` After I finished this book I alarmed my family by going into the garden & climbing the apple tree.`
- Damian Whitworth, The
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A delightful picture book with a wonderful twist which encourages young children to think about the way animals & humans live side by side. The tree. Home to a family of birds in their nest, squirrels in their drey & rabbits in their burrow. But what happens to the animals when a man & woman decide to cut it down & use it for their dream house? Can the tree be home to both the animals & the humans? A simple yet fun & distinctive picture book, with a strong environmental message about the importance of respecting animal habitats, by the award-winning Neal Layton. ...

* Learn to unplug & live life off-grid * Packed with practical information & know-how * Full of expert hunting, fishing & foraging advice
- complete with recipes! Looking for an alternative way of living, Nick Weston escaped from the London rat-race to live entirely off the l&, building his own tree house in a secret location deep in the woods of Sussex for six months. The Tree House Diaries chronicles this amazing real life Boy`s Own adventure, from the construction of his tree house (complete with hot shower, compost loo & double bed) to the planting of his vegetable patch. The diaries contain practical information on every project undertaken, with delicious recipes made from natural produce; incorporating anything that Nick could catch, shoot, forage or grow. The book is illustrated with fascinating step-by-step photographs. Witness all of Nick`s trials & errors & the highs & lows of tree house life
- each day usually ending with a glass of home brewed nettle beer & a wistful yearning for the time when the elderflower champagne could be popped open! The Tree House Diaries is an inspiring tale that shows how it is possible to unplug from the modern world & live the dream off-grid.

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A compulsive, mesmerising & wildly imaginative novel in the vein of Pan`s Labyrinth & Station Eleven from the award-winning author of The Girl with Glass Feet There came an elastic aftershock of creaks & groans & then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed & trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins... There is no warning. No chance to prepare. The trees arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets & towns into shadowy forest. Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realises that no help is coming, he ventures into this unrecognisable world. Alongside green-fingered Hannah & her teenage son Seb, Adrien sets out to find his wife & to discover just how deep the forest goes. Their journey will take them to a place of terrible beauty & violence, to the dark heart of nature & the darkness inside themselves. ...

This guidebook describes the 570km (354 mile) Traumpfad or ` Dream Way`, an Alpine trek from Munich`s Marienplatz to the Piazza San Marco in Venice. The route is broken into 30 stages of between 5hrs 30mins & 9hrs, graded according to difficulty, with 5 alternative stages & the option to spend a day traversing a section of via ferrata in the Dolomites. Previous experience of Alpine trekking is not necessary as the route is suitable for most able walkers: however, a head for heights is essential. Known as ` Europe`s playground`, the Alps boast an unrivalled walking infrastructure & breath-taking views of angular peaks, flower-strewn valleys & verdant slopes. Hugely popular with German trekkers but little-known in the English-speaking world, Der Traumpfad revels in this stunning scenery. The route passes through German Bavaria then Austria before entering the Italian Tyrol, taking advantage of the region`s extensive network of mountain huts for accommodation en route. With custom-designed mapping & stunning colour photography, the guide has all you need to get the best from your trek. Alongside detailed route descriptions, there is useful practical advice on when to go, what to take & refreshment stops, background information on the region`s fascinating history, plants & wildlife & full contact details for over 80 places to stay. The result is an ideal companion to discovering this amazing route, regarded by many German trekkers as `the hiking experience of a lifetime`. ...

The Trench
- Life & Death on The Western Front
- with a Foreword by Michael Morpugo. The horrors of the First World War scarred

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The Triad: Greensboro
- Winston-Salem
- High Point area of North Carolina on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their

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The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested & must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes. ...

Longlisted for the JQ Wingate Prize On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired his pistol in the air, & proclaimed a revolution. Seventeen hours later, all that remained of his bold move was a trail of destruction. Hitler was on the run from the police. His career seemed to be over. In The Trial of Adolf Hitler, the acclaimed historian David King tells the true story of the monumental criminal proceeding that followed when Hitler & nine other suspects were charged with high treason. Reporters from as far away as Argentina & Australia flocked to Munich for the sensational four-week spectacle. By its end, Hitler would transform the fiasco of the beer hall putsch into a stunning victory for the fledgling Nazi Party. It was this trial that thrust Hitler into the limelight, provided him with an unprecedented stage for his demagoguery, & set him on his improbable path to power. Based on trial transcripts, police files, & many other new sources, including some five hundred documents recently discovered from the Landsberg Prison record office, The Trial of Adolf Hitler is a gripping true story of crime & punishment
- & a haunting failure of justice with catastrophic consequences.
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There was someone standing further along the beach, facing out to sea. An old man dressed in...I blinked...battle fatigues? Second World War U.S. by the looks of the helmet. I looked on for a moment, squinting into the sun-streaked coconut smoke. ` You won`t like Bonga`s Guest House, I can tell you now. Maximo Bonga...` said the fisherman`s wife. She was lost for words, shaking her head. ` Maximum Bongo?` I asked.` Bonga, ` she said. ` It means flamboyant.` Based on a true story On one of South East Asia`s most remote beaches, a young woman`s body is found. The corrupt local police think they have found the perfect fall guy in Maximo Bonga
- cantankerous World War Two veteran & owner of the weirdest guesthouse in town. But unbeknownst to them, an unlikely friendship has been forged between Maximo & John, one of the boarders of Maximo`s guest-house-cum-boot-camp, where an old machine gun & camouflaged mantraps stand guard, sandbags form fences & a tyrannical pet rooster terrorises the guests. Along with an eccentric bunch of modern-world rejects, John sets out to defend the old soldier in a kangaroo court set up at the local cockpit, in a paradise like no other.
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