The ocean called her home.Avonlea Carrillo is a scientist, a Harvard professor, and the estranged daughter of a lighthouse keeper on Nova Scotia's forgotten coast. She returns to the crumbling town of Rockcrest Harbour only to scatter her father's ashes and sell what's left of his life. But when a cryptic radio signal interrupts the silence, Avonlea is pulled into a mystery that began decades earlier far beneath the surface of the sea.In the ocean trench be...

Winner of the 2005 AKO Literatuurprijs - a true Dutch bestseller Translated by Liz Waters Throughout his long career Jan Siebelink has brought to life dozens of characters, yet never before has he come as close to his own roots as in this new novel. In My Fathers Garden is the gripping story of a father-son relationship, in which the father becomes obsessed by a fire-and-brimstone Calvinism. Hans Sievez has a profoundly religious experience at a decisive moment in his life. He is convinced...

"An entertaining discussion" of the role memory plays in our lives as we age, including an interview with Oliver Sacks ( Times Higher Education Supplement).When we can't call to mind the name of someone we've known for years, or walk into a room and forget what we came for, we start worrying. Are these lapses just "senior moments," or something serious like dementia? In this book, a renowned specialist explores the topic of memory in later life—not only th...

'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial TimesFrom the author of the internationally acclaimed **In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?**In this illuminating book, Geert Mak - one of Europe's best-loved commentators - charts the seism...

Whenever there are elections, the results are the same: fear-mongering, division and broken promises. Against Elections offers a new diagnosis – and an ancient remedy**.**'Excellent . . . Why does our system keep electing people whose incomes, assets, interests and psychology are hugely at variance with ours? Because that is what it is designed to do' George Monbiot, Guardian'Very persuasi...

Inspiration propels us. It’s the basis of every accomplishment. But the idea that it simply falls into your lap is a myth. Inspiration doesn’t come to us in a gust of wind, only to disappear into the mist again. You make it happen; it’s a reward for work that you’ve already done. The combination of perspiration and inspiration takes you to where you want to go.In this ode to what is perhaps the brain’s greatest achievement, Ap Dijksterhuis explains, with a storyteller’s verve, what...

Can you feel your faith slipping away? Are you or a loved one questioning what you’ve always believed?You are not alone. Come on a journey with others who have lost their religion but have found themselves.If you’re wondering whether there’s life on the other side of deconversion, or if you’re trying desperately to understand a loved one who is losing their faith—this book is for you. Edited by philosophy of religion scholar, Sarah Bacaller, with a foreword...

With a foreword by First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, this book is the first to offer an in-depth look into what makes the Welsh Social Work context unique. It includes the move towards joint children, families and adult provision and the emphasis on early intervention, future generations and partnership considerations.Covering the subject knowledge required by the Welsh regulator, Social Care Wales, it provides essential reading for students and practising social workers in ...

From skies above to water below, discover the secrets to glorious landscapes!No two elements of the landscape bring the artist greater inspiration--or greater challenge--than sky and water. Get them right and you have magic. Get them wrong and your whole painting is off. In this book, popular pastel artist and teacher Liz Haywood-Sullivan shares her secrets for getting them both right, every time. With her practiced and proven approach, you can exp...

As the wooden piles under Amsterdam begin to rot, water levels rise in Venice. The 4,500-year-old ruins of Mohenjo-daro flood in Pakistan. Compaction of peat soil in northern England is causing Hadrian's Wall to collapse. The bricks of excavated Babylon are exploding as a result of increasing salt levels. Melting permafrost in Siberia is endangering the ancient burial mounds of the Scythian civilization. In the US, hurricanes have partially destroyed the heritage of New Orleans and Puerto ...

Widely compared to the work of Ian McEwan, with an ending that mocks classical forms and normsMarijke Schermer’s debut novel, published in 2016, before Love, If That’s What It Is, but never translated into EnglishWorld Editions has published Schermers 2nd book already in 2022, to a great Publishers Weekly review: “The author expertly humanizes each of the characters’ desires and flaws as she illuminates the raw, inner workings of a broken marriag...

In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans.The trip became Travels With Charley, one of his best-loved books.Half a century on, Geert Mak sets off from Steinbeck’s home. Mile after mile, as he retraces Steinbeck’s footsteps through the potato fields of Maine to the endless prairies of the Midwest and stumbles across glistening suburbs and boar...