`A luminous & poignant novel about childhood, war, exile & identity...this is literature at its most powerful` Le Parisien Magazine Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expat neighbourhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother & little sister, Ana, is something close to paradise. These are happy, carefree days spent with his friends sneaking cigarettes & stealing mangoes, swimming in the river & riding bikes in the streets they have turned into their kingdom. But dark clouds are gathering over this small country, & soon their peaceful idyll will shatter when Burundi & neighbouring Rwanda are brutally hit by war & genocide. A haunting & luminous novel of extraordinary power, Small Country describes a devastating end of innocence as seen through the eyes of a young child caught in the maelstrom of history. It is a stirring tribute not only to a time of tragedy, but also to the bright days that came before it. ...

Cute & cuddly Fluffy Chick soft toy with excellent detailing. Swing tag

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At the `small g`, a Zurich bar known for its not exclusively gay clientele, the lives of a small community are played out one summer. Rickie Markwalder is a designer whose lover Petey was brutally murdered. Rickie & his performing dog Lulu are regulars at the bar, as are vindictive Renate, a seamstress, & her teenage apprentice Luisa. Into their lives comes Teddie, impressionable & beautiful, & a catalyst for the series of events that will change everything. Patricia Highsmith`s final novel is an intricate exploration of love & sexuality, the depths of spite & the triumph of human kindness. It is a work that, in the tradition of Shakespeare`s A Midsummer Night`s Dream, shows us how bizarre & unpredictable love can be. Small g, in the words of her biographer Andrew Wilson, is an `extended fairy tale suggesting that...happiness is precarious &...romance should be embraced.` ...

A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017 PICK A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe best books make you see differently. This is one of them. The eye-opening new novel from Jodi Picoult, with the biggest of themes: birth, death, & responsibility. When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer & the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected & not. Small Great Things is about prejudice & power; it is about that which divides & unites us. It is about opening your eyes. SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS & JULIA ROBERTS ...

Small Heath & Sparkbook in 1903 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 Small Heath area of Birmingham & also

Includes:: the eastern part of Sparkbrook & smaller parts of Bordesley & Balsall Heath. Coverage stretches from Gladstone Road eastward to Hay Barn Farm & Hay Mills, & from Kenelm Road southward to Alfred Road. Features include Victoria Park, Coventry Road area, Golden Hillock Road, Birmingham Small Arms Factory, St Cyprian`s church, Hay Hall, Warwick & Birmingham Canal, Emmanuel church, GWR railway with Small Heath station, engine shed, Westminster Works, tramways, Football Ground, Matchless cycle works, Christ Church, River Cole, etc. On the reverse are street directory entries for Anderton Road, Bolton Road, Byron Road, Golden Hillock Road, Montgomery Street & Waverley Road. 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.

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Fully revised & updated, this is the most comprehensive guide in English to Andalucia`s vibrant boutique hotel scene. This new & fully updated 5th edition of Guy Hunter-Watts` celebrated guide contains 130 of the very best small hotels & hostelries in Spain`s fabulous Andalucia province. It
Includes:: fabulous range of hotels
- from small & chic to sumptuous; wide range of locations
- countryside, town, ocean`s edge
- with a choice of hotels in the great cities of Seville, Cordoba, Cadiz, & Granada; author`s detailed assessment of each place based
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- on his personal inspection; information
- websites with full contact details, description, accommodation type, food, directions...and more; &, two full pages per entry with informative interior & exterior photographs.






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This new guide, by the author of the acclaimed Inland Trips from the Costa Blanca, brings together some of the most delightful places to stay in the regions of Valencia, Teruel & Murcia. Each entry boasts: photograph; location; accommodation; eating & drinking; prices; website contact; plus the author's personal assessment
- based on a visit. Palacios, country estates, water mills, village houses...many of them recently restored by a young generation of hoteliers
- generate their own unique ambience to delight the visitor.

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It is 1948, & England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh`s neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn`t know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It`s desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie & knock at her door. Gilbert`s wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica & start a better life in Engl&. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, & far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was. ...

Small Island by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction, & the Orange Prize`s ` Best of the Best`, as well as the Commonwealth Writers` Prize & the Whitbread. It is possibly the definitive fictional account of the experiences of the Empire Windrush generation. ` Honest, skilful, thoughtful & important`
- Guardian It is 1948, & England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh`s neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn`t know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It`s desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie & knock at her door. Gilbert`s wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica & start a better life in Engl&. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, & far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was...
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Shortlisted for a 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award. From stalwart little locomotives of topographic necessity, to the maverick engines of one man`s whimsy, Britain`s narrow-gauge steam trains run on tracks a world apart from its regimented mainlines. In Small Island by Little Train, eccentricity enthusiast Chris Arnot sets out to discover their stories. Stories include miniature railway on the Kent coast, used for Home Guard military trains during World War II, & now the school commute for dozens of local school children. The UK`s only Alpine-style rack-&-pinion railway, scaling one of Britain`s highest mountains. The five different gauges of railway circling one man`s landscaped garden, & the team building their own trains to run on it. Far more than mere relics of the nation`s industrial past, or battered veterans of wartime Britain, these are also stories of epic feats of preservation, volunteerism, tourism, & local history. They are an exploration of idiosyncrasy, enthusiasm & eccentricity. Or, to put it another way, a tale of Britishness. ...