Moleskine returns with six new items in the Folio range conceived for professionals to personalise their own desks, enriching their workspace with functionality & a sophisticated aesthetic. Folio is aimed at artists & architects, designers & office users. It has all the usual features the Moleskine fan has come to expect including high quality FSC approved paper, but is characterised by 'outsizes', A3 & A4. The Post-It Pocket comes complete with three packs of sticky notes, each containing 20 sheets. Two packs are plain, & one is ruled. ...

A captivating, magical & haunting debut novel of breathtaking imagination, from the winner of the 2014 Costa Short Story Award The remote island village of Neverness is a world far from our time & place. The air hangs rich with the coconut-scent of gorse & the salty bite of the sea. Harsh winds scour the rocky coastline. The villagers` lives are inseparable from nature & its enchantments. Verlyn Webbe, born with a wing for an arm, unfurls his feathers in defiance of past shame; Plum is snatched by a water bull & dragged to his lair; little Crab Skerry takes his first run through the gorse-maze; Madden sleepwalks through violent storms, haunted by horses & her father`s wishes. As the tales of this island community interweave over the course of a generation, their earthy desires, resentments, idle gossip & painful losses create a staggeringly original world. Crackling with echoes of ancient folklore, but entirely, wonderfully, her own, Zoe Gilbert`s Folk is a dark, beautiful & intoxicating debut. ...

Folkestone in 1906 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. The map covers most of central Folkestone, stretching from the piers & harbour westward to the Hotel Metropole & Grimston Avenue, & northward to Radnor Park. Features include the Pier, East Pier, Outer & Inner Harbours, Harbour station, Royal Pavilion Hotel, Tontine Street, St Mary & St Eanswythe`s church, Victoria Pier, Pleydell Gardens, Clifton Crescent, Bouverie Road, Pleasure Gardens, Central station, Town Hall, town centre, fish market, St Peter`s church. A directory of private residents is on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series 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. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

This edition of Folktales of Iraq edited by E.S. Stevens is a Dover unabridged reproduction of a classic collection originally published by Oxford University Press in 1931. Iraqi oral traditions encompass a tremendous variety of folktales, from fables & heroic myths to ones rooted in age-old sagas, tribal customs & religion, & the stories here teem not only with the local speciality of the jann (fairy-folk who don the appearance of birds at will) but with the demons, witches, ogres & other supernatural creatures who populate such tales all over the world. In the case of Iraq, however, Sumerians, Chaldaeans, Cassites, Assyrians, Persians, Arabs, & Turks have all crossed the region at various times, along with merchant caravans, pilgrims, gypsies & other travelers. Each of these successive waves of migration, conquest & settlement have contributed fresh elements to the native folklore, infusing ancient Mesopotamia's traditional tales with vigorous new life. As the first English-language collection of Iraqi fairy tales, this book dates from between the world wars, when traditional storytelling seemed threatened by the advent of the cinema & gramophone. These stories are recounted as they were told ...

Map No. 10073, Folldal, 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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From the magical, ambitious charm of Portmeirion in North-West Wales, to the marvellous eccentricity of La Scarzuola of Montegabbione, Umbria, with its musical staircase & transparent pyramid, this book explores follies, extravagant structures erected for amusement or diversion
- & occasionally for the residence
- of inspired patrons & artists throughout Europe. Chosen by photographer Nic Barlow, this selection has been assembled not only to demonstrate their charm, diversity & invention, but also to celebrate those that are unexpected, overlooked or little known. A comprehensive introductory text by Tim Knox brings together many themes
- style, genres, politics, social history, the personality of the architects
- & examines the national differences between follies. In addition to stunning colour photographs, entries for each folly are accompanied by fascinating descriptive texts which include historical & architectural details.



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Britain`s countryside is liberally sprinkled with follies
- eccentric, original buildings built for fun by landowners & aristocrats
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A thrilling read, for fans of Gone Girl & We Were Liars. There was no sign of a struggle, they whisper to each other. She took her phone but left her laptop behind. Apparently, she`d met someone online, they write to each other in class, phones buzzing. She ran away. She was taken. The first time Aiden Kendrick hears about Lizzie Summersall`s disappearance is when the police appear at his front door. He & Lizzie used to be friends; they aren`t anymore. & when Aiden finds out that Lizzie had been talking to strangers on Facebook; that the police think she went to meet one of them, he begins to wonder how well he ever really knew her, & Aiden doesn`t know it yet, but with Lizzie`s disappearance his life is about to take a twisted & desperate turn. ...

Full of fun & energy, this rhythmic, rhyming story by bright star Ellie Sandall stars some mischievous lemurs. It`s time to wake up! Come down from the tree. Follow me, follow me, follow me! Follow the lemurs on their adventure through the jungle
- what happens when they meet a snappy crocodile? ` Lyrically written, Follow Me has a mesmeric quality that leaves you wanting to enjoy multiple consecutive readings. A real gem.` Huffington Post
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Packed with comic capers & animal antics, this brilliantly bold book follows Mouse`s madcap race after Gorilla through a variety of exciting settings, from navigating a busy building site, to avoiding an alpine avalanche. But is Gorilla really such a baddie after all? Not at all! Mouse is simply trying to catch him to give him his banana! ...