 'It's Measles!' said Weasel. 'It's Hippopox!' said Fox. 'It's Jungle Fever!' said Beaver. But the spot on Hippo's bottomus was not a diseasel, not even a spotamus but something quite silly

You Said Forever (Lewis Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Something I Said (Bailey Smith Ben)(Paperback / softback)

Dark Song (Feehan Christine)(Paperback)

Song Machine - How to Make a Hit (Seabrook John)(Paperback / softback)

How do you make a song into a global smash hit that is guaranteed to make millions? In The Song Machine, John Seabrook dissects the workings of this machine, travelling the world to reveal its hidden formulas, and interview its geniuses - 'the hitmakers' - at the centre of it

Silver Swan (Morpurgo Michael)(Paperback / softback)

A boy living by a Scottish loch sees a beautiful silver swan land on the water. When snowy winter sets in, all the birds and animals around the loch must scavenge desperately for

Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide (Elshahed Mohamed)(Paperback)

The first of its kind, a substantive guide to over 220 modern buildings in Cairo--and the basis of an exhibition at New York's Center for Architecture entitled, 'Cairo Modern' The city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and

Well Said (Grant Linda)(Paperback)

The Well Said series is designed to improve the pronunciation and communication skills of beginner to advanced students from all language backgrounds. It offers a clear course plan covering the essential areas of pronunciation, including stress, rhythm, and intonation--features that research shows

Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature, Revised Edition (Kimball Carol)(Paperback)

Carol Kimball's comprehensive survey of art song literature has been the principal one-volume American source on the topic. Now back in print after an absence of several years, this newly revised edition includes biographies and discussions of the work of 150 composers of various nationalities, as

Dark Star Safari - Overland from Cairo to Cape Town (Theroux Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Offers an account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, the author visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most

Yuck! Said The Yak (English Alex)(Paperback / softback)

First Time I Said Goodbye (Allan Claire)(Paperback / softback)