Walking English

Every journey has its stories. Beginning with Enid Blyton and childhood in the Isle of Purbeck, Peter Fiennes embarks on a unique exploration of Britain. He follows in the footsteps of some our greatest writers, tracing the paths recorded in their books, journals and diaries, and looks for the country they knew. How much has time changed us? And has it been for better, or worse? Are we trapped in the past?

Socialism: The Walking Dead examines the history and failures of an ideology that though it may go by different names, it still carries the same danger and risk to society and the American middle class no matter what it’s called.

In Clare Balding's family, walking just took too long - she galloped through the countryside and she galloped through life. Then, in 1999, Clare took a call from a BBC producer looking for a presenter for a new radio series. "Do you walk?" she asked. "Well, I walk the dog...." That series, Ramblings, is still going strong - and Clare's caught the walking bug. Now she wants her family to share some of that pleasure. Her and her brother Andrew are determined to conquer the Wayfarer's Walk, a 71-mile route. What could possibly go wrong?

Apprentice baker Ivy Culpepper sees art cars everywhere she turns. Besides helping prepare the bread and pastry for Santa Sofia’s annual spring event, she’s the official photographer, documenting the elaborate cars, outspoken artists, and riotous celebrations. Her brother Billy has been runner-up in the competition several times. Then Billy’s rival, Max Litman, is found dead, positioned as a prop in his own art car. The whole town knows there’s no love lost between the two men, and Billy is the prime suspect.

Liddy's new job at Sea Glass Inn—along with the inn's quirky inhabitants—offers her something she desperately needs: the chance to start over. Soon she meets Beau, a captivating widower longing for his own fresh start.

For Linda Cracknell, exposure to wind, rock, mist, and salt water is integral to her writing process. She follows Susan Sontag’s advice to “Love words, agonise over sentences, and pay attention to the world,” observing and writing her landscapes from the particulars of each moment. In this varied essay collection, Linda backpacks on a small island that is connected to the mainland only at low tide.

Walking in My Shoes: Shattering Glass Ceilings in Corporate America is an empowering narrative that shines a light on the experiences of Asian women in the corporate world. Through the captivating story of Christine Duque, listeners are taken on a journey through her personal struggles and triumphs in the workplace, navigating discrimination and inequality as a woman of color. Beyond the challenges, this book is a testament to Christine’s resilience and determination as she overcomes adversity in pursuit of her goals.

Corey King was diagnosed with a chronic, incurable disease at age 47. Eight years later, Corey continues his story of fighting disability with humor, honesty, and realistic optimism. Walking with Parkinson chronicles Corey's journey from diagnosis through denial and acceptance and finally, to defiance. He believes that challenges are made to be overcome and that we all have a purpose, and he illustrates his belief with stories from his own life.

The Fulani are the largest surviving group of nomads on the planet. In Walking with Abel, Anna Badkhen embeds herself with a family of Fulani cowboys - nomadic herders in Mali's Sahel grasslands - as they embark on their annual migration across the savanna.

Gripping and atmospheric, Winter in Tabriz tells the story of four young people living in 1970s Iran during the months immediately prior to the revolution and the choices they have to make as a result of the ensuing upheaval. The lives of Damian and Anna, both from Oxford University, become enmeshed with two Iranians - Arash, a poet, and his older brother, Reza, a student sympathetic to the problems of the dissident writers in Iran and a would-be photojournalist, interested in capturing the rebellion on the streets.

The landscape of the British Isles is filled with history, much of which we miss as it flashes past the car window. Do we even realise that we're following the same path as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, or that we're driving past the exact spot where King Harold was killed, shot through the eye with an arrow? As a lover of both history and the British countryside, Charlie Connelly decided to rectify this, and set out on a series of walks that recreate famous historical journeys. En route he retells the story of the original trip while discovering who and what now inhabit these iconic routes.

It wasn’t easy for Emma Dodgson to join the United States Marine Corps. She barely passed the entry requirements. However, now she’s in, she is going to be the best damn marine there ever was. Fanatically patriotic, Emma does not have time or interest in anyone or anything that does not love the United States. When the surrender comes, she has no hesitation and gives her loyalty to Jenna Plural in her fight back to free her country.

Walking with Wisdom is a stunning sequence of 20 meditations for our time. Inspired by the apocryphal Book of Wisdom, traditionally attributed to Solomon, Nan Merrill shows us that wisdom is a treasured gift for all generations. Divine Sophia invites us to participate with her, through her tender guidance, in an existence that transcends death. The unseen Realm of Love is our true life, and Merrill - author of Psalms for Praying, the psalms recast and spiritually reinterpreted for our times - takes us on a breathtaking journey into love consciousness.

No one likes the unpredictability of life and the storms it brings our way. Steady in the Storm documents Shonah's personal journey as she navigates through the storm of her husband's addictions as a newlywed. Coming from a background of homeschooling and Sunday school, Shonah is ill-prepared to handle the uncontrollable situation. Reaching deep into her relationship with Christ, Shonah walks you through the gift of grace, the grit of gratitude, and the lavishness of the goodness of God that got her through the storm.

Monumental moments are the parts of everyday life that give us a chance to let God offer His solution for our day-to-day world. He wants to walk with us, plan with us, and guide us into His known, which might be our unknown. God has a design on our life and wants to do the "life thing" with us. He doesn't want to be someone we call at the last minute. Consider a new choice. It is essential to find God at the beginning of our need and not at the end. This book offers examples of people who called on Him for help and others who went alone, considering the outcome of those decisions.

This story is one of challenge, adversity, and success. It is the story of a man who grew up with nothing, facing overwhelming hardships, and in spite of that, made it. It is not your typical rags-to-riches story. It is a raw, unflinching account of how Billy Thompson took misfortune and transformed it into companies worth tens of millions of dollars, then he chose to walk away from it in pursuit of a different kind of success, his success.

Melanie Lutz's soul baring new memoir serves up a recipe for change, offering a gift to anyone who has questioned the life they are living and wanting more.

Lamentations is a novel about the first group of families crossing west to Oregon in 1842, from the perspective of the dozen women on the trip. Although none of these women left a written record of her journey, the company clerk's daily notations provided documentation of historical events.

Keep walking, Jones, founder of Feed the Children, tells himself when he's in an impossible situation-whether trying to find the money to drill wells for drinking water in Kenya or getting across Sarajevo alive. Jones grew up intending to be a minister, but after he was ordained and had his own church, he decided it was more important to go out and feed the needy, not just preach to people about being saved.

Seventeen-year-old Amber Borden has a lousy sense of direction - so lousy that she takes a wrong turn when returning from her near-death experience. She ends up in the body of the most popular girl in school, who has just tried to commit suicide. Can a girl who can't even navigate the halls of Halsey High discover the secrets of her new identity and find her way back to her own life? From the author of The Seer Series.