Sadly all good things must come to an end – as every young person knows, it's the end of the summer holidays. For those of you getting ready to go back to school, why not think of making it a green journey? The Walk to School campaign for October 2007 is focusing on young people enjoying their local environment by walking to school, to increase physical activity and decrease urban congestion and air pollution.
To read more and sign up, check out www.WalkToSchool.org.uk
Website Update
Following feedback from our members we're pleased to announce a few changes to our 'Books for sale' listings.
We've changed our 'standard paperback' category so that more books are now eligible for a postage payment – this means books which have 500 pages or more, will now have the option of adding a postage payment, to help cover the costs in posting thicker, heavier books. But to ensure sellers remain competitive and to only add postage when needed, we're also changing our 'book queue' system to giving more choice to buyers! So that if there's more than one copy of a book, buyers can now 'View more copies', enabling them to make their selection from all the copies listed, where the condition or price differ.
We hope by giving more choice to buyers and sellers, more books will be listed for sale, and more books purchased and recycled!
www.GreenMetropolis.com
| Atonement By: Ian McEwan    | All books just £3.75 including FREE Delivery on all standard paperbacks Due on the big screen later this week, Atonement is a magnificent novel, shaped and paced with awesome confidence and eloquence. A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution | The Last King of Scotland By: Giles Foden  | All books just £3.75 including FREE Delivery on all standard paperbacks Another book come film adaptation. The Last King of Scotland tells the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan dictator's surreal and brutal regime. Privy to Idi Amin's thoughts and ambitions, he is both fascinated and appalled. As Uganda plunges into civil chaos, he realises action is imperative - but which way should he jump? |
| On the Road By: Jack Kerouac   | All books just £3.75 including FREE Delivery on all standard paperbacks To make the 50th anniversary of its first publication, On The Road appears in almost all book list and charts. Famously written in just 12 days of 'continuous bop prosody' on an unbroken roll of wrapping paper. A road journey of America, now recognised as a modern classic, the narrative races towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and passion. | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid By: Bill Bryson  | All books just £3.75 including FREE Delivery on all standard paperbacks A different sort of road journey of America, for Bill Bryson. In this funny memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, and the curious world of 1950s America. This is a book about growing up in a specific time and place. |
| The House at Riverton By: Kate Morton  | All books just £3.75 including FREE Delivery on all standard paperbacks Winner of the Richard and Judy Summer Read 2007. A thrilling mystery and a compelling love story. Summer 1924: By the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. | Wicked! By: Jilly Cooper   | All books just £3.75 including FREE Delivery on all standard paperbacks From the House at Riverton to Bagley Hall - once a grand old stately home, now a school crammed with children of the rich and famous, but one which is notoriously wild and desperately struggling. A dynamic new head has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure. Young, pretty, enthusiastic and vastly brave - she will do anything to rescue her demoralised, run-down and cash-strapped school. |