A classic of travel writing A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' is Eric Newby's iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote & beautiful wildernesses on earth It was 1956 & Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture Pining for adventure Newby sent his friend Hugh Carless the now-famous cable
- CAN YOU TRAVEL NURISTAN JUNE?
- setting in motion a legendary journey from Mayfair to Afghanistan & the mountains of the Hindu Kush north-east of Kabul Inexperienced & ill prepared (their preparations involved nothing more than some tips from a Welsh waitress) the amateurish rogues embark on a month of adventure & hardship in one of the most beautiful wildernesses on earth
- a journey that adventurers with more experience & sense may never have undertaken With good humour sharp wit & keen observation the charming narrative style of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' would soon crystallise Newby's reputation as one of the greatest travel writers of all time One of the greatest travel classics from one of Britain's best-loved travel writers this edition

Includes:: new photographs an epilogue from Newby's travelling companion Hugh Carless & a prologue from one of Newby's greatest proponents Evelyn Waugh




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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play As murder follows murder with the beautiful Maria as the obvious suspect; bumbling Inspector Clouseau drives his boss Dreyfus mad by stubbornly vowing to prove her innocence! ...

Evocative of ‘the blue remembered hills’ of his youth Alfred Edward Housman’s A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems of extraordinary beauty & feeling Set in a semi-imaginary pastoral Shropshire Housman’s verse considers the helplessness of man the fragility of life & the terrible effects of war against the background of an achingly beautiful countryside Inspirational for generations of readers A Shropshire Lad with its sweeping themes of youth & love has found its way into the canon of English folksong & has been set to music by composers George Butterworth John Ireland & Ralph Vaughan Williams This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of A E Housman&s A Shropshire Lad features the superb wood engravings of the Vorticist artist & illustrator Agnes Miller Parker & is accompanied by an afterword by Dr David Butterfield Editor of the Housman Society Journal Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love & treasure ...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series stunning clothbound editions of ten favourite poets which present each poet&s most ...

AE Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day & A Shropshire Lad & Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities This Penguin Classics edition is introduced by Nick Laird with revisions by Archie Burnett & an afterword by John Sparrow' What are those blue remembered hills What spires what farms are those?' In this collection A E Housman's poems including' To an Athlete Dying Young' ' Loveliest of Trees the Cherry Now' & ' When I Was One-&-Twenty' conjure up a potent & idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss & sadness Their scope is wide
- ranging from religious doubt & doomed love to intense nostalgia for the countryside & patriotic celebration of the life of the soldier
- & they are made all the more memorable by their distinctive diction & perfectly modulated rhythm & sound This volume brings together the works Housman published in his lifetime A Shropshire Lad (1896) & Last Poems (1922) along with the posthumous selections More Poems & Additional Poems & three translations of extracts from Aeschylus Sophocles & Euripides that display his mastery of Classical literature This edition has been revised by Archie Burnett &

Includes:: updated notes on the text & indexes of first lines & titles In his afterword John Sparrow discusses Housman's methods of writing & melancholic temperament Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) usually known as AE Housman was an English poet & classical scholar now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad If you enjoyed A Shropshire Lad & Other Poems you might like John Clare's Selected Poems also available in Penguin Classics



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I wish we had never met I wish we could meet once more' Years ago Shoya Ishida led his peers in tormenting a hearing-impaired classmate Shoko Nishimiya When she transfers schools Shoya finds he has gone from bully to bullied & is left completely alone Now Shoya struggles to redeem himself in Shoko's eyes & to face the classmates who turned on him He learns sign language to apologise to Shoko for his behaviour & so begins a relationship that will change his & Shoko's lives forever' ...

Years ago Shoya Ishida led his peers in tormenting a hearing-impaired classmate Shoko Nishimiya When she transfers schools Shoya finds he has gone from bully to bullied & is left completely alone Now Shoya struggles to redeem himself in Shoko's eyes & to face the classmates who turned on him He learns sign language to apologise to Shoko for his behaviour & so begins a relationship that will change his & Shoko's lives forever ...

Years ago Shoya met Shoko a girl who can't hear His youthful boredom bred cruelty & he stole away what should have been her happy childhood years Now as a high schooler his own despair has driven him to understand how wrong he was When he meets Shoko once again that despair turns to hope But is it really possible to make up for the happiness he stole away?--Page 4 of cover 192 pages 1 Illustrations unspecified ...

A Simple Favour is a twisting free-fall ride filled with betrayal reversal secrets & revelations love & loyalty Darcey Bell ratchets up the tension in a taut unsettling & completely absorbing thriller that holds you in its grip until the final page It starts with a simple favour
- an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another When her best friend Emily asks Stephanie to pick up her son from school she happily says yes Their children are classmates & best friends & five-year-olds love being together
- just like she & Emily As a widow & stay-at-home blogger mum living in suburban Connecticut Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily a glamorous & successful PR executive The trouble is that Emily doesn't come back No matter what the police say Stephanie knows that she would never leave her son Terrified she reaches out to her fellow mummy bloggers And she also reaches out to Emily's husband
- just to offer her support What Stephanie hasn't shared are the secrets buried in a murky past


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A SIMPLE FAVOUR a stylish post-modern film noir directed by Paul Feig centres around Stephanie (Anna Kendrick) a mommy blogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily&s (Blake Lively) sudden disappearance from their small town Stephanie is joined by Emily&s husband Sean (Henry Golding) in this thriller filled with twists & betrayals secrets & revelations love & loyalty murder & revenge Director
- Paul Feig Stars
- Blake Lively Anna Kendrick Henry Golding Rupert Friend Genre
- Thriller


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