Category Archives: Travel Guides
Clew Bay – Croagh Patrick and Clare Island OSI Adventure Map
The Adventure Series is an activity oriented map which shows detailed landscape information, like rivers, lakes, contours, bogs, tracks and other physical features. It provides detailed mapping in specific locations for the outdoor enthusiast such as mountaineers, hill walkers, cyclists and other users of the Irish countryside. The Adventure Series is printed on Water Resistant
Beside the Seaside: Brighton`s Places and its People
The famous and infamous associated with Brighton – where they were born, lived, educated, stayed or died. This is the first book to focus on who was connected with which buildings in the City. Many places are marked by commemorative plaques but attention is also drawn to many other buildings whose stories would otherwise go
South Mayo OSI Adventure Map
The Adventure Series is an activity oriented map which shows detailed landscape information, like rivers, lakes, contours, bogs, tracks and other physical features. It provides detailed mapping in specific locations for the outdoor enthusiast such as mountaineers, hill walkers, cyclists and other users of the Irish countryside. The Adventure Series is printed on Water Resistant
Britain`s Treasure Islands
This book accompanies the TV documentary series Britain`s Treasure Islands, broadcast on the BBC and across the world. The UK Overseas Territories are Britain`s most remote outposts. Scattered across all Seven Seas, the territories cover an area seven times the size of the United Kingdom. They are home to 350,000 British subjects and thousands of
Habits of the House
A love story, a happy end, a lively attack, haute-couture dresses and haute-cuisine meals: some quotable characters, some agreeable sex, some very witty lines – what else can you want from a novel? – unless perhaps a soupcon of Weldon perception and brains. Think fin de siecle and it`s all here, in HABITS OF THE
The Sentinel
1936, Badajoz: His unit defeated, his ammunition spent, a boy-soldier flees into the hills pursued by Franco`s shock-troops. He will need more than luck to survive the day. 1953, Madrid: Amid snow-bound streets, the head of Franco`s secret police discovers the web of lies burying his past is unravelling. Even for a man feared throughout
Finn Family Moomintroll: Special Collectors` Edition
Special Collectors` Hardback Editions Lovingly Restored to Original Designs`I love these editions-so beautifully produced, so solid and permanent, just as Tove Jansson deserved.` Philip PullmanA beautiful collectors` edition of this classic Moomin story, using original 50s and 60s cover artwork, a fold out map and gorgeous endpapersIn case you didn`t know, the Moomins are kind,
Comet in Moominland: Special Collectors` Edition
Special collectors` hardback editions lovingly restored to original designs`I love these editions – so beautifully produced, so solid and permanent, just as Tove Jansson deserved.` Philip PullmanA beautiful collectors` edition of this classic Moomin story, using original 50s and 60s cover artwork, newly scanned images and gorgeous endpapers.When signs appear that a comet is heading
Moominland Midwinter: Special Collectors` Edition
Special collectors` hardback editions lovingly restored to original designs`I love these editions-so beautifully produced, so solid and permanent, just as Tove Jansson deserved.` Philip PullmanA beautiful collectors` edition of this classic Moomin story, using original 50s and 60s cover artwork, a fold out map and gorgeous endpapers.Moomins always sleep through the winter while the snow
The Memoirs Of Moominpappa: Special Collectors` Edition
Special collectors` hardback editions lovingly restored to original designs`I love these editions – so beautifully produced, so solid and permanent, just as Tove Jansson deserved.` Philip PullmanA beautiful collectors` edition of this classic Moomin story, using original 50s and 60s cover artwork, gorgeous endpapers and including for the first time a special prologue written by
Moominsummer Madness: Special Collectors` Edition
When a grumbling volcano causes Moominvalley to flood, the Moomins escape by boat, finding refuge on a floating theatre. Adventures abound when the theatre casts adrift leaving Moomi The Snorkmaiden and Little My marooned. Will they all be reunited before the final curtain?
Moominpappa at Sea: Special Collectors` Edition
Moominpappa yearns to make a fresh start, to find a rocky island and light house where he`ll feel alert and important again. And so the Moomins set sail for a new home. Moominpappa`s longed-for-island proves as mysterious and wild and he`d hoped. It even has a deserted lighthouse. But how is Moominmamma to grow her
Letters from Tove
“[The letters] cover war, fame and her first infatuation with another woman…all related in a voice that is funny, gracious, intimate” The Observer”I find myself talking to you about all the great joys, all the agonies, all my thoughts…” Letter to Eva Konikova, 1946Out of the thousands of letters Tove Jansson wrote a cache remains
Nostalgia
The small Tuscan town of Castelluccio is preparing for its annual festival, a spectacular pageant in which a leading role will be taken by the self-exiled English painter Gideon Westfall. A man proudly out of step with modernity, Westfall is regarded by some as a maestro, but in Castelluccio – as in the wider art
Other People`s Houses
Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish Children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the Kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was 10 year old Lore Segal. For the next seven years, she lived as a refugee in other people`s houses, moving from the Orthodox Levines in Liverpool, to
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia – Special Anniversary Edition (with new chapter 25 years on)
A special anniversary edition with an updated chapter set 25 years on by Chris Stewart. Over two decades ago we set up Sort of Books to help our friend, the some-time Genesis drummer Chris Stewart, bring his sunlit stories of life on a Spanish mountain farm to print. Ever the optimist, Chris hoped to earn
Moominland Midwinter: Colour Edition
A Fabulous Find from the Moomin ArchivesA classic Moomin Book with colour illustrationsAnd a beautiful fold-out panoramaIn 1961, at the request of her Italian publishers, Tove Jansson created a unique new edition of `Moominland Midwinter`, the tale in which Moomin wakes from hibernation to contend alone with the mysterious world of winter. The text and
The Ancient Pinewoods of Scotland: A traveller`s guide
Scattered across the Scottish Highlands are the last surviving remnants of the Caledonian forest which have survived, naturally seeding and growing since the last ice age. Visiting these ancient woods provides an emotional connection to the past with visible traces of the people who lived and worked there over the centuries. There is also a
