Category Archives: Accessories
Historical Maps of Alnwick & Alnmouth – from Earliest Times to 1918
A full colour map, based on digitised OS maps of Alnwick and Alnmouth of about 1920, with its Anglo-Saxon and medieval past overlain and important buildings picked out. The map`s cover has a short introduction to the area`s history, and on the reverse an illustrated and comprehensive gazetteer of Alnwick`s and Alnmouth`s main sites of
Mermaid Singing
In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and focus on their writing, away from the noise of the big city. The result is two of Charmian Clift`s best known and
An Historical Map of Beverley – Medieval, Georgian and Victorian Town
A full colour map, based on a digitised OS map of Beverley of about 1908, with its medieval, Georgian and Victorian past overlain and important buildings picked out. Beverley is one of England`s most attractive towns with two of the country`s greatest medieval parish churches, the Minster and St Mary`s, and a wealth of Georgian
A Sin of Omission
Torn from his parents as a small child in the 1870s, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury and then returned to southern Africa`s Cape Colony to be a preacher.He is a brilliant success, but troubles stalk him: his unresolved relationship with his family and people,
Mustard Seed Itinerary
All road leads to the celestial city, and when schoolmaster Po Cheng drinks too much and falls into a dream, he finds himself on just such a road. Assisted by teaching colleague Miss Ling, Po Cheng reaches the imperial capital, rising up through the giddy ranks of the Chinese civil service to become Prime Minister.
The Hopeful Traveller
In France, Mattie feels twenty again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Germany, Lynn loses her luggage on the Dusseldorf train.The Hopeful Traveller is a collection of short stories about-and told by-single women who have put the past behind them but are still looking
Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?: 200 birds. 12 months. 1 lapsed birdwatcher.
At twelve years old, Lev Parikian was an avid birdwatcher. He was also a fraud, a liar and a cheat. Those lists of birds seen and ticked off? Lies. One hundred and thirty species? More like sixty.Then, when he turned fifty, he decided to right his childhood wrongs. He would go birdwatching again. He would
Between the Devil and the Deep: One Man`s Battle to Beat the Bends
Deep underwater lurks a mysterious man-made illness. It has gone by many names over the years – Satan`s disease, diver`s palsy, the chokes – but today, medics call it decompression sickness. You know it as the bends.That`s the devil British diver Martin Robson faces each time he plunges beneath the surface. In the winter of
Effin` Birds: A Field Guide to Identification
Have you ever looked a bird dead in the eye and wondered what it was thinking?With Effin` Birds, the most eagerly anticipated new volume in the noble avocation of bird identification, you can venture into nature with confidence. This farcical field guide will help you identify over 200 birds, but more importantly, for the first
Running Tracks: The playlist and places that made me a runner
Rob Deering has been listening to music his whole life, but it was only in his mid-thirties that – much to his surprise – he found himself falling in love with the hugely popular, nearly perfect, sometimes preposterous activity of runningIn this vividly conjured collection, Rob shares stories of when a run, a place and
A Year in the Life: Adventures in British Subcultures
After nearly a decade of dutifully climbing the corporate ladder to become a partner in a headhunting firm, Lucy Leonelli was feeling restless in a life that was seemingly mapped out for her, and she could not shake the sense that she was missing out on something… something out there.Realising that the answer was right
Gender Euphoria: Stories of joy from trans, non-binary and intersex writers
GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one`s birth-assigned gender.So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition centre on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. But for many non-cisgender people,
Stick a Flag in It: 1,000 years of bizarre history from Britain and beyond
From the Norman Invasion in 1066 to the eve of the First World War, Stick a Flag in It is a thousand-year jocular journey through the history of Britain and its global empire.The British people have always been eccentric, occasionally ingenious and, sure, sometimes unhinged – from mad monarchs to mass-murdering lepers. Here, Arran Lomas
The (Nearly) Teenager`s Guide to Changing the World
From climate change to community activism, The Nearly Teenager`s Guide to Changing the World is packed with ideas for how to make a difference
Cardiff, by the Sea
`A stylish, suspenseful quartet of novellas tinged with the supernatural` Daily MailFrom Joyce Carol Oates come four psychologically daring and chillingly suspenseful stories where women face threats both past and present.A Pennsylvania academic unearths a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from a stranger. A lonely pubescent girl befriends
The Story of Life in 101/2 Chapters
An exploration of the key aspects of life on Earth – now and in the future – through the study of 10 and a half species. If an alien visitor were to collect ten souvenir life forms to represent life on earth, which would they be? This is the thought-provoking premise of Marianne Taylor`s The
The Opening Country: A Walk Through France
In this journey of discovery, John Micklewright travels the slow way, on foot, on paths, tracks and byways from the Channel to the Alps – from the coast of Normandy to the flanks of Mont Blanc. The Opening Country is a beautifully written account of his progress through the French countryside, an evocative patchwork of
