Category Archives: Travel Guides

Collins Gem Greek Phrasebook and Dictionary

Sound and speak like a native. Ideal for practising pronunciation, listening and becoming more confident, not just in speaking but in understanding others when abroad. Free ebook version with every copy. In all of the most common travel situations, you need the reassurance that you can communicate with ease. A reliable, portable and easy-to-use phrasebook

Collins Gem Italian Phrasebook and Dictionary

Sound and speak like a native. ideal for practising pronunciation, listening and becoming more confident, not just in speaking but in understanding others when abroad. Free ebook version with every copy. In all of the most common travel situations, you need the reassurance that you can communicate with ease. A reliable, portable and easy-to-use phrasebook

Love from Paddington

Sealed with a sticky paw! First class correspondence from the nation`s favourite bear, Paddington.Dear Aunt Lucy, I expect this will come as a great surprise to you, but not only have I arrived in England, but I have an address. I`m staying at number 32 Windsor Gardens and it isn`t at all like the Home

Easy Learning Japanese Phrasebook

Sound and speak like a native. Collins Gem Japanese Phrasebook & Dictionary is ideal for practising pronunciation, listening comprehension and becoming more confident, not just in speaking but in understanding others when abroad.The Japanese Gemwill give you the right word at the right time – every time.Free ebook version with every copy.In all of the

Collins Gem Portuguese Phrasebook and Dictionary

Sound and speak like a native. Ideal for practising pronunciation, listening and becoming more confident, not just in speaking but in understanding others when abroad. Free ebook version with every copy. In all of the most common travel situations, you need the reassurance that you can communicate with ease. A reliable, portable and easy-to-use phrasebook

Collins Gem Spanish Phrasebook and Dictionary

Sound and speak like a native. Ideal for practising pronunciation, listening and becoming more confident, not just in speaking but in understanding others when abroad. Free ebook version with every copy. In all of the most common travel situations, you need the reassurance that you can communicate with ease. A reliable, portable and easy-to-use phrasebook

Collins Gem German Phrasebook and Dictionary

Sound and speak like a native. Ideal for practising pronunciation, listening and becoming more confident, not just in speaking but in understanding others when abroad. Free ebook version with every copy. In all of the most common travel situations, you need the reassurance that you can communicate with ease. A reliable, portable and easy-to-use phrasebook

The Lords of the North

ENGLAND IS BORN. BBC2`s major TV series THE LAST KINGDOM is based on Bernard Cornwell`s bestselling novels on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. The Lords of the North is the third book in the series. Season 2 of the epic TV series premiers this March. The

Mapping the Second World War: The History of the War Through Maps from 1939 to 1945

Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert historian. Over 150 maps tell the story of how this global war was fought. Types of maps

The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: the Complete Works of J. A. Baker

Reissue of J. A. Baker`s extraordinary classic of British nature writing Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J A Baker spent a long winter looking and writing about the visitors from the uplands –

The Last Kingdom

ENGLAND IS BORN. BBC2`s major TV series THE LAST KINGDOM is based on Bernard Cornwell`s bestselling novels on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. The Last Kingdom is the first book in the series. Season 2 of the epic TV series premiers this March. BORN SAXON. RAISED

Great Escapes: The Story of MI9`s Second World War Escape and Evasion Maps

The definitive history of MI9`s emergency escape and evasion mapping programme and the contribution the maps made to victory in 1945. Fascinating stories of secret maps used by prisoners of World War II. The creation of MI9 in December 1939, the rationale for the new military intelligence branch and the context of the history of

A Hundred Summers

The New York Times bestselling novel. Rhode Island, 1938. A sweltering summer of secrets, passion and betrayal…`I wish I could remember more. I wish I had taken down every detail, because I didn`t see him again until the summer of 1938; the summer the hurricane came and washed the world away…` Lily Dane has returned

Collins Gem Italian Dictionary

A portable, up-to-the-minute Italian dictionary. This latest edition comes with all the new words in Italian and English plus handy links to Italian verb tables, making it the perfect choice for travellers, students and business people. Features include: * All the latest words in Italian and English * Links to verb tables * Ideal companion

Unlocking Spanish with Paul Noble: Your Key to Language Success

Ever tried to learn Spanish and found it too hard? Never fear, Paul Noble has a quick and easy way to get you back on track. Minimum effort, maximum success. * Keep it simple with three basic rules * A fun, jargon-free way to learn * Easy-to-understand Spanish pronunciation Paul`s first print book teaches you

Poirot – Taken at the Flood

A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room…A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly

Poirot – Hickory Dickory Dock

There`s more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel…An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot`s interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items – including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a

Poirot – Third Girl

A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone…Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer. Now there were rumours of revolvers, flick-knives and blood stains. But, without hard evidence,

Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure

London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither comfort nor rouse his friend – until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris. Mlle La Victoire, a beautiful French cabaret star writes that her illegitimate son by an English lord has disappeared,

Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure)

The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a “ghostly” hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta. A beautiful client arrives with a tale of ghosts, kidnapping and dynamite on a whisky estate in Scotland,