California Broker From December 2016

A journey of discovery in search of Oud, one of the world's rarest and most expensive commodities and the basis of some of its most exclusive perfumes.

Boy George recalls, revisits and assesses how the 1970s moulded the person and artist he has become. This is his musical, social and sexual coming of age, when he discovered the power of his own sexuality before setting about turning that persona into a popstar. Set against a backdrop of social discord, disenfranchisement and sexual repression, the seventies was also conversely the decade that revelled in colour and creative chaos, giving the world glam rock, disco and punk, and the young George O'Dowd was at the birth of them all.

Classical and traditional maqams of Syrian heritage, reviving Arabian modes and scales, featuring the tender voice of Zein Al-Jundi, former Syrian TV and Radio star. Produced and arranged by Hossam Ramzy. The booklet informs extensively about the artist and each of the songs.

Based on António Lobo Antunes's novel, a collection of letters written by a young soldier, doctor and a aspirant writer, to his wife while he was serving in Angola between 1971 and 1973, during the Portuguese Colonial War, a war between Portugal with its former overseas provinces.

Gertrude Lowthian Bell, sometimes called the "female" Lawrence of Arabia was a British adventurer