It may come as a surprise that comics offer much more than meets the eye. Of course we all have happy memories of favourite childhood reading (Beano, Dandy, Eagle, Mad, Viz
- the list is endless). But how aware are we that there is something inherently anarchic about comics? A huge variety have been produced over the centuries by British creators. It is a strong tradition that continues today. Some of the biggest names in comics
- Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), Neil Gaiman (Sandman), Mark Millar (Kick-Ass) & Grant Morrison (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
- are featured in this visually stimulating book (which accompanies a major exhibition at the British Library). But there are many, many more. & it is the diversity of content & form, as well as comics` ongoing relevance, which is a main focus. The seditious aspects of the comics tradition
- adult, underground & `alternative` material
- is highlighted, alongside the superheroes who still dominate the scene. There is anarchy everywhere that you look!




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In her debut book, Mi Comida Latina, Marcella Kriebel created a new type of cookbook. It combined vivid watercolors with the culinary traditions of Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, & Puerto Rico. Now, Marcella returns with a new collection of recipes that span the country of Cuba from coast to coast. Travel the island & discover the Cuban take on classic dishes like empanadas as well as unique Cuban recipes like Bacán (plantain & crab steamed in banana leaves) Calaú (traditional greens stew), & Pastelitos de Guayaba (puff pastries with guava paste). Learn about the country’s food culture & ingredients through interviews & local stories, then complete the experience with an authentic Cuban cocktail or a post-meal café con leche. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Susan Hitchcock felt that her family of four was drifting apart, & to reconnect as a family, she decided that they should take to the sea. Sailing for nine months & 3500 miles around the Caribbean, they met formidable challenges, from the volatile moods of nature & the mighty ocean, to cultural barriers on distant islands & their own innermost fears. Though a novice sailor, Susan soon developed an affinity for the water & through both the rigours & the serenity of sailing, her family discovered a new-found intimacy & joy in the adventure of a lifetime. This volume presents her chronicle of life at sea, as well as a meditation on marriage, family & the fulfilment of dreams. ...

A few years ago, the author went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain, & among the men who had worked there were Hudson's great-grandfather & grandfather. The pit is now closed, & remains alive only in the memories of its old people. In search of his forebears, Hudson listened to the tales of how it once was, of the hardships & traditions of the miner's life, & of the struggles & triumphs of trade unionism. He also heard tales of his ancestors, although these tales flicker & fluctuate; the only certainty is the pit. In this book, Hudson portrays a world that has gone for ever, & offers an angry indictment of what has taken its place. The author won the Thomas Cook Award & the Somerset Maugham Award for Our Grandmothers' Drums. ...

Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature & organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure
- morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries
- so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject. In the meantime he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years & atrophying achievement, & no amount of lofty rationalisation can disguise the triumph of friends & colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of another`s success... From the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010.

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It is a story about Case Vecchie, the most notable cooking school in Sicily, the foods it produces & the loyal staff. It



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Andy Fanshawe begins & ends this book on a winter climb in the Alps. Between come two contrasting & successful expeditions, to Chogolisa & to Menlungtse. In the summer of 1986 & newly appointed National Officer of the British Mountaineering Council, he led a five-man team on the first traverse of the twin summits of Chogolisa & Bride Peak, at 7654 metres one of the most elegant of the summits rising above the Baltoro Glacier on the route to K2. He describes the world of the Karakoram & revels in the challenge of new climbing as well as in the mountaineering history that is all around them. It is the summer of disaster on K2. But for them the weather is kind & they reach their summit on its razor-edge ridge. The traverse is accomplished. Tragedy only strikes later, in a mirror image of the death of Hermann Buhl, when the three Scottish members of the team go on to attempt Broad peak. Coming to terms with the death of a friend in the mountains is something Andy Fanshawe has to attempt again for himself before his next expedition, this time to Menlungtse, a hard unclimbed peak of 7180 metres just over the Tibetan border in the Rolwaling Himalaya. In the expedition organized by Chris Bonington the climbing would be serious, but the media are mainly interested in the incidental yeti-hunting. With Alan Hinkes, Andy Fanshawe reaches the 7023-metre summit of Menlungtse West. Reaching summits & knowing when to give up on them, leads to some closing reflections as he retreats from Makalu, but he ends his climbing odyssey with a successful winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger. ...

A twentieth-anniversary edition of Floella Benjamin`s classic memoir.

Includes:: a new foreword by the author

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Years in insurance & marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This & fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. But his return journey to Lower Binfield brings complete disillusionment. ...