How does an unlikely trekker, never knowingly seen without mascara, cope along a remote Inca Trail to Machu Picchu? Author Sharon McKee loves exploring new places but is not a fan of camping, preferring home comforts like hot running water, a bed and toilets. After being diagnosed with breast cancer though, in a 'moment of madness', she signs up to do a charity trek. The adventure in the Andes turns out to be a challenge in more ways than one. From pre trip worries, such as coping in an al...

It is a quiet place, with lush green grass covering the location of the former Belarusian village. A village that was burned to the ground with its inhabitants in 1943. Anyone familiar with this small corner of Eastern Europe is chilled to the bone by the events that transpired there, and the village’s name Khatyn has now come to embody a horrific national tragedy. But tragedy is not all this name embodies, for it also reminds people of the tremendous courage of those who fought for the li...

The author Evelyn Samuel provides an in depth, detailed interpretation of Priestley's popular detective play, 'An Inspector Calls'. The audio book outlines in detail the characters, themes, plot and typical exam questions with explanations of the play alongside the text, making it super super easy to understand. The book in audio form can be easily grasped with it's clear and distinct narration

This anthology comprises reminiscences by a number of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s contemporaries, including the artist Konstantin Korovin, the writer Maxim Gorky, and Chekhov’s wife, Olga Knipper-Chekhova, and numerous letters written by Chekhov to his fellow writers and artists, family, publishers, and others.Now available for the first time in English in America, these sixty-eight letters and ten essay-length reminiscences trace the development of Chekhov’s personality and talent, ...

Khatyn by Ales Adamovich recounts the harrowing fate of a Belarusian village burned down by Nazi forces in 1943. Through the memories of a partisan veteran, the novel captures both the horrors of war and the enduring courage of those who resisted.Ales Adamovich’s Khatyn is a powerful, haunting portrayal of a tragedy that befell the Belarusian village of Khatyn in 1943, when Nazi forces razed it as punishment for partisan support. Drawing on historical documents an...