Dive among luminous coral reefs; watch a traditional singsing festival group; or sleep in a stilt house on the mighty Sepik river, all with your trusted travel companion. Inside Lonely Planet Papua New Guinea & Solomon Islands: Colour maps & images throughout Highlights & itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs & interests Insider tips to save time & money & get around like a local, avoiding crowds & trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips
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- the Kokoda Trail, history, environment, culture, politics Over 45 maps Covers: Port Moresby, Central Province, Oro Province, Milne Bay Province, Morobe Province, Madang Province, the Highlands, the Sepik, Island Provinces, the Solomon Islands & more


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- & makes a great gift in-itself! Each of these well crafted wood-block & rubber stamps are individually sized according to the design, an example of which is presented on each block. Add a personal touch to your letters & cards!
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Get creative with this Par Avion (Air Mail) Rubber Stamps set from Cavallini & Co.! Comprising of twelve high quality wood-block & rubber stamps with accompanying black ink pad, all housed in a well presented brush-metal case, the Par Avion Rubber Stamps set is ideal for adorning cards, labels & letters
- & makes a great gift in-itself! Each of these well crafted wood-block & rubber stamps are individually sized according to the design, an example of which is presented on each block. Add a personal touch to your letters & cards!
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Four twenty-somethings share an apartment in Tokyo. In Parade each tells their story: their lives, their hopes & fears, their loves, their secrets. Kotomi waits by the phone for a boyfriend who never calls. Ryosuke wants someone that he can`t have. Mirai spends her days drawing & her nights hanging out in gay bars. Naoki works for a film company, & everyone treats him like an elder brother. Then Satoru turns up. He`s eighteen, homeless, & does night work of a very particular type. In the next-door apartment something disturbing is going on. & outside, in the streets around their apartment block, there is violence in the air. From the writer of the cult classic Villain, Parade is a tense, disturbing, thrilling tale of life in the city. ...

Booker Prize-winner Julian Barnes introduces Ford Madox Ford`s masterpiece ” Parade`s End”
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The Great War changes everything. In this epic tale, spanning over a decade, war turns the world of privileged, English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens upside down. It forces him to question everything he holds dear
- social order, morality, marriage & loyalty. & it rocks the very foundations of English society. This is a powerful story about love, betrayal & disillusionment in a time of horror & confusion by one of Britain`s finest novelists. Ford Madox Ford`s monumental novel came to our screens in August 2012 as a major BBC adaptation, with a screenplay by the legendary playwright Tom Stoppard & a stellar cast that included Benedict Cumberbatch. This edition of the novel

Includes:: all four parts, originally published separately between 1924 & 1928.


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Almost forty & with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was & her drinking is frankly out of h&. Robert, a dissolute dentist, appears to offer a love she can underst&, but he may only be one more symptom of the problem she must cure. From the north-east of Scotland to Dublin, from London to Montreal, to Budapest & onwards, Hannah travels in search of the ultimate altered state: the one where she can be happy
- her paradise. Paradise is a compelling examination of failure that is also a comic triumph, a novel of dark extremes that is full of the most ravishing lyrical beauty.
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Beatrice Kizza, a woman in flight from a homeland that condemned her for daring to love, flees to London. There, she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city, & navigates a night-time world of shift-work & bedsits. Howard Pink is a self-made millionaire who has risen from Petticoat Lane to the mansions of Kensington on a tide of determination & bluster. Yet self-doubt still snaps at his heels & his life is shadowed by the terrible loss that has shaken him to his foundations. Carol Hetherington, recently widowed, is living the quiet life in Wandsworth with her cat & The Jeremy Kyle Show for company. As she tries to come to terms with the absence her husband has left on the other side of the bed, she frets over her daughter`s prospects & wonders if she`ll ever be happy again. Esme Reade is a young journalist learning to muck-rake & doorstep in pursuit of the elusive scoop, even as she longs to find some greater meaning & leave her imprint on the world. Four strangers, each inhabitants of the same city, where the gulf between those who have too much & those who will never have enough is impossibly vast. But when the glass that separates Howard`s & Beatrice`s worlds is shattered by an inexcusable act, they discover that the capital has connected them in ways they could never have imagined. ...

Mario Leme is a low-ranking detective in the Sao Paolo civil police. Every day on the way to work he sets off early & drives through the favela known as Paraisopolis
- Paradise City. It`s a pilgrimage: his wife Renata was gunned down at an intersection here a year ago, the victim of a stray bullet in a conflict between drug dealers. One morning, parked near the place where Renata died, he sees an SUV careen out of control & flip over. The driver Leo is killed, but before his body is removed, Leme is sure he sees bullet wounds. Leo`s death wasn`t an accident, he was murdered. Soon, his girlfriend turns up dead too. & if they were killed deliberately, perhaps Renata was too.. . Leme finds himself immersed further & further in the dark underbelly of Brazilian society, as corruption seeps from the highest to the lowest echelons, & the devastating truth about Renata begins to emerge.
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