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In the heat of Barcelona beats the pulse of a new underclass. Once the bright future of Venezuela, a cohort disappeared after the country's surreal collapse. From savagery young lives emerge and take flight on a different continent: friends prevailing, there before the world but under its radar. Escaping hunger and worse in Caracas, they pedal the streets of a new city as fast-food delivery riders, prostitutes and dealers, scratching their living at speed. Navigating punishing hills and dark alleys at risk, they are visible in fleeting moments on a doorstep, a corner, or weaving through rush-hour traffic.Savages to the local population, they become hypnotic fireflies here, discovering identity, surviving insult, questioning gender, finding love, trying to forget, or is it to remember, but alive and supporting each other through stories of fear, horror, laughter, and hope.Maria Eugenia pedals eighty-four frenetic hours a week, her body broken and bleeding, rapid orders pushing through to her phone that rings nonstop. She has kept in touch with Cheo who looks forward to the arrival of his girlfriend from Venezuela, but he has yet to tell her he is married to Andres. Nataly has turned to prostitution only to fall in love with Sasha, her mysterious Russian client. Meanwhile, El Loco tries to establish his reputation as a drug dealer in Madrid on the back of a clouded past in Caracas where From Savagery opens in a funeral home, and at the very moment Angelica realises she can't afford her mother's burial.This generation comes alive through its language; it is as distinct as the friendship shared-crackling, proud, and without apology, a gust of fresh air carrying with it the spirit of a new life.

In the heat of Barcelona beats the pulse of a new underclass. Once the bright future of Venezuela, a cohort disappeared after the country's surreal collapse. From savagery young lives emerge and take flight on a different continent: friends prevailing, there before the world but under its radar. Escaping hunger and worse in Caracas, they pedal the streets of a new city as fast-food delivery riders, prostitutes and dealers, scratching their living at speed. Navigating punishing hills and dark alleys at risk, they are visible in fleeting moments on a doorstep, a corner, or weaving through rush-hour traffic. Savages to the local population, they become hypnotic fireflies here, discovering identity, surviving insult, questioning gender, finding love, trying to forget, or is it to remember, but alive and supporting each other through stories of fear, horror, laughter, and hope. Maria Eugenia pedals eighty-four frenetic hours a week, her body broken and bleeding, rapid orders pushing through to her phone that rings nonstop. She has kept in touch with Cheo who looks forward to the arrival of his girlfriend from Venezuela, but he has yet to tell her he is married to Andres. Nataly has turned to prostitution only to fall in love with Sasha, her mysterious Russian client. Meanwhile, El Loco tries to establish his reputation as a drug dealer in Madrid on the back of a clouded past in Caracas where From Savagery opens in a funeral home, and at the very moment Angelica realises she can't afford her mother's burial. This generation comes alive through its language; it is as distinct as the friendship shared-crackling, proud, and without apology, a gust of fresh air carrying with it the spirit of a new life.

Moldova. Dubai. Liberia. London.Phnom Penh, 1998."You can be different here in Cambodia. Everything is possible," Alyosha tells war photographer "Fearless" Joseph Nightingale, introducing his old friend to the allure of a city on a dazzling rebound after decades of communist terror. Years spent close to theviolence of conflict zones around the world have left Fearless worn, unable to grieve the sudden death of his partner. Unpacking his bags, he reminds himself that he has come to East Asia to escape, and yet his return to Phnom Penh is something he swore never to do.A young Khmer woman hears the stranger's arrival and hours later finds him drugged and near death. Song has also been left physically and emotionally scarred by Cambodia's new possibilities, and she will make sure that Fearless survives. After all, she has kept alive the memory of her twin sister for years.When Song disappears, leaving only a mysterious videotape behind, Fearless must navigate a dangerous web of power brokers, kingpins, traffickers, and arms dealers, uncovering a sprawling network of criminality and corruption in a new, post-Soviet world.As the fog of media wars escalates our exposure to suffering around the globe, Herat asks if it is possible anymore to know the truth about anyone, even those we hold dearest?SOONER OR LATER, YOU HAVE TO TAKE SIDES.

Stoicism, hard work and moderation frame Oeconomicus. It is one of the world's earliest works on the subjects of home management and the concept of ownership. In the form of philosophical discourse, writer Xenophon visits a conversation between Socrates and one of his followers, Critobulus, and they discuss what it is that makes "a home". As their conversation develops topics under discussion include money and the relative notions of wealth that property and possessions hold.In a second part, Xenophon relates Socrates' recollection of a conversation with gentleman-farmer Ischomachus. His view of the role of husbands and wives is shared. The ideas have been controversial for two millennia among scholars but are being replayed today.

All things cultural date back to original agriculture. In new translations and with introductions by today's experts in their field, modern women, a stunning series of the world's classic texts gathers for a rising generation of agriculturalists, gardeners, and nature lovers returning to the soil, the world's library of ancient wisdom on land, gardens and the home. Delightfully packaged as collectible literary gift books the series is perfect for the reader interested in understanding which aspects of ancient wisdom and practice from around the world might be of material and philosophical use today as we address climate change, the health of our soils and food security.Each book in the series is as distinct in tone as its author was in life. They range from theoretical dialogue to a practical manual on all aspects of farming and soil amendments, from exquisite garden design principles to the various uses of botanical remedies. Together they are a rich, essential guide to the world's ancient wisdom of the soil, aesthetics and how we have traditionally survived in harmony with the earth beneath our feet, in our hands and before our eyes.Upcoming titles include the seminal text on agriculture, garden design or the home from each of the following: Ancient Greece, Moorish Spain, Persia, India, Japan, China and the New World.Cato's DE AGRICULTURA is the oldest known work in Latin. In direct prose and terse humour, the revered agronomist shares his wisdom and experience on the subject of farming, rituals, recipes and medicines. He begins: "Remember that a farm is like a man-however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is left!"

"A time of polarization, a time when we were called upon to inhale the air of the nation, a time when it mattered who belonged to which ethnic group. But our hero wants to belong to his own, special, rockabilly nation, founded on music, freedom, the freedom of the spirit, the freedom to decide, to choose his clothes, his hairstyle. . ."-Boris Lijesevic, theatre director of 'Blue Moon', the playCarli left his mountain village and his past to study agronomy in Zagreb. Failing miserably his commitment to most endeavours is falling into question. Nobody, however, can surpass the time he spends on his hair and his music.Most days Carli whiles away the hours grooming his pompadour. Even crossing the street, he pays attention to the direction of the wind so that his quiff, his pride and joy, is not displaced. And most evenings he spends with friends in the city's underground clubs from which the sound of rockabilly music echoes through cobbled streets and into the night.When he meets the red-haired Eli, a street-smart city girl, Carli is thunderstruck, and an unlikely relationship begins. Eli quotes the lyrics of Leonard Cohen and has little time for rockabilly music. She is an A-student, competent. When news of impending fatherhood sparks an existential crisis, Eli is there to keep him from the precipice.However, the ominous signs of Yugoslavia's instability become more apparent as Carli's downward spiral intensifies. Sinister figures from past decades return to manufacture discontent and the facade of peaceful co-existence begins to crack under the weight of history until a precise moment of witness when the future of a generation and of a country comes to a thunderous halt."This story about the disappearance and transformation of the Serbs of Zagreb-a story that the scoundrels would never dare tell, even if Blue Moon were awarded every Croatian literary prize-has been told with unusual care, touching attention and a sense of responsibility; the responsibility of a writer for a story that must be told, no matter the price for telling it."-Miljenko Jergovic

By night, poet and teacher Mahmoud Elmachi camps on the shores of a vast reservoir in the desert. Around him a savage war rages but each day he puts on his fins and snorkle, and dives deep into the water in search of his memories. Some refer to Mahmoud as the "old madman", others call him the "old sage". What becomes clear in the murky depths is that with each descent into the lake, his story reveals a gathering of treasures and loss-precious conversations, exquisite love. From inner depths he has found the courage to face down an authoritarian regime with the power of his writing, the force of non-violence.

Na Mumain agus Ad an Draoidh (Finn Family Moomintroll) is published in Scottish Gaelic for the first time.Beloved by children and adults alike, the book is a rite of passage for readers of all ages. The third of Jansson's books in the Moomin series, it is, however, the introduction to the Moomin family that UK readers cherish and the book they read first.Our magic begins with the discovery by Moomin, Snufkin, and Sniff, of the Hobgoblin's hat . . .

Tove Jansson is among the world's best-known and most loved authors. Na Mumain agus an Tuil Mhor (English title: The Moomins and The Great Flood) is the first translation into Scottish Gaelic of any of Jansson's classic children's books. This 80th anniversary quarter-bound edition, complete with fold-out insert of the design of Moominhouse, is the latest edition to join the global publishing celebration of the book's first appearance in1948. Jansson's first-ever Moomin story, introduces readers to the beloved characters who have become icons of children's literature, offering a glimpse of Moominvalley and the iconic Moominhouse. The world of the Moomins unfolds as we follow Moomintroll, Moominmamma, and Sniff on their search through forest and flood for long-lost Moominpappa, and a place to call home. The story reveals Jansson's uninhibited imagination full of love, kindness, and adventure in the face of environmental catastrophe. Jansson's Moomin books have never been out of print and their themes of tolerance, inclusion, and environmental stewardship remain increasingly relevant today. Selkies House will publish Na Mumain agus Ad An Draoidh (English title: Finn Family Moomintroll) in the same season.

A Paris Review Book of the Year.In four fragmentary stories set in the mountainous Lika region of Croatia, Mijo's life unfurls not with the chronology of time but in episodes, each in flow with the textural grain of this remote earth. With sparest of prose, Karakas has crafted an exquisite sense of place and of family within it. The result is among the most powerful modern homages to a landscape and its people.As an unwilling combatant on the run in "The House", Mijo has not strayed far from home. From his hiding place in the woods above their cabin he observes through the cross hairs of his rifle his beloved wife go about her daily routine. Autumn is advancing and Drenka has agreed that at night it might be safe for his return to the crawl space beneath the house.In "Dogs" Mijo is a child working on his family's land the day the local authorities pass an edict that all dogs in the valley must be killed. No reason is given. Around the table, his father and mother evaluate a warm life in terms of raw pragmatism, and the journey Mijo decides to make will become his pilgrimage to adulthood.Mijo arrives at the door of his girlfriend, Drenka, on a day of festivity in the final, eponymous story, "Celebration". The couple plans to walk through summer fields to the revelry in town. With her brother as chaperone, the two lovers lag behind. The contours of the horizon have shifted with the seasons and their direction becomes as uncertain as the events that will unfurl at the festivity awaiting them.