At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, & travelled hundreds of miles to be educated & trained for the priesthood at an English monastery. By the age of twenty-five he had been ordained & was working in the slums of Glasgow. Through the forty years that followed, Richard touched the lives of many people as he rose to one of the highest positions in the Anglican Church. But behind his confident public faith lay a restless heart & an inquisitive mind. Poignant, wise & fiercely honest, ” Leaving Alexandria” is a remarkable memoir of a life defined by faith but plagued by doubt. ...

The sequel to Don`t Let`s Go to the Dogs Tonight. In her twenties Alexandra Fuller embarked on a new journey, into a long, tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of her life. In this frank, personal memoir, she charts their twenty years together, from the brutal beauty of the Zambezi to the mountains of Wyoming
- the new adventures, the unexplored paths, the insurmountable obstacles...and the many signals that they missed along the way.
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”I believed that if I moored myself to Charlie, I would know tranquility interspersed with organized adventure. He would stay in Zambia because he loved the romance of it. I could remain here, safely. Our lives would be the `three rifles, supplies for a month & Mozart` of Out of Africa without the plane crashes, syphilis & Danish accent.” In 1992 Alexandra Fuller embarked on a new journey, into a long, tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of her life. In this frank, personal memoir, a sequel to Don`t Let`s Go To The Dogs Tonight, she charts their twenty years together, from the brutal beauty of the Zambezi to the mountains of Wyoming
- the new adventures, the unexplored paths, the insurmountable obstacles.. .and the many signals that they missed along the way.
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From the author of The Good German (made into a film starring George Clooney) comes a sweeping novel set in post-war Berlin. Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the Mc Carthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation & the loss of his family, he makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling CIA: he will earn his way back to America by acting as their agent in his native Berlin. But almost from the start, things go fatally wrong. Filled with intrigue & the moral ambiguity of conflicted loyalties, Leaving Berlin is a masterful thriller & a love story that brings a shadowy period of history vividly to life. ...

The Tibetans refer to Moso country as The Country of Daughters because of their unique matrilineal society. In Moso culture, daughters are favoured children. There is no word for father, marriage is considered a backward practice & property is passed on from mother to daughter. This book is the haunting memoir of a girl growing up in a remarkable place. In her village, Namu was known as the girl whose mother tried to give her away three times because she would not stop crying. The strong-willed Namu clashed with her equally fierce mother, becoming alienated from village life. When Chinese officials came looking for talented singers, she seized her chance & broke the taboo that holds Moso culture together
- she left her mother's house. Winning a place at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music as a special minority student, Namu became the Madonna of Tibet, singing on the soundtrack of The Joy Luck Club. A lyrical combination of anthropology & memoir, this is a story full of surprise, drama & beauty. It is a universal tale of mothers & daughters
- the battles that drive them apart & the love that brings them back together.

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Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self & his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee & self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam`s `research` soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself & the world around him. It`s not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish, but the underlying suspicion that his relationships, his reactions, & his entire personality are just as fraudulent as his poetry. ...

León on an indexed street plan at 1:7, 500 from Telstar Distrimapas, Spain’s leading publisher of city maps, with on the reverse a road map of the León province including English language descriptions of seven sightseeing routes. On one side is an indexed street plan of the city with main public buildings clearly named. Locations of 23 places of special interest, from the cathedral to the Cruz Blanca Beer Hall, are prominently highlighted & cross-referenced to an English language list with brief descriptions. Street index is in a separate booklet. On the reverse is a road map at 1:325, 000 of the León province highlighting various places of interest. Seven sightseeing routes, including the local section of the Way of St. James, have detailed English language descriptions accompanied by a small map highlighting all the routes. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Contoured, GPS-compatible, indexed road map at 1:200, 000 from CNIG
- Spain’s civilian survey organization, with exceptionally
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The revised & updated edition of this fascinating book, which was short listed for the prestigious Andre Simon Award when it was first published, remains the only fully comprehensive collection of truly authentic Lebanese recipes available in the English language. As such, ” Lebanese Cuisine” is a valuable contribution to our culinary knowledge. There are over 250 classical recipes which represent an important part of the rich & turbulent history of this beautiful & bountiful country. The delicious arrays of world-famous mezze, offering light & refined servings, a delight to both eye & palate, provide a style of eating perfectly suited to today`s health-conscious cook. There are wonderful vegetarian dishes as well as aromatic stews, many of which can be left to cook slowly, allowing flavours to develop & often tasting even better when eaten the following day. It is Mediterranean food of elegance & infinite variety, using in delectable combinations, simple, healthy ingredients. Vegetables, fruit, nuts, grains & cold-pressed oils, rich in vitamins are features of every dish. ...