LuAnn Tyler is a single mother striving to escape a life of endless poverty. So when she gets a mysterious offer to be the guaranteed winner of the hundred million dollar lottery, it's like her prayers have been answered. But LuAnn refuses -- and less than twenty-four hours later she's fighting for [...]

The Netherlands has been one of the world's most distinctive football cultures. David Winner lays bare the soul of the Dutch masters and the culture that spawned them, by exploring them in the context of a wider Dutch society.[...]

"Brilliant range" is a book about Dutch soccer that's not really about Dutch socer. It's more about an enigmatic way of thinking peculiar to a people whose landscape is unrelentingly flat, mostly below sea level, ad who owe their salvation to a boy who plugged a fractured dike with his little inger.[...]

Imagine the River Tiber as an alimentary tract. Picture a hungry saint. Think of erotic Renaissance fruit paintings, transubstantiation and a tiramisu cafe where magic is surely on the menu...This highly original interpretation of Rome's history, culture, art and religion takes the form of a book ab[...]