` One June day in 1953 aged twelve I sat in a classroom & drew a map.` The map that the young Hamilton-Paterson drew was of a tropical isl&, & it prefigured with uncanny accuracy the Philippine island on which, thirty years later, he would spend a full third of each year, entirely alone. It had a coral str&, a field of grass, vertical volcanic cliffs & no water. He survived by fishing & by drinking rainwater. This is a book about a remarkable & self-sufficient writer`s `desire to be lost`, & the journey of a conventionally educated Englishman to an island on the far side of the world that aroused in him a feeling of discovering a place he always knew. Hamilton-Paterson writes with incomparable skill about the hard beauty of the sea, of coral reefs & the animals that live in them, & about the fishermen who eke a living among the labyrinth of islands that make up the Philippines. ...

A moving, poignant, compelling YA debut, as a 15-year-old boy struggles to understand his best friend`s suicide through the list of songs he leaves behind. Here`s what Sam knows: There was a party. There was a fight. The next morning, his best friend, Hayden, was dead. & all he left Sam was a playlist of songs, & a suicide note: For Sam
- listen & you`ll underst&. As he listens to song after song, Sam tries to face up to what happened the night Hayden killed himself. But it`s only by taking out his earbuds & opening his eyes to the people around him that he will finally be able to piece together his best friend`s story. & maybe have a chance to change his own. Part mystery, part love story, & part coming-of-age tale in the vein of Stephen Chbosky`s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Playlist for the Dead is an honest & gut-wrenching first novel about loss, rage, what it feels like to outgrow a friendship that`s always defined you
- & the struggle to redefine yourself.

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Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings & the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here & in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husb&, & his undisputed masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. This volume

Includes:: all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salome & the little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane & A Florentine Tragedy. The edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output, & to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention.

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This is the second in our Snuggle Books series
- you`ve met Snuggle Bunny, now here`s Playtime Teddy
- a cheery little bear

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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Please Enjoy Your Happiness is a beautifully written coming-of-age memoir based on the English author`s summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman. Whilst serving as a seaman at the age of nineteen, Brinkley-Rogers met Kaji Yukiko, a sophisticated, highly intellectual Japanese woman, who was on the run from her vicious gangster boyfriend, a member of Japan`s brutal crime syndicate the yakuza. Trying to create a perfect experience of purity, she took him under her wing, sharing their love of poetry, cinema & music & many an afternoon at the Mozart Cafe. Brinkley-Rogers, now in his seventies, re-reads Yukiko`s letters & finally recognizes her as the love of his life, receiving at last the gifts she tried to bestow on him. Reaching across time & continents, Brinkley-Rogers shows us how to reclaim a lost love, inviting us all to celebrate those loves of our lives that never do end. ...

Please Enjoy Your Happiness is a beautifully written coming-of-age memoir based on the English author`s summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman. Whilst serving as a seaman at the age of nineteen, Paul Brinkley-Rogers met Kaji Yukiko, a sophisticated, highly intellectual Japanese woman, who was on the run from her vicious gangster boyfriend, a member of Japan`s brutal crime syndicate the yakuza. Trying to create a perfect experience of purity, she took him under her wing, sharing their love of poetry, cinema & music & many an afternoon at the Mozart Cafe. Brinkley-Rogers, now in his seventies, re-reads Yukiko`s letters & finally recognizes her as the love of his life, receiving at last the gifts she tried to bestow on him. Reaching across time & continents, Brinkley-Rogers shows us how to reclaim a lost love, inviting us all to celebrate those loves of our lives that never do end. ...

With a Jon Klassen appeal, Steve Antony is the one to watch. Panda has a tray of doughnuts. Animal after animal tells him the one they want, but it`s only when Lemur says `please` politely that Panda will give any out! A witty & stylish lesson that manners will get you EVERYTHING. Even a trayload of doughnuts. `A simple morality tale...does the job beautifully.`
- The Times (Children`s Book of the Week) ` Households with toddlers may find a new family catchphrase. Simple yet funny enough for multiple readings.`
- Kirkus

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In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson & his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently notorious among the locals, in fact came as a blessed relief after the tensions of Notting Hill, & the local community welcomed them with open arms. Alan had become a postman the previous year, & in order to support his growing family took on every bit of overtime he could, often working twelve-hour shifts six days a week. It was hard work, but not without its compensations
- the crafty fag snatched in a country lane, the farmer`s wife offering a hearty breakfast & even the mysterious lady on Glebe Road who appeared daily, topless, at her window as the postman passed by... Please, Mister Postman paints a vivid picture of England in the 1970s, where no celebration was complete without a Party Seven of Watney`s Red Barrel, smoking was the norm rather than the exception, & Sunday lunchtime was about beer, bingo & cribbage. But as Alan`s life appears to be settling down & his career in the Union of Postal Workers begins to take off, his close-knit family is struck once again by tragedy... Moving, hilarious & unforgettable, Please, Mister Postman is another astonishing book from the award-winning author of ` This Boy`.
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The great Italian masterpiece of sensuality & seduction, published in a new English translation
- the first since the Victorian
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