Part of the hugely popular London puzzle series by London based artist Chris Rogers, this unusual & quirky view of the capital features all your favourite landmarks. As well as the easily recognised landmarks such as Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, St Pauls & The Gherkin, you will also notice the newly built The Shard, The Olympic Village & Wembley Stadium on the horizon. His detailed & colourful art style, make for an enjoyable & fantastic puzzling experience. How many famous buildings & structures can you spot? A fun-to-do puzzle to be enjoyed whatever your age.

Includes:: in box leaflet showing additional puzzle picture & artist’s biography.

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A contemporary & colourful map of the world. A great way to learn about the different continents & countries, & all from the comfort of your own home!
- High quality 500 piece cardboard jigsaw puzzle.
- The finished puzzle measures 49 x 36 cm when complete.
- Suitable for ages 10 years & up.
- Made from strong premium grade cardboard, with linen finish print to minimise glare on puzzle image.



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London in the AA Leisure Guide series; exploring the walking, cycling & car touring opportunities in a range of British destinations. The guides also provide details of outdoor activities, local events & festivals, shopping, the best pubs & tea-rooms & the must-see attractions in each region. Each title in the series allows readers to find individual sections easily & is designed for practical use on the road. An illustrated Essential Sights introductory section lists some of the region ...

As well as a functional guide to the districts of London this will be a fun interactive way to explore & discover things that you wouldn`t spot using a run-of-the-mill guidebook. The cards will be fronted with one of the 26 Lucy Loves This distinctive ` London Letters` designs & then will fold out to reveal an illustrated map & tips on where to visit, places to eat & drink as well as interesting facts & travel information. The back of the cards will have a quirky `bucketlist` style checklist of things to do/drink/eat/photograph in the area. The cards can be used whilst travelling, can be shuffled & picked at random by tourists & travellers to choose the outing for the day. The cards will have the plain image of the letter on the front & will be promoted to enable them to be mounted on the wall or in a frame, or they could also be used as flashcards to quiz friends ...

In August 1912, three friends set out on an adventure. Two of them come home. Tom, Jimmy & Itzhak have grown up together in the crowded slums of Walworth. They are used to narrow streets, the bustle of East Lane market, extended families weaving in & out of each other`s lives. All three boys are expected to follow their father`s trades & stay close to home. But Tom has wider dreams. So when he hears of a scouting trip, sailing from Waterloo to Sheppey & the mouth of the Thames
- he is determined to go. & Itzhak & Jimmy go with him. Inspired by real events, this is the story of three friends, & a tragedy that will change them for ever. It is also a song of south London, of working class families with hidden histories, of a bright & complex world long neglected. London Lies Beneath is a powerful & compelling novel, rich with life & full of wisdom.
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Over the course of a long career Sandra Lousada has worked as a theatre photographer, a portrait photographer & in the worlds of fashion, beauty & advertising, becoming internationally renowned in all those areas. In her sixties she became fascinated by the new medium of digital photography & the way it could enable her to capture light, movement & colour; & she found a new subject in London, the city she has lived in & loved all her life. Her inspired photographs open our eyes to London as we have never seen it before. ...

From the time of Nelson`s death at Trafalgar to the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park nearly fifty years later, London spread like a disease across the fields of Middlesex & Surrey. Foul & dangerous though it was to inhabit, in these decades London developed a new confidence in the intellectual purpose & lucrative promise of art, technology & science. This book is about the men & women who, through their genius & courage, luck & misfortune, anger & charm, put London at the cutting edge of cultural change. Theirs were the minds that moved the city that shook the world. They worked in basements & drawing rooms, in studios & museums, in learned societies & in the squalor of the debtors` prison. Charles Babbage created his calculating machines; John Martin devised a new system of clean water supply for London; John Mayall & Antoine Claudet perfected the daguerreotype; Michael Faraday harnessed electricity. They argued & fought, loved & envied, searched & dreamed, to convert the laws of nature into the purposes of life. Although it took fifty years to achieve maturity & direction, in the early decades of the nineteenth century London set itself on course to become the financial, entrepreneurial & intellectual capital of the world. ...

London: Blue Guide Literary Companion is a pocket celebration of this city providing a real flavour of London, its history & literary life with a selection of prose & poetry. Robin Saika touches on subject such as education, living as a writer, domestic life & on the streets, games & addictions, the city’s poor & much more, through the eyes of literature characters & writers. He leads you to places visited by famous literature characters with a selection of extracts that reveal their impressions & experiences of the city, from London in 1853 of Charles Dickens’s description of Jo’s world in Bleak House, expressing the writer’s view of society, & the 1712 Covent Garden of an essay by Richard Steele on encountering a street girl, to the 1912 Embankment of a poem by D.H. Lawrence about giving some money to a homeless women & Blades Club in 1954 from a dinner scene in Moonraker in which Ian Fleming describes the atmosphere through James Bond’s intense gaze. The Blue Guide Literary Companion is a fascinating pocket book that will invite you to share the world of real as well as fictional characters who visited & lived in London over the centuries. ...

London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes & highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Londoners who found themselves submerged in poverty or prosecuted for crime, & surveys their responses to illustrate the extent to which plebeian Londoners influenced the pace & direction of social policy. Calling upon a new body of evidence, the book illuminates the lives of prison escapees, expert manipulators of the poor relief system, celebrity highwaymen, lone mothers & vagrants, revealing how they each played the system to the best of their ability in order to survive in their various circumstances of misfortune. In their acts of desperation, the authors argue that the poor & criminal exercised a profound & effective form of agency that changed the system itself, & shaped the evolution of the modern state. ...

London is a vast metropolis with a population of over 8.5 million people & a history stretching back two millennia. However, unlike more modern cities, London was never planned as a major city but has grown over the centuries to absorb numerous historic towns & villages. Many of these are now bustling cosmopolitan areas such as Bloomsbury & Notting Hill, while others, such as Barnes & Dulwich, are more rural & retain their original charm & character. It`s hard to imagine nowadays, but in the 18th & 19th centuries, people were farming in Islington & fishing in Chiswick! Nevertheless, if you`re seeking a village vibe
- a village green, small local shops, an ancient church & graveyard, even a pond beside a pub
- you can still find them in London if you know where to look. Modern London is made up of a rich tapestry of ancient villages, just waiting to be discovered. London`s Village Walks takes you around 20 of the city`s most interesting & best preserved villages, where
- with a little imagination
- it`s possible to imagine you`re still living in a bygone age.



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