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. ...

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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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.

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` 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
- this year`s essential must-read bestseller.* * * * *IN A
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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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