Swimming. Vintage Minis, Paperback - Roger Deakin

Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This swimming tour of Britain offers a frog's-eye view of the country's best bat...

From the sea, from rock pools, from rivers and streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools and spas, from fens, dykes, moats, aquedu...

How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer lik...

How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist had ever contemplated before. In this true accoun...

How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? The author - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation ret...

Thought-provoking and life-affirming, this is at once an examination and a celebration of friendship in all its glorious complexity.Selected from t...

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. How do we carry on when som...

Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.' In inimitable st...

'This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing.

In these beautifully told cases we find compulsive liars, deceived spouses, violent children and delusional adults but we also find ourselves and i...

'Because "God" is infinite, nobody can have the last word'What is this thing, religion, supposedly the cause of bloodshed and warring for centuries...

Both are the unforgettable creations of the deeply independent and brilliant Charlotte Bronte.Selected from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Villet...

Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and f...

Can we truly know the one we love? The author looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven t...

A self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', the author explores the true meaning of home. He looks at what it means to belong...

In these three tales of quarrelling clans and fraught reunions, Mark Haddon shows family in its frank, unsparing yet frequently absurd light, and, ...

What's the worst another drink could do? From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to t...

'Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together'Could any writer portray Lo...

'Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days'Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective.

How to be a good father? From children's birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, to humiliating antenatal music classes, this account of fa...

Reducere. Roger Deakin's exploration of our relationship with trees is autobiography, history, traveller's tale and incisive work of natural history. It will...

Freedom and enfranchisement. Something anarchical which pushes at boundaries. The sweetness of leisure time. Each of these rich avenues of meaning ...

A beautiful and inspiring book which will appeal to fans of }Meetings With Remarkable Trees{. At once autobiography, history, a traveller's tale an...

LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series: Murde...

Collection of the best of his unpublished writings, new to paperback. This illustrated collection contains descriptions of walks, thoughts on natur...

Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror...

Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly ...

Reducere. Roman ce si-a castigat locul imediat in compania selecta a celor mai desucces thrillere psihologice. Patru oameni au disparut. In locurile incare a...

A self-deprecating and humorous account of life in the Coldstream Guards followed by a wry, witty collection of letters that provides unique insigh...

Virginia Woolf was a close friend of Roger Fry for many years - after his death she wrote this loving account of his passion for art, his own paint...

A self-deprecating and humorous account of life in the Coldstream Guards followed by a wry, witty collection of letters that provides unique insigh...

Now in paperback, this looks at the pact between Hitler and Stalin which lasted from 1939 to 1941. 'Meticulous and vividly readable...' }Sunday Tel...

Disparuti - Leona Deakin

The Swimming Triangle: A Holistic Approach to Competitive Swimming is a unique, innovative, and essential guide to achieving superior mental, techn...