Six Records of a Life Adrift (Shen Fu)(Paperback / softback)

Six Records of a Life Adrift (Shen Fu)(Paperback / softback)

Six Records of a Floating Life (Shen Fu)(Paperback)

Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his

Adrift - A Secret Life of London's Waterways (Babbs Helen)(Paperback / softback)

A beautiful piece of nature / travel writing akin to Robert MacFarlane or Richard

Life of a Chalkstream (Cooper Simon)(Paperback / softback)

This delightful book records a year in the life of an essentially English waterscape, one that is home to a vast array of wildlife and natural habitat of the keen angler - the

Running Sky - A Bird-Watching Life (Dee Tim)(Paperback / softback)

The Running Sky records a lifetime of looking at birds. Begining in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with crepuscular nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England, Tim Dee maps his own observations and encounters over four decades of tracking birds across the

Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language(Paperback / softback)

Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea (Callahan Steven)(Paperback)

Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting

Neat & Tidy - The Story of Neat Records (Tucker John)(Paperback / softback)

Six Dinner Sid (Moore Inga)(Paperback / softback)

Sid has six owners, lives in six houses and has six dinners a day. Life is just about purrfect

Consolations of Philosophy (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Sets six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety; the fear of failure and

German Room (Maliandi Carla)(Paperback / softback)

How do you will a life into order? Adrift in Germany, a pregnant, aimless Argentine and her small circle of friends try and fail to find

Ascent (Bonington Sir Chris)(Paperback / softback)

The complete life story of arguably Britain's greatest mountaineer, whose career has spanned six decades of climbing peaks, across all continents and still being able to summit The Old Man of Hoy aged eighty years of age in

Fix Your Period - Six Weeks to Life-Long Hormone Balance (Jardim Nicole)(Paperback / softback)

The Akashic Records: Blueprint for Your Soul (Cayce Edgar)(Paperback)

The Akashic Records, or 'The Book of Life,' can be equated to the universe's super-computer system that acts as the central storehouse of all information for every individual who has ever lived upon the earth. More than ust a reservoir of events, the Akashic Records contain every deed, word,

Popkiss: The Life and Afterlife of Sarah Records (White Michael)(Paperback)

From 1987 to 1995, Bristol, England's Sarah Records was a modest underground success and, for the most part, a critical laughingstock in its native country-sneeringly dismissed as the sad, final repository for a fringe style of music (variously referred to as 'indie-pop,' 'C86,' 'cutie' and 'twee')

Trials of Socrates - Six Classic Texts (Plato)(Paperback / softback)

Six Loves of Billy Binns (Lumsden Richard)(Paperback / softback)

If you were looking back over a hundred years of your life, what would you change? 'Richard Lumsden is a magical, natural storyteller, weaving joy and pain through the life of a protagonist you can't fail to love' Miranda

Adrift - A True Story of Love, Loss and Survival at Sea (Oldham Ashcraft Tami)(Paperback / softback)

A compelling, at times devastating, ultimately inspiring account of how much can go wrong on the ocean and how, miraculously, one woman conquered her own fears. Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fianc Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies,

Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Fraser Lady Antonia)(Paperback / softback)

Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring

Forensic Records Society (Mills Magnus)(Paperback / softback)

China Clipper: The Age of the Great Flying Boats (Gandt Robert)(Paperback)

When the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an instant celebrity. This lively history by Robert Gandt traces the development of the great flying boats as both a triumph of technology and a stirring

A Little Primer of Tu Fu (Hawkes David)(Paperback)

The deepest and most varied of the Tang Dynasty poets, Tu Fu (Du Fu) is, in the words of David Hinton, the first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature. Tu Fu merged the public and the private, often in the same poem, as his subjects ranged from the horrors of war to the delights of

Class Six and the Eel of Fortune (Prue Sally)(Paperback / softback)

About a Boy (Hornby Nick)(Paperback / softback)

Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Will loves his life. Living carefree off the royalties of his dad's Christmas song, he's rich, unattached and has zero responsibilities - just the way he likes it.But when Will meets Marcus, an awkward twelve-year-old who listens to Joni Mitchell and accidentally kills