From her early childhood, when her inspirational mother would take her on trips along her beloved Ridgeway in a horse-drawn cart, Candida Lycett Green has retained a love of green lanes & tracks, of moving along at horse's pace & casting an eye on the beauty of England through the back door. Her insatiable appetite for exploring unknown territory has led her to travel all over the country by horse for weeks at a time, & often these journeys have come at important turning points in her life.

Lyrical yet down-to-earth, framed by a recent 150-mile journey through Yorkshire & Northumberland with a friend, Over the Hills & Far Away dips back into past journeys by horse that also reflect her idyllic childhood in the bohemian Betjeman household, a charmed youth in the Swinging Sixties, a year-long honeymoon journey overland to India, early days at Private Eye, & the ups & downs of thirty-nine years of marriage & motherhood. Her story is made all the more poignant by her recent fight with breast cancer.

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This is the life story of a girl addicted to the sensual pleasures of spanking. A girl who feels compelled to manipulate & engineer situations in which older authority figures punish her, over their knees. & as Nexus Enthusiast publishes convincing & exciting literature, written by the devotee of a single fetish for the large number of enthusiasts of that same kink, the author is fully qualified & active participant of the S&M scene. ...

This is the life story of a girl addicted to the sensual pleasures of spanking. A girl who feels compelled to manipulate & engineer situations in which older authority figures punish her, over their knees. & as Nexus Enthusiast publishes convincing & exciting literature, written by the devotee of a single fetish for the large number of enthusiasts of that same kink, the author is fully qualified & active participant of the S&M scene. ...

Now available in B format, Overcoming Addictions shows how to escape dependency on the many mood-altering, & potentially ...

Now available in B format, Overcoming Addictions shows how to escape dependency on the many mood-altering, & potentially ...

Do you feel compelled to eat when you're not hungry? Do you feel guilty & worthless after a binge? Would you like to: * Lose weight naturally? * Enjoy the food you most desire? * Forget your preoccupation with eating & weight? * Discover the freedom of no restraints? * Give up dieting forever? OVERCOMING OVEREATING makes all this possible, returning eating to its natural place in life, so that food becomes something to be enjoyed rather than feared. OVERCOMING OVEREATING will help you to break out of the lonely cycle of diet, binge, recrimination & self-loathing. Both pratical & reassuring, it offers realistic guidance on how to conquer an obession & restore your self-esteem. ...

This gripping memoir by a former American intelligence operative is a vivid portrait of a spy at every stage of his life & career.

Raised in various countries around the world as the son of an American spymaster, Larry Kolb tells how his father taught him to think, look & listen like a spy, & how a friend & colleague of his father attempted to recruit him to the CIA. Kolb declined, choosing instead to become an international businessman. His early success
- in his mid-twenties he became an agent for several professional athletes, including Muhammad Ali
- brought him into contact with many of the world's wealthiest & most powerful men, making him irresistible to master spy & CIA co-founder, Miles Copel&. When Copeland later tried to recruit him, Kolb accepted, & soon he was involved in covert intrigues in Beirut, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Pakistan & India.

Peopled by larger than life characters such as Adnan Khashoggi, Imelda Marcos, Rajiv Gandhi & Ronald Reagan, OVERWORLD is a real-life adventure story of the highest order which offers compelling insights into the danger, glamour & psychology of espionage
- as well as an extraordinary glimpse into the real corridors of global power.






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The shape-shifting poetry of Ovid's Metamorphoses has fascinated writers & artists from Shakespeare to Ted Hughes, Rembrandt to Picasso. Its eternal freshness is haunted by an ancient idea: that a person's true nature is revealed when their physical shape is changed- the wolf-like man becomes a wolf, the obsessive spinner a spider. For this dazzling collection Philip Terry asked leading writers to take Ovid as a starting point & set their invention free. The results are startling, from Apollo & Phaeton transposed to a Dutch classroom to Diana & Actaeon in the rain of Nova Scotia. We find fables, grotesques & white-coated scientists; sports-cars, swans & shells; & even Ovid himself, high-spirited & unrepentant, speaking to us from beyond the grave. Challenging the very shape of the modern short story, Ovid Metamorphosed is a kaleidoscope of delights, scary, sexy, suggestive & profoundly entertaining. ...

' The desire shown in the editorial policy to get under the skin of a county is a welcome antidote to popularisation & pseudo-Hertmiage. The texts, although informed by genuine knowledge of documents & places, are written in an accessible way. ' T. L. S. Oxfordshire, a l&-locked county, is rich in geology, varied in landscape, steeped in history. Through it run the tranquil of the Thames. To the north are the golden stone villages & upland sheep pastures of the Cotswolds. The River Cherwell winds through peaceful cattle meadows & past the walls of the oldest & most celebrated university city in Britain. Great country houses like Blenheim & Chastleton contrast with the car assembly works at Cowley. From the rounded hills in the north to the Chiltern beechwoods in the south, John Steane provides a richly informative guide & an unrivalled sense of place. With an area of 1, 007 square miles, a population of 560, 000 & towns such as Oxford, Abingdon, Banbury, Henley, Witney & Woodstock, Oxfordshire is one of the most literate
- & visited counties in Britain.
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