Swimming With My Father, Tim JealIn an exquisite and moving account, Tim Jeal explores the life of his eccentric father. Swimming with My Father is a tender portrait of childhood, of growing up, and of a father who was a uniquely English eccentric. From his own embarrassing schoolboy meeting with the elderly T. S. Eliot to his father's strange religious beliefs, and from his father's childlike wonder at the beauties of the natural world to his later struggle with Parkinson's, it is a

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Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend

encounter the Valkyries -- warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles

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Ovidia Yu's teenage Chinese sleuth gives us an insight into a very different culture and time

Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas

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Breaking down the wall between East and West

He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble

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Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine