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On the eve of the 2024 election, a fascinating - andfrequently funny - tale of one man cycling the breadth of America.'Finally, I emerged onto a sealed asphaltwalkway, with twigs in my hair and blood streaming down my legs. Feeling likeDavid Livingstone without a machete, I had tamed the impenetrable woodlands ofEastern Mississippi. Hurrah! But then my sense of adventure sobered suddenly, when a woman in yoga pants and flipflops wandered past, walking a BichonFrisé.'Frustrated by the shallow headlines focusing only on Trump, guns and divisions, award-winning travel writer Simon Parker decided that tobetter understand the USA he would have to travel across it, slowly. Did the America of his teenage dreams really exist? And wasit really as fractured as the headlines suggest? On his journey to find out, Simon cycled 4,373 miles through eleven states and numerous extreme weatherevents, via mountains and prairie lands, forests and freeways. Along the way hevisited homes, schools, churches and rodeos, meeting hundreds of(extra)ordinary Americans behind the clickbait news posts to discover a nationwhose portrayal has become vastly oversimplified.Praise for Simon Parker's previous book, Riding Out: 'A truly inspiring journey that celebrates the healing powerof adventure. A must-read.' - Levison Wood 'Simon's cycle ride around his own country is a finedemonstration that adventure and transformation begins on your own doorstep.' -Alastair Humphreys

A stylish gift and inspirational self-purchase that distills Van Gogh's extraordinary writings, artistic talent, creative insight and ambition.With a flexibound cover and gold foiling, this beautiful book features more than 100 artworks from the Van Gogh Museum collection and quotes that bring affirmation, solace and spiritual guidance.Well placed to share advice for the soul, Van Gogh worked in the face of extreme mental health problems for more than a decade and overcame extreme adversity to become one of history's most important and inspiring artists.Other titles in this series include The Healing Power of Nature and Creative Inspiration.

Anuplifting, humorous memoir of a mother building a new life on a beautifulSicilian island.Reeling froma broken relationship, Ros Belford decides the best chance she has of healing, while giving her daughters a childhood to remember, is to move to Italy and>After a false start in a town where machismo is ingrained, they find the small, lush, delightful island of Salina. Izzy and Juno grow up playing on the beach, learning to swim over volcanic bubbles, hearing tales of Aeolian witches andwatching Stromboli erupt on the horizon. It is not entirely paradise, however.The school is atrocious, there are power cuts and an earthquake, and propertyspeculators threaten the island's fragile beauty. But an eclectic community ofislanders take them to their hearts, friendships are forged and Salina becomes>Full of humanity, vitality, honesty and optimism, Children of theVolcano is for anyone unwilling to give up dreams of adventure andexcitement simply because of parenthood, lack of money and not getting thingsright the first time.

Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue dog #SophiefromRomania comes a moving memoir in search of the truth behind his isolated childhood and absent father. Rory Cellan-Jones knew he was the child of a brief love affair between two unmarried BBC employees. But until his mother died and he found a previously unknown file labelled 'For Rory' he had no idea of their beginnings or ending, and why his peculiarly isolated childhood had so tested the bond between him and his mother. 'For Rory, ' his mother had written on the file 'in the hope that it will help him understand how it really was ...' This is a compelling account of what Rory uncovered in the papers, letters and diaries; a relationship between two colleagues (two romantics) and the restrictive forces of post-war respectability and prejudice that ended it. It is also an evocation of the progressive, centrifugal force at the centre of all their lives - the BBC itself. Both tender and troubling, the drama moves from wartime radio broadcasts, to the glamour of 1950s television studios, to the golden era of BBC drama. His father may have directed The Forsyte Saga and Rory may have watched him from the corridors, but he would never actually meet him until much later in adulthood. Until then Rory's life was bound to the one-bedroom flat he shared with his mother in Ruskin Park ... Praise for Rory Cellan-Jones's books: 'Delightfully insightful and intensely readable.' - Stephen Fry '[A] superlative journalist.' - Miranda Sawyer, Observer

A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music, railways and pubs, decided, as all men of a certain age must, to have a dig around his family history. Surprisingly quickly, a web search informed him that his seven-times-great great-grandfather, Thomas Marchant had left a detailed diary from 1714 to 1728. So far, so jolly ... Life-loving diarist Thom - who liked a drink and a game of cards - feels recognisably Marchant to Ian. With fascinating detail we learn about Thom's family farm and fishponds; about dung, horses and mud; about beer, the wife's nights out, his own job troubles and their shared worries for their children. But as Ian digs deeper beyond the Sussex diary's bucolic portrait he discovers a subtext - a family descended from immigrants, with anti-establishment politics, who are struggling with illness, political instability and cash crises - just as their country does three centuries on. 'When I was reflecting late one January evening on the differences between Thom and me, I realised the unbridgeable thing that comes between us is industrialisation. He lived right at its beginning, while I am living somewhere towards its end. Old Thom Marchant was one of the last people before industrialisation to understand how his world worked - and how to be largely self-sufficient in it. He knew where his food came from, his fuel, his water, his clothes. He knew how the welfare system worked, and was part of its administration; he knew who looked after the roads, too. He collected taxes. He was not separate from the system, but part of it.' Rich with immersive detail, One Fine Day draws a living portrait of Marchant family life in the 1720s and how their England (rainy, muddy, politically turbulent, illness-ridden) became the England of the 2020s. 'Elegiac, consistently funny, deeply moving.' - Richard Beard 'Ian Marchant is one of England's most original writers. One Fine Day is a masterwork.' - Monique Roffey

Sometimes it takes a revolution to change the world, sometimes it takes a relationship. The visionary new novel from MandaScott, author of the Boudica series.WhenLan lies dying, she makes a promise that binds her long into the Beyond. Adecade later Kaitlin, her teenage granddaughter, posts a message about thesexual exploitation of girls her age that goes viral. For one shining fragmentof time the world is with her. But then the backlash begins: Kaitlyn's digitalprivacy is breached, her friends attacked and soon she and her family arebesieged by the paparazzi, facing the all-powerful wrath of the old establishment. Raisedto question authority, Kaitlyn persuades her now-massive social media followingto help her fight back. She and her brother unleash the rage of a whole, failedgeneration for their youth. Watchingover the growing chaos from the Beyond is Lan, the matriarch who taught hergrandkids to think independently, approach power sceptically and dreamdeeply. She knows that more one generation's hopes are on the line. Shehas to show this new generation that is only with courage and conviction, andan inherited faith in ancient wisdom and the power of the land, that this newuprising will survive and thrive to become the springboard for something muchgreater: a movement to sweep us all through the crisis of our times.

Tired of the dating vortex?On your own spiritual journey, but open to intimacy? Meet Rosalind Moody, one time editor of a leading spirituality magazine anda woman on a mission to find a soul mate. Despite all her meditating andmultiple tarot card readings she keeps manifesting the same guy in differentbodies until she finally learns the lessons she needs, her spirit guidesrejoice and she is able to redefine her singledom and enjoy independence and>Spark charts her adventures bothphysical and spiritual, offering love-summoning rituals, self-esteem buildingchakras, moon guidance, tarot card pulls and journaling practices to readers>A funny, helpful and deeply enlightening read from a seriously plugged-inspirituality author.