'Hilarious, heart-warming and real ... You have to read this book!'Lucy Foley, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party and The Guest List.___It's easy to put someone in the friend zone. But what happens if you change your mind?Bea isn't happy. Desperate for a change, she looks to her friends for inspiration. Every single one of them is paired off, perhaps that's what she needs too....

Fifteen-year-old Raim lives in a world where you tie a knot for every promise that you make. Break that promise and you are scarred for life, and cast out into the desert.Raim has worn a simple knot around his wrist for as long as he can remember. No one knows where it came from, and which promise of his it symbolises, but he barely thinks about it at all - not since becoming the most promising young fighter ever to train for the elite Yun guard. But on the most important day of hi...

It's easy to put someone in the friend zone. But what happens if you change your mind?Bea isn't happy. Desperate for a change, she looks to her friends for inspiration. Every single one of them is paired off, perhaps that's what she needs too. So, she starts dating again. But everywhere she goes - amid the hilarious and scarring dates - there's Peter. Good old, oddball Peter, her closest friend from university. He's always been firmly in the friend zone but something's happened lat...

Jonas Mortensen wants to be liked. Adam Fletcher wants to be forgotten. Jonas, a freewheeling Norwegian, has been living in a quiet English village for years, an eccentric everyone has an opinion about. Then the real owner of his house turns up. Fletcher, a traumatised veteran of the Afghan War, has come to claim his inheritance. The two men live side by side in an increasingly bizarre standoff, until a teenage girl goes missing and suspicion falls on Jonas. As the hunt intensifies, it's c...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows:Physical EnvironmentLinguistic Data...

I think Ive been composing silly rhymes forever. Its in my genes. I can remember as a child, sitting with my family in front of a log fire where we often composed together, short, slightly wacky poems. These sessions frequently started as a result of one or other of us needing help with a school poetry project. I must say, it was a lot of fun and some were rather good. I think one was written for my brother about the school bus, based on the man from Snowy river. My first published poem wa...

This book visits contemporary British children’s and young adult (YA) fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within the context of globalization, transnationalism and citizenship. By resisting globalization’s dehumanizing conflation, cosmopolitanism offers an ethical, humanitarian, and political outlook of convivial planetary community. In its pedagogical responsibility towards readers who will become future citizens, contemporary children’s and YA fiction se...

The Life of the Mind presents an original and striking conception of the mind and its place in nature. In a spirited and rigorous attack on most of the orthodox positions in contemporary philosophy of mind, McCulloch connects three of the orthodoxy's central themes - externalism, phenomenology and the relation between science and common-sense psychology - in a defence of a throughly anti-Cartesian conception of mental life.McCulloch argues that the life of the mind will ne...

Meet Perry Melstone... an aging single gentleman in his 80s retired on the Oregon Coast. As he makes his way to Montana for a medical check-up he discovers the joys of modern hospital visits. As a diversion he goes to the small town he grew up in to find several people killed by a strange growing wire coming from nowhere. It begins to seal the town off from the rest of the world. He escapes via Yellowstone Park and heads for Bozeman where one of his sons lives. While there he gained a new ...

**Brought to you by Penguin.The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of Breathless, based on her own extraordinary ultra-running experience.**It’s the ultimate test of endurance: two-hundred-and-fifty miles in the brutal heat of the Sahara, with only the supplies you can carry on your back.Adri is ready. Returning to ultra-running in the wake of a scandal, she needs to prove to herself – and her young son – that she’s a winner.When a fell...

First published in 1983. Amilcar Cabral was one of Africa’s leading revolutionary figures. Universally recognised as the founding father at the independent state of Guiné-Bissau, he was also the first truly important political thinker to have emerged from Africa’s two decades of revolution. This book was the first publication to present a critical analysis of his standing as a political theorist.Born in 1925 in the then Portuguese colony of Guiné, Cabral devoted his life to the lib...

The historic center of Dresden is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the city remains an important cultural centre in eastern Germany. Its historic centre was rebuilt after WWII and during the reunification of Germany. The royal buildings are among the most impressive buildings in Europe, including the Zwinger Palace, the Japanese Palace, and the Moritzburg Castle. The prestigious university of TU Dresden also contributes to a vibrant culture life that includes a broad range of museums, thea...