The first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy tells the story of a thirty-five-year-old writer for a New York arts & culture magazine whose life melts into a fever dream when he falls in love with the handsome, charming, possibly heroin-addicted, & almost certainly insane Gregory Burgess. In the derelict brownstones of the Lower East Side in the late eighties, among the coked-out restauranteurs & art world impresarios of the supposed `downtown scene, ` the narrator wanders through the fog of passion. Meanwhile, the AIDS epidemic is spreading through the city, & New York friendships sputter to an end. Here is a novel where the only moral is that thwarted passion is the truest passion, where love is a hallucination & the gravest illness is desire. Angela Carter wrote ` This is what Love in the Time of Cholera is like for real` when Horse Crazy was first published in 1989. This new edition brings the `razor sharp` & `frequently brilliant` (Publishers Weekly) novel back into print after many years. ...

There is more than a touch of romance about a coach & horses, whether in a royal procession & drawn by a team of ornately harnessed greys, or a mail-coach clattering over the cobbles of an inn`s courtyard, pausing to replace its steaming horses with a fresh team. In the eighteenth century regular stage-coaches linked London with principal towns, & although railways took over long-distance traffic in the nineteenth century, horse-drawn vehicles continued to serve as cabs, station wagons, omnibuses & private conveyances until their eventual replacement by motor vehicles. This book explores the various types & their history & employments, & is fully illustrated. ...

The dead hand of a long-defeated Nazi Third Reich reaches out to Portugal, London & Marrakech in Deighton`s second novel, featuring the same anonymous narrator & milieu of The IPCRESS File, but finds Dawlish now head of the secret British Intelligence unit, WOOC (P). The Ipcress File was a debut sensation. Here in the second Secret File, Horse under Water, skin-diving, drug trafficking & blackmail all feature in a curious story in which the dead hand of a long-defeated Hitler-Germany reaches out to Portugal, London & Marrakech, & to all the neo-Nazis of today`s Europe. The detail is frightening but unfaultable; the story as up to date as ever it was. The un-named hero of The Ipcress File the same: insolent, fallible, capricious
- in other words, human. But he must draw on all his abilities, good & bad, when plunged into a story of murder, betrayal & greed every bit as murky as the waters off the coast of Portugal, where the answers lie buried.
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Horsehay & Dawley in 1901 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 Telford around Horsehay, extending eastward to Dawley High Street & westward to Coalmoor. Features include Horsehay Pool, Bridge & Roof Works, Foresters Arms, Horsehay Dingle, Prospect House, Coalmoor Farm, Doseley, St Luke`s church, Coalmoor Colliery, Poolhill, Brandlee, Dawley High Street, Deepfield Colliery, etc. The GWR line is shown with Horsehay station. A directory for Dawley Magna & a railway timetable for the Wellington-Craven Arms line are on the reverse. 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. ...

Learn all about horses & ponies, from mane to tail, in DK`s Horses & Ponies Ultimate Sticker Book, with more than 250 reusable stickers. Including facts about fillies & pictures of ponies, Horses & Ponies Ultimate Sticker Book is packed with information on all breeds from horses in stables to wild ponies roaming free. Kids can read all about mucking out & test their knowledge of tack with a fun quiz. Packed with fun facts for kids which support Key Stage 1, Horses & Ponies Ultimate Sticker Book is perfect for children obsessed by the equine. Fact filled & packed with reusable stickers, Horses & Ponies Ultimate Sticker Book is one that children will pick up time & time again. ...

On the outskirts of Casablanca, next to the dump, is the shantytown of Sidi Moumen, where Yachine & his ten brothers grew up, in the aimless chaos of drugs, violence, unemployment, & despair. The barefoot boys started their own football team-the Stars of Sidi Moumen. They played amongst the rocks, detritus, & buried skeletons of the dump but they dreamed of becoming the best football players of all time. From the grave, Yachine remembers the ugliness but also recalls his fond memories of childhood: ”I`m not ashamed to tell you I was sometimes happy in that hideous squalor, on the filth of that accursed cesspit, yes, I was happy in Sidi Moumen, my home.. ” Then their dreams changed. Yachine`s older brother Hamid started growing a beard & attending religious meetings with Sheikh Abou Zoubeir. Week after week, the sheikh beguiled the Stars of Sidi Moumen into believing that there was a better world in the afterlife, where their faith in Allah would be rewarded. They needed only to choose between dying gloriously & together, or living disgracefully & alone. For Yachine & his brother, the choice was clear. ...

Based at the Skeldale Veterinary Centre, in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, the modern, relocated practice featured in the classic stories of James Herriot, & with a foreword by James Herriot`s son, this is a warm & evocative memoir from a young vet whose love for his vocation shines through on every page. From alpacas to exotic pigs, puppies to rabbits, Julian has treated them all & his book is packed with stories about his loveable patients & will prove a firm favourite with all animal lovers. Dealing with unexpected exotic pets
- & handling excitable humans too
- Julian has seen all sides of the veterinary world & writes about it all with humour & affection. Just as happy calving a cow, treating a dehydrated chameleon or tending to the overgrown teeth of a rabbit, his passion for his work shines through on every page, as does his love for Yorkshire. Julian Norton also stars in Channel 5`s fly-on-the-wall documentary series The Yorkshire Vet, one of the channel`s highest rated shows (with series four set to return in 2017). Warm, evocative always compassionate & often funny, Julian`s tales bring to life the world of the working vet & the highs & lows he & his colleagues face on a daily basis.

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The lure of a long-distance ride leads Mefo Phillips to team up with her sister Susie & their spotted Appaloosa horses Leo, a flirt with a passion for Mars Bars, & affectionate, gluttonous Apollo, for a pilgrimage down the medievil Way of St. James from Canterbury to Spain. The lure of a map of European glof courses entices Mefo`s husband Peter to follow them in a rackety old horsebox... Slowed by thunderstorms, vertgo, worn-out horseshoes & a variety of eccentric farmers, it`s boiling midsummer by the time they reach the Castilian plains after a meander across lush springtime France. With 1, 700 miles, four mountain ranges, & encounters with galloping goats, nude pilgrims, rampant donkeys & a fountain of red wine behind them, horses & humans are inseparable by the time they reach Santiago & the suddenly daunting prospect of a trundle in the horsebox back to England & a normal life. ...

Horsforth in 1906 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 southern part of Horsforth, extending from Town Street & Broadgate Lane southward to Newlay, where features include the station, St Margaret`s church & Aire Vale Dye Works. Other areas & features include Newlaithes, Newlay Wood, St Helen`s Leather Glue & Gelatine Works, Cow Beck Bridge, Craigg Hill Farm, Low Fold, Horsforth Cemetery, Horsforth Hall, Bank House, etc. On the reverse is a list of private residents from a contemporary directory. 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. ...

Horsforth Woodside & West Park in 1906 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. 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. In this title: the map covers the Horsforth Woodside & West Park area of north Leeds, still semi-rural in 1906 but with signs of development at West Park &, further west, by Hawksworth Wood. Horsforth Woodside is in the top left corner & features here include the Woolpack Inn, Paradise Place, Woodside Tannery, Horsforth Mill, Woodside Mill, Springfield Rope Works, Butcher Hill, Fillingfir Thicks. South of the village are White Hall Quarries & Hawksworth Wood. The NER Leeds Northern line runs north-south through the map, & Horsforth Brick Works & Hawksworth Quarry are either side of it. To the east is the new development of West Park with Spen Lane running through the map. Other features include Kirkstall Grange, Spen Lane Farm, Old Oak Farm, Moor Grange, Headingley Bleach Works, Weetwood Hall, Weetwood Mount, Weetwood Grange, Spenfield & part of Weetwood Park. A directory of Woodside is on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...