` What was it about complaining that felt so good? You & your fellow sufferer emerging from a thorough session as if from a spa bath, refreshed & tingling?` The first-ever collection of short stories from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides presents characters in the midst of personal & national emergencies. We meet Kendall, a failed poet who, envious of other people`s wealth during the real estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; & Mitchell, a lovelorn liberal arts graduate on a search for enlightenment; & Prakrti, a high school student whose wish to escape the strictures of her family leads to a drastic decision that upends the life of a middle-aged academic. Jeffrey Eugenides`s bestselling novels Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides & The Marriage Plot have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery & family love. These stories, from one of our greatest authors, explore equally rich & intriguing territory. Narratively compelling & beautifully written, Fresh Complaint shows all of Eugenides`s trademark humour, compassion & complex understanding of what it is to be human. ...

This is from the author of the Top Ten Bestseller Made in India Following on from her bestselling Made in India, Meera Sodha reveals a whole new side of Indian food that is fresh, delicious & quick to make at home. These vegetable-based recipes are proper feel good food, & full of flavour. Here are surprising recipes for every day made using easy to find ingredients: mushroom & walnut samosas, oven-baked onion bhajis & beetroot & paneer kebabs. There are familiar & classic Indian recipes like dals, curries & pickles, alongside less familiar ones using fresh seasonal British ingredients, like Brussels sprout thoran, Gardeners` Question Time pilau & green beans with cashew nuts & coconut. & then there are shows toppers such as daily dosas with coconut potatoes, roasted cauliflower korma, sticky mango paneer skewers, wild mushroom upma & lime pickle rice with roast squash & red onion. To finish, there`s a chapter of luscious puddings like salted peanut & jaggery kulfi alongside carrot halwa & pistachio cake. Whether you are vegetarian, want to eat more vegetables or just want to make great, modern Indian food, this is the book for you. ...

During an outbreak of meningitis in Glasgow in the 1920s Ian Niall was sent to live with his grandparents, then tenants of North Clutag Farm, Galloway, in south-west Scotl&. It was another world compared to the industrial suburbs where he was born. The ...

A beautifully illustrated guide to the wide variety of species found in rivers, streams, lakes & ponds in Britain & Europe. Covering northern Europe, including the mainly freshwater environment of the Baltic Sea, ` Pocket Guide Freshwater Life` describes & illustrates over 900 species of plant & animal visible with the naked eye, from damsels & dragonflies to beetles & molluscs. This is the ideal freshwater companion, the most comprehensive pocket guide to the subject. It also makes a superb companion volume to ` Pocket Guide Sea Shore`. An easy-to-use key guides the user quickly to the correct species without using complex terminology. Each species is illustrated in colour with the relevant text on the facing page for quick & accurate identification. Artists include: * Denys Ovenden * Carol Roberts * Jonathan Latimer * Tony Disley * Felicity Cole ...

Topographic mapping from Mexico’s national survey agency, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. The maps have contours at 20m intervals with relief shading & indicate various types of terrain & vegetation, e.g. dense vegetation, cultivated areas, swamps, sand dunes, salt pans, etc. UTM grid is at 10km intervals, with latitude & longitude shown by margin ticks at intervals of 5`. Map legend is in Spanish only. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

One of the titles in a series of double-sided topographic maps with hiking routes & tourist information. Cartography is identical to the standard topographic survey of Germany, with contours at 10m intervals. Extensive overprint highlights numerous local footpaths & long-distance hiking routes, indicating waymarking. Cycling routes, mountain bike centres & trails, & cross-country ski routes are also marked. Extensive range of symbols highlight sport & leisure facilities, various types of accommodation, places of interest, tourist railways, etc. Boundaries of national parks & nature reserves are marked. The maps have a 2km UTM grid. Map legend

Includes:: English. The maps also have lists of contact details of various organizations & facilities within the region, plus brief descriptions in German only.

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Bad Freudenstadt
- Baiersbronn
- Simmersfeld
- Loßburg area of northern Black Forest on a detailed, GPS compatible map at


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London, May 1945. Freya Wyley, twenty, meets Nancy Holdaway, eighteen, amid the wild celebrations of VE-Day, the prelude to a devoted & competitive friendship that will endure on & off for the next two decades. Freya, wilful, ambitious, outspoken, pursues a career in newspapers which the chauvinism of Fleet Street & her own impatience conspire to thwart, while Nancy, gentler, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel published. Both friends become entangled at university with Robert Cosway, a charismatic young man whose own ambition will have a momentous bearing on their lives. Flitting from war-haunted Oxford to the bright new shallows of the 1960s, Freya plots the unpredictable course of a woman`s life & loves against a backdrop of Soho pornographers, theatrical peacocks, willowy models, priapic painters, homophobic blackmailers, political careerists. Beneath the relentless thrum of changing times & a city being reshaped, we glimpse the eternal: the battles fought by women in pursuit of independence, the intimate mysteries of the human heart, & the search for love. Stretching from the Nuremberg war trials to the advent of the TV celebrity, from innocence abroad to bitter experience at home, Freya presents the portrait of an extraordinary woman taking arms against a sea of political & personal tumult. ...

Born in Paris in 1893, the wandering life of Freya Stark`s childhood left her `precocious & pretty tough`. Self-disciplined, courageous yet flamboyant & unorthodox, she became a great explorer, a travel writer, geographer, historian & archaeologist. Freya Stark remained fearlessly independent throughout her life. Despite her high regard for tradition & Empire, as an explorer, she was unconventional- always travelling alone, without money or support. Travel remained her greatest love & her solace throughout constant struggles with ill health, failed marriage & loneliness. ...

Fluent in at least seven languages & a writer of ravishing prose accounts of her journeys, Freya Stark was one of the great travel writers of the twentieth century. In 1934 her first book, Valley of the Assassins, was hailed as a classic & T.E. Lawrence pronounced Stark 'a gallant creature, a remarkable person'. It marked the start of a dazzling career as a writer, explorer & official diplomat which led Stark to explore ancient trading routes in the Yemeni desert, Crusaders' castles in Syria, uncharted regions of Arabia & Alexander the Great's path through Turkey, often travelling alone through dangerous & uncomfortable territories
- once having to be airlifted to safety by the RAF. During the Second World War, she worked for the Foreign Office in Baghdad & Cairo & made an ill-fated tour of America for the Ministry of Information. She married late
- & unwisely
- but continued to travel & write well into old age, going to the Himalayas aged 89, & lived to be 100, leaving a legacy of over thirty volumes of travel writings, autobiography & letters. Her life reads like an adventure story, imbued with the captivating spirit of the East. Jane Geniesse's ebullient yet touching account of Stark's life uncovers the complexity & charm surrounding someone who was both hugely feted & yet repeatedly disappointed in her private life
- a romantic, a complete original.



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