Bodie was on death row in a Los Angeles shelter, having been abandoned by his owner. Belinda was in a heap on the floor of her vintage apartment, having been dumped by the man of her dreams. Two lost souls ready to find a new life. Together they embark on a 2, 000-mile West Coast road trip taking in spectacular Big Sur, a pack run in the wilds of Oregon, afternoon tea at Doris Day`s dog-loving hotel in Carmel, a fragrant encounter with the creator of Kennel No.5 furfume & a bar stop in a small town near San Francisco where a dog was elected mayor, two years running... Join Belinda & Bodie on this soul-searching adventure along one of the most iconic highways in America & you too will feel the wind in your hair & a wag in your tail. ...

Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century upbringing set in the atmospheric world of Pre-Raphaelitism & the early suffrage movement. Ally (older sister of May in Night Waking), is intelligent, studious & engaged in an eternal
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- battle to gain her mother`s approval & affection. Her mother, Elizabeth, is a religious zealot, keener on feeding the poor & saving prostitutes than on embracing the challenges of motherhood. Even when Ally wins a scholarship & is accepted as one of the first female students to read medicine in London, it still doesn`t seem good enough. The first in a two-book sequence, Bodies of Light will propel Sarah Moss into the upper echelons of British novelists. It is a triumphant piece of historical fiction & a profoundly moving master class in characterisation.

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After ministering to fallen women in Victorian London, Evelyn has suffered a nervous breakdown & finds herself treated by the Water Doctors in the imposing Wakewater House, a hydropathy sanatorium. Years later, Wakewater House is renovated into modern apartments & Kirsten moves in, fresh from a break up & eager for the restorative calm of the Thames. But her archivist neighbour, Manon, fills her head with the river`s murky past & with those men of science & art who were obsessed with the drowned women who were washed up on its banks. As Kirsten learns more about Wakewater`s secrets, she becomes haunted by a solitary figure in the river & increasingly desperate to understand what the water wants from her. ...

Part of a series of exciting & luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, ...

Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful & popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with the beautiful Bodleian Library: High Jinks Bookshelves. ...

Part of a series of exciting & luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, ...

Part of a series of exciting & luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, ...

Bodmin in 1906 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: this detailed map covers most of Bodmin, once the county town of Cornwall. Coverage stretches from the Asylum eastward to Love Lane, including all the town centre. Features include Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway with terminus, St Petrock's church, Fore Street area, Bore Street area, County Lunatic Asylum, Bodmin Workhouse, part of Bodiniel (in top left corner), etc. On the reverse is a list of private residents from a 1910 directory. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Bodmin in 1906 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 most of Bodmin, once the county town of Cornwall. Coverage stretches from the Asylum eastward to Love Lane, including all of the town centre. Features include Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway with terminus, St Petrock`s church, Fore Street area, Bore Street area, County Lunatic Asylum, Bodmin Workhouse, part of Bodiniel (in top left corner), etc. On the reverse is a list of private residents from a 1910 directory. 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. ...

A detailed topographic map from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series, covering Bodmin, Camelford & Liskeard (showing part of the South West Coast Path). Edition: C2; Publication date October 2008 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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