'A true masterpiece.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Simply beautiful.' STEPHEN MOSS 'Quietly courageous.' PATRICK BARKHAM 'Lyrical, wholehearted and wise.' LEE SCHOFIELD 'A knockout. I loved it.' MELISSA HARRISON 'Honest, raw and moving.' SOPHIE PAVELLE 'An extraordinary book by an extraordinary author.' CHRIS JONES 'A book of wit, wonder and of wisdom.' NICK ACHESON 'Beautiful.' NICOLA CHESTER - A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer’s love of rivers setting her on a journey of natural, cultural and emotional discovery. On New Year’s Day 2012, Amy-Jane Beer’s beloved friend Kate set out with a group of others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate never came home, and her death left her devoted family and friends bereft and unmoored. Returning to visit the Rawthey years later, Amy realises how much she misses the connection to the natural world she always felt when on or close to rivers, and so begins a new phase of exploration. The Flow is a book about water, and, like water, it meanders, cascades and percolates through many lives, landscapes and stories. From West Country torrents to Levels and Fens, rocky Welsh canyons, the salmon highways of Scotland and the chalk rivers of the Yorkshire Wolds, Amy-Jane follows springs, streams and rivers to explore tributary themes of wildness and wonder, loss and healing, mythology and history, cyclicity and transformation. Threading together places and voices from across Britain, The Flow is a profound, immersive exploration of our personal and ecological place in nature.

Take 10 minutes a day to harness the power of yourself and journal your way to wellness.

Learn how to cultivate wellness by focusing on the connection between your mind, body, and soul. With quick and easy activities inspired by the natural world, as well as simple guided prompts, this thoughtfully crafted journal will help you to create a healthy balance in all aspects of your life and find your purpose.

By taking just 10 minutes a day, you can forge a better mind-body-soul connection. Gill Thackray, mindfulness coach, will show you how to tune into yourself and unlock self-care strategies to create healthy habits and routines to honour yourself, from head to toe. Awaken your wellness potential with traditional remedies, essential practises and evidence-based activities you can do every day.

Whether you are wanting to feel energized again, or needing to find peace and calm, this essential companion will guide you towards your goals. You don’t need experience to get started, just pick up a pen and start your journey to wellness today.

This stunning set of strikingly designed yoga asana (pose) cards and themed workouts is the ideal companion to help improve your daily practice. From a before bed wind-down, to a pre-run stretch or and mood-boosting lunchtime workout, each step-by-step routine and pose is perfect for beginner yogis looking to advance, starting with simple poses which can be developed into more complex positions. Choose your workout to suit your mood and lay the cards out in front of your mat before following along with the poses. Choose from a range of short but beneficial workouts, including sequences for: Tight hips, back pain, and stiff neck and shoulders Upper body strength Flexibility Deep sleep Chakra balance Morning energy Bed and chair yoga for grounding and inner peace ... and more! With a more advanced variation of each pose included for you to move onto as your practice flourishes, and modifications to help tailor each pose to your body's unique needs, connect with poses such as: Child’s pose Warrior I, II and III Downward facing dog Cobra and upward facing dog Pigeon pose Goddess pose Dancer’s pose Including a booklet of 25 yoga workouts, and guidance on how to use your cards to design your very own yoga class, you can take your practice into your own hands at home. A great screen-free alternative to following along with an online yoga class, you’ll never have to worry again about straining to see your phone during downward facing dog again!  

In what will surely become a classic of South African non-fiction, Led by Shepherds begins with twelve-year-old Jeffrey Rakabe leaving his village to attend an initiation ceremony, believing it to be the key to his manhood. But the weeks-long rite of passage in the mountains is a far cry from the adventure he’d imagined.

Years later, as a student, Rakabe discovers the nurturing world of books and thrives within the hush of the Johannesburg Public Library.

The presence of caring women in his life, from his concerned mother and supportive partner to a librarian who feeds his intellectual curiosity with a steady supply of literature, spur Rakabe to investigate the possible links between the koma ritual, awash with misogynistic language, and gender-based violence in SA.

Part memoir, part manifesto, Led by Shepherds is a moving, vital and controversial book and Jeffrey Rakabe a brave voice for a new generation.