London & its outskirts has much to offer visitors & this lovely souvenir guidebook is a veritable treasure trove bursting with delightful colour photographs & fascinating information that capture the very essence of the best sights on offer in this fabulous capital city. It is available in a variety of languages. ...

This is a souvenir guide to London & its outskirts, packed with colour photographs & fascinating information. London & its outskirts has much to offer visitors & this lovely souvenir guidebook is a veritable treasure trove bursting with delightful colour photographs & fascinating information that capture the very essence of the best sights on offer in this fabulous capital city. It is available in a variety of languages. ...

A souvenir guide to London & its outskirts, packed with color photographs & fascinating information. London & its outskirts has much to offer visitors & this lovely souvenir guidebook is a veritable treasure trove bursting with delightful color photographs & fascinating information that capture the very essence of the best sights on offer in this fabulous capital city. It is available in a variety of languages. ...

In & Around the Vale of York in the Short Walks guide series, produced in association with Ordnance Survey & published by Crimson; comprising a range of walking guides to popular British destinations. Each title

Includes:: 20 varied walks that are suitable for walkers of all ages & abilities & is accompanied by detailed Explorer 1:25, 000 Ordnance Survey mapping with colour-coded marked routes. The guides are structured in three main sections with different levels of difficulty- short & easy walks, those of modest length that may include uphill walking & more challenging routes that may be longer & over more rugged terrain- covering a total of 20 walks. Each walk has a mini summary & an information box with details of starting points, distance, approximate time, parking & any individual route features. There is also information on refreshments, local transport & public toilets en route. Appendices provide further useful information on walking safety, GPS, the Countryside Code, local organisations & Ordnance Survey maps.

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Wells is full of history with much to see & visitors are well catered for with a variety of hotels & ancient inns. Wells developed as a religious site over the centuries, & the tiny city has grown around its Cathedral, in contrast to the more usual sequence where a place of worship is built to serve an already established settlement. This guide aims to enhance the visitor's stay & serve as a reminder of a very pleasant visit. ...

` In a Free State was conceived in 1969 as a sequence about displacement. There was to be a central novel, set in Africa, with shorter surrounding matter from other places. The shorter pieces from these varied places were intended to throw a universal light on the African material. But then, as the years passed & the world changed, & I felt myself less of an oddity as a writer, I grew to feel that the central novel was muffled & diminished by the surrounding material & I began to think that the novel should be published on its own. This is what, many years after its first publication, my publisher is doing in this edition.` V. S. Naipaul. In a Free State is set in Africa, in a place like Uganda or Rwanda, & its two main characters are English. They had once found liberation in Africa. But now Africa is going sour on them. The land is no longer safe, & at a time of tribal conflict they have to make a long drive to the safety of their compound. At the end of this drive -- the narrative tight, wonderfully constructed, the formal & precise language always instilled with violence & rage -- we know everything about the English characters, the African country, & the Idi Amin-like future awaiting it. This is one of V. S. Naipaul`s greatest novels, hard but full of pity. It won the Booker Prize, in its original edition, in 1971. ...

A delightful celebration of French life & the cooks who turn even the simplest meals into an occasion Even before Susan Herrmann Loomis wrote her now-classic memoir, ” On Rue Tatin, ” American readers have been compelled by books about the French s ease with cooking. With ” In a French Kitchen, ” Loomis an expat who long ago traded her American grocery store for a bustling French farmer s market demystifies in lively prose the seemingly effortless je ne sais quoi behind a simple French meal. One by one, readers are invited to meet the busy people of Louviers & surrounding villages & towns of Loomis s adopted home, from runway-chic Edith, who has zero passion for cooking but a love of food that inspires her to whip up an array of mouthwatering dishes to Nathalie, who becomes misty-eyed as she talks about her mother s Breton cooking, then goes on to reproduce it. Through friends & neighbors like these, Loomis learns that delicious, even decadent meals don t have to be complicated. Are French cooks better organized when planning & shopping? Do they have a greater ability to improvise with whatever they have on hand when unexpected guests arrive? The answer to both is: Yes. But they also have an innate understanding of food & cooking, are instinctively knowledgeable about seasonal produce, & understand what combination of simple ingredients will bring out the best of their gardens or local markets. Thankfully for American readers, ” In a French Kitchen ”shares the everyday French tips, secrets, & eighty-five recipes that allow them to turn every meal into a sumptuous occasion.” ...

The iconic Ian Rankin returns with a new Detective John Rebus novel
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Jiangxi Province, China, 1941 Atop the fabled mountain of Lushan, celebrated for its temples, capricious mists & plunging ravines, perches a boarding school for the children of British missionaries. As her parents pursue their calling to bring the gospel to China`s most remote provinces, ten-year-old Henrietta S. Robertson discovers that she has been singled out for a divine calling of her own. Etta is quick to share the news with her dorm mates, & soon even Big Bum Eileen is enlisted in the Prophetess Club, which busies itself looking for signs of the Lord`s intent. (Hark.) As rumours of war grow more insistent, so the girls` quest takes on a new urgency
- & in such a mystical landscape, the prophetesses find that lines between make believe & reality, good & bad, become dangerously blurred. So Etta`s pilgrimage begins. A story of a child far from home & caught between two cultures, In A Land of Paper Gods marries exuberant imagination with sharp pathos, & introduces Rebecca Mackenzie as a striking & original new voice.
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A brilliantly distinctive debut, told from the perspective of one of the most unforgettable child narrators in recent fiction, IN A LAND OF PAPER GODS by Rebecca Mackenzie will appeal to readers who loved Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit or The Light Between Oceans. Jiangxi Province, China, 1941. Atop the fabled mountain of Lushan perches a boarding school for the children of British missionaries. While her parents pursue their calling, ten-year-old Henrietta S. Robertson discovers that she, too, has been singled out by the Lord. As Japanese invaders draw closer, Etta & her dorm mates retreat into a world where boundaries between make believe & reality become dangerously blurred. So begins a remarkable journey, through a mystical landscape & to the heart of a war. ...