An homage to Black bookstores, featuring a selection of shops around the country alongside essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, with an original foreword by Nikki Giovanni.Black literature is perhaps the most powerful, polarizing force in the modern American zeitgeist. Today—as Black novels draw authoritarian ire, as Black memoirs shape public debates, as Black polemics inspire protest petitions—it’s more importan...

Wind in tall trees. White sky. Rain soon. Hooves on earth. Twigs. Snap. Wait. Listen.A new experiment in performance from Katie Mitchell, Nina Segal and Melanie Wilson. Using only sound and no words, a quartet of performers and Foley artists evoke the lives of two animals – a cow and a deer.Cow | Deer is an invitation to enter the more-than-human world.Co-created by Katie Mitchell (Bluets, Anatomy of a Suicide), Nina Segal (Sh...

Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010.'I expect you have been told fairytales before. But you have never really heard a fairytale until you have heard it told by a real fairy.'The theft of a single rose has monstrous consequences for Beauty and her father. Because this is no ordinary rose...and this is no ordinary fairytale. Narrated b...

A collaborative theatre piece created by playwrights Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime with theatre director Katie Mitchell, s mall hours is an intimate dissection of the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope on her own.It was first performed at Hampstead Theatre in 2011.

Inspired by the Tao Te Ching, this is Byron Katie's inspiring and pragmatic approach to achieving an awakened mind and living more simply and profoundly. Using the template of the 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching she talks about her own experience of living in harmony with the way things are, and the difference between what hurts and what doesn't.Katie has written two books that teach how suffering can be relieved by questioning the thoughts that create it, the tho...

Is there a voice inside you that knows that there is so much more for you and that you have incredible potential just waiting to be realised?Then it's time to learn how to back yourself. Believing in yourself is an incredible force of power that starts with you. Whether you want to change the world, invent an incredible product, take on the big brands, inspire people, take your business global, start a movement or dream bigger in any way it's time to follow that calling!Thi...

Internationally acclaimed bestselling author Byron Katie’s most anticipated work since Loving What Is.In A Mind at Home with Itself, Byron Katie illuminates one of the most profound ancient Buddhist texts, The Diamond Sutra (newly translated by distinguished scholar Stephen Mitchell) to reveal the nature of the mind and to liberate us from painful thoughts, using her revolutionary system of self-inquiry called “The Work.” Byron Katie does...

A thrilling fictionalised account of the life of Matthew Henson, the first African American man to travel to the North Pole, from the Carnegie-nominated author Catherine Johnson.Matthew Henson was simply an ordinary man. That was, until Commander Robert E. Peary entered his life, and offered him a chance at true adventure. Henson would become navigator, craftsman, translator, and right-hand man on a treacherous journey to the North Pole. Defying the odds and the ma...

Your perfect escape. Your worst nightmare.DC Nicola McKenna promised her boyfriend Matt she would leave work behind for a romantic weekend in the Isle of Skye, but things get off to a bad start when a hotel mix-up leaves them stranded, just as a snowstorm is blowing in. Luckily, one last guest house on the island has room...The couple is glad to reach the safety of The Loch House, especially with little

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Vixen and the Vet comes an unforgettable story about loss, redemption, and the healing power of love.My name is Cassidy Porter . . .My father, Paul Isaac Porter, was convicted twenty years ago for the brutal murder of a dozen innocent girls.Though I was only eight years old at the time, I am aware—every day of my life—that I am his child, his only son....

Math Affinity Puzzles highlights the patterns and relationships that appear throughout mathematics. Rather than treating mathematics as a collection of separate topics or isolated courses, the puzzles here look beyond boundaries to discover links among different areas of knowledge.The book uses analogies to explore connections between mathematical terms and concepts, where solving a puzzle requires unraveling the relationships between the mathematical ideas. Solvin...

Mix and match your next crochet project with the ultimate granny square collection.Combining bold colours and playful, eye-catching patterns, this unique crochet collection contains over 125 designs covering a wide range of themes for all ages. The book includes:Seasonal collections including winter snowflakes, autumn leaves, and spring floralsTextured effects including puffs, bobbles, and filet crochetOver 40 3D appliqué designs i...