Bacup in 1909 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 the Rossendale town of Bacup, with the town centre on the eastern side of the map. Coverage then stretches westward to Pilling Barn Lane, & from Rockliffe Road northward to Broad Clough. Features include Forest Mill, Huttock Top, Stacksteads Colliery with tramways, St John`s church, Lane Head, Market Hall, Tong Mill, Bacup Mill, Holmes Mills, Meadows Mill, Old Meadows Colliery with tramway, Maden Recreation Ground, etc. Extracts from a directory are on the reverse: the commercial entries A toC. 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. ...

Hello. My name is Bill & I`m a bad beekeeper. A really bad beekeeper.` So begins Bill Turnbull`s charming & often hilarious account of how he stumbled into the world of beekeeping (sometimes literally). Despite many setbacks
- including being stung (twice) on his first day of training
- beekeeping somehow taught Bill a great deal about himself, & the world around him. The Bad Beekeeper`s Club also highlights the very real threats to Britain`s bee population. One in every three tablespoons of food derives directly from the pollinating process of the humble bumble bee. But hives are collapsing at an accelerating rate with significant environmental consequences. Fascinating & extremely funny, The Bad Beekeeper`s Club is a universally appealing story about a very singular passion.

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Detective Paul Hjelm, member of an elite Swedish team assembled to investigate violent international crime, receives an urgent call from the FBI offices in America. A man has been found murdered at New York airport. The killer's violent methods bear a frightening resemblance to those of the notorious ' Kentucky Killer', a serial killer who was thought to have died some years before in a car crash witnessed by an FBI agent. The FBI believe that the killer has boarded a flight to Sweden but when the plane lands in Stockholm, he escapes without being identified. Soon, the bodies begin to pile up
- some bearing the hallmarks of the Kentucky Killer's signature torture device: a weapon that squeezes shut the vocal chords. Has he somehow returned from the dead or do they have a copy-cat on their hands? & what does the killer want in Sweden?
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The stellar partnership who brought you Harry the Poisonous Centipede are back together. This is the funny story of a very naughty cat, from bestselling author Lynne Reid Banks & award winning illustrator Tony Ross Cats aren`t there for people, people are there for cats. At least that`s how Turk believes things should be. He takes every liberty with his family, while Peony is a model of good-catliness
- until she falls under Turk`s spell. Should cats be good or bad? They find out when they are left to fend for themselves after their humans are tricked into going on holiday without them. A wonderful animal adventure
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The new heart-warming & hilariously brilliant story, beautifully read by number one bestselling author David Walliams. Dads come in all sorts of shapes & sizes. There are fat ones & thin ones, tall ones & short ones. There are young ones & old ones, clever ones & stupid ones. There are silly ones & serious ones, loud ones & quiet ones. Of course, there are good dads, & bad dads... A high-speed cops & robbers adventure with heart & soul about a father & son taking on the villainous Mr Big
- & winning! This riches-to-rags story will have you on the edge of your seat & howling with laughter! Bad Dad is a fast & furious, heart-warming story of a father & son on an adventure
- & a thrilling mission to break an innocent man into prison!

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The phonecall came from out of the blue, just when Sir Hilary Synnott was looking forward to retirement after helping steer India & Pakistan back from the verge of nuclear war. ” It`s about Iraq. We need a King of the South...” Bad Days in Basra” is the story of Synnott`s time as Britain`s most senior representative in Southern Iraq, trying to keep the region together as the rest of the country descended in to murderous violence. By turns wryly comic, revealing & heart-breaking, it offers a never seen before glimpse in to the high politics of the occupation. Shuttling between the gilded palaces of the Green Zone & the leaky outhouses which constituted Coalition HQ in Basra, Synnott had to negotiate his boss, Paul Bremer`s brash indifference to what was going outside Baghdad, the indecisiveness of his London masters, & the brutal political realities of a country under occupation. Bearing witness for the first time to the chaotic fashion in which the coalition was run at the highest levels, Synnott`s unique insider account is the most important primary source we yet have on how the South was lost. It offers new insights in to the style & motivations of key characters such as Bremer himself, US commander General David Petraeus & the then UK Foreign Minister Jack Straw. It provides an entertaining & witty portrait of the absurdities of life inside the occupying coalition, a devastating critique of CPA policies & controversial revelations about the real relationship between the two occupying powers, Britain & America. ...

Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance & a new baby. A housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. A young girl accepts a lift in a car with a group of strangers. An old friend brings bad news to a dinner party. In these gripping & unsettling stories, the ordinary is made extraordinary & the real things that happen to people turn out to be every bit as mysterious as their dreams. ...

In these short stories it`s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric, say, & a forgotten jacket. Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance & a new baby; a child awake in the night explores the familiar rooms of her home, strange in the dark; a housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. The first steps into a turning point & a new life are made so easily & carelessly: the stories focus in on crucial moments of transition, often imperceptible to the protagonists. A girl accepts a lift in a car with some older boys, or a young woman reads the diaries she comes across when she`s housesitting. Small acts have large consequences, & some of them reverberate across decades; things fantasised in private can reach out to affect other people, for better & worse. An older woman recovering from serious illness speaks to a lonely young man on a train; an old friend brings bad news to a dinner party; a schoolteacher in the throes of a painful affair in 1914 has mixed feelings about her pupils` suffragette craze. The real things that happen to people, the accidents that befall them, are every bit as mysterious as their longings & their dreams. Bad Dreams shows yet again that Tessa Hadley is a master of her art, one of the very finest writers at work in Britain today. ...

Bad Faith tells the story of one of history`s most despicable villains & conmen
- Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator & ` Commissioner
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