Heap Bridge in 1908 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 Heap Bridge area between Bury & Heywood & extends eastward to the outskirts of Heywood. Features include River Roch, Heap Bridge Mills, tramways, Dye Works, the LYR Heap Bridge Branch with Bridge Hall Mills, Phoenix Foundry, a stretch of the Bury-Rochdale railway but no stations, Heap Fold Farm, Top of Heap, Heady Hill, Summit, Highfield Mill, Spring Mill, Derby Mill, etc. On the reverse is the busier section of the map from a later edition, a 1929 revision, showing how the area changed. 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. ...

The 78-km long Heaphy Track in the Kahurangi National Park on New Zealand’s South Island at 1:55, 000 in a series of contoured & GPS compatible maps from New Topo NZ Ltd, with exceptionally vivid presentation of the terrain, routes clearly highlighted, & symbols to show locations of various facilities. The map also shows shorter tracks in the Oparara River Valley further south, & in addition to the NZ national grid lines also has latitude & longitude grid at 10’ intervals. Contour interval is 20m. Maps in the series from New Topo NZ Ltd cover the country’s popular hiking & tramping areas. The maps have contours (20m in most titles
- please confirm in the individual description) enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to indicate various types of the terrain & vegetation: glaciers, scree, lava flows, shingle, s&, swamps, exotic forest, scrub, native bush, etc. The overprint for the routes distinguishes, as appropriate, between tramping tracks & routes, walking tracks, & waymarked or unmarked trails. Symbols show facilities such huts, campsites, public toilets, viewpoints, car parks, etc. Where useful, the maps also have brief notes about hut reservations. All the titles are GPS compatible, most with a 1-km NZ national grid (GPS users can uses WGS84). To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link.
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A Dirty Bertie collection to delight his legions of fans who revel in his revolting ways! Enjoy the comic capers of Dirty Bertie – the boy with nosepickingly disgusting habits – in this bumper book of nine revolting stories from SMASH!, RATS! & JACKPOT! Join Bertie as he finds himself in a spot of bother with Mrs Nicely next door, crosses paths with a cheeky rodent & wins the lottery (or thinks he does)! Dirty Bertie is a hugely popular series created by David Roberts. With each hilarious story Approx. thirty pages long & split into chapters, Dirty Bertie is ideal for reluctant readers or readers in search of hilarity but with a short attention span. ...

Louisa Waugh`s passionately written account of her time in a remote Mongolian village. Frustrated by the increasingly bland character of the capital city of Ulan Bator, she yearned for the real Mongolia & recounts here her time in the village of Tsengel. Waugh`s time in the village was marked by coming to terms with the harshness of climate & also by how she faced up to new feelings towards the treatment of animals, death, solitude & real loneliness, & the constant struggle to censor her reactions as an outsider. Above all, she aims to involve readers with the locals` lives in such a way that we come to know them & care for their fates. ...

Award-winning picture book star Oliver Jeffers explores themes of love & loss in this life-affirming & uplifting tale. Once there was a girl who was full of wonderment at how the world worked. She shared all her dreams & excitement with her father, who always had the answer to every question. That is until one day when his chair was empty, not to be filled again
- how would she find the meaning of life now?
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSelected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick`I loved it` Kate Tempest` Astounding` Roxane Gay`A sledgehammer` New York Times Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman`s coming of age on an Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalised & facing a dual diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder & bipolar II disorder, Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook & begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot`s mother, a social worker & activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father
- an abusive drunk & a brilliant artist
- who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; & an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Memory isn`t exact, but melded to imagination. In Heart Berries, Mailhot discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, &, in so doing, re-establishes her connection to her family, to her people, & to her place in the world.

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Lisa arrives in Sudan full of determination to use her skills as a nurse to do something to ease the plight of the hundreds of thousands of people caught up in the civil war raging through Darfur. She is working with Medecins Sans Frontieres, the international organisation that sends health workers to the most desperate places in the world. The six months she spends on the mission will be the toughest of her life but will teach her some fundamental truths about what people are capable of, both good & bad, & about herself. Lisa describes treating children with machete wounds, babies dying of chronic dehydration, girls giving birth at the age of 13 & old women too traumatised to carry on living. Her relationships with her Sudanese colleagues are treasured & described in fascinating detail. The book is exquisitely written, without sentiment but with a powerful & moving determination to show the suffering of the people of Darfur & to bear witness to their remarkable courage in the face of the most appalling situation. This is the book to help us all understand the human story behind the newspaper headlines. ...

Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, & also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad`s narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz, dying, insane, & guilty of unspeakable atrocities. First appearing as a three-part series in ” Blackwood`s Magazine” in 1899, it was soon after published as a novella, in 1902 in the volume ” Youth: A Narrative”; & ” Two Other Stories”. ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TIM BUTCHER The silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Life on the river is brutal & unknown threats lurk in the darkness. Marlow`s mission to captain a steamer upriver into the dense interior leads him into conflict with the others who haunt the forest. But his decision to hunt down the mysterious Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader who is the subject of sinister rumours, leads him into more than just physical peril. ...

On a boat near the estuary of the Thames, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the perils he encounters on his quest, but also the deterioration of his state of mind as he is confronted with a world that is hostile & alien to him. Renowned for its stylistic boldness & dramatic descriptions, Heart of Darkness is stark yet subtle examination of the powers of the subconscious & the workings of western imperialism. ...