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George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon. George Bowling, 45, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times - since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny.

Tom Daley captured the hearts of the nation with his unforgettable medal-winning performance in the London 2012 Olympics. At this year’s Games in Tokyo, he triumphed to win gold and became the most decorated British diver of all time. In this deeply personal book, Tom explores the experiences that have shaped him and the qualities to which he owes his contentment and success; from the resilience he developed competing at world-class level, to the courage he discovered while reclaiming the narrative around his sexuality, and the perspective that family life has brought him.

George Bowling is 45, married with children, working as a suburban insurance salesman and desperate to escape London. It’s 1939, and the Second World War is imminent. Foreseeing the chaos it will bring, George decides to escape to the smaller life of his childhood, to the village of Lower Binfield where everything is quiet and peaceful. But his journey may bring nothing more than chaos, confusion and disillusionment.

On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does not know it, her decision will set in motion an astonishing chain of events. It will lead to 1950s Norway, where a grieving toy-maker is on the cusp of a transformative invention, all the way to present-day Canada where a journalist, battling a terrible disease, risks everything for one last chance to live.

Coming Up For Air is a weekly podcast where I talk everything Heartbreak to Half Marathons. I found my love for running in 2020 during lockdown. I created a Instagram page in 2021 to inspire people to give running a go because I fell in love with the sport. What I didn't realise is that in 2022 it would quite literally save my life when my fiancé of 14 years left me the year we were supposed to get married. I will talk through how I healed & rebuilt my life, how I started running & how I have remained consistent and how, during the biggest break up of my life, I completed the London ...

From the international best-selling authors of The Tools and Goop's resident psychotherapists comes a groundbreaking new book to help us overcome the side of us that is destructive and negative to find a deep level of happiness and fulfilment. Just as we are all motivated and driven by a positive desire to be our best, live by our values and to follow our dreams, so too are we all held back by a negative, destructive and fear-driven side of ourselves.

Written like a novel, Coming up for Air features a collection of true, interconnecting stories, performed by an international cast, complimented by witty, bold and enlightening narrative from an empathetic writer who has clearly not only mastered, but also experienced his subject matter.

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all George Orwell's six novels: 1984; Animal Farm; Burmese Days; Coming Up For Air; Keep the Aspidistra Flying; and A Clergyman's Daughter.

I’ve loved Tom Williams for most of my life, but always in secret. He was my brother Bohdan’s best friend, and we’re the reason Boh is dead. Years have passed, but the truth about us, about what happened that night, is all still a secret. One we’ve kept from everyone. One I wish I could keep from myself.

Adolescence is the most dramatic and formative period of our lives: both thrilling and traumatic, it is when we become who we are, when the smallest things can have life-long effects. But it is also full of contradictions, making it bewildering to live through and usually misunderstood in retrospect. In this moving, empowering book, which is full of counter-intuitive insights, Lucy Foulkes, an expert in adolescent psychology, draws on the latest studies and in-depth interviews to demystify adolescent behaviours - friendship, bullying, risk-taking, sex, mental illness, love and much more.

When Liz Fraser's partner fell into a catastrophic vortex of depression and alcoholism, Liz found herself in a relentless hailstorm of lies, loneliness and fear, looking after their young child on her own, heartbroken, mentally shattered and with no idea what was happening or what to do. As she and her family moved between Cambridge, Venice and Oxford, she kept the often shocking truth entirely to herself for a long time, trying in vain to help her partner find a path to sobriety, until she herself finally broke from the trauma and started to speak out.

All of Maggie's focus and free time is spent swimming. She's not only striving to earn scholarships - she's training to qualify for the Olympics. It helps that her best friend, Levi, is also on the team and that he cheers her on, but he's already earned his Olympic tryout, so sometimes his presence creates more pressure. If that wasn't stressful enough, life becomes even more complicated once Maggie goes on a college visit.

Seeded by the quote, “All you can be for another person, is an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could” Coming Up For Air offers an expansive and non-pathologizing perspective to topics like mental health, spirituality, creativity, and philosophy. Your host, Emma LaBarbera, offers unique perceptions that will have you looking at your relationship to yourself and reality through a new set of eyes. This space aims to foster truth in a compassionate and empowering way. Navigating her 20’s with an intense spiritual awakening under her belt, Emma takes you through ...

Ellie Calvin is caught in a dying marriage, and she knows this. With her beloved daughter away at college and a growing gap between her and her husband - between her reality and the woman she wants to be - she doesn’t quite seem to fit into her own life. But everything changes after her controlling mother, Lillian, passes away. Ellie’s world turns upside down when she sees her ex-boyfriend, Hutch, at her mother’s funeral and learns that he is in charge of a documentary that involved Lillian before her death. He wants answers to questions that Ellie’s not sure she can face....

Ever since her mom's cancer scare, Hadley hasn't been one for taking risks. And after seeing her sister go through one too many heartbreaks, she definitely has no interest in dating. Hadley just wants to keep her head down and enjoy the rest of high school with her friends, focusing on her photography and getting into the art school of her dreams. Then enters Braden, star of the swim team and precisely the kind of person Hadley avoids, all bravado and charm and impulsivity. From their first moment together, they are perfect sparring partners, equally matched. And it's intoxicating.

Coming Up for Air is a woman's guide to friendship, self-love, and enjoying life. Hosted by health and fitness coaches Kailey Mann and Kelsey Reddicks, they explore the ways in which we come up for air as women, from making career moves to deepening our connection with our innermost selves to just having fun with our girlfriends. All together now, we're taking a collective deep breath, allowing ourselves to simply be, and come up for air. 

رواية "الخروج إلى الهواء الطلق" لمؤلفها "جورج أورويل"، رواية يتأرجح عبرها جورج أورويل ما بين الطفولة والكِبر، وما بين كذبة بريئة وأخرى فتاكة، حيث يخوض أورويل صراعاً محاولاً الكشف عن لغز الطفولة، عائداً إلى عوالمها كملاذ من عالم بربري لا يعرف إلا لغة واحدة هي القتل والدمار، فهناك فردوس اسمه الطفولة، مداره اللعب والمغامرات. ولكن هذه الطفولة تفتح أعينها في النهاية على عالم لا قيمة فيه إلا للربح على حساب الآخرين، وللأنانية والجشع، وتدمير البيئة، فهذا هو العالم الذي تفرضه السياسة والسياسيون على الجنس البشري.