Foul Deeds in Islington takes the reader on a sinister journey through a selection of the most shocking & revealing murders committed in this part of north London during the last two centuries. Killers of all kinds are recorded here, from the coolest & most calculating of criminals to ill-starred individuals who struck out in passion or despair or anger. John Eddleston recounts their notorious stories in forensic detail. Police-killers Thomas Cooper & Ronald Marwood feature in his book, along with the child-killer Celestika Somner, the poisoner George Chapman, the witchcraft-murderer Kayode Orishagbemi &, of course, most famous of all, Kenneth Halliwell who killed playwright Joe Orton in their flat in Noel Road. In addition to these celebrated cases, several less well-known but equally compelling murders are reconstructed. They give a shocking insight into the dark side of Islington s recent, sometimes gruesome, history. ...

Foulness & Mersea in 1904 in a series of reproductions of Ordnance Survey’s famous ” Inch to the Mile” maps published in the Alan Godfrey Editions to provide a historical record of England & Wales in the second half of 19th & early 20th century. In this title two maps, 242 & 259, are printed side by side, covering the area of eastern Essex from Clacton & Mersea Island southward to Foulness Island & Havengore Head. Beyond the coast are the Maplin Sands & other sandbanks, guarded by the Mouse & Middle lightships. Other locations covered by the map include Bradwell juxta Mare, Brightlingsea, Dengie, Little Holl&, Little Wigborough, Peldon, St Osyth, Tillingham & West Mersea. On the reverse is a detailed map of St Osyth, together with a short directory. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the OS Inch to the Mile Maps: the maps provide an invaluable overview of a wider area, typically 18 x 12 miles (29 x 19 kms approx.), & offer historical mapping for small towns & villages not covered by the more detailed series for which the Godfrey Editions are better known. On the reverse all the maps have historical notes & most titles also include a more detailed, large scale map of a small town or a village in the area. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

This third book in the successful ” Focus series” encourages readers to view the world around them with new eyes with a collection of Approx. 250 photographs of found faces of all varieties, captured by amateur photographers. Found faces are everywhere, if only you know how to look. They emerge on the page; cheerful faces in the clouds, a mysterious visage in the bark of a tree, a winking parking meter, a ponderous potato, mischievous machinery & a grinning foot imprint; but they`re also all around. You`ll never look at the world the same again! Here, the humour of finding familiar features in unexpected places is celebrated. Contributing photographers were asked to offer descriptions of where the images were taken & their own reflections on passages as a subject, some of which appear throughout the book. The true joy of this series is showcasing how anyone, from professionals to untrained amateurs, can take truly phenomenal & engaging images just by observing the world around us. Images are everywhere, just waiting to be captured. ...

One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life & daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose, is on full display in this collection of poems, stories, comics, a play, & an interview, here translated for the first time. In Found Life, speech, condensed to the extreme, captures a vivid picture of fleeting interactions in a quickly moving world. Goralik`s works evoke an unconventional palette of moods & atmospheres-slight doubt, subtle sadness, vague unease-through accumulation of unexpected details & command over colloquial language. While calling up a range of voices, her works are marked by a distinct voice, simultaneously slightly naive & deeply ironic. She is a keen observer of the female condition, recounting gendered tribulations with awareness & amusement. From spiritual rabbits & biblical zoos to poems about loss & comics about poetry, Goralik`s colorful language & pervasive dark comedy capture the heights of absurdity & depths of grief. ...

The first volume in Issac Asimov`s world-famous saga, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series. Long after Earth was forgotten, a peaceful & unified galaxy took shape, an Empire governed from the majestic city-planet of Trantor. The system worked, & grew, for countless generations. Everyone believed it would work forever. Everyone except Hari Seldon. As the great scienctific thinker of his age Seldon could not be ignored. Reluctantly, the Commission of Public Safety agreed to finance the Seldon Plan. The coming disaster was predicted by Seldon`s advances in psychohistory, the mathematics of very large human numbers, & it could not be averted. The Empire was doomed. Soon Trantor would lie in ruins. Chaos would overtake humanity. But the Seldon Plan was a long term strategy to minimize the worst of what was to come. Two Foundations were set up at opposite ends of the galaxy. Of the Second nothing can be told. It guards the secrets of psychohisotry. FOUNDATION is the story of the First Foundation, on the remote planet of Terminus, from which those secrets were withheld. ...

Having written enthralling biographies of London & of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more than 15, 000 years ago, to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII. In it, Ackroyd takes us from Neolithic Engl&, which we can only see in the most tantalising glimpses
- a stirrup found in a grave, some seeds at the bottom of a bowl
- to the long period of Roman rule; from the Dark Ages when England was invaded by a ceaseless tide of Angles, Saxons & Jutes, to the twin glories of medieval England
- its great churches & monasteries & its common law. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time & place, he tells the familiar story of king succeeding king in rich prose, with profound insight & some surprising details. The food we ate, the clothes we wore, the punishments we endured, even the jokes we told are all found here, too.


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Having written enthralling biographies of London & of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more than 15, 000 years ago, to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII. In it, Ackroyd takes us from Neolithic Engl&, which we can only see in the most tantalising glimpses
- a stirrup found in a grave, some seeds at the bottom of a bowl
- to the long period of Roman rule; from the Dark Ages when England was invaded by a ceaseless tide of Angles, Saxons & Jutes, to the twin glories of medieval England
- its great churches & monasteries & its common law. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time & place, he tells the familiar story of king succeeding king in rich prose, with profound insight & some surprising details. The food we ate, the clothes we wore, the punishments we endured, even the jokes we told are all found here, too.


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Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, & shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever-combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, & one of the most despised public figures of his time for killing in a duel Alexander Hamilton, whose audacious manner & deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive & taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, & paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; & the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger-than-life, & America's only truly indispensable figure. Ellis argues that the checks & balances that permitted the infant American republic to endure were primarily intensely personal, rooted in the interaction of leaders with quite different values & gives us a new perspective on the unpredictable forces that shape history. ...

Among the most recognizable & best-loved features of Rome are its fountains. The many varied examples that grace the urban fabric of the ” Eternal City” were designed by some of Europe`s greatest artists & architects, including Domenico Fontana, Giacomo della Porta, Gian Lorenzo Bernini & Nicola Salvi. Built at enormous expense, & often requiring new water-feeds to be constructed from miles outside Rome, the fountains were important elements of the urban renewal undertaken by the papal rulers, who were concerned with the creation of a new city which would demonstrate their triumphant & undisputed authority
- echoing, where necessary, the heritage of Imperial Rome. A wide-ranging survey of these remarkable monuments is presented in this work, which

Includes:: colour photographs taken both at night & by day. The fountains are described individually, from the story of their commission & creation to stylistic & technical analyses. Maps & contemporary documents complete the survey.


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” Four Children & It” is the number one bestseller from Jacqueline Wilson, the award-winning, bestselling creator of ” Tracy Beaker”, ” Hetty Feather” & ” The Illustrated Mum”. A funny & heartwarming story of four children who discover an extraordinary way to make wishes come true, ” Four Children & It” is inspired by E Nesbit`s classic, ” Five Children & It”. Jacqueline Wilson`s millions of fans will be gripped by the relationship between step-sisters Rosalind & Smash, just as they love the story of sisters Jodie & Pearl in ” My Sister Jodie” or Lily & Pixie in ” Lily Alone”. ” Readers always ask who inspired me to be a writer. Well, I adored E Nesbit`s books as a child
- & I liked her lifestyle too. She liked Liberty clothes, silver jewellery & buns for tea, & so do I! My favourite E Nesbit story is ” Five Children & It”
- & this is my modern day tribute to her fantastic story”. (Jacqueline Wilson). Jacqueline Wilson has won many awards for her writing, including the ” Guardian” Children`s Fiction Award & the Children`s Book of the Year. She is one of the nation`s favourite authors, & her books are loved by young readers not only in the UK but all over the world.

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