A gorgeously written, ENGLISH PATIENT-style novel about the real-life romance between the war photographers Robert Capa & Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War. Already optioned to be the next film by Michael Mann (PUBLIC ENEMIES, THE INSIDER, MANHUNTER, COLLATERAL). Love, war & photography marked their lives. They were young, anti-Fascist, good-looking, & nonconformist. They had everything in life, & they put everything at risk. They created their own legend & remained faithful to it until the very end...A young German woman named Gerta Pohorylle & a young Hungarian man named Endre Friedmann meet in Paris in 1935. Both Communists, Jewish, exiled, & photographers, they decide to change their names in order to sell their work more easily, & so they become Gerda Taro & Robert Capa. With these new identities, they travel to Spain & begin to document the Spanish Civil War. Two years later, tragedy will befall them
- but until then, theirs is a romance for the ages. Based on the true story of these legendary figures & set to be the next film by award-winning director Michael Mann WAITING FOR ROBERT CAPA is a moving tribute to all journalists & photographers who lose their lives to show us the world`s daily transformations.
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Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city`s preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later, home in London, Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence
- a world of sex, scandal & spies that is slowly, steadily, permeating every corner of his life...
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In the Republic of Georgia, the Communists are long gone, replaced by something much more confusing, that`s for sure. There are no jobs in the cities. & when there are jobs, employees aren`t compensated. & when they are compensated, it`s because the jobs are not strictly scrupulous. When Slims discovers an application for an American small business internship programme sponsored by Hillary Clinton, he knows that he has found his calling. Slims` dreams of bringing opportunity & the American dream to his homel&, even as his friends & relatives embrace decadence & a staggering array of unsavoury business practices. But when he finally gets to America he sees what reform & progress look like up close. & suddenly, his loud, bickering family & his anguished, joyful country no longer seem so grim. ...

Ahmadou Kourouma`s remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora
- storyteller & king`s fool. Over the course of
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When police officer Theresa Grey is called to the New Zealand town of Kahukura on Tasman Bay, she drives straight into a horror story. The locals have been overwhelmed by a sudden collective madness, causing them to kill themselves & each other in truly gruesome ways. First, Theresa tries to help; then, she is forced to run for her life. An hour later, she emerges to a scene of carnage. There are thirteen other survivors. Slowly, they find one another & face their new reality: trapped in the town by some kind of invisible force-field, cut off from the world outside. What begins as a story of horror becomes a story of survival. Together, they must bury the dead, become a community, face their own fears & weaknesses. Ultimately, they must fight for their lives
- because whatever caused the insanity is still at large. & it hasn`t finished. Rich with atmosphere, alive to character & emotion, Wake is a riveting tour-de-force. A book about extreme events, ordinary people, heroic compassion
- & invisible monsters.

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Wakefield South in 1890 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the southern part of Wakefield, stretching from George Street southward to Sparable Lane. Several railways cross the map with Kirkgate station & engine shed. Features include the River Calder with piers, Aire & Calder Navigation, Calder Mills, Providence Terrace, malthouses, Rutland Mills, Old Bridge Brewery, Fall Ings, Calder Vale, Grove Iron Works, New Wells, Primrose Hill, chemical works, Belle Vue, St Catherine`s church, Wakefield Trinity football ground, cemetery, cattle market, part of Westgate, Eagle Brewery. Part of Thornes village is in the south-western quarter, including St James church, Bishop Blaize Inn, Lowe Hill, etc. An extensive selection of street directory entries is on the reverse, including George Street, Ings Road, Kirkgate, Southgate & Thornes Road. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Wakefield Street Atlas at 1:15, 840 / 4 to a mile, in an indexed, glove box size paperback format, with national grid referencing. Street atlas covers Wakefield, Castleford, Knottingley, Pontefract, Featherstone, Hemsworth, Horbury, Normanton, Ossett, South Kirkby & Tingley, with an enlargement of Wakefield town centre at 1:7, 920 / 8 ...

Wakefield West in 1905 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map the western edge of Wakefield, stretching from Thornes Park & Westgate Common westward to Roundwood Colliery. Features include tramway, Westgate Common Mills, St Michael's church, Thornes House (at eastern margin), Lupset Hall (on southern margin), Whinney Moor Colliery, Manor Haigh Moor Colliery, Westgate Colliery & Brickworks, Flanshaw Hall, Snapethorpe Hall, Roundwood Colliery. On the reverse is an extract from the 1933 edition showing the Dewsbury Road area at a later stage, when part of the Lupset estate had been built. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Wakefield West in 1905 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the western edge of Wakefield, stretching from Thornes Park & Westgate Common westward to Roundwood Colliery. Features include tramway, Westgate Common Mills, St Michael`s church, Thornes House (at eastern margin), Lupset Hall (on southern margin), Whinney Moor Colliery, Manor Haigh Moor Colliery, Westgate Colliery & Brickworks, Flanshaw Hall, Snapethorpe Hall, Roundwood Colliery, etc. On the reverse is an extract from the 1933 edition showing the Dewsbury Road area at a later stage, when part of the Lupset estate had been built. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

This is a new edition in the AA's ground breaking series of street atlases, covering Wakefield & Castleford in a handy glovebox size. The atlas uses the latest digital data for Britain from Ordnance Survey & the AA & also

Includes:: National Grid Referencing as used by the emergency services. All of the maps clearly show recommended restaurants, hotels, one-way streets & car parks, with 24-hour petrol stations now highlighted. Featuring a clever use of colour to ensure they can be read under street lighting, these maps are all you need to keep you on the move.

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