The Raptor and the Lamb - Christopher McGowen

This text examines predator-prey relationships from the worlds of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, plants, insects and micro-organisms, as well as from the fossilized record of the dinosaurs. It reveals the interdependence of the vast chain of being and the astonishing adaptability of nature.

Hamish Hamilton

The Raptor and the Lamb - Christopher McGowen

This text examines predator-prey relationships from the worlds of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, plants, insects and micro-organisms, as well as from the fossilized record of the dinosaurs. It reveals the interdependence of the vast chain of being and the astonishing adaptability of nature.

Hamish Hamilton

The Rose Crossing - Nicholas Jose

Escaping a ship's mutiny with his stowaway daughter Rosamund, seventeenth-century naturalist Edward Popple is cast ashore on an uncharted island in the Indian Ocean. The island with its sands, rock pools, lime trees and solitaire birds seems to Edward to be a paradisal laboratory. There he can concentrate on scientific discovery and on rose breeding, which, along with Rosamund, comprise all his passions.

Penguin Books

Eating Chinese Food Naked - Mei Ng

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Hamish Hamilton

Eating Chinese Food Naked - Mei Ng

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Hamish Hamilton

Eating Chinese Food Naked - Mei Ng

At college Ruby Lee did Women's Studies, learning to like men watching her and getting to know the power of her own passionate nature. Now she's back living with her parents and temping as a 'no bullshit, kick asstypist, trying to save money so she can take her mother away for a holiday, in Florida, where it's hot - like China.

Hamish Hamilton

Trawler - Redmond O'Hanlon

It was the telephone call Redmond O'Hanlon - writer, naturalist traveller from the South of England - had been anticipating for eleven months. This was his chance to go out on an Orkney trawler in the worst weather at the worst time of year

Hamish Hamilton (also used on editions in France, Norway and North America)

Congo Journey - Redmond O'Hanlon

A portrait of a country, it is alive with natural history; eagles and parrots, hornbills and sunbirds; forest cobras and crocodiles; gorillas, chimpanzees, monkeys, swamp antelope, forest elephants - and one Giant Gambian rat.

Hamish Hamilton

A River in Borneo - Redmond O'Hanlon

Penguin 60s

The New Russians - Hedrick Smith

Smith illuminates the struggle between party bureaucracy and the increasingly liberal Soviet media, which has played a vital role in reshaping public attitudes.
Revised for Vintage paperback with four new chapters including the "coup" and its aftermath

Vintage

A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters
Julian Barnes

They put the behemoths in the hold along with the rhinos, the hippos and the elephants. It was a sensible decision to use them as ballast; but you can imagine the stench. And there was no one to muck out.

Pan

A Map of the World - Jane Hamilton

Because Alice and Howard Goodwin run a small dairy farm in the midst of encroaching suburbia, and because their eccentric ways betray their their city origins, they are shunned as 'that hippie couple', outsiders in the small Midwestern town of Prairie Center. Nevertheless, they feel that they and their two small daughters are living in a self-made paradise.

Transworld

The Clock of the Long Now - Time and Responsibility - David Brand

Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. This text describes a long-term project designed to encourage people to think beyond the psychological barrier of the millennium and into the future

Kowloon Tong - Paul Theroux

Then a young woman from the Mullards' factory vanishes, one of many disappearances. But this one is different. Ah Fu has last been seen in the company of Mr. Hung.

Penguin Books

The Knife Man - Wendy Moore

In The Knife Man., Wendy Moore unveils John Hunter's murky and macabre world - a world characterised by hangings at Tyburn, secret expeditions to dank churchyards and gruesome human dissections in pungent attic rooms.

Transworld