Fiona Mac Carthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron`s life & poetry drawing on John Murray`s world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotl&, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean & the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent boys
- a hidden subject in earlier biographies. While paying due attention to the compelling tragicomedy of Byron`s marriage, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta & the clamorous attention of his female fans, she gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in particular that with his publisher John Murray. She tells the full story of their famous disagreement, ending as a rift between them as Byron`s poetry became more recklessly controversial. Byron was a celebrity in his own lifetime, becoming a `superstar` in 1812, after the publication of Childe Harold. The Byron legend grew to unprecedented proportions after his death in the Greek War of Independence at the age of thirty-six. The problem for a biographer is sifting the truth from the sentimental, the self-serving & the spurious. Fiona Mac Carthy has overcome this to produce an immaculately researched biography, which is also her refreshing personal view.
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Everyone loves a good hamburger, & Byron makes the best. Since 2007, Byron`s restaurants have become renowned for as the place to head for a proper hamburger. Founder Tom Byng & head chef Fred Smith know everything there is to know about burgers. They`ve tasted thousands of them all around the world in their quest for perfection, driven by the belief that nothing beats a juicy burger
- the ultimate comfort food, & so satisfying in its simplicity. It`s something worth getting the barbecue out for, the friends over, the family round & the apron on. Along with plenty of other comfort foods (chicken wings, onion rings, meatloaf, ranch salad, cherry pie, brownies & more), this book shares some of Tom & Fred`s brilliant recipes & insider tips, to encourage you to enjoy great food in good company
- food to lift the spirits & warm the soul.

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One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused & sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley`s wife, who avoided his bed & invented science fiction instead. Nine women; one poet named George Gordon, Lord Byron
- mad, bad & very very dangerous to know. The most flamboyant of the Romantics, he wrote literary bestsellers, he was a satirist of genius, he embodied the Romantic love of liberty (the Greeks revere him as a national hero), he was the prototype of the modern celebrity
- & he treated women (and these women in particular) abominably. In BYRON`S WOMEN, Alex Larman tells their extraordinary, moving & often shocking stories. In so doing, he creates a scurrilous `anti-biography` of one of England`s greatest poets, whose life he views
- to deeply unflattering effect
- through the prism of the nine damaged woman`s lives.



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One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused & sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley`s wife, who avoided his bed & invented science fiction instead. Nine women; one poet named George Gordon, Lord Byron
- mad, bad & very very dangerous to know. The most flamboyant of the Romantics, he wrote literary bestsellers, he was a satirist of genius, he embodied the Romantic love of liberty (the Greeks revere him as a national hero), he was the prototype of the modern celebrity
- & he treated women (and these women in particular) abominably. In BYRON & HIS WOMAN, Alex Larman tells their extraordinary, moving & often shocking stories. In so doing, he creates a scurrilous `anti-biography` of one of England`s greatest poets, whose life is views
- to deeply unflattering effect
- through the prism of the nine damaged woman`s lives.



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Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Now recognised as having had a considerable influence on the Renaissance & a significant impact in the shaping of Europe, the Byzantine Empire is increasingly acknowledged by modern historians as having a pivotal role in the development of both Islam & Christianity
- & the relationship between the two. The Byzantine Empire was often at the centre of profound geopolitical, cultural & religious forces that threatened to pull it apart. It lasted for over 1000 years, created remarkable art & a still reverberating cultural legacy.
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A lined journal, in an ingeniously printed faux leather cover which captures the flavour of finely wrought Renaissance-style leather bindings. It is intricately embellished with one of three designs to reproduce the delicate gold tooling which was brought to Europe via the flourishing trade routes with the east. Closes with a fold-over cover flap. Smythe sewn with 144 pages, plus memento pouch & ribbon page marker. 18x 23cm ...

In ” Byzantium: The Early Centuries”, John Julius Norwich told the epic tale of the Roman Empire`s second capital up to Christmas Day AD 800
- when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as a rival emperor. This second volume of his magnificent history covers the following three centuries. In it he continues his compelling chronicle up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus in 1081. The other two volumes in the trilogy, ” Byzantium: The Early Centuries” & ” Byzantium: The Decline & Fall”, are also published in Penguin.
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Plans: L` Aber-Ildut Argenton Portsall Approaches to L` Aber Wrac`h & L` Aber Benoit Port du Pontusval Mogueriec Roscoff Port de Morlaix 2008 edition

Includes:: harbour changes at L` Aber Wrac`h & reschemed coverage of the approaches to Port de Morlaix

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Design to accompany the ” Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia”, this checklist details every bird species & subspecies in the world`s most bird-rich nation (1878 species). It follows the same sequence & nomenclature to make it easy to switch between the two books. ...