Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot to ever serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. For the Navy`s Search & Rescue pilots, getting to work is both an adventure & an ordeal. Whether rescuing a wounded fighter pilot who has ditched in the sea, saving desperate survivors from a sinking ship, or picking up a grievously ill crewman from the deck of a nuclear-armed submarine that is playing a cat-&-mouse game with the Soviet navy, Jerry Grayson has lived a life of unparalleled excitement & adventure. His finest hour came during the infamous Fastnet Yacht Race of 1979 in which 25 yachts were lost. When a catastrophic storm enveloped the competitors he & his crew pushed their Wessex helicopter to its absolute limits & put their own lives at risk, flying into hurricane-force winds to winch shipwrecked sailors from heaving tempestuous seas. An investiture at Buckingham Palace with Her Majesty the Queen was the result. Being a Rescue Pilot is a fast-paced career because there is no choice. Lives are at stake & pilots must move & think fast. Jerry Grayson`s inside view of this heroic service is as inspirational as it is celebratory. Excitingly told, frequently funny but also very poignant, Jerry`s story is not an account of just one man`s deeds, it is a salute to all the men & women he worked with who were able to turn tragedies into triumphs.

Includes:: a Foreword by HRH The Duke of York, Prince Andrew, Commodore-in-Chief of the Fleet Air Arm.

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This silk-screened keepsake box contains 150 sheets of rescued paper perfect for recording one-of-a-kind thoughts. Each sheet of notepaper has a blank side for writing, while the other side is adorned with a previously printed design. Refill by rescuing & reusing your old sheets of paper, too! RESCUED PAPER products are made from paper stocks that would otherwise be discarded. No paper is pulped in this line. Found in Old Delhi`s Paper Market as well as among misprints & overruns from manufacturers across India, the rescued paper is sorted, folded, & bound with thread & silkscreened covers. Designed by SUKIE, the acclaimed UK-based studio of Darrell & Julia Gibbs. ...

This hardcover notebook features a silk-screened cover, cloth spine & 90 pages of rescued paper within. The sheets are folded & bound so that the blank sides face out for writing, while the previously printed sides face in, offering a peekaboo reveal. RESCUED PAPER products are made from paper stocks that would otherwise be discarded. No paper is pulped in this line. Found in Old Delhi`s Paper Market as well as among misprints & overruns from manufacturers across India, the rescued paper is sorted, folded, & bound with thread & silkscreened covers. Designed by SUKIE, the acclaimed UK-based studio of Darrell & Julia Gibbs. ...

Researching the history of a house can be fascinating, but may not be straightforward, especially in London. Fortunately, London, is rich in archives. This guide, written by an expert in researching London's built environment, is a must for anyone in the Greater London area who wants to trace the past of a house. The book details the sources, & also presents three case histories of houses
- Georgian, Victorian & modern suburban
- to show what might be investigated.

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At the close of a beautiful summer day near the quiet Connecticut town where they live, the Learner family
- Ethan & Grace, their
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A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN FT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family`s loss. Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of Engl&. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks & a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must. An extraordinary novel of cumulative power & grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world & the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger`s tragedy refuse to subside. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE `A rare & dazzling feat of art` George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo ` Mc Gregor writes with such grace & precision, with love even, about who & where we are, that he leaves behind all other writers of his generation` Sarah Hall, author of The Wolf Border ` Reservoir 13 is quite extraordinary
- the way it`s structured, the way it rolls, the skill with which Jon Mc Gregor lets the characters breathe & age` Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
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The Reshaping of British Railways is a piece of railway history every dedicated enthusiast will want in their collection. Bradshaw`s Guide has given birth to a wave of nostalgia for our Victorian & Edwardian railway systems. The Reshaping of British Railways, another facsimile which will fascinate train buffs, is the document that decimated these systems forever. With the British Rail company`s failure, by the early 1960s, to stem the network`s huge annual losses, the government turned to Dr Richard Beeching. He was to save money by recommending the cutting of redundant routes & services. His two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) & The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), were published by the British Railways Board in 1965, & offer a fascinating snapshot of our nation`s railways. In the first part of this historic facsimile, Dr Beeching identifies the 2, 363 stations & 5, 000 miles (8, 000 km) of railway line for closure
- over 50% of all stations & 30% of route miles. The second part recommends a small number of major remaining routes for significant investment. Well documented nationwide protests resulted in the saving of some stations & lines, but the majority were closed as planned & Beeching`s name is to this day associated with the mass closure of railways & the loss of many local services in the period that followed. Now, for the first time, this iconic piece of railway history is available in its entirety, complete with the original tables & maps of routes deemed fit for closure.
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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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In the summer of 1940, as the German Occupation tightened its grip on Paris, Agnes Humbert helped to establish one of the first resistance cells. Within a year the group was publishing a news bulletin, helping allied airmen escape & passing military information back to London. Then came the catastrophe of betrayal, followed by arrest & interrogation, imprisonment & trial &, for Agnes, deportation to slave labour camp in Germany. Resistance is the secret journal of a woman who never gave up hope. ...

Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley. In his hugely anticipated debut novel, Owen Sheers has produced a beautifully imagined & powerfully moving story of love & loss. ...