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The Isle of Wight: in the summers of the 1800s, Queen Victoria holidayed here. At music festivals in the summer of love, hundreds of thousands of people got stoned here. And, in the summer of 2020, Hunter and Claire escaped locked-down North London for a week's holiday here. They fell in love with its sleepy charm – and ended up buying a Grade 2-listed home in the elegant Victorian seaside resort of Ryde. "Love in Old Age" tells the story of their first year on the island. It is a journey of discovery in a forgotten corner of England.

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023 'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times 'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion _____ What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population...

On New Year’s Day 2012, Amy-Jane Beer’s beloved friend Kate set out with a group of others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate never came home, and her death left her devoted family and friends bereft and unmoored. Returning to visit the Rawthey years later, Amy realises how much she misses the connection to the natural world she always felt when on or close to rivers, and so begins a new phase of exploration.

Leben auf dem Land – jeder kann sich glücklich schätzen, wer sagen kann, "ich bin in der Eifel zuhause". Umgeben von viel Grün, Landschaft und Natur fühlt man sich so manches Mal wie im Urlaub. Die Suche nach Ruhe und Entschleunigung führt Menschen in die Eifel-Region mit ihrer ursprünglichen Umgebung und ihren faszinierenden Weiten. Die Eifel ist Heimat – ein Gebiet, in dem man aufgewachsen ist, sich zuhause fühlt oder auch ein Ort, an den man gerne zurückkehrt oder ein neues Leben beginnt.

A fun and informative trip around the highways (not forgetting the low ways) and byways of Great Britain. Within its pages you will find love and romance, murder and mayhem, royalty, aristocrats and commoners, politics and politicians, sex and scandal, sporting triumphs and sporting disasters...

The third gripping instalment in a dystopian thriller series, where modern-day recruits compete in a fight to the death in the streets of Edinburgh. Live by the rules. Die by the rules. Or break them and take your chances in the chaos that follows... The Pantheon Games are the biggest underground event in the world, with millions watching online as modern-day recruits battle to the death with weapons of the ancient world. Tyler Maitland left his life behind to search for his sister, who disappeared after joining the Pantheon's Edinburgh chapter.

After three years of hard work, the Kerr family are selling their orange farm and saying goodbye to Mallorca. Their adventure comes to an end with a paella feast with friends, full of bonhomie yet tinged with sadness. But returning to Scotland proves to be just as big an adventure, with quite a cultural shock in store. Welcomed back by family, the Kerrs make plans to start a deer farm on a remote hillside – the beginning of a period of challenges and change, of buying and restoring houses in the lovely Scottish countryside.

Mit Autor und Moderator Nilz Bokelberg auf Entdeckungstour in seiner Heimatstadt Köln. Warum lieben die Kölner ihren Dom so sehr? Wie feiert man Karneval richtig? Welches Kölsch sollte man trinken und wo schmeckt es am besten? Wo und mit wem flirtet es sich besonders gut? Und woher kommt eigentlich die gute Laune der Kölner? Diese und weitere wichtige Fragen beantwortet Nilz Bokelberg auf humorvolle Art, nimmt Hörerinnen und Hörer mit auf Streifzüge durch die rheinische Metropole und führt zu seinen persönlichen Lieblingsorten: eine sehr unterhaltsame Mischung aus Anekdoten und Beobachtungen, Fun Facts und Tipps.

Though Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on the idea of home, from the earliest imprint of four walls to the startling discoveries of feeling the strange ease of homes abroad, friends’ homes and even momentary homes that spark desires for other lives. Her musings are all the more poignant after so many have spent their long pandemic months at home.

For over four decades, Cameron McNeish has chronicled Scotland’s majestic landscapes and the outdoor communities who inhabit them. While much has changed, especially in terms of conservation and access, the hills themselves remain little altered, as do the reasons people visit them. In this...

For history buffs, travelers, and scholars alike, an indispensable behind-the-scenes guide to the great cathedrals of Paris.

The second in an action-packed adventure thriller series, where modern-day recruits compete in an ancient fight to the death in the streets of Edinburgh. New Season. New Rules. Same deadly game... The Pantheon Games are the biggest underground event in the world, followed by millions online. New recruits must leave behind their twenty-first-century lives and vie for dominance in a gruelling battle to the death armed only with ancient weapons – and their wits.

"Squid Game" meets "The Hunger Games" in this thriller where modern-day recruits compete in an ancient, deadly game across the streets of Edinburgh. Welcome to the Pantheon Games. Let the streets of Edinburgh run with blood...The Games are the biggest underground event in the world, followed by millions online. New recruits must leave behind their twenty-first-century lives and vie for dominance in a gruelling battle to the death armed only with ancient weapons – and their wits.

Tony Warner has created community partnerships with, and has lectured at, The Imperial War Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Docklands and the British Film Institute which have all led to huge increases in minority ethnic audiences. He specialises in regularly exhibiting African/Caribbean films with positive images. He founded Black history walking tours in the St Pauls, Trafalgar Square, Notting Hill, Soho and Elephant and Castle areas in 2007. The walks are designed to uncover the 3500 years of Black history in London and are popular with locals and overseas students.

Mit einem Esel nach Portugal reisen? Für Lotta Lubkoll kein Problem! Sie hat ihren Bus so umgebaut, dass ihr bester Kumpel Jonny mitfahren kann. Für die beiden geht es einmal um die Iberische Halbinsel, wo Lotta früher mit ihrer Familie überwintert hat. Mithilfe eines Fotos will sie sich auf die Suche nach einem fast vergessenen Ort ihrer Kindheit machen. Auf dem Weg dorthin erleben die zwei Freunde allerhand Abenteuer, von Schießübungen des französischen Militärs bis hin zu einem heftigen Sturm in Spanien. Sie treffen auf begeisterte Bulli- und Eselfans und finden ihren ganz eigenen Rhythmus on the road.

If you go into the woods, you're in for a dark surprise. Thirty years ago, three girls followed a stranger into the woods. Only two returned. The surviving pair have never been able to remember what happened or what the fate of the third girl was. Local rumours talk of hippies and drugs and mystic rituals, but no one has learned the truth. This story is just what Rowan Blake needs. He's in debt, his journalistic career is in tatters – as well as his damaged body – and he's retreated to the Lake District to write.

ONE TRAGIC NIGHT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING SOUTHERN SWEDEN, 1990 Five lifelong friends gather for a last farewell to their childhoods and each other at an abandoned quarry. The mood is effervescent, but under the surface tensions run deep as not everyone is ready to let go - or be left behind. When...

'Tis the season for finding love... and the perfect book! With just two weeks until Christmas, everything in Clove Lore should be perfect. But the latest holidaymaker to the Borrow a Bookshop is feeling far from festive... Icelandic ex-bookseller Magnús Sturluson might be surrounded by love stories in the Bookshop, but he’s nursing a sadness that not even fiction can fix. When Alexandra Robinson winds up stranded in Clove Lore, she finds a safe place to hide from heartbreak. After all, all that’s waiting for her at home is a cheater boyfriend and the memories of her parents.

Bayern hat die Zugspitze, Hessen die Wasserkuppe, aber hat Hamburg einen höchsten Berg? Ja, und zwar den Hasselbrack, 116,2 Meter hoch! Der Radiomoderator und Journalist Achim Bogdahn hat sich auf eine Reise quer durch Deutschland gemacht und die höchsten Berge aller 16 Bundesländer erklommen. Begleitet wird er auf seinen Wanderungen von bekannten Persönlichkeiten aus der jeweiligen Region, darunter Margot Käßmann, Rocko Schamoni und Manuel Andrack.

The Sunday Times bestseller, read by the author. In his darkest depression, one idea brought Christian Lewis out of the depths – and into a new life. Finding Hildasay is a brutal and beautiful true story of mental health, survival, walking, and the meaning of home. ‘Now I was finally out of...