Yoga for Real Life is one of the most successful yoga books of the past decade. Maya Fiennes has done for yoga what Nigella Lawson did for food.Maya Fiennes believes passionately that yoga can be enjoyed by everyone, young and old. Her unique style of yoga and meditation for modern living is based on Kundalini yoga, which works on inner energy centres ('Chakras'), combining poses, breathing, chanting and meditation for a full mind-body workout. Both deeply enjoyable and uplifting, ...

"Updates in Colo-Proctology" covers the proceedings of the Anglo-Swiss Colo-Proctology Meeting held in St Moritz in 1990. The book contains the papers which were presented and dis cussed there by physicians of the various specialties concerned with the care of patients with diseases of the colon, rectum and anus. The authors, each distinguished in a particular field, have contributed across a wide range of subjects and different dis ciplines. The topics covered include surgical and investi...

Discover the authoritative, illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence – the man who inspired the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia – from The World's Greatest Living Explorer Ranulph Fiennes‘An excellent guide to a colourful life for readers who enjoy tales of adventure in the desert sands’ Daily Telegraph'Corking, rip-roaring, crisply written, full of extraordinary characters. An immaculate retelling of this cracking story' Daily Mail

‘One of the best anthologies of the year… An arresting, deeply moving collection of the best of British poetry read by a star-studded cast’ The Independent. This exceptional anthology, based on Lord Owen’s published anthology Seven Ages Poetry for a Lifetime, features many of Britain’s leading actors who have all given their services for charity. Shakespeare’s ‘seven ages’ speech (read by Sir Ian McKellen) punctuates the programme which contains 150 poems read by forty actors. Michael Cain...

A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James.'Exquisitely original' Ian MacEwan'An enthralling story of love and loss' Robert HarrisIn the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Pretty, the widowed farmer...

Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham AwardShortlisted for the Samuel Johnson PrizeI had attached myself to the birds. I couldn't move on until the birds moved on, and the birds couldn't move on without the spring.One winter, after an enforced period of recuperation, William Fiennes finds himself restless and yearning for adventure. He travels to Texas, where he begins a quest to trace the million-strong flocks of snow geese...

'BR rebel chairman resigns' The Guardian.'Rebel rail chief in row' Daily Mail.'I don't take it back says sacked rail chief' Daily Express.This is the notorious book that got Gerard Fiennes sacked from British Railways while he was Chairman and General Manager of the Eastern Region in 1968.Fiennes became a railwayman by accident, joining the L.N.E.R as a Traffic Apprentice in 1928. Over the next four decades he worked himself up to ...

Sie wurden betrogen – und haben es erst zu spät bemerkt.Eine Nachricht, ein Anruf, ein scheinbar seriöses Angebot. Alles klang plausibel, professionell, vertrauenswürdig. Minuten später sind Geld, Daten oder Zugangsdaten weg – und es bleibt Scham, Wut und die Frage, wie das passieren konnte.Betrug ist heute kein Zufall mehr, sondern ein System. Täter arbeiten mit Psychologie, Zeitdruck und gezielten Manipulationen, die selbst erfahrene und intelligente Mens...

Excerpted from "Cruises in Small Yacht and Big Canoes", The Log of the Viper describes in vivid detail the adventures of an English gentleman sailor and his plucky companions cruising the south coast of England in 1883 in a 20 foot sailboat. This text provides a unique insight into the birth of small boat sailing and cruising as a sport for the middle class and not the elite few. Extensive lively illustrations and maps from the original edition.

Sie wurden betrogen - und haben es erst zu spät bemerkt. Eine Nachricht, ein Anruf, ein scheinbar seriöses Angebot. Alles klang plausibel, professionell, vertrauenswürdig. Minuten später sind Geld, Daten oder Zugangsdaten weg - und es bleibt Scham, Wut und die Frage, wie das passieren konnte. Betrug ist heute kein Zufall mehr, sondern ein System. Täter arbeiten mit Psychologie, Zeitdruck und gezielten Manipulationen, die selbst erfahrene und intelligente Menschen täuschen. Dieses Buch zeig...

Ranulph Fiennes tells the story of his unconventional, exceptional family, and reveals the ingredients for the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as 'the world's greatest living explorer'.Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes's personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through history. From Charlemagne - himself a direct ancestor of the author - to the count who very nearly persuaded William the Conqueror to retreat at Hasti...

THE SETT is another absorbing thriller by Ranulph Fiennes, the man the Guinness Book of Records called the 'world's greatest living explorer'.'The book is a tour de force in its scope, ambition and eclecticism'. - The TimesA fight that starts when Alex wakes up in a Lancashire hospital severely battered and with no memory of the brutal attack that put him there. A year's struggle reveals his identity. But Alex is ...