John Winthrop 
Observations [EPUB ebook] 

Since 1994, the UK »s National Lottery has created 2, 300 millionaires. Expensive cars, big houses and dream holidays are all top of the wish list for those ordinary people whose lives are changed wi …

The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire. It was also an age of literary experiments, of which autobiography forms a part. This book analyses T …

In summer 2006 Helmand Province erupted into violence as NATO forces struggled to crush Taliban strongholds. For six weeks the Royal Irish Regiment and the Paras defended Sangin in the face of …

Born into a fog-ridden south London slum in 1931, Eileen Killick quickly learned to look after herself. Her brothers were wayward, her mum had TB and her dad was working all hours on the railways. By …

Governor General’s Award Finalist: A “wry, moving” memoir of a woman retracing her grandfather’s escape from Amsterdam during the Holocaust (Alison Pick, Booker-nominated author of Between Gods). …

 »A nuanced and witty meditation on confronting the challenges life throws at us all » Oliver Burkeman Jonathan Rowson »s competitive success as a chess Grandmaster and work as an applied philoso …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING – HIGHLY COMMENDED‘Remarkable’ Robert Macfarlane‘Beautiful’ Amy Liptrot‘Powerful, unflinching . . . Part hymn to nature, part Troubles memoir’ …

Shows Nasafi and his legacy in a new light. Nasafi »s works are of particular interest because they contain valuable descriptions of the different Islamic world views of the age. Includes substantial …