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SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEARIt's time to dance, to love, to be free...'Mesmerising' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other'Fabulous' MAGGIE O'FARRELL, author of Hamnet'Beautiful' CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, author of Open WaterYamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club on the outskirts of London. Then everything changes. Yamaye meets Moose, who she falls deeply in love with, and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape.After their relationship is brutally cut short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation that leads her to Jamaica, where past and present collide with explosive consequences.***A SUNDAY TIMES BEST NOVEL AND GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2023***'A wonderfully literary, musical and original novel about a culture and era that rarely makes the pages of fiction' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Scorching... We follow Yamaye through love, loss and peril, as she chases her dreams and connects with her heritage' GUARDIAN'Ambitious, atmospheric... A novel of passion and anger' SUNDAY TIMES'A rich and rhythmic story about love and music' I

.Status Quo are a British institution - a multi-million selling band of epic proportions and while their career was in it's hey day during the 1970s, the hits kept coming through the 1980s along with breakups, lawsuits, line-up changes, substance abuse and a high-profile, highly successful comeback after calling it a day in 1984.

Die 70er und 80er Jahre waren für viele Bundesbürger die besten Jahre der Bundesrepublik. In München mit seinen üppigen Reizen und Möglichkeiten galt dies ganz besonders. Im Stadtteil Sendling fand sich eine Gruppe von Jugendlichen, die das Leben trotz der üblichen Verpflichtungen und unter dem Damoklesschwert des Kalten Krieges genossen. Auch wenn selbstgemachte Probleme ab und zu für heftige Aufregung sorgten. Der Harte Kern Sendling und sein Treiben eröffnet einen plastischen Einblick in diese hedonistische Epoche. Freiheit und Lebenslust der 70er und 80er in Echtzeit!

Der britische Fotograf Mark Pinder (*1966) präsentiert mit "Macromancy" ein fotografisches Essay zur Lage der Nation, das dreieinhalb Jahrzehnte umspannt. Er untersucht darin die sozialen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Veränderungen, die Großbritannien (und insbesondere der Nordosten Englands) in den Jahren erlebt hat, als die traditionellen Industrien wie Kohlebergbau, Maschinenbau und Schiffsbau zurückgingen und die daraus resultierenden sozialen und politischen Spannungen zu der Situation führten, in der sich Großbritannien heute befindet.

Marine energy or marine power (also sometimes referred to as ocean energy, ocean power, or marine and hydrokinetic energy) refers to the energy carried by ocean waves, tides, salinity, and ocean temperature differences. The movement of water in the world¿s oceans creates a vast store of kinetic energy, or energy in motion. This energy can be harnessed to generate electricity to power homes, transport and industries. In this concern, the term marine energy encompasses both wave power i.e. power from surface waves, and tidal power i.e. obtained from the kinetic energy of large bodies of moving water. Offshore wind power is not a form of marine energy, as wind power is derived from the wind, even if the wind turbines are placed over water The marines have a tremendous amount of energy and are close to many if not most concentrated populations. Ocean energy has the potential of providing a substantial amount of new renewable energy around the world. Energy from the ocean is also known as hydro-electricity. The ocean can produce two types of energy: thermal energy from the sun's heat, and mechanical energy from the tides and waves.

Turns an ordinary ride up an office escalator into a meditation on our relations with familiar objects--shoelaces, straws, and more. Baker's debut novel, and a favorite amongst many of us here.

This book provides a concise and readable guide to the 1984 federal election.

Eleven-year-old Josie escapes Communist East Germany with her parents. Can she forge a new life in Canada while clinging to her passion -- figure skating?

When an opportunity arises to travel to England to attend a puppetry conference, Polly Deacon jumps at it. Trouble starts when someone tries to steal her luggage, by the time she arrives in Canterbury she knows someone's stalking her. When another woman is found dead, a mangled puppet nearby, the question arises: is Polly next?

The third Polly Deacon novel finds our heroine in the unlikely (and uncomfortable) job of designing a mascot (Kountry Kow) for a new mega-grocery store, despite vitriolic opposition by local merchants, including her aunt. The scene starts to get really ugly when people start dying - not exactly the family environment that the developers desire!

In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast. While a stunned world watched and distraught family members kept bedside vigils, one "soldier" after another slowly went to his death in an attempt to make Margaret Thatcher's government recognize them as political prisoners rather than common criminals. Drawing extensively on secret IRA documents and letters from the prisoners smuggled out at the time, David Beresford tells the gripping story of these strikers and their devotion to the cause. An intensely human story, Ten Men Dead offers a searing portrait of strife-torn Ireland, of the IRA, and the passions - on both sides - that Republicanism arouses.

World-class athlete, playboy, war correspondent, and heir to a Greek shipping fortune, Taki has over the last three decades moved among the rich, the powerful, the titled and the celebrated in London, New York, Gstaad, the Riviera--wherever fun or stimulation was to be had. But in 1984, while passing through Heathrow Airport, Taki was arrested for possession of cocaine and summarily sent to jail. Nothing to Declare is the hilarious and surprisingly wise account of the three months Taki spent in prison, a story filled with perilous day-to-day events as well as reflections on the glamorous life he has led.

Never before published in America, and now a six-hour PBS presentation, Porterhouse Blue is the story of one college campus with more problems than students. A revolution at Porterhouse College sends a lot of things out in the open--namely one gross of condoms.

This is the compelling, ferociously relevant story of four teenagers playing deadly games with drugs, sex, and one another. Behind a facade of tough cynicism, on a raging search for kicks, they explore the hot, dusty city, bent on trouble.