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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From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things & Even the Dogs. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family`s loss.A GUARDIAN NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 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. As the seasons unfold there are those who leave the village & those who are pulled back; those who come together or break apart. There are births & deaths; secrets kept & exposed; livelihoods made & lost; small kindnesses & unanticipated betrayals. Bats hang in the eaves of the church & herons stand sentry in the river; fieldfares flock in the hawthorn trees & badgers & foxes prowl deep in the woods
- mating & fighting, hunting & dying. 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.
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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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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. ...

Military topographic survey mapping with contours. These maps are designed primarily as flying charts for aircraft, but they are useful as general topographical maps where nothing else is available. Contours are shown in feet, with elevation colouring & spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown (but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named, & the road information is not necessarily up to date). Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Double-sided sheet. ...

Martin W. Sandler, Pulitzer Prize nominee, & Emmy[registered] Award winner, tackles the story of the Resolute
- the finest vessel
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A year & a day after James Cook arrived back on English soil having claimed Australia & New Zealand for the British crown, he set sail again on a three-year journey (1772-1775) that still remains the greatest exploratory voyage ever undertaken in the far Southern waters of the Indian, Pacific & Atlantic Oceans. His was the first ship ever to cross the Antarctic Circle, & no sailing ship since has ventured further south through the ice. This is a colourful & exciting story of the crew & their life aboard the Resolution & the adventures that occurred whenever they landed on exotic islands & coasts such as Tahiti, Easter Isl&, the Tonga Islands & above all the snow, fog, treacherous ice & blizzards of Antarctica. ...

A. N. Wilson`s powerful new novel explores the life & times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, & the golden age of Britain`s period of expansion & exploration. Wilson`s protagonist, witness to Cook`s brilliance & wisdom, is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist on board the HMS Resolution, on Cook`s second expedition to the southern hemisphere, & penned a famous account of the journey. Resolution moves back & forth across time, to depict Forster`s time with Cook, & his extraordinary later life, which ended with his death in Paris, during the French Revolution. Wilson once again demonstrates his great powers as a master craftsman of the historical & the human in this richly evoked novel, which brings to life the real & the extraordinary, brilliantly drawing together a remarkable cast of characters in order to look at human endeavour, ingenuity & valour. ...