A cauldron of descriptive imagery, surreal places and characters create an exciting and imaginative 'off-the-wall' fantasy trip.Books in the series:Peter: A Darkened Fairytale (story)Peter, Enchantment and Stardust (full poetry)Peter: The World - Short Poems & Tiny Thoughts (Vol 1)Surreal Peter - Short Poems & Tiny Thoughts (Vol 2)Peter: Crank's Time - Short Poems & Tiny Thoughts (Vol 3)A children's novel- PETER: A Darkened Fairytale...

Millions go to Goa every year to indulge in the hedonistic pleasures of this former Indo-Portuguese colony. Some never return. Set in Goa, this page-turner combines crime, romance and rough beach justice into a story that grabs you all the way, with the action flipping from Wales to Anjuna, once an idyllic fishing village, where mass tourism threatens to overwhelm the local community. Ceri arrives to escape a troubled life in a dead-end Welsh town and finds herself being groomed by the Bea...

Beautiful widow Joan D'Silva is at Howrah Station, fleeing Calcutta with her 11-year-old son Errol. Also on the same train is Laxhimi, a notorious hijira prostitute: charismatic, sensual and powerful.They are both running away to Lucknow to escape danger, but soon their lives will become entangled in a web of corruption and blackmail. Who is responsible for the poisoning at the factory? Is it the Workers Revolutionary Movement, the Children of God under the sway of the charismatic ...

10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION BY THE AUTHORThe No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller | A Sunday Times Book of the Decade**'**Many books have been written which claim to be “A New History of the World”. This one fully deserves the title' The TimesFirst published in 2015 to unparalleled global acclaim, Peter Frankopan's Th...

This book is the story of an Anglo Indian community in 1960s Calcutta coming to terms with India taking its first few faltering steps towards democracy.Joan is a single parent whose son's accidental discovery of the body of a young woman, gets her embroiled in the sinister activities of a maoist faction. The movement is bent on bringing a violent revolution to overturn the unfairness of caste, class, religion and privilege.The book evokes the rich multicultural but confused...

A young student makes himself the acolyte of an old man he calls 'Sensei'. Bitter, cynical and indolent, Sensei has withdrawn from society. The young student is at once attracted by these qualities and also deeply puzzled. Not even Sensei's wife knows the source of his inconsolable heart.As their friendship grows, the young student becomes more intrigued by the secrets that haunt Sensei, the mysteries of his past that have compromised his relationship with the worl...

Now a DreamWorks movie available on Prime Video!This #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from a Caldecott Honor winner tells an extraordinary story full of action and thought-provoking questions as a robot learns to survive—and live—in the wilderness.Can a robot survive in the wilderness?When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. S...

MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD!A road map for discipleship with Jesus that is powerfully transformative.Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can't be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Even though he was the pastor of a growing church, he did what most people do--avoid conflict in the name of Christianity; ignore his anger, sadness, and fear; use God to run from God; and live without boundaries.Eventually ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert“One of the most important books you’ll ever read.”—Steven D. Levitt, New York Times bestselling author of Freakonomi...

Gods Tsunami is about biblical prophecy and how its fulfillment is joining the destinies of Israel and the nations of the world. The shockwaves from this convergence are generating a spiritual tidal wave of change that is affecting all the Earth.

Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles FosterWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September)Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human fami...

An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter centuryMore than two decades after teaching English during the early part of China’s economic boom, an experience chronicled in his book River Town, Peter Hessler returned to Sichuan province to instruct students from the next generation. At the same time, Hessler and his wife enrolled ...