WINNNER OF THE CROOK`S CORNER BOOK PRIZE 2016 ` This is a great love story` Edmund White, author of A Boy`s Own Story Wendell Wilson, a taxidermist, & Frank Clifton, a veteran, meet after the Second World War. But, in this declining textile town in a southern US state, their love holds real danger. Severing nearly all ties with the rest of the world, they carve out a home for themselves on the outskirts of town. For decades, their routine of self-reliant domesticity
- Wendell`s cooking, Frank`s care for a yard no one sees, & the vicarious drama of courtroom TV
- seems to protect them. But when Wendell finds Frank lying motionless outside at the age of eighty-three, their carefully crafted life together begins to unravel. As Frank`s memory & physical strength deteriorate, Wendell struggles in vain to hold on to the man he once knew. Faced with giving care beyond his capacity, he must come to terms with the consequences of half a century in seclusion: the different lives they might have lived
- & the impending, inexorable loss of the one they had.


...

It's not a bad start when major wine-producing areas are within easy driving distances from a capital city. Add to that an exciting festivals calendar, an eclectic food scene & now... Hide & Seek Adelaide, the first guide of its kind to Adelaide's hidden places in the city centre & surrounds. This funky & compact guide features 30 unique & intriguing places within an hour's drive of Adelaide. & none of these places will burn a hole in your wallet. Written by a team of in-the-know Adelaidians, each of the 30 selected places features over a double-page spread with a review, images & a handy locator map. Blank pages at the back of the book allow readers to record their own secret Adelaide discoveries. ...

Play i-spy with your toddler & they'll learn all about animals. Hunt for favourite pets, farm animals & many more with your toddler
-
...

Help! Some of the animals are hiding! Can you find them & return them to their proper homes? It is a fun seek & find book, full of animals from all around the globe, beautifully illustrated by Charlene Man. It offers a wonderful first introduction for children of 3+ to animals around the world & where they live. ...

OH NO. THERE`S A ZOO ON THE MOVE! Is that a gorilla riding a train? Is that an elephant on the building site? & look
- there`s
...

If you`re looking for a phrase book that goes way beyond textbook French, this best-seller will fit the bill. It`s packed full of the language really spoken by young people today
- & it`s definitely not the French you learned in school. Learn the lingo on: Love, Sex, Extreme Sports, Video Games, Fashion, Body & Gross Bodily Functions, Internet, Text Messaging, Gossip, Entertainment, & Partying. Also exposed in Hide This French Book are hilarious language mishaps, social trends, & cultural idiosyncrasies. Icons indicate how ”hot” language is, so you know when an expression is totally offensive, completely inappropriate, but really worth knowing! Listen to the foreign language online, or download the audio to your iPod[registered] or MP3 player. Entertaining as well as enlightening, this is one French book users will want to read from cover to cover!
...

This ultra-hip illustrated phrase book is a must-have language tool for the cool traveller. It

Includes:: all

...

In Esther Freud`s Hideous Kinky, two little girls are taken by their feckless young mother to Morocco on a `60s pilgrimage of self-discovery. & while she immerses herself in the Sufi religion, her children seek something more solid & stable amidst the shifting desert sands? Bea insists on going to school while the five-year-old narrator dreams of mashed potato. The girl`s explorations & discoveries of Marrakech vividly describe the sights, smells & sounds of Morocco. Their perception & understanding of the different culture, local rituals & customs, diverging from their mother`s quest for personal fulfilment & flight from the grinding conventions of English life. Esther Freud`s vocabulary & tone veer easily from the childlike to the more sophisticated, particularly when she recounts speeches or circumstances beyond a child`s comprehension, & she escapes sentimentality through simplicity. Hideous Kinky is a cheerful autobiographical novel as much about family as about an exotic country seen through an innocent`s eyes. & while the author may not have invented her subject, she has re-created it with a light touch & delicate irony. ...

We are all so familiar with the picture-postcard, well-known beauty spots dotted around the coastline that we often ignore the most eye-catching hideaways. Robin Whitcomb`s new guide to England & Wales` hidden gems unearths more stunning locations, some of which he first glimpsed while putting together his last book, Home Sweet Home. Travelling through Cornwall with his excitable chocolate Labrador Coco, Robin found himself in the diminutive Porthgwarra, a remote fishing cove used as one of the main locations in the TV series Poldark. The South West coastline supplies several of the most picturesque hidey holes at the beginning of the book, as Robin, his dog & his motorhome wander unknown havens in one of Britain`s most popular holiday destinations. Hidey Holes takes in North Devon, Pembrokeshire, & the castles that line the rugged Northumbrian coastline, before Robin heads back to South Devon to visit Agatha Christie`s home at Greenway House. Robin`s photography & light-hearted account of his journey, accompanied by landscapes by local painters, will delight readers who love local history, art & the British coast. ...

Hierro, map No. 1105/1108 in the topographic coverage of the Canary Islands at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional
-
...