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Viktor and Katherine Petroff return from a short holiday in Majorca to find somebody is in their house. Meanwhile, Victor and Catherine Petrov return from a short holiday in Majorca and on the way home suffer a minor traffic collision. At the same time, Victor and Katherine Petrovas are involved in a major car crash and are killed outright. Three near identical couples. Two have slipped through the cracks from other universes. Trapped in a world which is almost – but not quite – like their own, they must work together to figure out how they travelled the multiverse to become stranded in a strange land. The underlying theme of Vitali Vitaliev’s new science-fiction comedy thriller, however, is not so much the multiverse as that eternal question: how well do we know our loved ones? Relationships are strained, new attachments are formed and the beautiful little differences that make each of us unique are examined closely.
The lifelong friendship of a philosopher and a banker, both highly prestigious and important personalities in Spain throughout the 20th century and coming from the same village on the island of Majorca, is the starting point of one of the most original novels of ideas of the past decades. Sebastià Alzamora's writing has been hailed by the New York Times as "startling... a concentrated power, akin to poetry."
“This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, ofbloodsuckers and frauds.” Ana María Matute’s 1959 novel is a powerful and unsettling coming-of age novel, set on Mallorca during the Spanish Civil War. It’s a stifling story of rebellious adolescence, narrated by Matia, as she struggles against her domineering grandmother, schemes with her mercurial cousin Borja and begins to fall in love with the strange boy Manuel. Steeped in myth, fairy tale and biblical allusion, the novel depicts Mallorca as an enchanted but wicked island, a lost Eden and Never Never Land combined, where the sun burns through stained glass windows and the windtears itself on the agaves. Ostensibly concerned with Matia’s anxieties aboutentering the adult world, this internal confl ict is set against the much wider,deeper, and more frightening confl ict of the civil war as it plays out almostsecretly on the island, set in turn against the backdrop of the Inquisition’s massburning of Jews in previous centuries. These two confl icts shimmer at theedges of Matia’s highly subjective account of her life on the island, where life isdrawn along painful and divisive lines.
If you dream or plan to sail off into the blue, you will learn from this book. A great read.— Sir Chay Blyth We dreamed for years of crossing an ocean. Then we did it in a blue boat called Scarlet. A book of many voyages, this account of crossing the Atlantic is much more than a book about sailing. As one reviewers says, ‘It is an endearing human story of a family battling to survive, physically and emotionally.’ There is the meandering trail of nights spent on the internet and trips across the globe hunting for the perfect boat for blue water sailing and for crossing oceans. There is the preparation – stalled in a sweltering American boatyard - while arguments about equipment and finance combine with the narrowing of the hurricane window. There is the crossing itself which starts with the wrong weather, broken boat parts, torn sails, serious leaks and a very seasick crew as Scarlet gets blown off course in unkind seas. Male and female monologues form the internal voyages. The skipper’s thoughts range from the challenges of fitting a wind vane to almost losing an arm in a tangled genoa to the navigational system of the Puluwat Islanders. His wife describes diminishing food supplies, the damp, bruises, blue eggs, jellyfish and her anxiety about the deteriorating health of her son who, suffering from ME, should not have been persuaded to go with them. External and internal journeys criss-cross as Scarlet sails on across 3000 miles of ocean. She would have told a different story. Lynn Michell has published 14 books with HarperCollins, Longman and The Women’s Press. They include a writing scheme for schools, an account of life with ME and two books about mothering adolescents with The Women’s Press, one of which received massive media attention and was translated into several languages. Her debut novel, White Lies, was runner up for Scotland’s Robert Louis Stevenson award, and has received rave reviews. Her second novel is being published in 2015 by Inspired Quill. A third novel is in preparation. Stefan Gregory fell in love with boats at the age of four while dangling his head over the side of a skiff. He is an experienced sailor who has voyaged eventfully with Lynn off the North Wales coast, in Majorca, Croatia and the Caribbean. This was his first ocean crossing. In his day job, he pursues equally dangerous philosophical theories.
1 city, 11 museums, and more than 150 objects to find! Hours of fun for all ages on an amazing visit to the most outstanding museums in Barcelona. From Museu Blau to CosmoCaixa, going through Museu del Disseny, Museu Egipci, La Casa dels Entremesos, MACBA, Museu Marítim, Fundació Joan Miró, Museu de la Música, Fundació Antoni Tàpies or Museu de la Xocolata. Illustrated by Robert Garcia, Gaur Estudio.
On a drab winter evening, an apparition of a flying old woman is spotted in Bloomsbury, an area of London well-known for its magical, masonic and shamanism associations. This is followed by the arrival of Yadwiga, alias Baba Yaga, one of the most interesting characters of East European folklore – an ambiguous witch, a sorceress and an unlikely super-heroine. She has come to London as part of the struggling Sablins family – recent migrants from a fictitious East European country. It is here that their phantasmagorical adventures really begin.Yadwiga joined the Sablins when life in the forest, where she had been dwelling inside a hut on hen’s legs for over a thousand years, became impossible due to “deforestation” and the invasion of over-curious visitors (Baba Yaga can’t take being asked questions, for each question makes her a bit older – a curse imposed on her by her former partner and now sworn enemy, Koshchei the Deathless, the incarnation of all the world’s evil). Telling the story of her life for the last 600 or so years to her long-lost sister Melissa, Yadwiga has to slow down time in Bloomsbury.The story takes the reader on a fascinating excursion through the history of Slavic and British folklore juxtaposed on the vicissitudes of modern Western life.In the first book of the series, Yadwiga is helping the Sablins to settle down in the UK and to come to grips with their new existence in the West. It will also look back at what had made them take the decision to leave their home country.The plot is riddled with revealing and funny happenings. “Granny Yaga” and her best friend and protégé Danya Sablin, a boy of 11, will have to deal with school bullies and football fans, thieves and oligarchs, politicians and policemen in their attempt to overcome injustice and to create a better world, where miracles and magic are part and parcel of everyday life.Unlike most of Baba Yaga’s folklorist portrayals, Yadwiga in "Granny Yaga" is modern, positive, witty and selfless, with all her character traits based on meticulous research of fables, history, paganism and occultism.Among other characters are Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Carl Yung, students, pickpockets, ticket inspectors, British Museum curators - as well as classical literary characters and personages from East European (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish etc.), and British (Welsh, Scottish, English) folklore tales. The Writer and the book itself are also parts of the story. The main message of "Granny Yaga" is the importance and the magical power of literature.
