Are standards of English alright
- or should that be all right? To knowingly split an infinitive or not to? & what about ending
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Dawn French, number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous & Oh Dear Silvia, returns with her joyously funny new novel, According To Yes. The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy
- otherwise known as Manhattan`s Upper East Side
- has its own rigid code of behaviour. It`s a code strictly adhered to by the Wilder-Bingham family. Emotional displays
- unacceptable. Unruly behaviour
- definitely not welcome. Fun
- no thanks. This is Glenn Wilder-Bingham`s kingdom. A beautifully displayed impeccably edited fortress of restraint. So when Rosie Kitto, an eccentric thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from Engl&, bounces into their lives with a secret sorrow & a heart as big as the city, nobody realises that she hasn`t read the rule book. For the Wilder-Bingham family, whose lives begin to unravel thread by thread, the consequences are explosive. Because after a lifetime of saying no, what happens when everyone decides to start saying.. .yes? I adored According to YES. It`s so different to anything I`ve read in forever, so charming, wise, brilliantly written. I loved it all` Marian Keyes ` There is lots of fun to be had reading this book. It`s impossible not to warm to Rosie, a funny & open-hearted woman who acts as a salve & comfort blanket for this unhappy, inhibited family. There`s something quite joyous about the way she unashamedly romps her way through the novel, changing the lives of those around her for the better` Express ` French can spin a yarn.. .which sets According to YES apart from the usual chick-lit template. Think the vicar of Dibley, without the dog collar. YES YES YES indeed` Independent Further praise for Dawn French: `A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner. Funny, enriching.. .page after page I laughed out loud` Mail on Sunday `A hilarious snapshot of family life in the twenty-first century` Sunday Express ` Extremely funny` Sunday Times ` Dawn tackles the big ones
- love, death, grief, childhood, motherhood, parenthood
- head on` Guardian ` Makes you laugh on every page` The Times `A brilliantly observed, very funny novel of family life` Woman & Home ` Funny, really enjoyable, highly recommended. A wonderful writer
- witty, wise, poignant` Daily Mail







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The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ` The Shipping News`, ` Accordion Crimes spans generations, continents & a century & confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulx`s writing. Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century & a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion-maker & his son, carrying little more than his finest button accordion, begin their voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion-maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynch mob, but his instrument carries the novel into another community of immigrants: German-Americans founding a new town in South Dakota. Moving from South Dakota to Texas, from Montana to Maine, the nine instantly compelling & intricately connected sections of the novel illuminate the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, Irish, Scots & Franco-Canadians. Through the music of the accordion they express their fantasies, sorrows & exuberance. ...

Street plan of Accra on a double-sided map from ITMB which also offers on the reverse a road map of southern Ghana & small street plans of Kumasi & Cape Coast. On one side is street plan showing Accra at 1:23, 000 with coverage extending east to the Mallam district, north to the West Legon Botanical Gardens & the University of Ghana, & west beyond the international airport to the Light Industry Area. The city centre is also shown in greater detail on an enlargement at 1:15, 000. Both plans indicate locations of governmental offices & other important buildings, embassies, hotels & restaurants, banks, etc. The main plan & the enlargement have separate indexes. On the reverse is an indexed road map of Southern Ghana at 1:500, 000, extending north to the upper part of Lake Volta, the Digya National Park & the Boabeng Fiema Monkey Sanctuary. Topography is shown by altitude colouring with elevation in feet. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted. Road network gives distances on main roads & indicates locations of petrol stations & border crossings. Railway lines are included & local airports/aerodromes are marked. The map also shows administrative borders & names of the provinces. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1° intervals. Small panels provide street plans of central Kumasi & Cape Coast, naming main streets & indicating various important buildings & facilities, as on the plan of Accra. Both the street plan of the capital & the road map of Southern Ghana are annotated with notes on history, places of interest, etc. ...

Street plan of Accra with a road map of Ghana on the reverse, both indexed, plus a comprehensive, 120-page guide to both the city & the country, published by the locally based Surf Publications. The street plan of Accra at 1:24, 000 extends well beyond the city ...

From the inimitable duo of Russell Hoban & Quentin Blake, the pair behind the hilarious tales of Captain Najork, comes a story about a little boy, a fire-breathing dragon, & their sky-high adventure! ”I can make fire come out of my nose & mouth, ” the dragon under the pavement tells John. ”I can fly. I can spin gold into straw if you have any gold.” John doesn`t have any gold
- & he doesn`t need any straw. (Not yet, anyway.) The dragon tells John that if he fights the dragon & wins, the dragon will take him flying.” What a challenge! Where will it lead? John soon finds out
- & he also finds out that you just never know when a bundle of straw might come in handy... With sword-flashing excitement, a moon landing & plenty of magic, this irresistible page-turner is brought back into print in a bigger format
- & a beautiful, more colourful, new edition.


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Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up as London`s protector, he`s finding that the everyday practicalities of superheroism are challenging at best, & downright tedious at worst. So it`s almost a relief when an attempt is made on his life & Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into a twisted adventure, with enemies new & old coming out of the woodwork. However, even with his friends & his ever-increasing power behind him, he may have bitten off more than he can chew this time. The monsters are coming.. .and nothing will ever be the same! ...

Achaia province with a plan of central Patras in a series from Anavasi covering selected popular areas of central mainland Greece & the Peloponnese with GPS compatible, detailed topographic road maps at 1:100, 000, printed on waterproof & tear-resistant paper. The plan of central Patras is conveniently places on the detachable map cover. Contours at 100m intervals (or 50m where indicated in the individual descriptions), relief shading & spot heights present the topography, & the maps also show variations in vegetation: forest, shrubbery, orchards, & vineyards. Road network

Includes:: minor unsurfaced roads, indicating those in poor condition. Intermediate distances are marked on main & secondary routes. Archaeological or historical sites & other places of interest are highlighted, with symbols marking mountain refuges, caves, thermal spas, etc. Names of town, villages, & most geographical features & places of interest are in both Greek & Latin alphabet. The maps have both UTM grid lines & ticks plus crosshairs for latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. The double index on the reverse of the maps is in both scripts.



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Achaia Province in a series of detailed road maps of provinces, some with street plans of their administrative capitals. The road maps have altitude colouring, plus spot heights & names of main peaks & mountain ranges. Road classification

Includes:: a distinction between unsurfaced roads of good & poor quality. Scenic routes are highlighted, petrol stations & tyre repair workshops are marked, & intermediate driving distances are indicated. Railways &, where appropriate, ferry routes are also shown. The maps highlight campsites & mountain refuges, archaeological sites, monasteries & churches, caves & beaches, & other places of interest. All place names are given in both Greek & Latin script. The maps have margin ticks showing latitude & longitude at intervals of 10

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Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...