Category Archives: Travel Guides
Peak District Pubs: A Pint-Sized Social History
The Peak District`s pub heritage is as rich and tasty as the beer that foams from the pumps, and via its inns, taverns and hotels we can trace centuries of social history in one of the most beautiful parts of Britain. This is the story of the packhorse men and lead miners, shepherds and navvies,
Plants!
Stop and smell the roses with Agent Osprey as she works to uncover the mysterious world of plants! Plants! includes a 1.8-metre-long timeline, featuring over 100 plants from their first known forms through to their living descendants and a fascinating journal that looks into how they have survived and thrived. Plants! is the latest entry
Mammals!
Be on the look-out for the wildest mammals with Agent Osprey as she explores the animal kingdom in search of all things fierce and friendly! Mammals! includes a 1.8-metre-long timeline, featuring over 100 mammals from their first known forms through to their living descendants and a fascinating journal that looks into how they have survived
Samos: Pythagoras and the Heraion.
Jill Dudley writes about the arrival on the island from mainland Greece of the goddess Hera, and the great temple built in her honour on Samos. She gives an account of the life of the sixth century B.C. astronomer and mathematician Pythagoras who lived under the rule of the tyrant Polycrates, and describes the cave
Behind the Masks: In the footsteps of the early Greek dramatists
Jill Dudley travels to the early Greek dramatists of fifth century B.C. Athens lived and worked. She introduces the reader to their world and brings their tragedies and comedies to life as she journeys from Athens to the Peloponnese, Thebes and Macedonia, and describes the myths and legends which inspired them. A worthwhile easy read,
Spanish Trails – A Guide to Walking the Spanish Mountains: Book one: Picos De Europa
In this book Phil Lawler offers a wide selection of walks across the Picos de Europa in the majestic Cordillera Cantabrica, the Cantabrian Mountains, which run parallel with the Atlantic coastline in northern Spain. Phil has an intimate knowledge of this beautiful mountain range, as well as mountains in other parts of Spain. Many of
Spanish Trails – A Guide to Walking the Spanish Mountains – The Mountains of Madrid
An English-language guide to walking in the mountains to the north of Madrid, mainly but not exclusively within the National Park of the Sierra de Guadarrama. In this book, the third one in the Spanish Trails series, Phil Lawler and Tim Price present descriptions and sketch maps of 32 walks in the mountain ranges to
Moon And The Mars
The highly anticipated new novel from the winner of the Center for Fiction`s First Novel Prize examines NYC and America in the burgeoning moments before the start of the Civil War through the eyes of a young biracial girl.”Rarely does one encounter a book that can so profoundly change a reader. Moon and the Mars
The Roxy Our Story: The Club That Forged Punk in 100 Nights of Madness Mayhem and Misfortune
Flashing through the London underground music scene of the late seventies Punk Rock was the ultimate anti-movement, anti-fashion, anti-rock, anti- establishment. Its bands consisted of players untrained in music, looking to explode the heavy over produced rock of the previous generation stripping music down to its core. The music was banned from every venue and
ROXY 100 Nights at the Roxy: Punk London 1976-77
A Photographic Explosion from the ROXY club that changed the face of music. Features Photos of The Clash, The Heartbreakers, The Police, The Damned, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Generation X, The Buzzcocks, X-Ray Spex, The Vibrators, The Rejects, The Stranglers, The Slits, Johnny Moped and many extreme dressers of punk styles.
The Easiest
First novel by Lithuanian author Rasa Askinyte. Blanka works in France – no, not the country, a cafe. The story follows Blanka a young woman who has strange connection to the world around her. Translated by Jura Avizienis
Shtetl Love Song
Shtetl Love Song is a requiem for the pre-war Jewish shtetl, for a people and a way of life that was destroyed. Set in the rural Lithuanian landscape on the eve of World War II, `Shtetl Love Song` is full of tender affection, soft irony, and sharp observations. Guided by the memory of his beloved
The Top 500 Summits: A Lifetime of Hillwalking
The Top 500 Summits are the highest 500 mountains in Britain and Ireland with a drop of at least 500 feet on all sides. From the highest mountain on the list, Ben Nevis (4,411ft) to the lowest, Knockanaffrin in Ireland (2,477ft), this guide tells Barry`s personal journey over all 500 summits. Other walkers who have
