The gardens of Engl&, Scotland & Wales are probably the most beautiful in the world. This wonderful book provides a stunning ...

”I love London society! I think it has immensely enhanced. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots & brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.” An Ideal Husb&, OSCAR WILDEBeautiful Idiots & Brilliant Lunatics is based on the popular London history website nickelinthemachine.com” Another Nickel in the Machine pretty much justifies the internet`s existence all on its own”
- DANNY BAKER” Brilliantly researched”
- STEPHEN FRYEntertaining & engagingly written, Beautiful Idiots & Brilliant Lunatics explores fascinating stories from London in the twentieth century. From the return to South London of local hero Charlie Chaplin to the protests that blighted the Miss World competition in 1970, the book covers the events & personalities that reflect the glamorous, scandalous, political & subversive place that London was & is today. Learn about, among many other captivating tales, exactly where & how the spies Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean spent their last ever day in London, the grisly murder of Stan the Spiv & the unlikely death of a defrocked girl-crazed priest. A cast of suffragettes, fascists, `nancy-boys`, showgirls, prostitutes, terrorists, Nippies & beauty queens features in stories containing a myriad of unexpected tangents & untold facts that cover the width & breadth of the world`s greatest city.

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An atmospheric collection of wonderful photographs showing the beauty & diversity of Ireland`s landscape in a handy travel-size, ideal for tourists. It
Includes:: * Glendalough * The Giant`s Causeway * The Burren * The Skelligs * Mizen Head * Lough Derg * Rock of Cashel * Glen of Aherlow * Clew Bay * Killary Harbour * The Slieve Bloom Mountains & many more.
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This little piggy went to market, & this little piggy went to the catwalk.. . And what wonderful models our porcine friends turned out to be! The result is this stunning collection of portraits of pigs strutting their stuff as only creatures weighing up to 500lb apiece can. Featuring commissioned studio photography of championship breeds styled to perfection prior to competition, the animals here just love to hog the limelight. The top breeds from around the world are represented
- from the graceful Large Black to the aristocratic Tamworth & the much-travelled Kune-Kune
- with graphic charts containing all the essential breed information. There`s also a potted history of pigs, plus reportage photography oif the behind-the-scenes primping & preening at the agricultural shows, to capture the care that is lavished on the prizewinning pigs & the nail-biting judging process. This is a book to gladden the hearts of pig-lovers, be they city dwellers with a trotter in the country or country dwellers with a dozen trotters in the farm yard. Packed with visual & textual breed information, it is a unique gift book to make every reader feel, well, happy as a pig in muck...

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The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Jess Walter`s Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy & a modern Hollywood studio. The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea & views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, & she is dying. & the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio`s back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before. Gloriously inventive, funny, tender & constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous & yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful & yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach. ” Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart”. (New York Times). ”A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor”. (Booklist). ” Hilarious & compelling”. (Esquire).” Beautiful Ruins is a novel unlike any other you`re likely to read this year”. (Nick Hornby, The Believer). Jess Walter is the author of the National Book Award finalist The Zero & the Edgar Award-winning Citizen Vince. His previous book The Financial Lives of the Poets was published in the UK by Penguin. ...

Melbourne-based vegan chef & surfer Sam Murphy was used to being trim & eating anything she liked, which meant hefty servings of burgers, cakes & other not-so-healthy food. When she began to explore veganism, she thought she`d be leaving all those favourites behind, but through her kitchen experiments, Sam realised she could still have those irresistibly delicious meals while also staying healthy & being faithful to her new vegan lifestyle. Taking the best recipes from her imaginative & very popular Instagram feed, this collection brings together Sam`s healthy versions of everyone`s most indulgent meals, from spaghetti carbonara, Tex-Mex cheese toasties, loaded vegan dogs, salted caramel brownies, pumpkin pie, cheesecake & cookie dough cereal to seven different & delicious burgers. Sam`s philosophy is that even without meat & dairy, & while trying to ensure peak fitness & wellness, it is possible to enjoy really delicious food that`s also a feast for the senses. ...

The successful writer Oki has reached middle age & is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, & discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continued to love Oki & has never forgotten him, but his return unsettles not only her but also her young lover. This is a work of strange beauty, with a tender touch of nostalgia & a heartbreaking sensitivity to those things lost forever. ...

A beautiful Beauty & the Beast fairy tale, exciting activities & colouring pages & a gorgeous eight-card 3D colouring scene to decorate, assemble & display
- all in one book! Join Beauty on her thrilling adventure
- can she win the heart of the fearsome Beast? With activities on every page, this charming series brings new life to the beloved classic story with an exquisite 3D tableau scene that little girls will love to colour & make. Decorate cupcakes, finish off butterflies & find the magic crystal ball to help Beauty win over the Beast & save her father. This delicate & lovely colouring & activity book will enchant & delight again & again
- The Nutcracker is also available in this 3D Colouring & Activity series. Perfect for fans of Sticker Dolly Dressing & Usborne`s Doll`s House Sticker Book.


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First Stories: Beauty & the Beast is the perfect introduction, for young children, to this classic fairy tale. Push, pull & turn mechanisms bring the story to life & reveal favourite scenes, as Beauty joins the scary Beast in his mysterious castle. This well-loved fairy tale is beautifully re-imagined for a new generation by children`s illustrator Dan Taylor. Titles to collect: Snow White, Alice in Wonderl&, Cinderella, Rapunzel, The Jungle Book, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack & the Beanstalk, The Nutcracker, The Little Mermaid ...

When a merchant steals a rose from the garden of a terrifying beast, his daughter, Beauty, agrees to go to the beast`s palace to save her father`s life. The classic tale of Beauty & the Beast is retold here in a magnificent `pop-in` format. Each page has three layers of paper, cut to give the impression of a 3D scene. A triumph of paper engineering with wonderful illustrations by Dinara Mirtalipova. ...