LandfallsFor Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh Smith's passionate pursuit of the fourteenth century traveller takes him to landfalls in remote tropical islands, torrid Indian Ocean ports and dusty towns on the shores of the Saharan sand sea. His zigzag itinerary across time and space leads

What follows is the one seemingly ordinary day so many of us yearn for: a chance to make good with a lost parent

The canyons and sage plains of Utah have a dangerous beauty

Abby senses peril

informative and quite simply a very good introduction for someone new to the world of advocacy

'A book for the bedside of every future - and current - leader in the world' ROBERT GREENE

In the wake of the Cold War and perestroika

Using a mixture of photos and artwork the book shows how the tree has changed and how it acts as a habitat for other life

The baker gets a huge shock when the giant pancake he is making leaps off the frying pan and rolls off into town

the botija became El Pistolero (The Gunslinger)

New non-fiction reading books delivering fun facts on high-interest topics in around 100 words

and healing

until the random hand of fate wrecked their vessel on the Skeleton Coast of South West Africa