Harrogate Through Time is a wonderful collection of old & new photographs of Harrogate. The older images are printed alongside a contemporary full colour photograph, which illustrates the same scene. The contrasting illustrations show how the area has changed & developed during the last 100 years. The photographs illustrate shops, schools, garages, churches, houses & street scenes, each photograph is captioned & the book has an introduction which gives a brief overview of the history of the area. As you browse through the photographs, you will notice the increase in the number of vehicles on the roads & the number of residents, how shops & other businesses have evolved & the changes & developments in modes of transportation & the architecture of the area. ...

This enthralling collection of eighty pairs of Then & Now photographs compares the Harrogate of yesteryear with the Harrogate of today. Retracing the steps of his predeccessors David J. Jenkinson ahs gone to great lengths to capture precisely the same views as those earlier photographers. Through the pairing of images we see the changes that have taken place in Harrogate & occasionally scenes that remain little altered today. The transformations common to most towns & cities are seen in Harrogate the shift from pedestrian & equestrian traffic to the constant stream of motor cars. Particular to Harrogate, however, is the transition from spa town to centre for conference. The development of Britains most famous spa town is seen in Kings Road, Station Parade & Parliament Street. Our attention is caught by the designs of Victorian architects & engineers through to the modern shopping centres of today. We are taken on a journey around the town through time as well as locality. Landmarks, made famous by a century of picture postcards, & long lost buildings, such as St Georges orphanage, are pictured with the corresponding, perhaps unrecognisable view in our own time. The changes experienced on the railway are well illustrated as are the changes seen in the main roads, residential streets & buildings throughout Harrogate. ...

In her first novel since The Quick & the Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked for greatness as a baby when she died for a moment, then came back to life. After Khristen's boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, & her mother disappears, she ranges across the dead landscape & finds a 'resort' on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call ' Big Girl'. In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations & people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature's beauty. Rivetingly strange & delivered with Williams' searing, deadpan wit, Harrow is a tale of paradise lost & the reasons to try & recover something of it. ...

Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2022 In her first novel since The Quick & the Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked for greatness as a baby when she died for a moment, then came back to life. After Khristen's boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, & her mother disappears, she ranges across the dead landscape & finds a 'resort' on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call ' Big Girl'. In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations & people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature's beauty. Rivetingly strange & delivered with Williams' searing, deadpan wit, Harrow is a tale of paradise lost & the reasons to try & recover something of it. ...

The London Borough of Harrow has seen dramatic changes over the decades, moving gradually away from its countrified roots to become a bustling & diverse urban centre. Local historian Don Walters view that Harrow is not the place it was is evident in this selection of archive images of Harrows streets over the last century, but modern Harrow has changed both a huge amount & surprisingly little over the last 100 years, due both to population growth & the clever actions of far-sighted town administrators of decades past. Placing these archive images alongside beautiful modern photography of the same views today & fascinating informative captions, " Harrow Then & Now" takes us on a tour of the changing face of this historic area, from the modern central streets to the beautifully preserved historic school in Harrow on the Hill. ...

Lola Nox is the daughter of a celebrated horror filmmaker
- she thinks nothing can scare her. But when her father is brutally attacked
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Unlike anything I've ever read. Muir's writing is as sharp as a broken tooth, & just as unsettling. -V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth " Deft, tense & atmospheric, compellingly immersive & wildly original." -The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth She answered the Emperor's call. She arrived with her arts, her wits, & her only friend. In victory, her world has turned to ash. After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, & mayhem. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, & the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders. Harrowhark's health is failing, her magic refuses to cooperate, her sword makes her throw up, & even her mind threatens to betray her. What's worse, someone is trying to kill her. & she has to wonder: if they succeeded, would the universe be better off? ...

This is the story of Prince Henry, third in line to the British throne, & most popular member of the Royal family. From a childhood born to a troubled marriage & scarred by the tragedy of the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, to his brilliant public performances at the Diamond Jubilee, the London Olympics & his brother's wedding, this book charts the remarkable journey of a seemingly ordinary young man with an extraordinary destiny. Once pilloried as a playboy prince who drank GBP200 cocktails with louche friends in London nightclubs, brawled with photographers & wore a Nazi uniform to a fancy-dress party, then lauded following his first term of duty on the front line in the most dangerous place on earth, southern Helmand in Afghanistan, from which he returned a hero. Written with the help of a wide range of people
- from senior aides to humble members of staff, from aristocrats to bodyguards & protection officers, from friends of Harry's to the not-so-friendly, from those who shared classrooms with him in boyhood to those he drank with. From girls he has loved & lost to soldiers who have served alongside him on the front line in Afghanistan
- Harry: The People's Prince is the story of a young man who has admirably created a life for himself in contrast to the one set out for him by what he describes as 'an accident of birth'.

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First Names is a series of fun, lively & highly illustrated biographies that introduces some truly amazing individuals who lived incredible lives, to an audience of young readers. True life stories of the most amazing people EVER! Meet HARRY HOUDINI, the brilliant escape artist who thrilled the world with his death-defying stunts & awesome showmanship. Find out how he was inspired by a man with no head, why he kept asking to be put in jail (and how he got out again) & why he dangled upside down from a crane 120 feet up in the air. Get to know HARRY on first name terms. ...

This in-depth biography details Harry's life so far. From his childhood & his journey to fame on the X-Factor to releasing solo music & becoming fashion royalty, this book gets you closer to Harry than ever before. From the start of his career we follow the roller coaster of emotions as One Direction broke up, & we learn how Harry reinvented himself. Free from the shackles of being in a boyband he was able to be the rock star he had always dreamed of being & conquer the US by himself. Not content with being one of the world's biggest popstars, Harry has also cultivated a career as a film & television star, featuring in box-office hits like Dunkirk as well as presenting Saturday Night Live. He's also making a name for himself as fashion royalty
- presenting the fashion event of the year, the Met Gala, with Serena Williams & Lady Gaga & regularly modelling for iconic brand Gucci. He has even partnered with the meditation app Calm to record a story designed to help listeners drift off. This is a book that gets you to the heart of a very modern pop star
- a must read for all of Harry's fans.

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