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Strange things are afoot in the city of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air smells salty, though Lviv is a long way from the sea. A ragtag group gathers round a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery - among them an ex-KGB officer and an ageing hippy he used to spy on. Before long, Captain Ryabtsev and Alik Olisevych are teaming up to discover the source of the "anomalies". Meanwhile, Taras ­- who makes a living driving kidney-stone patients over cobblestones in his Opel Vectra - is courting Darka, who works nights at a bureau de change despite being allergic to money.

A family reunited after a twenty-year estrangement, will discover secrets that change their lives forever... Gabriella Jacques, is happy to be back in her childhood home, Villa Espoir in the South of France ready to embrace fresh experiences with friends new and old and to heal some deep family...

After first meeting over sixty years ago while filming a costume drama for the BBC, Prunella Scales and Timothy West have enjoyed a partnership like no other. In this book, Tim traces their united steps through life professionally and personally, and covers the highs and lows of caring for Pru since her dementia diagnosis, twenty years ago. As with all things in life, she and Tim have tackled it together, often with a glass of wine in hand and almost always with a smile.

At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, and Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Camb, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back.

From French rugby's origins in Le Havre, (as an English export in the late nineteenth century) to the Catalan coast, acclaimed rugby writer Peter Bills travels the length and breadth of this vast country visiting not only the big cities but those regional heartlands of the game such as Toulouse...

At the school gate, when she accidentally kissed one new friend on the nose and called another a 'beautiful man-horse', Rachael realised that small-town France could hardly be more different to beach-side Australia. The smell of cigarettes replaced the tang of bone-broth and sprouted sourdough...

Paris. The beauty. The grime. The colours and thoughts and songs and sounds and children and dogs. The taste of strawberries, the sky, first métro, last métro, the bells, the dreams … The city of light, it seems, has its own plans for Jayne. Drawn there in an entirely unforeseen way, she...

Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown, in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art—from ancient times to today—Brown finds that each discipline defines what is real and unreal, natural and supernatural, demonstrated and theoretical, alive and inert. Each has its own way of perceiving and valuing the world around us. And each discipline defines what an Icelander might call an elf.

Sie träumen von "la Dolce Vita", einer bezaubernden Altstadt mit Geschichte und Großstadtfeeling, in Kombination mit Tradition und Gemütlichkeit? Dann sollten Sie Ihren nächsten Städtetrip unbedingt nach München machen! Häufig wird die bayerische Landeshauptstadt auch die "nördlichste Stadt Italiens" genannt - mit ihrem südländischen Charme und satten 1756 Sonnenstunden pro Jahr zieht die Stadt einfach jeden in ihren Bann. Doch das ist längst nicht alles, was München zu bieten hat.

Eine wahre Geschichte über Mut und Hoffnung Die Fortsetzung zum SPIEGEL-Bestseller "Der Salzpfad"! Das Leben entwickelt sich selten so, wie wir es planen. Raynor Winn und ihr Mann Moth erlebten dies hautnah, als sie mitten im Leben alles verloren und sich auf die rund 1000 Kilometer lange...

A partir del siglo XVIII Italia y Grecia se convirtieron en lugares de culto y peregrinación obligada de los aristócratas jóvenes, cuya educación se consideraba incompleta hasta visitar la cuna de la cultura occidental para contemplar in situ algunos de sus mayores logros.

Acompañada de Aristóteles, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Darwin, Jane Austen y tantos otros escritores, pintores o aventureros, la autora nos invita a realizar una travesía por la costa vasca.

On November 11, 1943, the Nazis invaded Cansano, forcing its two thousand inhabitants to make a tough decision—fight and be killed or sent to a POW camp, stay behind as servants to the Nazis, or move into the unforgiving mountains of Abruzzo while the Nazis used their village as a home base. Giovanni Ruscitti's family chose the latter and spent the next few months living in horrendous winter conditions in the rugged mountains. When the war ended, they returned to a village so ravaged by the Nazis that, today, the town has less than 200 citizens and remains in a dilapidated state.

"Hamburg": In Hamburg sagt man ''Moin'', das hat nichts mit der Tageszeit zu tun, Moin ist viel mehr als ein ''Hallo'' oder ''Guten Tag'', Moin verspricht hanseatische Wärme und die gibt es in Hamburg zuhauf. Die Hamburger sind bekannt für Herzlichkeit, Offenheit und ein bisschen Ironie. Was aber ist es im Einzelnen, das Hamburg so attraktiv macht? "München": Sie träumen von "la Dolce Vita", einer bezaubernden Altstadt mit Geschichte und Großstadtfeeling, in Kombination mit Tradition und Gemütlichkeit? Dann sollten Sie Ihren nächsten Städtetrip unbedingt nach München machen.

Alla scoperta dell’anima oscura, nascosta, sotterranea, esoterica e criminale della città. È antico il fascino di Bologna. Come un’ombra, percorre da secoli i vicoli del centro storico, i sotterranei e i portici che hanno reso celebre nel mondo la città. Tutti conoscono la Bologna “dotta”, “grassa” e “turrita”, ma solo in pochi conoscono i segreti, gli enigmi e i gialli del capoluogo emiliano. Come la necropoli dei vampiri emersa dalle viscere della terra durante i recenti scavi per l’alta velocità, o il codice mai decifrato inciso sulla Pietra di Bologna.

Mairead Small Staid’s debut, The Traces, is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. 

Walkabout è la camminata che gli aborigeni compiono in età adolescenziale, da soli nel deserto, per riconnettersi con le origini ancestrali delle loro terre e conoscere se stessi. Con questo stesso intento, Darinka Montico, rientrata in Italia dopo anni trascorsi a viaggiare per il mondo, si è messa in cammino decisa a conoscere il Belpaese e a inseguire il suo sogno.

This collection of Culture Smart guidebooks introduces listeners to Italy, Germany, and Spain. Each guidebook includes concise chapters on the local customs, traditions, and values of the country's inhabitants and, crucially, the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them. There are sections on social and business etiquette, tips on communication, both verbal and non-verbal, and advice on how to be a good guest.

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...