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Tracing the shifts and moods of four seasons along Scotland’s River Tweed, Andrew Douglas-Home weaves a story of a close relationship with salmon. Threaded through the year are stories too of one of the country’s olded families; stories of politics, military service, culture and the stewardship of our natural world. Through vivid vignettes and family memories, Andrew Douglas Home spins a homely, yet forthright and dryly witty narrative; both the perfect companion for those who love river fishing and a detailed and informative take on preservation and conservation; looking back at age-old practices and traditions and looking forward to what we must do to secure the future of the Atlantic salmon and their rivers.
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See the British year afresh as we follow twelve months via the traditional Japanese calendar of seventy-two seasons: revealing the beauty of small and subtle changes with joy and verve.
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An enthralling narrative journey through the history and geography of Mars by an award-winning writer, geologist and geophysicist.
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The true story of one couple’s fight for survival in Stalin’s Russia: a famous ballerina, sent to the Gulag, and her husband, who found a way to save her against all odds.
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Nick Duerden’s grandparents were always just ‘there’. A mysterious yet unchanging presence in his life, a source of dutiful visits, birthday cards and carefully preserved rituals – lunches, dinners, and endless card games. But, as he enters midlife, and his 98-year-old grandmother enters a care home, he realises that, like so many of us, he should perhaps have paid more attention to her true worth years before. It is easy to take for granted the things that are always around us, the people who are always there. And yet they often hold the keys to who we really are. As Nick goes in search of the secrets his late mother took to the grave, he finds that it can be the smallest things that keep us together when so much is left unspoken. This is a memoir of the tiny dramas that fill all our lives, and a celebration of the special ties that can bind two intimately connected strangers.
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A tortured genius, a sensitive soul, a great composer burdened by the weight of his private desires
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Delving into fact, fiction, folklore and her own family history, Lucy travels the length of Britain to find out first-hand why these animals incite such passionate emotions, revealing our rich and complex relationship with one of our most loved – and most vilified – wild animals.
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A fascinating and insightful biography of one of Britain’s most intriguing political figures
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Spread over ten chapters, using maps, essays and occasionally the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, ‘Prisoners of Geography’ looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential guide to geopolitics, one of the major determining factors in world history.
