Never knew she had no clue who she really was. What did she really want for her life. At the age of thirty three Charlene was forced to stop and reorganize her life. After being intermittently unwell for nine months with various vague complaints, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. A proactive, creative person with many goals and ambitions. This was very hard for her to fathom. The doctors, specialist and other professionals saw no hope for positive changes. Her lifestyle had to be ada...

The sun sets and your surroundings become dark. Nothing is visible, but everything is clear. You let your thoughts consume you until there’s nothing left, but you. It is during those moments, that we face our respective truths. After months of writing and rewriting drafts of ‘a new (self-absorbed) book’, I’ve come to a realization... I don't want to do that anymore.

A must-have for anyone who calls themselves a fashion fan.' LOVE Magazine This book gathers together, for the first time, Dior hat couture collection, including the wedding collections from the 1947. Big book for as a coffee table book. Large hardcover Dior book, a must-have to make your home feel luxuries. Most beautiful photographs – Dior meets modern and art.

Through iconic archive photographs of 1947 weddings, hats and a stunning portfolio of Dior creations, readers get a feel for 200 i...

With an introduction by Xiaolu GuoA classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America. When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen.

Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mother's mesmerizing tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is e...

A pocket-sized gift edition of Karel Capek's The Gardener's Year, featuring black and white line drawings by the author's brother, Josef Capek.

Peoples of South-Eastern Europe sometimes nurture through their music and poetry a feeling of intense longing that brings them at the same time sadness and happiness. Sevdah, the Balkan version of the famed Portuguese saudade, encompasses nostalgia for a lost homeland, youthful dreams, past loves, or even for things that never were. This autobiographical narrative of a Macedonian woman recreates her beloved South through childhood memories, family portraits and legends, and the history of an...

This book is a true story about my friend and me, our story started a little bit differently, it started in a hospital because he was a physical therapist and I was his patient, at that time our friendship started growing more and more. He was such a nice and caring man. We did a lot of fun things together.

This book is about the arduous journey of the young Gurubesar (leader, teacher, superior) of the Vishnuh Society.

It tells that he was sent to the Netherlands to peacefully save the name Pencak-Silat (defensive doctrine) from those who so openly misused it as a name for a self-invented sport

This became a very difficult task because those who pretended to want to help him stabbed him in the back. Even his own family did not shy away from it.

They tried everything to get him to go home undone.

This book testifies to his enormous inner strength and perseverance to carry out the tasks of the Vishnuh Society as Gurubesar...

It is a truth rarely acknowledged that a middle-aged English man, disinterested and diminished by life on the small island, could do worse than run away and marry an Amsterdam drag queen. There is, of course, much more to the story.

A memoir of kept promises, marriage, identity, thwarted ambition, euthanasia, grief and always show tunes in the face of adversity.

‘A memoir to die for.’

Dorothy DeMoore

54 CARD DECK - A set of playing cards featuring illustrations of Austen's most famous characters. Features standard playing card suits, numbers and court cards: can be used in exactly the same way as normal playing cards

FUN, COLOURFUL ILLUSTRATIONS: Illustrator Barry Falls perfectly captures some of Austen's most loved characters. Suits are themed on character traits, with hearts for the Heroines and Heroes and spades for the Fools and Bores

BOOKLET INCLUDED: The accompanying booklet include...