Publisher: Anna Ruggieri
- This edition is unique; - The translation is completely original and was carried out for the Ale. Mar. SAS; - All rights reserved. All 13 Volumes of the complete set by Guy De Maupassant, comprising of 180 short stories.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize Bitter Punch is Loh Guan Liang’s second collection of poetry. With a wry eye for the everyday and its often forgotten characters, Loh explores what it means to live and love in the city. Even as it depicts the tension between ourselves and the spaces we inhabit, Bitter Punch still seeks sweetness in life’s hard, bitter moments. "At the heart of Bitter Punch is the passing of love. Loh Guan Liang has constructed a personal map of elegiac half-escapes although his book is also a love letter to the enigmatic city that has been sustaining him. These poems will haunt you with its cool detachment, its overthinking, and its sombre rhythm in search of connection through words." -Gwee Li Sui, poet and criticShow book
"By 1st February the unloading had been completed, and when the ice anchors had been recovered the ship drew slowly away from the ice edge. The dull weather could not suppress the thrill that pulsed through me – this was the real start of my adventure. Up till then I could at any time have turned back. It might have been embarrassing, inconvenient, or expensive, but it had been possible. Now there would be no more direct contact with the outside world until the ship returned for another brief week or so in a year's time. There was no air link, established or even planned. Was any other workplace in the world as isolated? Even in the Antarctic, did any other base have so fleeting a relief? Together with my companions I was irrevocably committed." Lewis Juckes describes the many new experiences that lay ahead over the next two years, first while living in huts buried deep within the snow and then in the field with dog teams for transport and tents for accommodation. Thrills and rare sights were there, as well as scares and dangers – and tragedy within the close-knit group. This was Antarctica in the mid-1960s.Show book
Read by the author, Katie Prescott.A maverick outsider. An improbable life. An even more improbable death. Discover the real story of Mike Lynch, Britain’s enigmatic billionaire. From humble beginnings, Lynch rose to become one of the UK’s richest men, driving the development of his business Autonomy before selling it to Hewlett-Packard for more than £11bn in 2011. Famously abrasive and hard to read, he soon found himself embroiled in one of the biggest fraud cases in Silicon Valley history, his reputation in tatters.After a vicious legal battle lasting more than a decade, a British judge found that Lynch had fiddled the accounts. A mere two years later, he was exonerated by a US jury, swerving jail for the rest of his days. Just as he was celebrating his freedom, this second chance at life was snatched away. Almost thirteen years to the day that the Autonomy–HP deal was signed, Lynch’s yacht, Bayesian, sank off the coast of Sicily, taking the lives of Lynch, his daughter and five others. Hours earlier, his co-defendant, Autonomy accountant Stephen Chamberlain, had been hit by a car in Cambridge and killed. The odds of the two deaths occurring together were estimated at four in one billion.Drawing on extensive research and exclusive access to key sources, award-winning Times journalist Katie Prescott forensically explores the life and death of this elusive maverick. Prescott takes us into a high-stakes world of corporate subterfuge and rivalries, zigzagging through the hallowed halls of Cambridge, across the frenzied streets of the City of London, and straight to the heart of Silicon Valley. A brilliant feat of investigative reporting, this is a tale where nothing is quite as it appears.-Show book
What if you could make the most of your time, live with purpose, and never feel like life is slipping away? On the Shortness of Life: A Stoic Guide to Time, Meaning, and Living Fully brings you the timeless wisdom of Seneca, carefully translated and adapted for today’s readers. Nearly two thousand years ago, Seneca explored a pressing question: How can we truly make the most of our time? His powerful insights remind us that life isn’t short—we just waste too much of it on distractions and trivial pursuits.What You’ll Discover:The Value of Time – Learn why time is your most precious resource and how to stop wasting it.How to Live Fully – Find purpose, prioritize meaning, and embrace each day with intention.A Stoic Guide to Mindfulness – Stay present, focus on what you can control, and live with clarity.Modernized for Today’s Readers – Experience Seneca’s wisdom in clear, practical language. Seneca’s reflections challenge us to examine how we spend our time and focus on what truly matters. Stop rushing, break free from distractions, and live with purpose. Get your copy today and start making the most of every moment.Show book
Are you sitting nicely? Good. Let's discover exactly what happened after two superstar Labradors chewed up the lockdown internet and found it really quite tasty.He's not kept a diary for decades but here, in DOG DAYS, Andrew Cotter draws inspiration from the great Samuel Pepys; like him, he bears witness to the extraordinary everyday as the world tilts on its axis in our own unsettling era.And so, with Olive and Mabel at his side - actually, dawdling in the long grass or sleeping upside down - Andrew takes a clear-eyed, often hilarious walk through a year that encompasses all of life from the crushingly mundane to the decidedly odd.Followed by whispers of 'Is that really Olive and Mabel?' - not to mention the occasional Hollywood approach - the three of them pad around literary festivals, breakfast TV, live radio and even an appearance on Good Morning America. Slightly bemused by their fame, Andrew not only pitches up in the iconic Mastermind chair, but makes a return to sports broadcasting to find that it has become rather strange as well.But, always, his pair of utterly endearing, endlessly optimistic and eternally hungry canine companions show just how precious our time is. Especially our time spent in the devoted company of dogs. For fans new and old, this witty, insightful account of a year like no other is an unmissable treat.Show book
The painting of her on the battlefield with only one breast covered and holding a flag is probably one of the most famous paintings from European history. Many people have heard of Joan of Arc, but only few know what she did or how her life was. Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d' Arc) is a French heroine who was venerated as a saint for her role in the Lancastrian part of the Hundred Years' War. She was born in Domrémy, in the Vosges area of northeast France, to Jacques d' Arc and Isabelle Romée, a peasant family. Joan said she saw visions of the archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria telling her to support Charles VII and free France from English supremacy late in the Hundred Years' War. Joan was sent out as part of a relief army to the siege of Orléans by the as-yet-unanointed King Charles VII. After the siege was raised only 9 days later, she rose to fame. She ended up being a sign of the Catholic League in the 16th century, and Napoleon Bonaparte called her a nationwide sign of France in 1803. In 1909, she was beatified, and in 1920, she was canonized. One of France's 9 secondary tutelary saint is Joan of Arc. Since her death, Joan of Arc has stayed a popular character in literature, painting, sculpture, and other cultural works, with many popular authors, playwrights, filmmakers, artists, and composers creating and continuing to produce cultural representations of her.Show book
