Elaine and Clifford Jessop, a suburban couple living in a penthouse apartment in Chelsea, not highfliers but nevertheless career-minded. Clifford held a high-ranking position in Customs and Immigration. Elaine had just been promoted as personal assistant to the MD of a renowned company that specialised in the handling of high-quality diamonds and gems. They were happy with their lives until Clifford had a chance encounter with his long-lost half brother. From that moment on, their world wa...

Being curious and inquisitive is never a perfect combination, but add them to Tilley Watson, and you have a recipe for disaster. That is what Tilleys parents discovered when she insisted that she saw a murderer while on her way to work one day. Tilley was known for jumping to conclusions and making more of a situation than there really was. Her parents and her friends usually just humoured her. This time though it was to come back and haunt her and them. Tilleys and her parents lives were ...

He Is...I Say examines Neil Diamond's singular place in the pantheon of popular music. David Wild-who has written about Diamond for Rolling Stone, penned the liner notes to a number of Diamond's anthologies, and produced Diamond's scandal-free episode of Behind the Music. Now he dares to turn on his Heartlight,” offering a moving and hilarious salute to his own Jewish Elvis based on his past interviews with the Solitary Man himself.An illuminating snapsh...

Bertie is back for another helping of comic chaos, guaranteed to delight his legion of fans! With his madcap plans and hilarious escapades, it won't be long before he's up to his neck in trouble again!Join Bertie in Wild! his 36th adventure as he looks after stick-in-the-mud Mr Weakly on an awesome activity day, joins Gran for her driving lessons and renders Mum speechless with a bedroom makeover to remember.

When a frightened mother asks woodsman and tracker Tye Caine to find her missing son, he can’t say no.The search takes him deep into the wilderness of the Cascade Mountains, where he finds a group of people who want to live a wild life. The only catch is one of them might be a killer.If that wasn’t complicated enough, he sees visions of people he knows are dead.Soon he finds himself on the run with no gear, no supplies, and no options. That’s familiar territory for ...

An awe-inspiring exploration of the sounds of the living Earth, and the joys and threats of human music, language and noise.'A symphony, filled with the music of life . . . fascinating, heartbreaking, and beautifully written.'ELIZABETH KOLBERT, author of The Sixth Extinction' Sounds Wild and Broken affirms Haskell as a laureate for the earth, his finely tuned scientific observations made more potent by his deep love...

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A century ago, a Labour government took power for the first time. Meet the "Wild Men" who led the way...'Superb' -- New Statesman'Fascinating' -- The Sunday Times.In 1923, five short years since the end of the First World War, and after the passing of the Act which gave all men the vote, an inconclusive election result and the prospect of a...

**Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardWinner of the Acoustical Society of America's 2023 Science Communication Award“[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life’s sound.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and the perils that sonic diversity now faces**We live on a ...

Exploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, Wild Mind, Wild Earth reveals the unrecognized kinship of mind and nature that must be reanimated if we are to end our destruction of the planet.Earth is embroiled in its sixth major extinction event—this time caused not by asteroids or volcanos, but by us. At bottom, preventing this sixth extinction is a spiritual/philosophical problem, for it is the assumpt...

"Opinionated and iconoclastic, Petersen writes with humor and a well-honed craft that will delight fans of Edward Abbey." - Library Journal (starred review)Twenty-five years ago David Petersen and his wife, Caroline, pulled up stakes, trading Laguna Beach, California, for a snug hand-built cabin in the wilderness. Today he knows that mountain land as intimately as anyone can know his home.Petersen conflates a quarter century into the adventures of fo...

An invaluable guide to foraging for food in unexpected places - from the coast to the woods, remote countryside to the cityNestled by the roadside, peeking through the hedgerows, hidden in the woods and even in city streets and park******s, wild food is all around us - if you know where to look.From woodland mushrooms and riverbank redcurrants to garden weeds and urban cherry blossoms, Where the Wild Things Grow takes us o...

"A radically effective work" exploring the connection between spirituality and sexuality (Gabriel Cousens, M.D., author of Spiritual Nutrition ).Meet Mykonos, both scurrilous madman and the voice of truth. Wild Nights presents David Deida's remarkable account of his days with the unconventional teacher who revealed to him the deeper wisdom of the erotic path to the divine.From our very first encounter to ...