Byron Aldridge, heir to a timber empire, returns from the First World War a changed man & finds refuge as a company policeman in a backwoods Louisiana sawmill. Soon his younger brother Randolph tracks him down, assuming charge of the mill in the hope of rescuing his former idol. But as the brothers try to understand each other & their wives contend with their own hopes & fears, it is Randolph who starts a feud with the Sicilians who control the whisky & girls, & the future grows fearsome for them all. ...

All the mapping you need to complete the Cleveland Way national trail. A long-distance route of 177 km (110 miles), giving around 9 days of easy & enjoyable walking through the North York Moors National Park, taking in open heather moorlands, gentle dales, interesting towns & villages, & dramatic cliff coastlines. This booklet of Ordnance Survey 1:25, 000 Explorer maps has been designed for convenient use on the trail. It shows the full & up-to-date line of the national trail, along with the relevant extract from the OS Explorer map legend, & can be used when walking the route in either direction. It is conveniently sized for slipping into a jacket pocket or the top of a rucksack & comes in a clear PVC sleeve. ...

For all the fellow campers & explorers, we want to share with you our favourite recipes for eating well on the road. Having spent months exploring the world in our trusty VW camper, we`re experts at putting together incredible food equipped with just a two-burner camping stove & a tiny fridge or cool box. The Clever Camper Cookbook features over 20 of the best recipes we came up with on our travels-there`s no fuss, nothing too fancy, just deliciously simple cooking. Whether you`re on top of a mountain, down by the water`s edge or setting up for a few nights at a festival, we`ve got all your food needs covered. Start the day with one-pot Mexican poached eggs with chorizo, tuck into satay chicken for lunch & enjoy an al fresco feast under the stars with ideas for Spanish meatballs, Asian stir fries, fiery curries, & more. No longer does food on the road have to involve yet another portion of beans on toast! ...

The Climb by Chris Froome
- the inspirational memoir from the British winner of the 100th edition of the Tour de France. The Climb
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In May 1996 a number of expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route. Crowded conditions slowed their progress & late in the day 23 men & women, including the expedition leaders, were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disorientated & out of oxygen, climbers struggled to find their way to safety. Alone & climbing blind, Anatoli Boukreev rescued a number of climbers from certain death. This honest & gripping account

Includes:: the transcript of the Mountain Madness debriefing, recorded five days after the tragedy, as well as G. Weston de Walt`s response to Jon Krakauer. ` Powerful.. .a breath of brisk, sometimes bitter clarity.. . Boukreev did the one thing that denies the void. He took action. He chose danger, & he saved lives.` New York Times Book Review ` The best book I`ve read this year.. . The Climb has a story that will grip & haunt you.` Alex Garl&, author of The Beach & The Tesseract

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New Faces of Fiction 2017, Observer Observer Fiction to look out for in 2017 The Irish Times What To Look Out for in 2017 from Independent Publishers Jen Campbell`s ` Most Anticipated Books of 2017` Jean Bookish Thoughts ` Most Anticipated Releases of 2017` A dark social-realist fairytale, spotlighting the shadowy underside of 1920s England Summer 1923: the modern world. Orphaned Lucy Marsh climbs into the back of an old army truck & is whisked off to the woods north of London
- a land haunted by the past, where lost souls & monsters conceal themselves in the trees. In a sunlit clearing she meets the `funny men`, a quartet of disfigured ex-soldiers named after Dorothy`s companions in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Here are the loved & the damaged, dark forests & darker histories, & the ever-present risk of discovery & violent retribution. Xan Brooks` stunning debut is heartbreaking, disturbing & redemptive.
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A magical story of snow & stars by Catherine Fisher. The Clockwork Crow is a mysterious gothic Christmas tale set in a frost-bound Victorian country mansion. When orphaned Seren Rees is given a mysterious package by a strange & frightened man on her way to her new home, she reluctantly takes it with her. But what is in the parcel? Who are the Family who must not be spoken of, & can the Crow help Seren find Tom, before the owner of the parcel finds her? The Clockwork Crow is a gripping Christmas tale of families & belonging set in snowy Wales from a master storyteller. ...

Jonathan Coe's previous novel, The Rotters' Club, was a novel of innocence: a nostalgic, humorous evocation of adolescent life in 1970s Britain. The Closed Circle is its mirror image: a novel of experience. On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV in the same Birmingham house in which he grew up. He is watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode. Set against the backdrop of Britain's racial & social tensions & the country's increasingly compromised role in America's 'war against terrorism', The Closed Circle shuttles between London & Birmingham, taking in fat cats, media advisers & political protestors. As its characters struggle to make sense of the perennial problems of love, vocation & family in a changing world, it offers a bitter-sweet conclusion to the unfinished business of The Rotters' Club. ...

In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past & present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist & a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents` home? This is a novel about survival
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- & a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live. Set against the backdrop of a London from the 1950s to the present day, The Clothes on Their Backs is a wise & tender novel about the clothes we choose to wear, the personalities we dress ourselves in, & about how they define us all.

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How do you clothe a book? In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader & writer. Probing the complex relationships between text & image, author & designer, & art & commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform; explains what book jackets & design have come to mean to her; & how, sometimes, ”the covers become a part of me.” ...