A hilarious tale of female friendship, bookshops & fighting for a cause
- perfect for fans of Holly Bourne & Louise Rennison.
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“ Wet winter evening & a book lover in Bloomsbury” in a series of prints of sepia photos of some of old London’s best loved landmarks, presented by Soho Publishing in an A3 (29.6 x 39.6 cm) format. This print shows a bookshop in the Sicilian Avenue off Southampton Row. Under the photo are brief notes about the area. Ideal for framing, these reproductions show many long gone or much changed sites & offer a unique way of decorating your home or office with photos of near by or close-to-your-heart parts of the capital. Please note: the prints are supplied flat rather than rolled, with an A3 protective piece of cardboard, so the package will be larger than the standard size letterbox. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas & literature? In this inventive & highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des Colonnes in Tangier, the Strand Book Store in New York & provoke encounters with thinkers, poets, dreamers, revolutionaries & readers. Bookshops is the travelogue of a lucid & curious observer, filled with anecdotes & stories from the universe of writing, publishing & selling books. A bookshop in Carrion`s eyes never just a place for material transaction; it is a meeting place for people & their ideas, a setting for world changing encounters, a space that can transform lives. Written in the midst of a worldwide recession, Bookshops examines the role of these spaces in today`s evershifting climate of globalisation, vanishing high streets, e-readers & Amazon. But far from taking a pessimistic view of the future of the physical bookshop, Carrion makes a compelling case for hope, underlining the importance of these places & the magic that can happen there. A vital manifesto for the future of the traditional bookshop, & a delight for all who love them. ...

Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas & literature? In this inventive & highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des Colonnes in Tangier, the Strand Book Store in New York & provoke encounters with thinkers, poets, dreamers, revolutionaries & readers. Bookshops is the travelogue of a lucid & curious observer, filled with anecdotes & stories from the universe of writing, publishing & selling books. A bookshop in Carrion`s eyes never just a place for material transaction; it is a meeting place for people & their ideas, a setting for world changing encounters, a space that can transform lives. Written in the midst of a worldwide recession, Bookshops examines the role of these spaces in today`s evershifting climate of globalisation, vanishing high streets, e-readers & Amazon. But far from taking a pessimistic view of the future of the physical bookshop, Carrion makes a compelling case for hope, underlining the importance of these places & the magic that can happen there. A vital manifesto for the future of the traditional bookshop, & a delight for all who love them. Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush ...

` Passionate, witty, informed, & gloriously opinionated` Jacqueline Wilson`I felt like this was written just for me, & I think everyone will feel this way` Jenny Colgan` Beautiful & moving... It will kickstart a cascade of nostalgia for countless people` Marian Keyes When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds & cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. She was whisked away to Narnia
- & Kirrin Island
- & Wonderl&. She ventured down rabbit holes & womble burrows into midnight gardens & chocolate factories. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy, & played by the tracks with the Railway Children. With Charlotte`s Web she discovered Death & with Judy Blume it was Boys. No wonder she only left the house for her weekly trip to the library or to spend her pocket money on amassing her own at home. In Bookworm, Lucy revisits her childhood reading with wit, love & gratitude. She relives our best-beloved books, their extraordinary creators, & looks at the thousand subtle ways they shape our lives. She also disinters a few forgotten treasures to inspire the next generation of bookworms & set them on their way. Lucy brings the favourite characters of our collective childhoods back to life
- prompting endless re-readings, rediscoveries, &, inevitably, fierce debate
- & brilliantly uses them to tell her own story, that of a born, & unrepentant, bookworm.



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Knog's Boomer Rear Light is a superslim water-resistant bicycle light with a flexible silicone body, integrated clipping feature & quick-release mounting. Visible up to 600 metres, this edition comes in red with 4 different modes: constant, strobe flash, fast flash, & random strobe.

Features:- Weighs just 53 grams (including batteries)- Takes 2 coin cell batteries, both included- Super bright high powered surface mounted LED strobe system with lens- 50 lumens light output

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In ” Boomerang” Michael Lewis, the international bestselling author of ” The Big Short”, ” Liars` Poker”, ” The Blind Side” & ” Moneyball”, turns his trademark wit to the subject of how the financial meltdown hit us all in the face. Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, & hairdressing is classified as arduous for tax avoidance purposes. In Icel&, Range Rovers frequently explode as owners collect the insurance to pay for them. Ireland saw the entire country put up for sale
- to itself, while the Germans expected the whole world to behave like them. But the whole world didn`t. In this hilarious, fascinating, timely must-read, Michael Lewis reveals the true natures of the countries caught up in
- & exacerbating
- our boomerang economies.


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Set of two loose sheets of inner London (each measuring 91x 70cm) at Approx. 1:10, 000, colour-coding each street according to the relative wealth of its inhabitants in 1889; a fascinating look at what London life was like in this defining era. Between 1886 & 1889 a wealthy London Businessman called Charles Booth & his team of assistants conducted a research on the living & working conditions of London's inhabitants. The project is representative of the Victorian's concern & interest towards the urban society. Booth's survey was thorough & accurate. Based initially on school board officials' reports, the research was then extended to local authorities' appraisals, including reports from teachers, clergy & lay helpers. Particular attention was dedicated to acquiring information on the habits of the poorer sections of society & this meant visiting numerous parts of London street-by-street, often house-by-house. Every house was marked with a seven-point colour grade, from the peachy yellow Upper-Middle & Upper Classes (described as 'wealthy') to the black Lowest Classes (' Vicious
- Semi-Criminal')
- shock or amazement are left to the reader.A 12 page booklet is included detailing the map's history, & life at the time of it's publication.

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Military topographic survey mapping with contours. These maps are designed primarily as flying charts for aircraft, but they are useful as general topographical maps where nothing else is available. Contours are shown in feet, with elevation colouring & spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown (but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named, & the road information is not necessarily up to date). Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Double-sided sheet. ...

Boothstown & Astley Green in 1904 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 is double-sided. The main map covers the village of Boothstown, extending westward to Astley West End. Features include St Stephens church, West End, Cross Hillock, Garrett Hall, Chaddock Hall, Parr Bridge, St John's church, Common Side, Mill Brow, Garden Cotton Mill, New Cotton Mill, Stirrup Bridge, Chaddock Row etc. A colliery railway crosses the map. On the reverse is a section of the adjacent sheet 103.05 extending coverage south to include Astley Green, Lower Green, Astley Cotton Mills, Bridgewater Canal, Vicars Hall Farm. Note that although this is very much a mining area, no actual colliery is shown on the map. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...