Find out what the landscape, weather, transport, farming, food, shopping, houses, working life, festivals and having fun is like in Italy. This book includes a large colour map of Italy is included, with an inset map showing its position in the world.

A delicate, lyrical picture of a gentle pre-war society, of Irish history and troubled Anglo-Irish relations, and of a delightful family. This story reverberates with the enchantment of falling in love and with the desolation of bereavement.

David Thomson set himself the task of writing one page each on 1000 of the films that he has particularly liked - or in some cases, abhorred. This title is crammed with great love stories, westerns, musicals, war stories, comedies, and dramas.

Tells the story of the movies and how they have shaped us. Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, this title tracks the ways in which we were initially enchanted by this mesmerizing imitation of life and let movies - the stories, the stars, the look - show us how to live.

* 'A History of Hollywood, Its Money and Dreams - and what it did to us'

Since 2012, hundreds of men and women have left Western countries to join jihadist groups fighting in Syria. Many are still there, many have been killed, but some have chosen to return to their countries of origin. French Journalist David Thomson met some of those who came back.