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A Fly Girl gives insight to the highs and lows in the world of a former BA cabin crew, in an intriguing travel writing memoir. In the global landscape the memoirist meticulously documents personal adventures, social structures and political history throughout her daring and exciting expeditions. Conveying tales from the America's, Arabia, Asia to Africa the narrative is fuelled with race, gender and sexuality as the author walks through hip hop history to terrain vibrations and eruptions. The author exposes her relation to addictions, alcohol, air rage and the life of the jet set, highlighting history of British Airways at forty. Amanda tells poignant stories that portray the complications of humanity; others are alarming, amusing and vivid and manifest the nature of humankind, the kith and kin of a global family. In addition to powerful story telling infused with lyrical prose the book is also spiritual and reveals a healing mindset as the autobiographer deals with the battle of self esteem, national identity, and the idea of beauty for women in an image conscious world. Is Amanda transformed by travel? Memoir ǀ Mind, Body & Spirit Travel

OTHER TIMES, OTHER PLACES is a book based on the unique diaries kept by two ordinary young Scots at two different times on two different sojourns in two different continents in the 1930's. The two Scots are the author's Mum and Dad whose observations of travel to and life in Western Australia and then Sierra Leone give a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era. The modern reader is given a picture of the background of both diarists in industrial central Scotland and of the society which shaped their attitudes to the pioneering culture where they found themselves. Comprehensively researched with helpful Notes and Appendices which explain a wide range of topical or technical allusions, the book includes many hitherto unpublished sketches and photographs and the cooperation of Family Historians has enabled the inclusion of current illustrations of those scenes.

Jump inside Book One of The Magic Bookcase series, the latest in Scottish History for young readers!Maggie thinks Granda might be pulling her leg when he reveals that the huge bookcase sitting in his living room is, in fact, magical.Not until they lay one of its books open on the carpet and jump inside does she start to believe - and then their adventure begins!Join Maggie and Granda as they take a step inside Scotland's history to meet some of its first inhabitants, making a life for themselves after the last Ice Age.They'll have to watch their step, however, because it won't be easy explaining their presence to people who still use stone tools and make their living from the land...Whilst safety may not be guaranteed, one thing is for sure: Maggie is about to embark on the most hands-on history lessons any kid has ever had!

Viola and Carl risk their reputations and academic careers for an illicit passion - music - which they hide under the respectable cover of an affair. The year is 2063, and actual music-making has become taboo, replaced in popularity and esteem by the spectacle around it, notably their specialism: the balletic art of page-turning, or Paginatorics. A newcomer to their department, the management-speaking Stephen Pendleton, is given charge of a reorganisation that quickly becomes unusually purposeful. His intent is unclear, but threatening. What does he know, and who is really giving him his orders? And why is a routine girls-night-out for Viola taking on an increasingly sinister edge? As threats multiply, the quest for answers enmeshes a widening circle of friends and colleagues, most notably the almost-human librarians. But who are the conspirators, and are they actually in control?