Category Archives: Shower Curtains
The Railways of Ireland: 180th Anniversary 1834-2014
At its peak in the 1920s Ireland had some 3,500 route miles of track, today it has less than half that amount. By the beginning of the twentieth century the list of companies included the Belfast & County Down Railway, the Cork, Bandon & South Coast Railway, the County Donegal Railway Joint Committee, the Dublin
Living Language Spanish 2019 Day-to-day Box
This all-new Living Language: Spanish 2019 Day-to-Day Calendar guides you through the Living Language experience with a new word or phrase each day, alongside its English translation and pronunciation aids. For over 65 years, Living Language(R) has been a proven and effective language-learning experience. The Living Language approach builds on a foundation of essential words
Let`s Go: A History of Package holidays and Escorted Tours
Many people take for granted their annual two weeks in the sun or weekend away in a buzzing city, but how did it all happen? How did we fall in love with package holidays and are we still in love with them now? The story of how we got into the package holiday habit is
Europe by Sleeping Car
Between 1980 and 2011 author Michael Patterson made some forty week-long journeys by train through Europe. With camera at the ready and notebook or tape recorder in hand, he travelled each day, stopping off at places along the route. To reach the extremities of Scandinavia, Italy, Spain and Portugal on these no-fly trips Michael often
York History Tour
York History Tour is a fascinating insight into the history of this ancient city and shows just how much it has changed during the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Readers are invited to follow local author and historian Paul Chrystal as he guides them through its streets and alleyways (known locally as snickelways),
The Sense of an Elephant
Pietro arrives in Milan with a battered suitcase full of memories, to take up a new job as concierge. Living in his palazzo are lost and eccentric souls: Poppi, a lawyer; Luciana and her son; and Luca, a doctor, whose wife Viola holds a secret that could destroy their marriage. Right from the start Pietro
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules is an incredibly quirky, humorous and warm-hearted story about growing old disgracefully – and breaking all the rules along the way! 79-year-old Martha Andersson dreams of escaping her care home and robbing a bank.She has no intention of spending the rest of her days in an
The Great Flood: Travels Through a Sodden Landscape
A BBC Radio 4 `Book of the Week`.Flooding has always threatened the rainy, wind-swept islands of the United Kingdom, but it is becoming more frequent and more severe. Combining travel writing and reportage with readings of history, literature and myth, Edward Platt explores the way floods have shaped the physical landscape of Britain and left
Fangirl
Cath and Wren are identical twins, and until recently they did absolutely everything together. Now they`re off to university and Wren`s decided she doesn`t want to be one half of a pair any more – she wants to dance, meet boys, go to parties and let loose. It`s not so easy for Cath. She`s horribly
The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl`s Life in the Siege of Leningrad
In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova – the boy she liked – liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also diligently learning German, the language of Russia`s Nazi ally. And she was keeping a diary, in which she recorded
Little Red
Chosen as one of The New York Times Best Illustrated Children`s Books 2016Little Red Riding Hood meets a wolf on her way through the woods to visit her sick grandmother. The wolf is hungry, and Red Riding Hood looks tasty, so he hatches a dastardly plan, gobbles up Grandma and lies in wait. So far,
Humans of New York
An instant Number One New York Times bestseller, Humans of New York began in the summer of 2010, when photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all in
Humans of New York: Stories
In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton began an ambitious project -to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. The photos he took and the accompanying interviews became the blog Humans of New York. In the first three years, his audience steadily grew from a few hundred to over one million. In
The Social Atlas of Europe
Many of us think of European countries as discreet entities – their own languages, cultures, food, and economies squarely contained within their national boundaries. But in fact Europe is at once a unified place and a sophisticatedly fragmented one, and national boundaries rarely reflect its social and economic realities. The social atlas of Europe is
Milk and Honey
#1 New York Times bestseller Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers
From Barley to Blarney: A Whiskey Lover`s Guide to Ireland
From medieval monks to recent renaissance, From Barley to Blarney: A Whiskey Lover`s Guide to Ireland includes everything you need to understand, appreciate, and mix one of the world`s fastest-growing (and most delicious!) spirits. An Irish whiskey guru, two bartender behemoths, and an adept writer combine forces to create this comprehensive guide to Irish whiskey.
Celeste Mini Unlined
Venice enchants the eye from first light to last gloaming. We have captured some of the splendid palette of the city with this Paper blanks journal cover inspired by a 1600s Italian binding. Our Celeste design embraces the Renaissance value of cultural rebirth by representing an ancient book binding with contemporary bookmaking techniques.
Going to the Volcano
Buckle up and jump on board for the funniest, most EXPLOSIVE picture book of the year – you`ll want to read it again and again-o!Join two intrepid explorers as they take a train-o, jump on a plane-o, ride a Great Dane-o (down the lane-o) on their way to look at the volcano. Nothing could possibly
Kikka Midi
This journal features striking gold embellishment combined with the look of an old leather journal that has been lovingly used for at least a century.It is made of paper and thick cardboard and the back cover comes up to wrap itself on the front cover with the help of an invisible magnet, thus protecting the
Kikka Ultra Lined Flexi
A lined journal, in an ingeniously printed faux leather cover which captures the flavour of finely wrought Renaissance-style leather bindings. It is intricately embellished with one of three designs to reproduce the delicate gold tooling which was brought to Europe via the flourishing trade routes with the east.Closes with a fold-over cover flap. Smythe sewn
