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A new memoir by best-selling novelist Lisa St Aubin de Teran (Keepers of the House, The Slow Train to Milan), looking back candidly at her life having retreated from the world to remote Mozambican village.

Esta es la historia del tabaco cubano, cuyo desarollo agrícola e industrial se torció tan habilmente como un Habano en torno a los intereses comerciales extranjeros. Traza el crecimiento decimonónico de una fuerte oligarquía tabacalera, clase campesina, y fuerza obrera urbana asalariada, al lado de una mano de obra esclava y bajo contrata, y examina cómo un prestigioso país manufacturero se transformó en exportador de la hoja. Detrás del culti...

This is the story of Cuban tobacco, whose agricultural and industrial development was fashioned as deftly as a Havana cigar around overseas trading interests. It traces the nineteenth-century growth of a strong tobacco oligarchy, peasant grower class and urban salaried work force, alongside slave and indentured labour, and examines how a prestigious manufacturing country was transformed into an exporter of leaf. Visibly poor peasant agricultur...

A new edition of the best-selling, award-winning second book.To Lizaveta, César remained as much of an enigma after two years of their nomadic exile together as he had that first day in Clapham when he took up his peculiar vigil in her mother's kitchen and showed no signs of shifting out of her life, ever. 'South America, ' this total stranger had pronounced unaccountably and then had fallen silent until hours later when Lisaveta decided to in...

A new edition of the best-selling fourth novel.It all appears innocent enough: a handsome couple in their thirties - she an actress, he a successful graphic designer - revisiting Sestri Levante on the Italian Riviera where they once spent their honeymoon. But it is not at all innocent. The couple have been driven here by paranoia - by a slow dread of what will happen to the two of them and to their daughters if anyone finds out about their bab...

A new edition of the best-selling third book.The servants said that even the waters of the Orinoco obeyed Misia Schmutter, the white-haired old lady, so proud of her Prussian ancestry, who treated the world like her slave. She had seen a glint of her own ruthlessness in her grandson Lucien's eye. Worshipping and torturing him by turns she cultivated in him a terrible understanding of tyranny and the true nature of power. She passed on to him a...

A new edition of the best-selling, award-winning first book.When the Beltrán brothers came to this Andean valley, they found behind barred windows beautiful twin sisters - last in the line of an illustrious conquistador. Through them the Beltrán dynasty was born - a dynasty that ruled the valley for 200 years and was now returning to the dust.Two centuries later, Lydia Sinclair was scarcely out of school when she fell in love with Don Diego Be...

Este libro se basa en el documental Cuba: Vivir entre ciclones (2019, dir. Michael Chanan), y cuenta las historias a través de las voces de los entrevistados. Cuba: Vivir entre ciclones es un libro sobre los elementos - huracanes y lluvia, el mar y la tierra. Sobre un puerto pescador en la costa norte de Cuba que ha visto mejores días: Caibarién, donde el Huracán Irma - uno de los más poderosos que han azotado el Caribe - tocó tierra el 9 de...

Experiences we have in our WorkLife shape our understanding of the world. Stories help communicate truths about behaviour and relationships, bringing an opportunity for change and development. Books help anchor WorkLife conversations through characters, plots and settings, enabling a range of issues to be worked through. The WorkLife Book Club takes you on a journey through the streets of Shoreditch, East London, England, as the members sh...

This book is based on the film Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes (2019, dir. Michael Chanan), and tells the stories through the voices of those who were interviewed. It is a book about the elements - hurricanes and rain, the sea and the earth. About a fishing port on the north coast of Cuba which has seen better days: Caibarién, where Hurricane Irma - one of the most powerful ever to sweep the Caribbean - made landfall on 9th September 2017. Abo...

Objects exist to serve us, to make our lives more comfortable, warmer. Objects accompany us from birth to our final breath. They surround us, we choose them and they choose us. We look after them, and they look after us. Objects have their own stories, and they tell ours. Every object that we own (or that owns us), however insignificant, bears our mark, and a deep, invisible connection joins us. It is out of this that Sideways Glance comes. ...

This book combines the poetry of Anna Lidia Vega Serova with the photography of Gonzalo Vidal. Presented in bilingual (Spanish original and English translation) format, in which text and image are brought together in poetic conversation. The poems deal with love and loss, hybrid identity, and the planting of our dreams in the midst of urban decay.Este libro combina la poesía de Anna Lidia Vega Serova con la fotografía de Gonzalo Vidal. Present...