` Quite simply extraordinary... Imagine if Maggie Nelson, Daphne du Maurier & Daniel Defoe collaborated.` Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent Jack Sheppard
- a transgender carpenter`s apprentice
- has fled his master`s house to become a notorious prison break artist, & Bess Khan has escaped the draining of the fenlands to become a revolutionary mastermind. Together, they find themselves at the center of a web of corruption leading back to the dreaded Thief-Catcher General.. ... . Or so we are told in a mysterious manuscript unearthed by one Professor R. Voth. Voth traces the origins & authenticity of the manuscript as Jack & Bess trace the connections between the bowels of Newgate Prison & the dissection chambers of the Royal College, in a bawdy collision of a novel about gender, love, & liberation.LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

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`I had breakfast with Hugo Chavez, lunch with Bashar al-Assad, cocktails with Putin & dinner with Qadafi. Fidel Castrowooed me with flowers, perfume & cigars. Ahmadinejad toldme he loved me. Chavez proclaimed me ` The Girlfriend of Venezuela`. But I am not a spy, & I am not a traitor.` When US lawyer Eva Golinger first spent some time in Venezuela uncovering her ancestral roots, she little realizedhow the country was going to change her life. Within afew years she had become an enthusiast for the Bolivarian Revolution & a close confidante of its charismatic leader, Hugo Chavez. She achieved worldwide notoriety by exposingand condemning US intervention in Venezuela & ended uptravelling with Chavez all over the world, spending time withmany other controversial leaders. In this frank & disarming memoir, she tells the full storyof her time in Chavez`s inner circle & reflects on what shehas learned about revolutionary politics, about the dangers ofauthoritarian populism
- & about herself.
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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Pocket guides to various pilgrim routes to Santiago de Compostela published by the London-based Confraternity of St James. Researched by the members of the Confraternity & updated to incorporate feedback from the users, the guides were originally published in the absence of other English language publications & still provide much useful information. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, each guide provides state-by-stage notes about the route, descriptions of places of interest & advice on accommodation. Apart form a general outline of the route the guides do not include any more detailed maps. The Confraternity of St James is a non-denominational registered charity founded in 1983 to promote the pilgrim routes to Santiago de Compostela & to foster research about them in Britain. In addition to publishing pocket guides to the routes it also runs two refuges for pilgrims (at Rabanal del Camino on the Camino Francés & Miraz on the Camino del Norte) as well as provides assistance to elderly, frail or disable people who might otherwise be unable to undertake the pilgrimage. ...

Mary Beard is one of the world`s best-known classicists
- a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide
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Confusion is the third novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard`s bestselling Cazalet Chronicles. London & Sussex, 1942. The privileged English family in turmoil... The long, dark days of struggle provide the poignant background to the third book of the Cazalet Chronicles. As the war enters its fourth year, chaos has become a way of life. Both in the still peaceful Sussex countryside, & in air-raid-threatened London, the divided Cazalets begin to find the battle for survival echoing the confusion in their own lives. Read the next books in the series, Casting Off & All Change, or start from the beginning with The Light Years & Marking Time. ...

Rol&, a young student at a new university, meets an inspirational teacher who sweeps him into his world of literature & learning. When the boy moves into the same building as the teacher & his wife, he becomes ever closer to this remarkable man, though he also senses his mentor pulling away from him
- sometimes even seeming to hate him. But the truth about these feelings is something that will shape both men for the rest of their lives.
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` The enemy has got to be fought everywhere & hard... Everything is going very well indeed & no one minds the losses as long as we are moving.` The never-before-published papers of General Sir Thomas D` Oyly Snow provide a remarkable insight into the mindset of the Great War commanders. Despite being severely injured during the first Battle of the Marne
- when his horse fell & rolled over him, cracking his pelvis
- Snow served at some of the most important battles of the Western Front. His memoirs include the battle of Loos, the second battle of Ypres, the battles of Arras & Cambrai, the retreat from Mons & was responsible for the diversionary attack on Gommecourt on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Somme. This volume is comprised of vivid extracts from contemporary notes that only an eyewitness can offer coupled with frank postwar reflections that show the wisdom of hindsight & perspective, which brings an open awareness of military folly.D` Oyly Snow died in London, aged 82, on 30 August 1940. This first edition of his letters & memoirs
- published exactly 70 years after his death
- has been introduced by his great grandson, the broadcaster & author Dan Snow.



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Congleton 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. 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 most of the town of Congleton, together with the village of Buglawton. Features include town centre with individual buildings neatly shown, Buglawton, Biddulph Valley Branch to Buglawton, small section of North Staffordshire Railway but not Congleton station, Bath Vale, Hardings Bank, River Dane, Lower Heath, St Peter's church, Moody Hall, Victoria Mill, silk mills, St Stephen's church, Vale Mill etc. A list of private residents from an 1898 directory is on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...