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Montreal Lonely Planet City Map
Durable and waterproof, with a handy slipcase and an easy-fold format, Lonely Planet Montreal City Map is your conveniently-sized passport to traveling with ease. Get more from your map and your trip with images and information about top city attractions, walking tour routes, transport maps, itinerary suggestions, extensive street and site index, and practical travel
Beijing Lonely Planet City Map
Durable and waterproof, with a handy slipcase and an easy-fold format, Lonely Planet Beijing City Map is your conveniently-sized passport to traveling with ease. Get more from your map and your trip with images and information about top city attractions, walking tour routes, transport maps, itinerary suggestions, extensive street and site index, and practical travel
Snowflake
Signed Edition with Exclusive Bonus Content – a short story, `The Possibility of Snow`.Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers` Rights
How the law harms sex workers–and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History
Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It has long been seen as the frontier between Western Civilization and the rest, but never definitively part of either. Despite being conquered by empires – Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Hapsburg Spain
Bodleian Library: High Jinks Bookshelves (Blank Sketch Book)
Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Sketch Books Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. The thick paper stock makes them perfect for sketching and drawing. These are perfect for personal use and make a dazzling gift. This
The Warburgs
A story of brilliant achievement, dazzling personalities and human frailty set against the dark background of European racism and paranoia. The Warburgs were bankers, patrons of the arts, scholars, socialites, philanthropists and politicians. This Jewish family from Westphalia became a German success story, and embraced German culture with a passion: they loved the art, music
The British Museum
A concise history of one of the world`s greatest and most comprehensive museum collections, from its founding in 1753.A product and symbol of the 18th-century Enlightenment, the British Museum is as iconic an expression of that cultural tendency as Johnson`s Dictionary, the French Encyclopedie and Linnaean plant classification. Its collections embody the raw material of
The White Hare
A beautifully written coming-of-age novel from an acclaimed literary voice. A lost boy. A dead girl, and one who is left behind. A village full of whispers and secrets. When the white hare appears, magical and fleet in the silvery moonlight, she leads them all into a legend, a chase. But who is the hunter
A Jest of God
`Whenever I find myself thinking in a brooding way, I must simply turn it off and think of something else. God forbid that I should become an eccentric.` Rachel Cameron is a shy, retiring schoolmistress, tethered to her overbearing invalid mother. Thirty-four and unmarried, she feels herself edging towards a lonely spinsterhood. But then she
I Tried to Run a Railway
`BR rebel chairman resigns` THE GUARDIAN. `Rebel rail chief in row` DAILY MAIL. `I don`t take it back says sacked rail chief` DAILY EXPRESS. This is the notorious book that got Gerard Fiennes sacked from British Railways while he was Chairman and General Manager of the Eastern Region in 1968. Fiennes became a railwayman by
The Summer House Party
In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a group of people meet at a country house party. Within three years, the country will be engulfed in war, but for now time stands still as they sip champagne on the lawn, engaging in casual flirtations and carefree conversation. Then a shocking death puts an end to
Nightingales and Roses: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen
Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Travel Food & Drink Book of the YearOver 100 authentic, seasonal recipes from Persian cook and food blogger, Maryam Sinaiee. Nightingales and Roses offers you a true taste of Persian home cooking. Iranian food blogger and cook, Maryam Sinaiee, takes us through a full year in
To Read Aloud
Reading a story to another person creates a bond between two people. It is often assumed that reading aloud is only for children, but the practice was once a common pleasure for adults too. The time has come to rediscover it. This simple yet powerful action connects us with our friends, helps us centre ourselves
A Girl Called Justice
Missing maids, suspicious teachers and a snow storm to die for… For a fearless girl called Justice Jones, super-smart super-sleuth, it`s just the start of a spine-tingling first term at Highbury House Boarding School for the Daughters of Gentlefolk. For fans of Robin Stevens, Katherine Woodfine and Enid Blyton.When Justice`s mother dies, her father packs
The Room by the Lake
Caitlin never meant to stay so long. But it`s strange how this place warps time. Out here, in the middle of nowhere, it`s easy to forget about the world outside. It all happened so fast. She was lonely, broke, about to give up. Then she met Jake and he took her to his `family`: a
A Girl Called Justice: A Ghost in the Garden: Book 3
Justice Jones, super-smart super-sleuth, is back for her third spine-tingling adventure! For fans of Robin Stevens, Katherine Woodfine and Enid Blyton.Justice and her friends are third years now and there`s an intriguing new girl in Barnowls. Letitia has never been to school before and doesn`t care for the rules – and the teachers don`t seem
Destination Simple
We live life in the fast lane. We race to keep up with the Joneses. We are over-worked, over-connected and over-stressed, and we compete over how busy and important and sleep-deprived we are. But we don`t have to. There`s an ever-growing group of people opting out of a life lived at 110%. They are choosing
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR`Courageous and brave and disturbing and will stay with
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way
Intelligent, nuanced and wide-ranging, this is the essential handbook for understanding the chaotic political times in which we live.In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like never before. Whether it`s Trump, Brexit, Le Pen, or Corbyn, outsiders and populists are flourishing on the far left and far right. Celebrated political commentator Steve Richards
