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Bloomsbury presents Odin's Game by Tim Hodkinson, read by Rycharde Everley. FAST-PACED, DETAILED AND BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN [FOR] FANS OF BERNARD CORNWELL, GEORGE R.R. MARTIN AND THEODORE BRUN' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY. Not everyone will survive, but who will conquer all in Odin's game? AD 916. In...

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.

A second idyllic helping of rural life in France from the bestselling author of the classic A YEAR IN PROVENCE. Skulking through customs with a suitcase full of truffles, toads singing the Marseillaise, taking pastis lessons and finding gold at the bottom of the garden, you might think there is...

Italy delights and stimulates with its magnificent cities and monuments, stunningly beautiful landscapes, the glory of its art and architecture, the richness and variety of its food, the elegance of its design and fashion, and the vitality and charm of its people. Italian style and culture have been exported all over the world. At home, however, Italian society and politics are facing challenges as the country struggles to maintain its standard of living, the stability of its currency, and its ability to provide jobs.

Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule ended a century ago - and yet, travelling through 12 countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, she uncovers a legacy that's vital and relevant, where medieval ethnic diversity meets 21st-century nationalism, and displaced people seek new identities. It's a story of surprises.

In 1948, an Austrian-Hungarian Jewish 22-year-old from New York began his new career. Determined to be famous, he bought a one-way ticket to Paris, France. His assignment: cover nightclubs, sidewalk cafes, and weddings for the legendary Paris Herald Tribune. For the next 14 years, he developed a life and career by socializing and reporting on the folkways and foibles of some of the most powerful and famous people in the world.

The audioguide tells the story, describes the architecture and reports interesting facts about the oratory. Rossano is one of the most important cities of Calabria, under Byzantine rule, and here one of the most significant monuments of that time has been preserved: the Oratorio di San Marco, founded between the tenth and the eleventh century. During the restoration, fragments of admirable sculptures and frescoes of the Byzantine period emerged: a Virgin Mary with Child, which was to be part of a much wider representation.

Every year upon arriving in Plobien, the small Breton town where he spends his summers, American writer Mark Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas-filled Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled, but not daunted (OK, slightly daunted), he faces imminent concerns: What does he cook for a French person? Who has the right-of-way when entering or exiting a roundabout? Where does he pay for a parking ticket? And most dauntingly of all, when can he touch the tomatoes?

Der gebürtige Südtiroler Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer (1790–1861) gilt als bedeutender Orientalist. Der Kleinbauernsohn (geboren in Tschötsch bei Brixen) war ein für seine Zeit liberaler Denker, der in München und Frankfurt tätig war, und noch heute als Gelehrter bekannt ist. Sein maßgebliches Werk "Fragmente aus dem Orient", 1845 erstmals erschienen, machte ihn weithin berühmt und war lange Zeit vergriffen. In ihm wird Fallmerayer als Mensch und als Wissenschaftler fassbar.

Escape to Italy with the brand-new romcom from the author of You Had Me at Halloumi When Ramona's dream to launch a size-inclusive fashion line comes crashing down she decides it is time for a bold change. Realising there is little inclusivity in the exclusive world of haute couture, Ramona bids...

Brought to you by Penguin. The spellbinding new book by the prizewinning writer Kapka Kassabova tells the story of her time with the last moving pastoralists in Europe: a gripping portrayal of human-animal interdependence, and a plea for a different way of living. Living with one of these...

Ne sprašujte za pot: Blodnik po Istri je nenavaden vodnik, ki so ga zasnovale Agata Tomažič, Tamara Langus in Teja Kleč. Avtorice so popisale istrske poti, po katerih so blodile, in navdihujoče dogodivščine, ki so se jim na njih pripetile. "Če ste ljubitelj preverjenih turističnih destinacij in vas navdušujejo uveljavljene znamenitosti, potem se vam ta blodnik ne bo zdel niti malo uporaben," pravijo avtorice.

Read by the author, Kari Leibowitz Do you dread the clocks changing, and struggle to stay positive in winter? Do you struggle with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and don't know how to address it? Nobody can change the weather, but Dr. Kari Leibowitz's groundbreaking How to Winter will help...

Tutta n'ata storia è il racconto onesto e leggero di luoghi, fatti e personaggi della storia moderna napoletana. È un manuale per studenti che vogliono solo imparare. È un libro per curiosi che si vogliono acculturare. È una guida per un'insolita visita di Napoli. È, soprattutto, un libro di Storia.

In Viaggio nelle Puglie, Raffaello Mastrolonardo invita il lettore a riscoprire una terra che la modernità ha semplificato, ma che nella sua storia resta profondamente plurale. Attraverso un moderno Grand Tour, l'autore attraversa la Capitanata, la Terra di Bari e la Terra d'Otranto, intrecciando memorie personali e ricerca storica. Il racconto si muove sulle tracce di Federico II, lo Stupor Mundi, la cui eredità vive nei castelli e nelle cattedrali romaniche che punteggiano il territorio.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You have wanted this trip for years, and now you are staring at a map of two hundred islands, wondering whether Santorini is worth it, whether Mykonos is your kind of night, and how anyone gets from Athens to a Cycladic village without losing two days...

An unexpected and devastating decision by a large Swedish company hits the owner of a major Munichbased supplier like a bombshell. In sheer desperation he hires a man with a criminal record to pressure the Swedish CEO into reversing the disastrous decision. Two months later a spectacular...

Three women destined to find each other and forge a new path to happiness. Mellissa Knight thought she had a happy life in Devon—until Geoff, her husband of twenty-five years announces he’s off to take the gap year he never had. Within days, he’s gone. Reeling, Mel seizes an unexpected...

Von Ale bis Pils, Weizen, Stout und alkoholfrei Bier ist nicht nur ein Getränk. Bier ist ein Kulturgut, das uns seit Jahrhunderten verbindet. Der Bestsellerautor Jaroslav Rudiš, der aus dem Bierparadies Böhmen stammt und in dessen Geburtsstadt sogar ein Bier nach ihm benannt ist, setzt dem...

Bloomsbury presents The Pathless Land: Finding a Way Across Ireland by Tim Hannigan, read by Stephen Perring An epic journey on foot from Dingle to Burr Point in search of Ireland’s lost footpaths, and a quest to unravel the complexities of countryside access in Ireland and Britain. Ireland is...