From the bestselling author of This Book Belongs To comes a new romantic adventure that will have you laughing, crying, and wishing you were there!Clara Herrera is a backpacking blogger traveling WITHOUT A MAP. Ben Murphy is a luxury travel writer who never got directions in how to love. When she wins a competition to join him on a trip to India for Holi, the festival of love, they’re both forced to confront their tortured pasts and opposi...

The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States. The contributors provide detailed ethnographic and technical research on gourd lutes and ekonting in Africa and the banza in Haiti while also investigating tuning p...

This edition is the prescribed text for the English Mastery Secondary programme.Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In these three intimately connected stories, hope and humanity meet stubborn reality, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain.Andrea Levy's epic novel Small Island, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys ...

'You do not know me yet but I am the heroine of this drama. I am told that here I must give a taste of what is to unfold. I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent days of slavery and the early years of freedom.'I am to say that it is a true and thrilling journey through that unsettled time.'Cha, I say, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just see it for themselves.'The Long Song is adapted from Andrea L...

Wizards tend to be secretive and solitary, rarely sharing their knowledge, and associating with only a select few apprentices, followers, and henchmen. It is rare that they spend time in the company of other spellcasters, and rarer still that they work together. Now, however, something is about to take place that has not occurred since the great days of Felstad – a gathering of wizards.In this new supplement for Frostgrave, some of the biggest names in gaming turn their cr...

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica. Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer. Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Three intimately connected stories, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain. Andrea Levy's epic novel, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 – the year that HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. Small Island was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 2019, in an acclaimed production...

« La liberté de Nick Masondura moins d’une minute. »Ainsi commence la deuxième vie de Nick Mason. À peine sorti de prison après cinq années derrière les barreaux, sa liberté s’achève. Dès que son téléphone sonne, nuit et jour, il doit décrocher et faire très exactement ce qui lui est ordonné. C’est la conséquence folle de l’accord qu’il a passé avec Darius Cole, un dangereux criminel condamné à deux peines de perpétuité et qui continue d’orchestrer à distanc...

On the morning of February 6, 1999, Buenos Aires police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Víctor Manuel Vital, better known as Frente, while he was unarmed, hiding under a table, and trying to surrender. Widely known and respected throughout Buenos Aires's shantytowns for his success as a thief, commitment to a code of honor, and generosity to his community, Frente became a Robin Hood--style legend who, in death, was believed to have the power to make bullets swerve and save gang...

A notícia isolada de que um editor do jornal britânico News of the World invadia caixas postais de telefones atrás de recados que lhe rendessem furos sobre a realeza não seria tão aterradora se parasse por aí. O problema surgiu quando o repórter Nick Davies decidiu investigar a história mais a fundo e descobriu um lamaçal de crimes e corrupção que afetava boa parte da imprensa britânica, com ramificações no gabinete do primeiro-ministro e no alto escalão da Scotland Yard.