Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring & unconventional Prime Minister`s wife in British history. Known for her wit, style & habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social & intellectual salon. Yet her last four years at Number 10 were a period of intense emotional & political turmoil in her private & public life. In 1912, when Anne de Courcy`s book opens, rumblings of discontent & cries for social reform were encroaching on all sides
- from suffragettes, striking workers & Irish nationalists. Against this background of a government beset with troubles, the Prime Minister fell desperately in love with his daughter`s best friend, Venetia Stanley; to complicate matters, so did his Private Secretary. Margot`s relationship with her husband was already bedevilled by her stepdaughter`s jealous, almost incestuous adoration of her father. The outbreak of the First World War only heightened these swirling tensions within Downing Street. Drawing on unpublished material from personal papers & diaries, Anne de Courcy vividly recreates this extraordinary time when the Prime Minister`s residence was run like an English country house, with socialising taking precedence over politics, love letters written in the cabinet room & gossip & state secrets exchanged over the bridge table. By 1916, when Asquith was forced out of office, everything had changed. For the country as a whole, for those in power, for a whole stratum of society, but especially for the Asquiths & their circle, it was the end of an era. Life inside Downing Street would never be the same again.
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2015 is the year the redoubtable Marguerite Patten celebrates her 100th birthday. In her honour & to mark this memorable occasion Grub Street is reissuing a new edition of the first book we published by Marguerite back in 1999, her comprehensive Century of British Cooking. In this book each chapter covers one decade of the 20th century giving both history & recipes. The entire book is illustrated throughout in colour & black & white. Marguerite Patten OBE has written over 160 cookery books, sales of which amount to over 16 million worldwide. Her long & distinguished career, which began before the war, has included regular appearances on radio & television, live & televised cookery demonstrations, lectures as well as extensive journalism & authorship of books & cookery cards. Marguerite is one of Britain`s best known & loved cookery writers & has often been described as England`s Cookery Queen. Ainsley Harriott dubbed her ”the cookery icon of our times”. Her Century of British Cooking pulls together her life`s work, with over 200 recipes & is truly an important work of culinary history. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:25, 000 published by the Centro Nacional de Información Geograficá, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic maps at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.PLEASE NOTE: our grid for the whole of Spain is in preparation
- in the meantime, for areas other than those shown on the attached grid please use CNIG’s topographic survey at 1:50, 000 by searching for ‘SI00000832’. Each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 50K map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter & IV = SE quarter. CNIG maps in the Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 survey & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K or 25K title in more detail. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series grid
- for map numbers not yet listed on our website please contact us by email.

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Topographic survey of Denmark at 1:100, 000 from Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen, the country’s national survey organization. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, with colouring and/or graphics showing various types of terrain & land use: woodlands, orchards, heath, sand & dunes, tidal flats, meadows & marshl&, etc. The maps provide detailed presentation of the road & rail networks & other information expected of topographic mapping at this scale. No specifically tourist information such as waymarked cycling or hiking routes is shown. Standard size sheets cover an area of 56 x 45km / 35x 28 miles approx. Map legend

Includes:: English. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING:AVAILABILITY: all the maps are now printed on dem&. Delivery from Denmark can take over 4 weeks. Once an order has been placed we cannot accept any returns for credit.COORDINATES: although the maps are meant to have UTM coordinates for EUREF 89 (WGS 84) datum, sheets are sometimes delivered printed without any grid or margin ticks for UTM or latitude & longitude.

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Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Mariazell
- �-tscher – Erlauftal area of Austria on a detailed, GPS compatible map at 1:25, 000 from Kompass with local & long-distance
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Mariazell
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- Josefsberg
- Annaberg
- Erlaufsee area of eastern Austria presented at 1:35, 000 in a series of



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Street plan of Mariazell with on the reverse a detailed map at 1:50, 000 of the town`s environs highlighting numerous hiking trails & cycling or mountain bike routes. The plan shows one way streets & car parks, railway stations & various places of interest for which brief multilingual descriptions are provided. On the reverse is a contoured map of the environs at 1:50, 000, covering mainly the area north of the town. Cable car lines, chair lifts, etc. & mountain huts are clearly marked. The map highlights numerous hiking trails, as well as cycle & mountain bike routes. Map legend for the street plan

Includes:: English. The map on the reverse has no legend or geographical coordinates.

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Maribor with its outer suburbs at 1:15, 000 on an indexed street plan from the locally based Kartografija, with an enlargement at 1:5, 200 showing the city centre in greater detail, plus a diagram of local bus routes & a road map of the environs. The plan highlights main traffic arteries across the city & shows one way streets, car parks & locations of petrol stations. Bus routes are shown with stops & line numbers. The map indicates locations of various institutions, services & facilities. Street index is on the reverse. Map legend

Includes:: English. Also provided is a more detailed enlargement of the city centre, a diagram of the bus routes, plus a small road map of the environs.

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Maribor
- Pomurje & the Drava Valley in a series of GPS compatible, double-sided recreational maps at 1:75, 000 from Kompass
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