Shortlisted for the 2015 Thwaites Wainwright Prize
- In a single twelve-month cycle of daily writings Mark Cocker explores his
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A boy creeps down from a high-rise block in the half-light of dawn to see the neat prints left by a fox on the frosty grass. He is TC, eight years old & skipping school to spend his time exploring the city's waste ground & long-forgotten wild corners. At school & at home he is barely missed. Sophia, seventy-eight & a half & still wearing her dear dead husband's shoes, looks out through her kitchen window at the little city park outside her flat, its grassy acres grimy & litter-blown, but to her eyes beautiful. She is writing her weekly letter to her granddaughter Daisy, whose privileged upbringing means she exists in a different world to that of TC, even though they live less than a mile apart. Jozef spends his days clearing houses & works night shifts at the local takeaway, but he is unable to forget the farm he left behind in Pol&, the woods & fields he grew up with still a part of him, although he is a thousand miles away. When he meets TC in the little park one night he finds a kindred spirit, despite the forty years between them: both lonely, both looking for something, both lost.A lyrical debut novel about innocence & experience, class & consumerism, Clay captures the delicate balance of life in the city, between young & old, between nature & development, between recklessness & caution. ...

Eight-year-old TC skips school to explore the city`s overgrown, forgotten corners. Sophia, seventy-eight, watches with concern as he slips past her window, through the little park she loves. She`s writing to her granddaughter, Daisy, whose privileged upbringing means she exists in a different world from TC
- though the two children live less than a mile apart. Jozef spends his days doing house clearances, his nights working in a takeaway. He can`t forget the farm he left behind in Pol&, its woods & fields still a part of him, although he is a thousand miles away. When he meets TC he finds a kindred spirit: both lonely, both looking for something, both lost.
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Clayton & Thornton East in 1933 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 covers the centre of Clayton & the eastern part of Thornton. Features include Thornton Hall, St James church, School Green, Leventhorp Hall, tramway, Clayton Beck, Leventhorp Mills, St John's church Clayton, Town End, Oak Mills, Victoria Park etc. On the reverse is a selection of street directory entries for 1936. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Clayton & Thornton East in 1933 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 centre of Clayton & the eastern part of Thornton. Features include Thornton Hall, St James church, School Green, Leventhorp Hall, tramway, Clayton Beck, Leventhorp Mills, St John`s church Clayton, Town End, Oak Mills, Victoria Park, etc. On the reverse is a selection of street directory entries for 1936. 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. ...

Clear Waters Rising is an acknowledged classic of modern day travel writing. Winning the Thomas Cook/ Daily telegraph Travel Book Award when first published in 1996, the book documents Nicholas Crane’s mountain walk across Europe. Crane spent seventeen months, alone & on foot, tramping across Europe from Cape Finisterre to Istanbul
- across the Pyrenees, the Cévennes, the Alps, the Carpathians & the Balkans. Along the way he meets shepherds, cheesemakers, gunslingers & a bad-tempered bear who won’t take no for an answer…
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Cleckheaton in 1905 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 northern half of Cleckheaton, extending from the station & St John`s church northward to Hunsworth Mills, & from West End Park eastward to Spen Upper. Features include the LYR Cleckheaton Branch, Providence Place, Victoria Mills, The Prospect, cemetery, Waterfield Mill, Water Lane Mill, Spring Field Mills, Spen Mills, LNWR Heaton Lodge & Wortley line with station at Spen Bank, Spen House, Round Hill, Merchant Fields, Hunsworth Mills Bridge, disused Cleckheaton Colliery, Exchange Mills, Moorland Mills, Scandinavia Mills, Spen Valley Chemical Works, Flatt Lane Chemical Works, etc. An 1889 directory is on the reverse. 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. ...

At the end of a long, hot summer Mark, Annie & Pudding (real name: Derek) are dreading the return to school. So, when they find a little girl in distress in the woods, who has lost someone called Clementine, they leap at the chance of an adventure. OK, so it`s getting dark, & they don`t know what Clementine looks like, & she could be anywhere in the forest... but what could go wrong? They enlist the help of their friends Eddie & Freddie, & hurry off into the trees. But unbeknownst to them, there are others on the trail too: as a storm breaks, six children, an irascible artist, a sleepy journalist, some frantic policemen & a sneezing car all find themselves out in the pouring rain, searching for the mysterious Clementine
- but where, & who, is she? Clementine Loves Red is an adventure story as funny as it is charming, & a renowned classic of Polish Children`s literature.
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In Cleopatra`s Needle: Two Wheels by the Water to Cairo, Anne Mustoe charts her bicycle journey from London to the monument’s original site at Heliopolis in Egypt. Determined to travel close to water wherever possible, she cycles along the rivers & canals of France, along the Po & the Adriatic coast of Italy, the coastline of mainland Greece, & the Aegean & the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Crossing over to Syria, Lebanon & Jordan, the route finally takes across the Sinai to the Suez Canal & Cairo. In true British spirit Anne Mustoe weaves her story with the understated humour that has become her hallmark. ...

Cleopatra`s Wedding Present is the rare book that captivates its reader from the very first page. Tewdwr Moss, a brilliant young writer who was murdered in London the day he finished the book, left this lyrical gem as his legacy. He adeptly captures an essence of the Middle East that is foreign to most of us, but which becomes real with his astute observations of the region`s culture & explosive politics. He conveys what so many westerners find both fascinating & frightening in the Middle East, making no attempt to mask circumstances that are appalling & dangerous while also exotic & beautiful. & sometimes, very funny. Like the best travel books, Robert Tewdwr Moss`s memoir of his travels through Syria is a profoundly telling vivisection of Middle Eastern society, a chilling history of ethnic crimes, a picaresque adventure story, a purely entertaining travelogue, & a poignant romance. ...