Elmer, the bright parchwork elephant, has some very special friends. Zebra is the stripiest, giraffe is the tallest, snake is the longest, leopard is the spottiest. Everyone if different & Elmer loves them all. An original book of animals for very young children who will love the bold colours of David Mc Kee`s striking illustrations. ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017`A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite & unforgettable` The Economist`A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable... Elmet is a marvellous achievement` TLS` Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga & horror tale, it reads like a traditional children`s story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel & Gretel meets The Godfather` Sunday Times Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy & Cathy has turned sour & fearful. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for them with his bare hands. They foraged & hunted. When they were younger, Daniel & Cathy had gone to school. But they were not like the other children then, & they were even less like them now. Sometimes Daddy disappeared, & would return with a rage in his eyes. But when he was at home he was at peace. He told them that the little copse in Elmet was theirs alone. But that wasn`t true. Local men, greedy & watchful, began to circle like vultures. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew. Atmospheric & unsettling, Elmet is a lyrical commentary on contemporary society & one family`s precarious place in it, as well as an exploration of how deep the bond between father & child can go. ...

Fresh & distinctive writing from an exciting new voice in fiction
- Sally Rooney meets Sarah Perry, Elmet is an unforgettable
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106km hiking route in the mountains north of Barcelona. The route is presented on six handy size, 42x 30cm maps, overprinted on a topographic base with contours at 10m intervals. The last part, from Monistrol de Montserrat to Monestir de Montserrat is shown at 1:10, 000. On the reverse of each map is a description of the relevant stage & a route profile. The maps come with an illustrated booklet describing various aspects of the area stage by stage. The text both on the reverse of the maps & in the booklet

Includes:: English. The booklet also provides details of local accommodation, including campsites, refuges & private apartments, restaurants & information centres.

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Topographic survey of Catalonia at 1:25, 000 from the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, an attractive alternative to Spain’s national topographic survey at this scale, offering a much larger area per sheet with extensive tourist information & vivid presentation of vegetation & land use. These large, detailed maps have contours at 10m intervals enhanced by hill shading & fine colouring and/or graphics to portray of vegetation or land use (different types of woodlands, marshl&, vineyards, crops, etc). An overprint highlights waymarked local & long-distance GR footpaths plus CT cycling routes. Also highlighted are picturesque locations such as villages, isolated buildings or natural features. A very wide range of symbols indicate various facilities, places of interest & recreational sites: tourist information centres, campsites & other rural accommodation, cultural heritage, vineries, wildlife observation areas, viewpoints & beauty spots, sites for recreational pursuits including horse riding, water sports, paragliding, etc The maps are divided by the publishers into three types: Administrative Units, Natural Protected Areas, & Geographical Areas, as shown on our grid for this series. Coverage by each sheet varies; most maps present an area of 30 x 23km (19 x 14km approx). The maps have a 1km UTM grid, with latitude & longitude values shown for the map corners. Excellently presented topographic map legend is in Catalan only but the legend for the tourist information & the road network

Includes:: English. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Elsecar in 1901 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 villages of Elsecar & Jump, south-east of Barnsley, together with several nearby hamlets. Coverage stretches from Jump eastward to Tingle Bridge, & southward to Elsecar Green. Features at Jump include St George's church, Milton Square, Kitroyd, Jump Valley, Arundel View, Flying Dutchman pub. Features at Elsecar include Holy Trinity church, Elsecar Green, Station Row, Old Row, Elsecar Works, Distillery Row, Simon Wood Colliery, Fitzwilliam Street, Reform Row, Cobcar Terrace. Railways include the GCR Elsecar Branch with Elsecar Goods station, & the Midland Railway Chapeltown Branch Extension with Elsecar & Hoyland station. Two railway inclines are shown, plus a good stretch of the Dearne & Dove Canal's Elsecar Branch. The following hamlets are included: Hemingfield, Tingle Bridge, St Helen's, Stubbin, Stubbin Bottom, New Houses (in the south-western corner). The eastern part of Hoyland Nether is shown with its Town Hall, Manor House & King Street. Directories for Elsecar, Nether Hoyl&, Hemingfield & Jump are on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

Longlisted for The People`s Book Prize 2018 Intimate stories of longing & exile by one of our finest contemporary writers. A lonely housewife fascinated with a famous writer learns to find her own voice in Abu Dhabi; a bus route passing the Christmas lights along Oxford Street is a stark reminder for a female passenger of her brother`s tragic death on the eve of his wedding; & a Scottish man working in a kebab shop & his girlfriend try desperately to reconcile Islam`s place in their fragile relationship. From the heat of Khartoum at the height of summer to the wintery streets of London, from the concrete high rises in the Gulf to the blustery coast in Aberdeen, this elegant & moving collection vividly evokes the overlapping worlds of Africa, Britain & the Middle East. Beautifully observed & written with empathy, Leila Aboulela`s stories deftly capture the search for home in our fast-changing world. ...

Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. By the age of seven, news of her skipping talents has reached the fairies & they invite her to Mount Caburn for lessons. The High Skip, the Slow Skip, the Skip Double-Double, the Long Skip, the Strong Skip, the Skip Against Trouble... Elsie Piddock learns them all, & soon there`s not a mortal or fairy to touch her. Many, many years later, a greedy Lord buys Mount Caburn & threatens to build factories on its l&. Can Elsie Piddock save the skipping ground for the next generation? Sparkling with charm & a liberal sprinkling of fairy dust, Elsie Piddock`s story is one to be cherished. ...

A biography of the writer, broadcaster, conservationist & chronicler of colonial Kenya, whose memoir The Flame Trees of Thika (1959) achieved worldwide fame when made into a television drama series in 1981. Colonial Kenya inspired three great writers
- Karen Blixen (Out of Africa), Beryl Markham (West with the Night) & Elspeth Huxley. Huxley's writings (30 books in all: novels, biographies, & political accounts) have great political & social range, encompassing (in her Kenyan books) the exploits of the Happy Valley farmers
- made famous by James Fox's book White Mischief, poor white farmers & the lives of Africans alike. After a childhood spent in East Africa & wartime Britain, Elspeth married Gervas, a grandson of Thomas Huxley & cousin to Julian & Aldous Huxley, whom she knew well. She also later got to know Joy Adamson & the Leakeys. She travelled widely with her husband (an executive with the Empire Marketing Board) & wrote while constantly on the move. She worked for the BBC in World War II & became a Kenyan government adviser. In 1938 she bought a farm in Wiltshire, where she died in 1997. The author, Christine Nicholls, has access to all her letters & papers, & is familiar with many of the people & places in the book. Elspeth Huxley was a compelling personality & a brilliant letter-writer, extraordinarily energetic & effective in everything she did.

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