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This is the remarkable account of the two-year journey across China, Mongolia and Tibet by two French Christian missionaries. After their expulsion from Tibet, where they stayed in the capital Lhasa, they moved back to China. The journey by Evariste Regis Huc and Joseph Gabet, began in September, 1844. They received a commission to travel to Mongolia to check on the progress of the newly established Christian mission created by the Pope. Volume I tells about their adventures in China and Mongolia and Volume II casts light on their further adventures in Tibet.

Edward Marston is a master of his craft.Daily MailDecember 1917. Ada Hobbes arrives on a frosty morning to clean the house owned by Dr Tindall, a surgeon at the Edmonton Military Hospital. She is shocked to find the blood-covered body of her employer sprawled across the floor. He has been hacked to death. Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy arrive to a horrific scene. Someone enjoyed killing him, without a doubt. Their investigation takes them far out of London and on the trail of a very different Dr Tindall, one who was not the respectable local doctor everyone thought he was. Marmion and Keedy will need to sift through a number of likely suspects to find the killer behind this gruesome murder.

In recent times, we have all questioned whether we feel truly nurtured by where we live. With 68 per cent of the worlds population predicted to live in cities by 2050, Dwellbeing is a call to stand firm on the seven pillars we cherish and so desperately need from our city homes: wilderness, nourishment, movement, connection, dwelling, imagination and love.Claire Bradbury is the ultimate urban nomad: born in the South African bush, she has spent her life working and living in cities across the globe. As an environmentalist, sustainability expert and wellbeing advocate, she explores how we can change the story of our city homes to be about dwelling, rootedness and joy, rather than a relentless rat race. She has spoken to everyone from city dwellers, street artists and planners to chefs, DJs and architects around the world to unearth the everyday actions that have the power to enhance our lives. Dwellbeing celebrates the leaders, creators and urban heroes who are rewriting the script on urban living, helping us to make the shift from smart to lovable cities.This beautiful book shows that, when it comes to reimagining our urban futures, everyone has a voice.

1984 is a novel by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell. 1984 centers on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modeled the totalitarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.

Short Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald - F. Scott Fitzgerald is regarded as of the greatest American writers of the Twentieth century, and many scholars believe his short fiction to be every bit as important as his novels. Here are collected the master of the Jazz Ages finest short works.

Lord Jim Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwoods Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim.

Sequel to instant New York Times bestseller Axioms End, in Truth of the Divine, Lindsay Ellis deepens her exploration of a world faced with the presence of extra terrestrial intelligence.The human race is at a crossroads; we know that we are not alone, but details about the alien presence on Earth are still being withheld from the public. As the political climate becomes more unstable, the world is forced to consider the ramifications of granting human rights to non-human persons. How do you define "person" in the first place?Cora Sabino not only serves as the full time communication intermediary between the alien entity Ampersand and his government chaperones, but also shares a mysterious bond with him that is both painful and intimate in a way that neither of them could have anticipated. Despite this, Ampersand is still keen on keeping secrets, even from her, which backfires on both of them when investigative journalist Kaveh Mazandarani, a close colleague of Coras estranged whistleblower father, witnesses far more of Ampersands machinations than anyone was meant to see.Since Cora has no choice but to trust Kaveh, the two must work together to prove to a fearful world that intelligent, conscious beings should be considered persons, no matter how monstrous-looking, powerful, or malicious they may seem. Making this case is hard enough when the public doesnt know what its dealing with, and it will only become harder when a mysterious flash illuminates the sky, marking the arrival of an agent of chaos that will light an already unstable world on fire.

Nine-year old Marina swears like a sailor and thinks like a novelist; but that doesnt make growing up any less of a mystery.While her mother is in the hospital with a grave but unnamed illness; Marina spends the summer with her grandmother; waiting to hear whether shell ever get to go home or be bundled off; newly orphaned; to a convent school. There are no rules here; but that also means there are no easy ways to fend off the visions of sex and violence that both torment and titillate the girl. Presenting a fresh; vivid take on the coming-of-age novel; Oldladyvoice reimagines childhood through the eyes of its one-of-a-kind; hilarious; perceptive; and endearing narrator.

A pacy page-turner with a ripping plot and characters you care aboutDaily MailWhen novelist Sophie Carr rescues a man from a group of paparazzi, she finds that her new neighbour is ageing pop star Jez Winter. She has loved his music for years and knows he has had a tough time lately, with a violent intruder and then a car accident putting his ability to play music at risk. Lifes not been easy for Sophie either, losing her husband just as she was taking off as a novelist and having her hands full with her children. While Jez and Sophies families continue to complicate their lives, Sophie also has a secret to hide. One that makes her very wary of getting involved with Jez ..

The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan - John Buchans The Thirty-Nine Steps was the novel that introduced readers to the cunning Richard Hannay and became a foundational work in the spy-thriller genre. Taking place only months before the outbreak of World War One (and written during the conflict) it focuses on Hannays attempts to warn the government of an unfolding plot to steal Great Britains military plans. Throughout the book Hannay must escape from German spies and the British police, who falsely believe that he has murdered the very man who revealed the plot to him. The book would prove incredibly popular upon its release and has been cited as the first man-on-the-run style story which has been re-used in films in literature ever since. The novel itself has been adapted for the screen no less than four times.

A MAJOR 2021 DEBUT FICTION LAUNCH, THIS REMARKABLE IRISH NOVEL ABOUT THE MESSINESS OF MODERN FAMILY LIFE COMES WITH PRAISE FROM MEG MASON TO ANNE ENRIGHT__________AN IRISH TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NEWCOMER OF THE YEARGilmartin is clearly a writer to watch Clare ChambersThe search is off - here is our next read. Here is an expert writer Meg MasonSarah Gilmartin gives us terrific, complex characters and strong themes, in prose that is charged with insight Anne Enright__________Kate has taught herself to be careful, to be meticulous.To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, she plans a dinner party - from the fancy table settings to the perfect Baked Alaska waiting in the freezer. Yet by the end of the night, old tensions have flared, the guests have fled, and Kate is spinning out of control.But all we have is ourselves, her father once said, all we have is family.Set between the 1990s and the present day, from a farmhouse in Carlow to Trinity College, Dublin, Dinner Party is a dark, sharply observed debut that thrillingly unravels into family secrets and tragedy.As the past catches up with the present, Kate learns why, despite everything, we cant help returning home.A brilliant coming-of-age page-turner about the complications of sibling relationships and the trauma of family secrets, perfect for fans of Kate Atkinson, Maggie OFarrell and Anne Enright__________FURTHER PRAISE FOR DINNER PARTYGilmartins depiction of an Irish family across the decades leaves the reader in no doubt how complicated love can be John Boyne, author of The Hearts Invisible FuriesA fresh, confident and compelling new take on sibling dynamics and family secrets that are never far from the surface Henrietta McKervey, author of A Talented ManSarah Gilmartin is a really wonderful storyteller. A writer here to stay Joseph OConnor, bestselling author of Star of the SeaA classic Irish family saga... A blazing new talent in Irish fiction Gavin Corbett, author of This is the WayOne of the best Irish debuts Ive read this year. A novel of family - full of warmth, insight, tragedy and, ultimately, how to survive it all... Rick OSheaA family gathering goes disastrously wrong in Gilmartins raw, emotionally searing novel about the toxicity of secrets and the inescapable lure of home. WaterstonesExquisitely captured. . . beautifully paced, confident and insightful Daily MailGorgeously wrought and moving Irish TimesA fine debut Irish IndependentDelicately studied Sunday Times, IrelandA finely observed Irish debut GuardianGilmartin writes beautifully Sunday Times, Culture__________READERS LOVE DINNER PARTYA tense, literary page-turnerAn incredibly poignant story of a family torn by loss and griefA totally compelling read about fraught family relationships, sisterhood, loss, grief and everything in between

The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the award-winning Aliya Whiteley, deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life with her trademark wit. Witness the future of farming in a new Ice Age, or the artist bringing life to glass; the many-eyed monsters we carry and the secret cities inside our bodies.Fascinating, and unlike any other writer working today.

A gripping, bloody tribute to classic slasher cinema, final girls and our buried ghosts, combining Friday the 13th, the uncanny mastery of Shirley Jackson, and the razor wit of the Evil Dead.The Jordan Peele of horror fiction turns his eye to classic slasher films: Jade is one class away from graduating high-school, but thats one class she keeps failing local history. Dragged down by her past, her father and being an outsider, shes composing her epic essay series to save her high-school diploma.Jades topic? The unifying theory of slasher films. In her rapidly gentrifying rural lake town, Jade sees the pattern in recent events that only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror cinema could have prepared her for. And with the arrival of the Final Girl, Letha Mondragon, shes convinced an irreversible sequence of events has been set into motion.As tourists start to go missing, and the tension grows between her community and the celebrity newcomers building their mansions the other side of the Indian Lake, Jade prepares for the killer to rise. She dives deep into the towns history, the tragic deaths than occurred at camp years ago, the missing tourists no one is even sure exist, and the murders starting to happen, searching for the answer.As the small and peaceful town heads towards catastrophe, it all must come to a head on 4th July, when the town all gathers on the water, where luxury yachts compete with canoes and inflatables, and the final showdown between rich and poor, past and present, townsfolk and celebrities slasher and Final Girl.

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND GLOBAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERWINNER OF NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDSOVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD ACROSS ALL FABER EDITIONSA tour de force. Anne Enright, GuardianRooneys best novel yet. Brandon Taylor, New York TimesGet ready to have your heart broken all over again.RedThe book moved me to tears more than once.The TimesAlice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if hed like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young - but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they worry about sex and friendship and the times they live in. Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?Readers love Beautiful World, Where Are You: I have rarely felt so connected to a novel . beautiful and enduring. Anon It is remarkable to read a book and feel so reflected in the pages. Kat I devoured it. You experience the characters lives as though you are there. Anon I was ready to start reading again immediately after I finished. Anon Sally Rooney makes the everyday fascinating and sensual. EmSally Rooneys book Beautiful World, Where Are You was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 11-09-2021

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE KISS QUOTIENTAN IRRESISTIBLE OPPOSITES ATTRACT ROMCOMRED When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself overwhelmed trying to live up to it. And when her boyfriend of five years announces that he wants an open relationship, a hurt and angry Anna decides to embark on a string of one-night stands. The more unacceptable the men, the better. Enter tattooed, motorcycle-riding Quan Diep. Their first attempt at a one-night stand fails, as does their second and their third - because being with Quan is about more than sex. But when tragedy strikes Annas family, she takes on a role that threatens to destroy her. Now, Anna and Quan have to fight for their chance at love, but to do that, they also have to fight for themselves.Readers love THE HEART PRINCIPLEAn absolutely stunning book, Helen Hoang is a genius! NetGalley reviewBeautifully written and undeniably addictive ... profoundly moving NetGalley review

The Murder on the Links Agatha Christie - Two people rarely see the same thing. Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links Experienced Belgian detective, Hercules Poirot is called in to a client but when he arrives is given notice of the mans death earlier that day. The victim lay face down in a grave located within a golf course. He was wearing his sons overcoat and a love letter within. Cause of death, a letter opener. Soon Poirots case is flipped over by the discovery of another identical corpse.On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the backAn urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course.But why is the dead man wearing his sons overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse

In "Tales from English History: For Children," Agnes Strickland masterfully weaves a narrative tapestry that brings pivotal moments of English history to life for young readers. Strickland adopts a lyrical and engaging prose style, carefully crafting characters and scenes that are both educational and entertaining. The book introduces key events and figures ranging from early monarchs to significant battles, all tailored to captivate the imagination of children, thereby fulfilling an essential role in the genre of childrens historical literature during the 19th century, a period that valued moral education through stories. Agnes Strickland, a pioneering historian herself, was deeply immersed in the study of English history and its influential figures, notably through her previous works on queens of England. Stricklands passion for history, coupled with her desire to make it accessible to the younger generation, led her to create this volume. Her scholarly background and commitment to educational reform reflect the Victorian eraAos growing emphasis on childhood development and literature. This book is highly recommended for educators, parents, and young history enthusiasts alike, as it not only informs but also inspires curiosity about the past. Stricklands engaging storytelling makes it an excellent resource for teaching history in a relatable manner, establishing a foundation for the appreciation of historical narratives.

The Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller

An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention including striking up a friendship with a hijra person confuses her bohemian daughter, who is used to thinking of herself as the more modern of the two.At the older womans insistence they travel back to Pakistan, simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences of Partition, and re-evaluating what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, a feminist.Rather than respond to tragedy with seriousness, Geetanjali Shrees playful tone and exuberant wordplay results in a book that is engaging, funny, and utterly original, at the same time as being an urgent and timely protest against the destructive impact of borders and boundaries, whether between religions, countries, or genders.

The Railway Children - E. Nesbit - The Railway Children is a childrens book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906. It has been adapted for the screen several times, of which the 1970 film version is the best known. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography credits Oswald Barron, who had a deep affection for Nesbit, with having provided the plot. The story concerns a family who move to "Three Chimneys", a house near the railway, after the father, who works at the Foreign office, is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying. The children befriend an Old Gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15 train near their home; he is eventually able to help prove their fathers innocence, and the family is reunited. The family take care of a Russian exile, Mr Szczepansky, who came to England looking for his family (later located) and Jim, the grandson of the Old Gentleman, who suffers a broken leg in a tunnel.The theme of an innocent man being falsely imprisoned for espionage and finally vindicated might have been influenced by the Dreyfus Affair, which was a prominent worldwide news item a few years before the book was written. The Russian exile, persecuted by the Tsars for writing "a beautiful book about poor people and how to help them" and subsequently helped by the children, was most likely an amalgam of the real-life dissidents Sergius Stepniak and Peter Kropotkin who were both friends of the author.