Slipless in Settle is a sentimental journey around club cricket in the north of Engl&, a world far removed from the cliched lengthening-shadows-on-the-village-green image of the summer game. This is hardcore cricket played in former pit villages & mill towns, places with names that sound like 1930s comedians, places that look straight out of The League of Gentlemen, because they are where it was filmed. It is about the little clubs that have, down the years, produced some of the greatest players Britain has ever seen, & at one time spent a fortune on importing the biggest names in the international game to boost their battle for local supremacy. Slipless in Settle is a warm, affectionate & outrageously funny sporting odyssey in which Andrew Flintoff & Learie Constantine rub shoulders with Asbo-tag-wearing all-rounders, there's hot-pot pie & mushy peas at the tea bar, two types of mild in the clubhouse, & a batsman is banned for a month for wearing a fireman's helmet when going out to face Joel Garner.. . ...

* Shortlisted for 2016 European Book Prize* Giles Merritt describes himself as a `sceptical europhile`. For many years among the foremost commentators on the politics & economics shaping Europe, he was named by the Financial Times as one of 30 ` Eurostars` who are the most influential voices in Brussels. Slippery Slope is far from the usual run of uncritical EU-related studies. Its aim is to set alarm bells ringing across Europe with its revealing insights into our increasingly troubled future. Giles Merritt argues that the steepness & suddenness of Europe`s decline in the ` Asian century` will depend on the actions we Europeans undertake. & there are two key lessons that we need to face from the beginning. Firstly, the `good times` aren`t coming back without a massive effort on our part. & secondly, in a fast-developing world of 9-10 billion people, no single European country can survive & prosper on its own. Merritt sets out to sort fact from fiction in his analysis of Europe`s weaknesses, & the policies needed to address them. Placing the outlook for Europe in its global context, he assesses Europe`s decline in relative as well as absolute terms, & puts forward an ambitious but realistic `to do` list for Europe`s policymakers if our comparatively privileged life styles are not to be seriously threatened in the coming years. In the wake of ` Brexit;, this is a hard-hitting warning that unless Europeans shake themselves awake their future will be increasingly gloomy. Anyone who believes that the economic crisis that began in 2008 is just a blip will find this book a salutary lesson in the reality of Europe`s position. ...

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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Kay Norris, a successful book editor, moves into the affluent Carnegie Hill district of Manhattan, into an apartment in a slender high-rise. A man watches her. He watches her unpack, watches her make her bed. He owns the building: a shocking secret is concealed within the walls. Sliver is a sinuous, erotic thriller that explores the menacing evil behind the glittering facade of Manhattan`s skyscrapers; a hypnotic story of obsession & the temptation of ultimate power. ...

The third book in Philip Pullman`s classic SALLY LOCKHART quartet in a beautiful new edition Sally Lockhart is 25, & somebody wants to destroy her. She receives divorce papers from a man she has never met, let alone married
- yet this trap is so well laid that she is powerless to prove otherwise. When custody of her precious daughter is awarded to this evil stranger, it is the beginning of a terrifying struggle in which Sally will have to fight, & kill if necessary, for the freedom of her family. Philip Pullman`s ever-popular, action-packed Victorian melodramas are rejacketed for the bicentenary of Charles Dickens in 2012.
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Create your very own detailed model castle, complete with siege towers, a drawbridge, a trebuchet & two model armies. Simply press out the sturdy, foamboard pieces, slot together & you`re ready to play. Comes with a book about life in a castle which also contains lots of ideas for games you can play with your castle & knights. All the pieces are contained in a sturdy illustrated box: over 90 press-out foamboard pieces, including walls, moving drawbridge, siege ladder, battering ram, two armies made from different characters (axemen, archers, knights etc.), & kings & queens to play with. Inside, the fully illustrate book offers simple step-by-step instructions for building your castle, information about your two armies, gameplay suggestions & lots of castle facts. This is a beautiful 3D model & will keep kids & children entertained & will teach the basics of the life in a castle! ...

Build a historically accurate Victorian doll`s house, complete with furniture, home accessories & a family of dolls. Press out the sturdy, foamboard pieces, slot together following the simple instructions & you`re ready to play.

Includes:: book about life in a grand Victorian house, providing an insight into the social history of the period.

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A group of children find a sloth snoring away in a tree in their garden. Not knowing what it is, they set out to find out. While the two older children dream up increasingly outrageous possibilities, from an astronaut to a pirate, to a space creature, the youngest little girl investigates books & a globe & discovers what it really is & where it lives. But how can the children help the sloth to get home if it won`t wake up? Age range: 3-6 years ...

A group of children find a sloth snoring away in a tree in their garden. Not knowing what it is, they set off to find out. While the two older children dream up increasingly outrageous possibilities, from an astronaut to a pirate, to a space creature, the youngest little girl investigates books & a globe & discovers what it really is & where it lives. But how can the children help the sloth to get home if it won`t wake up? Age range: 3-6 years ...

Slough in 1897 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 still growing town of Slough, which had developed from a village after the opening of the GWR. Features include the railway with station, engine shed & junctions towards Windsor; Royal Hotel, North Star Hotel, Gotha Iron Works, High Street, William Street, Windsor Road, Mackenzie Street, St Mary`s church, Eton Union Workhouse, Royal Nurseries, etc. Coverage extends south to Victoria Terrace & east to Aldin House or St Bernards Convent & a small portion of the new development, Langley New Town. John Betjeman would definitely not invite “friendly bombs” to fall on this Slough! The Slough entry from Bennett`s Business Directory is on the reverse. Together with maps covering Windsor & Eton, this title forms a block of four maps. 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. ...