The beautifully spellbinding & critically acclaimed story of a thousand magical worlds from the author of A Girl Called Owl & A Far Away Magic. When daydreamer Clementine discovers a mysterious house standing in the middle of town that was never there before, she is pulled towards it by the powerful sense of a mother she never knew. The place is full of snowglobes, swirling with stars & snow & each containing a trapped magician, watched over by Gan, the bitter keeper of the house. One of these is Dylan, a boy who teases her in the real world but who is now desperate for her help. So Clem ventures into the snowglobes, rescuing Dylan & discovering her own powerful connection to the magic of these thousand worlds. Vowing to release the magicians from the control of their enchantments, Clem unknowingly unleashes a struggle for power that will not only put her family, but the future of magic itself in danger.` One of the most purely original & imaginative children’s books I have read this year` Piers Torday, author of The Lost Magician` Beautiful prose, a wholly original premise & filled to the brim with fairytale magic. Perfect reading as the colder nights draw in` Abi Elphinstone, author of Sky Song`A spellbinding adventure in a magical & darkly beautiful world... utterly captivating` Sophie Anderson, author of The House with Chicken Legs ...

A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students & falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed. Her situation touches him, but he is too frightened to help. He spends decades convincing himself that he is not in love until one day, with Germany now reunited, he decides to go back & look for her. But who was she, how will his actions have affected her, & how will her find her? All he knows of her identity is the nickname he gave her
- Snowleg. Snowleg is a powerful love story that explores the close, fraught relationship between England & Germany, between a man who grows up believing himself to be a chivalrous English public schoolboy & a woman who tries to live loyally under a repressive regime.
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One winter`s night, a snowman comes to life & an unforgettable adventure begins. Raymond Briggs` favourite classic is a true piece of Christmas magic
- narrated entirely through pictures, it captures the wonder & innocence of childhood & is now recognised throughout the world.
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Snowmotion: Snowdonia by Tube / Eryri drwy'r Tiwb, another lovely poster from Peter Burgess published by Tubular Fells, presenting the mountains in a diagrammatic format best associated with the London Underground network. Following the success of his presentation of the Lakeland Fells & the Scottish Munros, Peter Burgess has applied his clever design to the Snowdonia National Park. Mountains are grouped into nine lines: Cadair Idris, Moel Hebog, Rhinogau, Arengis, etc. Nine more routes show the railway lines & another eight hiking trails, including the Cistercian Way, Glyndwyr ...

Men & women of passion & action live, fight, love & die in scenes of dramatic intensity. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of the stories in this classic collection is a feat of imagination, & a masterpiece of description. The Snows of Kilimanjaro is one of the best known & loved collections of stories by one of the greatest literary novelists of the twentieth century. ...

Snowy Mountains
- Kosciuszko National Park, one of five maps designed to cover in greater detail the most popular national parks
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant & innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies
- & an ancient crime more terrible than murder. He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, occasionally snookered & out of his mind. But never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase & there must be a punishment. They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. But not quite all... Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
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Meet Snuggle Bunny
- a tired little rabbit who wants to go to bed! What are all the things he does before he goes to sleep? Join
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A portrayal of the troubled countries of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador & Nicaragua, as the author travels through them by train & bus. The author shows daily lives lived against a backdrop of continued & seemingly endless political friction & conflicts, in places that exhibit the contradictions inherent in an area of which Porfirio Diaz said: ” Poor Mexico! So far from God, so close to the United States”. It is an observation that serves as an epigraph to the book, as a means of showing how fervent Catholicism can live side by side with extreme violence, how people can show alternating friendliness & suspicion towards strangers, & how the attitudes with which Central America & the United States regard one another can be a mixture of both fear & longing. ...

” Acclaimed restaurateur Dany Chouet helped shape French cuisine in Australia throughout the 1970s & 80s through her successful restaurants Upstairs, Au Chabrol & Cleopatra. Now back in south-west France, she & her partner are wooing international customers with gourmet tours & Dany`s quintessential country cooking. In her first book, So French, Dany tells her fascinating life story which is interwoven with more than 60 timeless recipes & complemented by stunning images taken at her home & guesthouse in the south of France. This is truly a book to treasure. From traditional garlic & onion soup to hearty salt cod & potato ragout & sweet nectarine & raspberry gratin, browsing through the pages of So French is sure to make your tastebuds tingle & your thoughts travel to Provence.” ...