A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses & chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own. ...

Timothy Mo`s first novel in a decade is set within the battle for secession in the Muslim regions of southern Thail&. Pure covers epic expanses of time & is told through narrators who range from fanatical zealots to decorated Oxbridge dons. Everything that Mo`s readers expect abound in this long-awaited novel: versatile style, memorable characters, insight into those tormented by dual loyalties & the ability to handle the weightiest of themes with a light touch. By examining the cultural wars of the past & present, Pure`s themes are among the most important of the day. ...

The Amsterdam Hilton houses one of the most remarkable Italian restaurants: Roberto`s. For more than 20 years the team of Roberto Payer & chef Franz Conde have been cooking delicious & honest Italian food. For the first time people can now make these great recipes at home. With menu suggestions & tips for family dinners & aperitifs this book shows how you can surprise your guests with a special meal. Moreover Roberto shows us the different Italian regions where he gets his ingredients. Every recipe, accompanied by stunning photography, is a true feast. ...

Creepy. Peculiar. Fairy. Goblin. Liar. Weirdo. Crank. Genius. No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother. & clothes, boys, school, friends, the changing seasons & what other people think
- none of these things seem to matter to Juliet. She spends hours in her room with incomprehensible mathematical text books, her mind voyaging in strange seas of thought, alone. Is she a genius? It might take the rest of her life to find out. While Stella Gibbons was celebrated for her beloved bestseller Cold Comfort Farm, the manuscript for Pure Juliet lay unseen & forgotten until it was brought to light by her family in 2014, & is published here for the first time in Vintage Classics. A tale that travels from an eco-millionaire`s British country idyll to an Arabian Nights-style fantasy of the Middle East, this is a treat for fans of this witty, curious & always surprising author.
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Simon Cardoso has been dead for thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, finds him in a New Jersey diner. Testimonies confirmed that Simon had been one of the thousands of victims of Argentina`s military regime, executed for being a `subversive`; yet this man is identical to the man she lost three decades ago. While skirting around the mystery, Eloy Martinez masterfully peels away layer upon layer of history
- both personal & political. & just as Simon`s disappearance comes to represent the thousands of disappearances that were such a common occurrence during the dictatorship, so Emilia`s refusal to accept his death mirrors the country`s unwillingness to face its reality. The final work of the late Martinez, Purgatory is his most moving, most autobiographical novel.
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A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of ` Freedom` & ` The Corrections` Young Pip Tyler doesn`t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she`s saddled with $130, 000 in student debt, that she`s squatting with anarchists in Oakl&, & that her relationship with her mother
- her only family
- is hazardous. But she doesn`t have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she`ll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with the Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world
- including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn`t underst&, & the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right & wrong. Jonathan Franzen`s Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, & murder. The author of The Corrections & Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters
- Californians & East Germans, good parents & bad parents, journalists & leakers
- & he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet & as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring & penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.




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The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom & The Corrections Pip Tyler doesn`t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she`s saddled with student debt & a reclusive mother, but there are few clues as to who her father is or how she`ll ever have a normal life. Then she meets Andreas Wolf
- internet outlaw, charismatic provocateur, a man who deals in secrets & might just be able to help her solve the mystery of her origins.
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Purley in 1910 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map provides good coverage of this residential area south-west of Croydon. Purley Junction station is in the south-eastern corner with the village centre nearby. Spacious roads with villas then cross much of the map, including Furze Lane, Furze Hill, Foxley Lane, Rose Walk & Peaks Hill. Russell Hill, with the Warehousemen & Clerks & Drapers Schools, is also on the map. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Purley Oaks in 1895 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the eastern part of Purley, including the Brighton Road, Christ Church, Purley Oaks, Haling Lime Works, Purley Downs, Briton Hill. Stretches of the LBSCR main line & East Grinstead line are shown with Sanderstead station. The map is double-sided to include part of the very rural Sheet 20.03, covering Sanderstead Court, All Saints church & Sanderstead Plantation. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Purnululu National Park on a detailed map at 1:210, 000 from Hema, with the Bungle Bungle Range presented in more detail at 1:100, 000. Topography is shown by contours with spot heights. The map shows local roads & 4WD tracks & highlights various facilities, including camping areas & caravan parks, general stores & eateries, fuels supplies, etc. Latitude/longitude grid is at intervals of 5 ...