Winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969. It is 1956 & Townrow is in Port Said
- of these two facts he`s reasonably certain.
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The bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel & Tulip Fever is back with a warm, witty & wise novel about the unexpected twists that later life can bring...` Nobody in the world knows our secret.. .that I`ve ruined Bev`s life, & she`s ruined mine.` Petra`s love life is a bit of a car-crash, even in her sixties. But then she falls for Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad. The catch? Jeremy is her best friend`s husb&. & just as Petra is beginning to relax guiltily into her happy ever after, she finds herself catapulted to West Africa, & to Bev, her best friend who she`s been betraying so spectacularly. It turns out that no matter where you are in the world, everyone has something to hide. Can Bev
- can anyone
- be trusted?

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` Nobody in the world knows our secret...that I`ve ruined Bev`s life, & she`s ruined mine.` Petra`s romantic life has always been a car-crash, & even in her sixties she`s still capable of getting it disastrously wrong. But then she falls in love with Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad. The fatal catch? Jeremy is her best friend`s husb&. But just as Petra is beginning to relax into her happy ever after, she finds herself catapulted to West Africa, & to Bev, her best friend who she`s been betraying so spectacularly. Meanwhile, on opposite sides of the world, two other women are also struggling with the weight of betrayal: Texan Lorrie is about embark on the biggest deception of her life, & in China Li-Jing is trying to understand exactly what it is her husband does on his West African business trips... It turns out that no matter where you are in the world, everyone has something to hide. Can Bev
- can anyone
- be trusted?

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Jamal Khan, a psychoanalyst in his fifties living in London, is haunted by memories of his teens: his first love, Ajita; the exhilaration of sex, drugs & politics; & a brutal act of violence which changed his life for ever. As he & his best friend Henry attempt to make the sometimes painful, sometimes comic transition to their divorced middle age, balancing the conflicts of desire & dignity, Jamal`s teenage traumas make a shocking return into his present life. ...

Veteran travel writer Eric Newby has a massive following & is cherished as the forefather of the modern comic travel book. However, less known are his adventures during the years he spent as an apprentice & commercial buyer in the improbable trade of women`s fashion. From his repatriation as a prisoner of war in 1945 to his writing of the bestselling `A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush` in 1956, Eric Newby`s years as a commercial traveller in the world of haute couture were as full of adventure & oddity as any during his time as travel editor for the Observer. ` Something Wholesale` is Newby`s hilarious & wonderfully chaotic tale of the disorder that was his life as an apprentice to the family garment firm of Lane & Newby, including hilariously recounted escapades with sudden-onset wool allergies, waist-deep predicaments in tissue paper & the soul-destroying task of matching buttons. In addition to the charming chaos of his work in the family business, it is also a warm & loving portrait of his father, a delightfully eccentric gentleman who managed to spend more energy avoiding & actively participating in disasters than he did in preserving his business. With its quick wit, self-deprecating charm & splendidly fascinating detail, this is vintage Newby
- only with a garment bag in place of a well-worn suitcase.
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Somewhere Else is a thousand miles away & right next-door. It`s where fly-fishing takes you: a place & state of mind. In fourteen beautifully crafted stories Charles Rangeley-Wilson takes us around the world, from Arctic Quebec to upland Croatia, from the Scottish islands to the Northern Territories, always journeying into the heart of the landscape to meet ordinary, extraordinary people. Somewhere Else is a book about escaping from what you think you know, to find out how things really are. ...

In Somewhere Over The Rainbow foreign correspondent Gavin Bell returns to the country whose last days of apartheid he reported on, to learn what became of the ` Rainbow Nation` & discover a country full of haunting beauty & surprises, but one at odds with itself. Near the southern tip of Africa, there is a mountain that does a conjuring trick with the biggest tablecloth on earth. In a sacred forest near the Limpopo river, there is a bird that flies on wings of thunder, flashing lightning from its eyes & bearing rain in its beak. In between, there is a hauntingly beautiful land & millions of confused people. When Archbishop Desmond Tutu dubbed his native South Africa the ` Rainbow Nation`, he conjured a vision of ethnic diversity & harmony in a country with eleven official languages, two national anthems, & a parliament that shuttled between two cities. As a foreign correspondent reporting on the last days of apartheid, Gavin Bell thought it was a brave image & wondered how long it would endure. A few years later, he returned to find out what had happened to Tutu`s rainbow. In his travels he found a country at odds with itself, swinging between hope & despair, buoyed by a sense of freedom & haunted by a fear of violent crime. Somewhere Over The Rainbow is not only a fine travel book by an award-winning writer, it is a compelling portrait of a country in search of an identity. The leopard stories are good too. ...

Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs, now aged ninety, & freed from any inhibitions that even she may once have had, she reflects frankly on the losses & occasionally the gains that old age brings, & on the wisdom & fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers & friendships: the people & experiences that have taught her to regret very little, to resist despondency & to question the beliefs & customs of her own generation. ...

This remarkable novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers` Prize, tells the story of three women, each of them far from where they came, all of whom are still searching for somewhere that can be called home. Maysa returns to the house that was her grandparents` when she was a child, in a village high on the slopes of Mount Lebanon. Aida, who has long since left the country of her birth, returns in search of the Palestinian refugee who was a second father to her when she was a child. & Salwa, now an old woman, recalls her life from her hospital bed, surrounded by her family but still, in some sense, far from home. ...

Somiedo Natural Park, a popular hiking area of the Cordillera Cantabrica lying between the two Camino de Santiago routes across northern Spain, presented on a hiking map at 1:60, 000 from Adrados Ediciones, with an enlargement at 1:30, 000 for its central part. The main map at 1:60, 000 is centred Approx. on Pola de Somiedo & covers the whole of the park, extending south to the route joining Villablino, Cabrillanes & San Emiliano. The map has contours at 40m intervals with altitude colouring & relief sharing. Numerous peaks & other topographical features are named. Hiking routes are highlighted & symbols mark campsites, mountain refuges, viewpoints, climbing areas & locations of petrol stations. On the reverse the central part of the park is shown at 1:30, 000 with the excellent cartography used in the publishers’ coverage of the Picos de Europa. Contours are at 10, intervals with additional graphic relief for exposed rocky faces. Both maps have a UTM grid. Also included are a geological/geomorphologic & a vegetation map of the park area & extensive notes on its geology, climate, fauna & flora, etc. Map legend & all the text are in Spanish only. To see the list of other hiking maps from Adrados Ediciones please click on the series link. ...