COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE‘This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit’ Adam NicolsonOver the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland from north to south: every cove, sound, inlet, island.The idea...

'Prose that is precise and beautiful as northern light … this book is an absolute delight' MOYA CANNONJoin David Gange on a seabound journey along Atlantic coasts and islands, exploring places and ways of life that have been built on small rowed or paddled boats.These small boats outnumber decked ships by at least fifty to one. Yet almost all history writing is about big boats. This is a strange misrepresentation of maritime history that th...

'Prose that is precise and beautiful as northern light … this book is an absolute delight' MOYA CANNONJoin David Gange on a seabound journey along Atlantic coasts and islands, exploring places and ways of life that have been built on small rowed or paddled boats.These small boats outnumber decked ships by at least fifty to one. Yet almost all history writing is about big boats. This is a strange misrepresentation of maritime history that th...

COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE‘This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit’ Adam NicolsonOver the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland from north to south: every cove, sound, inlet, island.The idea...

The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented transformation, yet it is often understood only through the stereotypes of crowded factories, child labour and emotional repression. In this entertaining and scholarly introduction, Dr David Gange explores the political, social and economic realities that defined life for Victorian people.Weaving together the perspectives of historians and literary scholars with movements in art, science and ethics, Gange paints a colourful, interdiscip...

“Finalmente un degno successore di Dahl.” - TelegraphCome al solito, Ben deve trascorrere il venerdì sera a casa della sua noiosissima nonna, anche se detesta stare con lei per moltissime ragioni tra cui: la sua tv non funziona, non fa altro che giocare a scarabeo e per di più puzza di cavolo! Ma un giorno Ben si imbatte in una montagna di gioielli nascosti nella scatola dei biscotti. E se la nonna fosse in realtà una ladra gentildonna, pronta a mettere a ...

Gangsta Granny, from Children's author David Walliams.Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma s house. She’s the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn’t know about his grandma:She was once an international jewel thief.All her life, she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels, and now she needs Ben’s help…

La leggenda della Gatta Nera vive ancora…Ben sta cercando di abituarsi alla sua nuova vita senza la nonna. Non era soltanto una grande appassionata di cavolo in tutte le sue forme e un’imbattibile avversaria a Scarabeo, lei era soprattutto una ladra di gioielli di fama internazionale conosciuta come “la Gatta Nera”. E ora a Ben non rimane che il ricordo della loro straordinaria avventura insieme per rubare i gioielli della Corona. Finché non succede qualcosa di ins...

Une fois de plus, Ben doit passer la soirée du vendredi chez sa grand-mère. Une grand-mère qui comme toutes les vieilles dames reste des journées durant assise dans un fauteuil à jouer au scrabble et à manger du chou - d'ailleurs, elle sent épouvantablement fort. Pourtant, un jour, Ben tombe sur un monceau de bijoux planqué dans la boîte à biscuits.Et si son assommante grand-mère cachait en fait une cambrioleuse de haut vol, prête à accomplir le plus spectaculaire des casses ?...

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARThe term “Libor” is obscure, but it determines a good deal of our financial lives-the interest rate on our credit card; our student loans; our mortgages; our car payments. How did a math genius, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system conspire to pickpocket you? They were in your wallet to already.In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the world’s ...

Gangsta Granny, from Children's author David Walliams.Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma s house. She’s the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn’t know about his grandma:She was once an international jewel thief.All her life, she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels, and now she needs Ben’s help…

The second installment of this saga of gangland lore follows gregarious gangster, Michael Hardy, further down his twisted criminal path. The Last Jewish Gangster, The Middle Years, starts in 1968 with Hardy sentenced to twelve years in the world's most dangerous prison in Mexico after taking the rap for his mother's counterfeiting scheme, hoping to have finally earned her love and respect.Once he's released from prison, Hardy returns to Brooklyn and tries to go straight, but drifts ...