Think ` Woodstock` & the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs & rock `n` roll. But Woodstock itself was over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. So why the misnomer? Quite simply, Woodstock was already a key location in the Sixties rock landscape, the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan had holed up after his 1966 motorcycle accident. In Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns recreates Woodstock`s community of brilliant dysfunctional musicians, opportunistic hippie capitalists & scheming dealers drawn to the area by Dylan & his sidekicks The B&. Central to the book`s narrative is the broodingly powerful presence of Albert Grossman, manager of Dylan, The B&, Janis Joplin & Todd Rundgren
- & Big Daddy of a personal fiefdom in Bearsville that encompassed studios, restaurants & his own record label. Intertwined in the story are the Woodstock experiences of artists as diverse as Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Butterfield, Tim Hardin, Karen Dalton & Bobby Charles. Drawing on first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the scene, & on the period when he lived there himself in the 1990s, Hoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his bestselling LA Canyon classic Hotel California
- a richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time & place.

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Small Wars sees soldier Hal Treherne on the brink of a brilliant military career, when he & his family are posted to an emergency gripped Cyprus. Hal & the British must defend the colony against Cypriot guerrillas, some no more than school boys, who are fighting for unification with Greece. In Sadie Jones’s novel, Hal’s wife Clara shares her husband’s sense of duty & knows that, despite the harsh circumstances, she must knuckle down & make the very best of things. But the action Hal sees on Cyprus changes him, & the atrocities he is drawn into take him not only further away from Clara, but from himself too. ...

‘ Small Wars Permitting’ is a collection of Christina Lamb’s best reportage, following the principal events of the last two decades everywhere from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. But Lamb’s main interest has always been in the untold stories, the people & places others don’t visit. Undaunted by danger, disease or despots, she has travelled by canoe through the Amazon rainforest in search of un-contacted Indians, joined a Rio samba school to infiltrate crime rackets behind Carnival & survived a terrifying ambush by Taliban. No less remarkable are the characters that Lamb meets along the way, from Marsh Arabs who covet Play Stations instead of buffaloes to an Armenian compère for performing dolphins with whom she travelled during the war in Iraq. Since leaving England aged 21 with an invitation to a Karachi wedding & a yearning for adventure, Christina Lamb has spent 20 years living out of suitcases, reporting from around the world & becoming one of Britain’s most highly regarded journalists. She has won numerous awards, including being named Foreign Correspondent of the Year a remarkable four times. Lamb’s writing is passionate, powerful & poetic, transforming reportage into literature. Through the stories she tells
- & her own development from a self-confessed ‘war junkie’ to a devoted mother
- Lamb attempts to comprehend the human consequences of conflict in the countries she has come to know.

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The collapse of Western colonial empires after the Second World War led to any number of vicious struggles for power whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills & clear eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those struggles. He takes us on a historical journey from Palestine to Pakistan, from Cuba to Indo-China & reframes mid-20th century history by forcing us to look away from the Cold War to the hot wars that continue to afflict us. The result is a dazzling work of history, which examines the death of colonialism with passion, insight & genuine understanding of what it feels like to be caught in the middle of realpolitik. ...

The collapse of Western colonial empires in the twenty years after the Second World War led to a series of vicious struggles for power
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Scores of small wooden boats can be seen tied up at wharves & moorings or hauled onto the shores of the eastern coastline of North America. Many vessels are no longer being built, & may vanish. This lovingly compiled volume documents 20 types of vessels, preserving forever their beauty & practicality. ...

” Small World” is a biting, very funny satire in which Parr looks at tourism worldwide, exposing the increasingly homogenous `global culture` where in the search for different cultures those same cultures are destroyed. Parr`s larger-than-life troupe of tourists are ultimately bemused victims of consumerism, locked into our insatiable craving for `the new`. ...

At first, they put Konrad`s absentmindedness down to an immoderate fondness for alcohol. For years he had been a benign parasite on the Koch family, first as the childhood playmate of Thomas, heir to the Koch family fortune, later as caretaker of the Koch family holiday villa on Corfu. & they, in their turn, had used him as the mood took them. But when the villa burns down because of Konrad`s forgetfulness, Elvira Senn, the matriarch of the Koch family, puts him on a strict regime. No longer allowed his daily tipple, Konrad recovers & even falls in love again. But then his condition deteriorates. He can`t find his way out of the supermarket, let alone his way home. Soon Konrad doesn`t even recognise his new lover. Alzheimer`s has taken hold. As Konrad loses his present he regains his distant past, & this is what Elvira fears the most. As they watch & wait for him to rewind to the crucial moment, his life is in danger from far more than the debilitating disease...A gripping psychological thriller, Small World depicts a man with a void in his soul whose only salvation lies buried deep within himself. ...

Smallthorne & East Tunstall in 1898 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. 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. In this title: two versions have been published for this area. The maps cover the eastern edge of Tunstall & northern part of Burslem, including Smallthorne & Bradeley. Features include NSR Potteries Loop Line with Tunstall station, NSR Tunstall Branch, Pinnox Sidings, electricity works, tramways, Tunstall Park, Globe Pottery, Scotia Bank Works, Bycars Brick & Pipe Works, Burslem Park, St Werburga's church, Stanfield Sanatorium, Nettlebank Wharf, Bank Top, Smallthorne area, St Saviour's church, cemetery, Old Council Offices, old collieries, Bradeley area, etc. The 1898 version has an 1892 directory of Smallthorne on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Smallthorne & East Tunstall in 1898 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. Two versions have been published for this area. The maps cover the eastern edge of Tunstall & northern part of Burslem, including Smallthorne & Bradeley. Features include NSR Potteries Loop Line with Tunstall station, NSR Tunstall Branch, Pinnox Sidings, electricity works, tramways, Tunstall Park, Globe Pottery, Scotia Bank Works, Bycars Brick & Pipe Works, Burslem Park, St Werburga`s church, Stanfield Sanatorium, Nettlebank Wharf, Bank Top, Smallthorne area, St Saviour`s church, cemetery, Old Council Offices, old collieries, Bradeley area, etc. The 1898 version has an 1892 directory of Smallthorne on the reverse. 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. ...