Have you ever wanted Christmas to be different? Turkey & carols, presents & crackers
- they all start to feel a bit... samey.
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It is April 1964 & one week before Hitler`s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin`s most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. &, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover & reveal the truth
- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
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Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 & one week before Hitler`s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin`s most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. &, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover & reveal the truth
- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
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In early 2014, after many years living abroad, Sam Miller returned to his childhood home in London. His father was dying. When the editor, writer, critic & academic Karl Miller died later that year, the obituaries spoke of his brilliance & influence, of how he founded the London Review of Books, & how he had shaped the careers of some of the finest writers & poets of the second half of the twentieth century. But they gave little sense of Karl Miller beyond the world of work: the warm, funny, football-loving family man so adored by his children & grandchildren. In the months after his death, Sam began to write about his father. He had been told, long ago, a family secret involving his parents & a close friend. Now, by reading his father`s papers & with the help of his mother, he was able to piece together a remarkable story. Fathers is the result: a tender, thoughtful exploration of childhood & parenthood, of friendship, love & loyalty. ...

Aristocracy, liberalism, progress, principles...useless words! A Russian doesn`t need them` Returning home after years away at university, Arkady is proud to introduce his clever friend Bazarov to his father & uncle. But their guest soon stirs up unrest on the quiet country estate
- his outspoken nihilist views & his scathing criticisms of the older men expose the growing distance between Arkady & his father. & when Bazarov visits his own doting but old-fashioned parents, his disdainful rejection of traditional Russian life causes even further distress. In Fathers & Sons, Turgeneve created a beautifully-drawn & highly influential portrayal of the clash between generations, at a time just before the end of serfdom, when the refined yet vanishing landowning class was being overturned by a brash new breed that strove to change the world. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design & pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin`s original covers.
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It takes a lot to get under the skin of Cornelius ` Fatty O` Leary, but then there is a lot of skin to get under. The heroically proportioned Fatty can normally take life as it comes. Right at home in easy-going Fayetteville, Arkansas, he is happily married to his childhood sweetheart Betty, & likes nothing better than the company of good friends Tubby O` Rourke & Porky Flanagan. But when Fatty & Betty head off to Ireland on the trip of a lifetime, they find that they have left their comfort zone far behind. Calamity & mayhem ensue as one mishap after another befalls the beleaguered couple. Can Fatty`s broad shoulders take the strain or will he suffer one indignity too many? Will he get his just deserts, or just dessert? ...

Ever since ” Robinson Crusoe” in 1719, the novel has introduced British readers to truly unforgettable characters
- people in
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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. ...

A little lie.. . a seismic secret.. . & the cracks are beginning to show... In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, in which a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, & where tremors are an everyday occurrence, volcanologist Surtsey makes a shocking discovery. On a clandestine trip to The Inch
- the new volcanic island
- to meet Tom, her lover & her boss, she finds his lifeless body, & makes the fatal decision to keep their affair, & her discovery of his corpse secret. Desperate to know how he died, but also terrified she`ll be exposed, Surtsey`s life quickly spirals into a nightmare when someone makes contact
- someone who claims to know what she`s done...


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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. ...