This is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, & the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance & enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson & to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription & revolution. In a plot of unfolding drama & intriguing complexity, ” Fall of Giants” moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt & danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. ...

The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history & Theresa May`s battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. By the bestselling author of All Out War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017. Fall Out is the story of how a leader famed for her caution battled her bitterly divided cabinet & duplicitous Brussels bureaucrats & then took the biggest gamble of her career to strengthen her position
- & promptly blew it. It is a tale of treachery where
- in the hour of her greatest weakness
- one by one May`s colleagues began to plot against her. Following on from where All Out War left off, this is a book about the strategy, comedy, tragedy & farce of modern politics
- where principle, passion & vaulting ambition collide in the corridors of power. It chronicles a civil war at the heart of the Conservative party & a Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who defied the experts & the critics on his own side to mount his own unlikely tilt at the top job. With access to all the key players, Tim Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller, exploring how & why the EU referendum result pitched Britain into a year of political mayhem.



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The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history & Theresa May`s battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. By the bestselling author of All Out War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017. This is the unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history & Theresa May`s battle for a Brexit deal
- the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. Fall Out tells of how a leader famed for her caution battled her bitterly divided cabinet at home while facing duplicitous Brussels bureaucrats abroad. Of how she then took the biggest gamble of her career to strengthen her position
- & promptly blew it. It is also a tale of treachery where
- in the hour of her greatest weakness
- one by one, May`s colleagues began to plot against her. Inside this book you will find all the strategy, comedy, tragedy & farce of modern politics
- where principle, passion & vaulting ambition collide in the corridors of power. It chronicles a civil war at the heart of the Conservative Party & a Labour Party back from the dead, led by Jeremy Corbyn, who defied the experts & the critics on his own side to mount an unlikely tilt at the top job. With access to all the key players, Tim Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller, exploring how & why the EU referendum result pitched Britain into a year of political mayhem.




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Map No. 10150, Fallecearru, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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Fallen by Lia Mills
- a remarkable love story amidst the ruins of the First World War & the Easter Rising. SELECTED AS THE 2016
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Moving from the very beginnings of civilisation, right up to the digital horizons of cyberspace, Jamie Crawford pieces together the biographies of twenty of the world’s most fascinating lost & ruined structures. The lives of these buildings are packed with drama & intrigue combining war & religion, politics & art, love & betrayal, catastrophe & hope. They are also the stage for a startling array of characters including Gilgamesh, the Cretan Minotaur, Agamemnon, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Adolf Hitler & even Bruce Springsteen. Travelling from the deserts of Iraq, the banks of the Nile, the grasslands of the Mongolian steppes & the cloud forests of Peru, to the great cities of Jerusalem, Istanbul, Paris, Rome, London & New York, Fallen Glory is a unique, globetrotting guide to a world of vanished architecture. &, by picking through the fragments of our past, it asks what history’s scattered ruins can tell us about our own future. ...

Poplar Farm has been in Louise`s family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now, the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down; a mini-massacre replicating the destruction of lives & societies taking place all over America. Architect of this destruction is Paul Krovik, a property developer soon driven insane by the failure of his dream. Julia & Nathaniel arrive from Boston with their son, Copley, & buy up Paul`s signature home in a foreclosure sale. They move into the half-finished subdivision & settle in to their brave new world. Yet violence lies just beneath the surface of this l&, & simmers deep within Nathaniel. The great trees bear witness, Louise lives on in her beleaguered farmhouse, & as reality shifts, & the edges of what is right & wrong blur & are lost, Copley becomes convinced that someone is living in the house with them. ...

Will friendship overcome the social boundaries of Edwardian London in this bestselling historical tale perfect for fans of Audrey Niffenegger & Sarah Waters. One cold January morning, in the wake of Queen Victoria`s death, two young sets of eyes meet across the graves at Highgate Cemetery. One pair belongs to smartly dressed Lavinia Waterhouse, whose mother clings to the traditional values she sees slipping away; the other to Maude Coleman, whose mother longs to escape the stifling grip of Victorian society. Thrust together by the girls` friendship, these two very different families embark on a new century that promises electricity, emancipation & other changes that will shake the very foundations of their lives. ...

Simon Winchester, author of ”A Crack in the Edge of the World” & ” The Professor & the Madman”
-: ” The essence of this inexpressibly
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Finalist, Dundee International Book Prize, 2013. Story-hungry journalist Doug Mc Gregor is out to track down a convicted rapist, on the run after being hounded out of his home by a lynch mob. But a grisly suicide in the heart of tourist Edinburgh piques Doug`s curiosity & diverts his attention
- especially once his police contact & occasional drinking partner, DS Susie Drummond, reveals that the victim is connected to a prominent controversial politician. Together, they find themselves unravelling a story of secrets, drug abuse, violence, murder...and the ultimate taboo. Action-packed from the very start, & with enough twists & turns to shock & surprise even the most hard-bitten crime fan, ` Falling Fast` is the first of a trilogy. It marks the arrival of a new crime-writing talent who is bound to appeal to aficionados of Scottish crime greats such as Ian Rankin & Val Mc Dermid.
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