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What does it take to make a living from the land in modern Britain?

What does it take to make a living from the land in modern Britain?

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Bathurst is a restless, curious writer… After reading this book, I found myself listening in a richer and more interested way." - Guardian A profound, beautifully written exploration of sound by a young woman who lost her hearing, then regained it.In this surprising and moving book, award-winning writer Bella Bathurst shares the extraordinary true story of how she lost her hearing and eventually regained it and what she learned from her twelv...

A heartfelt memoir about an astonishing personal journey from hearing to deafness and back again. Drawing on information from sign language experts, musicians, mental health workers and soldiers, Bella explores what deafness teaches us about listening and silence, and what the deaf know that the hearing don't. Published in partnership with the Wellcome Collection.

Spanning 300 years of seafaring history, the author examines the myths, realities, and superstitions of shipwrecks, from false beacons to smugglers' hideaways to 21st-century wrecking. Through painstaking research and interviews, Bathurst has created a remarkable work of narrative history and contemporary storytelling.

Paperback edition of the book on all aspects of bicycles and cycling. The bicycle's use in Britain has doubled and doubled again since the millennium, and more and more people are cycling enthusiasts. Bathurst takes the reader through cycling's best stories and strangest incarnations, from the use of a bike as a weapon of warfare to the woman who watercycled across the Channel. 'At last - a bicycle book for the rest of us...' "Guardian

In 2001 a group of authors including Andrew O'Hagan, Tony Hawks and Irvine Welsh were given the opportunity to visit Sudan, one of the world's most inaccessible countries.

From the bestselling author of 'The Lighthouse Stevensons', a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century - and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea.

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A group of schoolgirls goes off on a field trip to the English countryside in a story that will remind readers of "Lord of the Flies." Put up at a manor house that has seen better days, they discover that the nearby town offers alcohol, drugs, and sex--grown up downfalls that are at once tempting and terrifying.

For centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. Mariners' only aids were skill, luck, and single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished by rain. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer a few years later. In this engrossing book, Bella Bathhurst reveals that the Stevensons not only supervised the construction of the lighthouses unde...