In the Dolphin's Wake - Cocktails, Calamities and Caiques in the Greek Islands (Bucknall Harry)(Paperback / softback)

In the Dolphin's Wake - Cocktails, Calamities and Caiques in the Greek Islands (Bucknall Harry)(Paperback / softback)

In Custody (Desai Anita)(Paperback / softback)

Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India. An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees a way to escape from the meanness of his daily life when he is asked to interview India's greatest Urdu poet, Nur - a

Voices in the Ocean - A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins (Casey Susan)(Paperback / softback)

In Focus: Galapagos Islands (Gifford Clive)(Paperback / softback)

Trek across the incredible Galapagos Islands, come face to face with the wildlife and discover the amazing explorers - and pirates! - who first explored these

101 Best Hill Walks in the Scottish Highlands and Islands (Cornwallis Graeme)(Paperback / softback)

Islands in the Stream (Hemingway Ernest)(Paperback / softback)

______________________________________Hemingway's last major novel, set in the Gulf Stream islands, captures the struggles of adult personal relationships in his consummate distinctive style. This is the last book Hemingway wrote before he died, the story of Thomas Hudson, an artist and

Islands in the Stream (Hemingway Ernest)(Paperback / softback)

______________________________________Hemingway's last major novel, set in the Gulf Stream islands, captures the struggles of adult personal relationships in his consummate distinctive style. This is the last book Hemingway wrote before he died, the story of Thomas Hudson, an artist and

Pandora's Jar - Women in the Greek Myths (Haynes Natalie)(Paperback / softback)

The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories.Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback / softback)

In 'The Metamorphoses', Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. This is Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the

Pattern of Islands (Grimble Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he was used as human bait for a giant

Fratricides (Kazantzakis Nikos)(Paperback / softback)

The Fratricides is about internecine strife in a village in the Epirus during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s. Many of the villagers, including Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father Yanaros, have taken to the mountains and joined the Communist

The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins (Whitehead Hal)(Paperback)

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for fish, we find clear examples of

Fire and Sword (Sidebottom Harry)(Paperback / softback)

'Absorbing and brilliant ... Game of Thrones without the dragons' THE TIMES The third book in Sidebottom's epic series set in third century Rome; a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil

Everything You Told Me (Dawson Lucy)(Paperback / softback)

Sally wakes up in the middle of nowhere, with a suicide note in her pocket and no memory of the previous twenty four hours. When she discovers what happened to her, she is shocked to the

In the Wake of Heroes - Sailing's Greatest Stories Introduced by Tom Cunliffe(Paperback / softback)

Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek Drama (Roisman Hanna M.)(Paperback)

The heroines of Greek tragedy presented in the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have long captivated audiences and critics. In this volume each of the eleven chapters discusses one of the heroines: Clytemnestra, Hecuba, Medea, Iphigenia, Alcestis, Antigone Electra, Deianeira, Phaedra,

The Greek Way (Hamilton Edith)(Paperback)

In The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton captures with 'Homeric power and simplicity' (New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the Greek aesthetics of sculpture and writing and the lack of ornamentation in both. She

Lost Heart of Asia (Thubron Colin)(Paperback / softback)

Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and documented the widespread social upheaval in a region reeling from political

Stranger In Burracombe (Harry Lilian)(Paperback / softback)

A beautiful tale in the bestselling series set in a Devon village in the 1950s. Like the rest of the nation, the Burracombe villagers are shocked when King George the Sixth dies suddenly in 1952. But in the midst of their grief, the arrival of a stranger in the village on the very same day goes

Off the Beach in the Caribbean: Travels in the Little Leeward Islands (Saraceni Raymond A.)(Paperback)

Colourful and various - characterised by rich histories, a treasure-trove of fascinating places, and most especially by an array of unique, compelling personalities - the Caribbean islands are decidedly more than their beaches and resorts. Focused upon some of the region's tiniest islands, this

OCEAN LIFE (SCHOLASTIC)(Paperback)

Whales, sharks, and dolphins are just a few of the amazing creatures that live in the sea. From the tiny coral shrimp to the enormous squid, this book is a very simple introduction to ocean

Bridge (Banks Iain)(Paperback / softback)

The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains

Messages from Islands: A Global Biodiversity Tour (Hanski Ilkka)(Paperback)

From a small island in the Baltic Sea to the large tropical islands of Borneo and Madagascar, Messages from Islands is a global tour of these natural, water-bound laboratories. In this career-spanning work, Ilkka Hanski draws upon the many islands on which he performed fieldwork to convey key

The Balkans 1940-41 (1): Mussolini's Fatal Blunder in the Greco-Italian War (Battistelli Pier Paolo)(Paperback)

In the wake of Italy's rapid annexation of Albania in April 1940, Mussolini's decision to attack Greece in October that year is widely acknowledged as a fatal mistake, leading to a domestic crisis and to the collapse of Italy's reputation as a military power (re-emphasized by the Italian defeat in