The Decorative Rickshaw by SJS Furniture is a beaten iron style model made from iron & tin, featuring detailed moving parts. This rickshaw boasts a real drive chain, moving pedals, wheels & passenger seat with integrated handlebar. The pedals, grips, & saddle are either covered or made from rubber. The passenger seat at the front is made from red vinyl covered foam & features an adjustable brown fabric parasol. Lovely details include threaded rubber tyres, saddle suspensions & brake mechanism. Landscape carved scenes embellish the side tyres fenders & complete the look of this rather elegant model. This is a unique mantelpiece ornament, a remarkable addition to study rooms, & it makes a perfect conversation piece. Please note similar items are available in different sizes, check entries in this series for alternative products. ...

The Decorative Women’s Bicycle by SJS Furniture is a beaten iron style model made from iron & tin, featuring detailed moving parts. This bike boasts a real drive chain, moving pedals, handlebar, & wheels. The pedals, grips, & saddle are either covered or made from rubber or plastic. Lovely details include threaded rubber tyres & saddle suspensions. There are one full & one side functioning bike stands. Decorative tyre pump, headlight, dynamo & fenders complete the look of this rather elegant model. This is a unique mantelpiece or desk ornament, & a great home accessory, especially for bike enthusiasts. Please note similar items are available in different sizes, check entries in this series for alternative products. ...

Books are amongst the most personal of gifts. The book we choose to give a loved one is informed by our intimate knowledge of their personal histories & their tastes. Often, when we gift books, we love to explain the meaning behind our present by writing an inscription within its pages. Ordinarily, we hope the gift & its message will be enjoyed, placed lovingly on its new owner's bookshelf & treasured forever. This is not always the case, though.. . Wayne Gooderham is fascinated by second-hand books & curates a growing collection of those featuring intriguing inscriptions. The messages he finds range from the awkward scratchings of adolescent infatuation, to the resentful recriminations of a love affair gone sour & offer illuminating glimpses into their books' own secret histories. This beautifully presented book will feature the very best from Wayne's collection of dedications alongside the covers of the works in which they were found. From Lolita to Pride & Prejudice, there's something here to please every book lover's taste. ...

Why is it taking so long? Despite huge progress since the suffragette campaigns & wave after wave of feminism, women are still fighting for equality. Why, at the present rate will we have to wait in Britain until 2069 for the gender pay gap to disappear? Why, in 2015, did 11% of women lose their jobs due to pregnancy discrimination? Why, globally, has 1 in 3 women experienced physical or sexual violence? In 2018, on the centenary of one of the greatest steps forward for women
- the Fourth Reform Act, which saw propertied women over 30 gain the vote for the first time
- suffragette descendant & campaigner Helen Pankhurst charts how the lives of women in the UK have changed over the last 100 years. She celebrates landmark successes, little-known victories, where progress has stalled or reversed, looking at politics, money, identity, violence, culture & social norms. The voices of both pioneers & ordinary women
- in all their diversity
- are woven into the analysis which ends with suggestions about how to better understand & strengthen feminist campaigning & with aims for the future. Combining historical insight with inspiring argument, Deeds not Words reveals how far women have come since the suffragettes, how far we still have to go, & how we might get there. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to explore one of the most central & pressing conversations of our time.



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Neil Ansell spent five years living between the back of beyond & the middle of nowhere, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water & effectively only the wildlife around him for company. His dilapidated cottage, rented for £100 per year, is so exposed to the elements that it appears to rain uphill, & so remote that you can walk for twenty miles west without seeing a single other dwelling. As the years pass he feels himself dissolving into, & becoming, just another part of the landscape. ...

The heart-stopping survival story of the 33 miners trapped half a mile beneath the surface for 69 days when the San Jose Mine collapsed. More 1 billion viewers worldwide watched the rescue, & it is now being made into a major film. No other writer has been granted the deep & exclusive access to the miners that Puliter Prize-winning journlaist Hector Tobar has, & no one else can capture & recreate this unique drama so vividly, from the conflicts & the emotions that enveloped the men during their first fortnight below ground, when death by starvation loomed as their likely fate, to the subsequent weeks during which they established contact with the outside world. All the while, they remain trapped inside a still-thundering mountain that could collapse upon them at any moment. ...

What do you do when your daughter tells you it's time to leave the nest? Throw the computer into the back of the car, pack your bags & move your entire household, including your cats, to France, naturally. Celia Brayfield tells of her year in a tiny village in the Bearn, the land of the Three Musketeers & France's answer to Texas. The book gives an insight into a writer's life dans la France profonde that's full of funny & perceptive anecdotes
- trying to meet the deadlines when a good thunderstorm could blow out the computer, artichokes to pick, the wildlife in the woodpile, the low-life in the Fandango cafe, why Frenchmen are so sexy, not to mention the portraits of Peter Mayle's children, some of the half-million Brits who are out there living their dreams. Brayfield sounds thoroughly nice, brave, homorous & independent. This is a long love letter to her beloved Bearn.
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Deep in the woods is a little wooden house, with nine neat windows & a red front door. When a little mouse decides it will make the perfect home, so do the other animals in the wood
- including a great big bear! But will the bear be able to put everything right when their home comes tumbling down? Find out in this beautifully illustrated retelling of a classic Russian folk tale.
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Deep in the woods was a little wooden house with nine neat windows & a red front door. When a little mouse decides it will make the perfect home, so do the other animals in the wood--including a great big bear! But will the bear be able to put everything right when their home comes tumbling down? Find out in this beautifully illustrated retelling of a classic Russian folk tale, now available in a miniature gift edition. ...

Fred Pearce is a former news editor at New Scientist magazine, & is currently its environment & development consultant. He also writes regularly for the Independent & the Times Higher Education Supplement, the Boston Globe & Foreign Policy in the US & has written reports & extended journalism for WWF, the UN Environment Programme, the Red Cross, UNESCO, the World Bank & the UK Environment Agency. He is syndicated in Japan, Australia & elsewhere & has filed articles from more than 50 countries in the past decade. He was voted BEMA Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001 & has been short-listed for the same award in 2000, 2002 & 2003. He is a past recipient of the Peter Kent Conservation Book Award & the TES Junior Information Book Award. His books (for both adults & children) have been translated into eight languages. He is a regular broadcaster on radio & TV, with interview credits from Today to Richard & Judy to the Open University. ...