Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders
- rich provincial familes,
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Step into the exquisite, miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge in this beautiful new edition of the classic picture book. Wilfred woke early. It was his birthday. He had lots of lovely presents, but the best one was a surprise! Mr Apple had organised a secret celebration picnic & all the mice of Brambly Hedge were invited. There was so much to carry. Poor Wilfred got very tired as he lurched & bumped his way along the grassy track. What was it Mrs Apple had said was in his hamper? Knives? Sandwiches? They were certainly heavy! When they finally arrived, Wilfred was allowed to open up the hamper & there he found the best treat of all! ...

` Enough to keep any thriller fan up for hours...terrific & memorable` Peter Robinson The spring tides are the highest of the year in Nordkoster; the beach will be covered in particularly deep water tonight. Three men on the beach are digging a hole, covertly watched by a young boy. His intrigue turns to horror as he makes out a fourth figure
- the woman for whom the hole is intended. Buried up to her neck in the s&, the high tide is rapidly approaching. Still screaming in terror, the victim takes her last breath as water fills her nose & mouth
- in her stomach, she feels her baby kick. & her waters break. Twenty-four years later, the abhorrent crime remains unsolved; gruesome violence however is still prevalent after all those years. A gang has been beating up & killing homeless people in parks
- worse still, they are filming their attacks & broadcasting them on the internet. The police have their work cut out trying to keep abreast of the crime wave. Olivia Ronning hopes to follow in her father`s footsteps & join their ranks in the next few months after she completes her training; she has only one last hurdle to overcome over the summer break, a challenge from her professor to pick a cold case & solve it. Should be simple, she thinks. Little does she know the world she is getting involved in, the danger she faces & the ugly truths she risks uncovering. A masterpiece by the king & queen of Scandinavian crime, Cilla & Rolf Borjlind. Cinematic & powerful
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It is a time of awakening. In our -fields, hedgerows & woodlands, our beaches, cities & parks, an almost imperceptible shift soon becomes a riot of sound &

Colour: winter ends, & life surges forth once more. Whether in town or country, we all share in this natural rhythm, in the joy & anticipation of the changing year.; In prose & poetry both old & new, Spring mirrors the unfolding of the season, inviting us to see what`s around us with new eyes. Featuring original writing by Rob Cowen, Miriam Darlington & Stephen Moss, classic extracts from the work of George Orwell, Clare Leighton & H. E. Bates, & fresh new voices from across the UK, this is an original & inspiring collection of nature writing that brings the British springtime to life in all its vivid glory.

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Map No. 2916, Springbok, in South Africa’s official topographic survey at 1:250, 000 from the country’s national survey organization, the Chief Directorate of Surveys & Mapping. The maps have altitude colouring & contours at 50m or 100m intervals, depending on the map edition, plus spot heights. Deserts, marshes, dry pans, perennial & seasonal water features, etc, as well as protected areas are shown. The maps present the country’s road & rail networks & include the usual information expected on topographic mapping at this scale, although in more rapidly developing areas road information may not necessarily be up to date. Also indicated are magisterial district & provincial boundaries. Latitude & longitude values are shown in the margins at 5` intervals together with South African grid co-ordinates. Typically, each sheet covers an area of one degree of latitude & two degrees of longitude. The projection used is Gauss Conformal. The legend is in English & Afrikaans. ...

Springburn & Possilpark in 1893 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 map is dominated by the North British Railway, which runs north-south through it. The 1910 version

Includes:: Eastfield engine sheds, Cowlairs Works, the Cowlairs Junctions, Possil Junction, & part of the Sighthill Branch with Springburn station. East of the railway is Springburn itself with Springburn Park, & Stobhill General Hospital is in the top right corner. West of the railway the map covers part of Possil Park, with Clydesdale Iron Works, Saracen Foundry, Keppoch Iron Works, Possil Iron Works, etc. Tramways are also shown, with a tram depot on Hawthorn Street. The area is less built up on the 1893 version. Selections of street directory entries are on the reverse of both maps. 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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Springfield & Decatur in Illinois in a series of indexed street plans of US cities from Universal MAP. On one side is a street plan of Springfield with an enlargement of its downtown area, The reverse side shows a street plan of Decatur, plus detailed plans of the campus of the University of Illinois at Springfield & the Lincoln Land Community Centre. Coverage

Includes:: Forsyth, Harristown, Long Creek, Mount Zion & Village of Chatham. Street plans from Universal MAP are indexed & show each city’s administrative divisions & various facilities & services. Unlike other street plans from Universal MAP this title does not show zip code areas.

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The idea for Springlines came from a walk on the South Downs in the drought of Spring 2012. The poet Clare Best & the artist Mary Anne Aytoun-Ellis went in search of pools of water that are concealed, overlooked or hidden. They found places & whole landscapes rich in history, wildlife, culture & myth. This book presents the work they made about some of those watery places, from dew ponds to ancient wells, clay-pits to furnace ponds, chalk springs to the man-made pools of Glyndebourne. Mary Anne`s paintings sit with Clare`s poetry, alongside short pieces by other writers, & water subjects drawn & painted by Cotman, Cristall, Edridge, Turner & others, to create a book that approaches some of the hidden corners of English landscape & celebrates the vitality of water. With contributions from Alison Brackenbury, Laura Coleman, Alexandra Harris, Alexandra Loske, Richard Mabey, Robert Macfarlane, Steve Marshall, Clare Whistler, Tim Wilcox. ...

Suffering from weltschmerz
- world-weariness
- travel journalist Ben Donald is invited to travel to Germany to rediscover his

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An extraordinary story of love & exile, from one of the great masters of the Latin American novel, translated into English for the first time Santiago is trapped. Taken political prisoner in Montevideo after a brutal military coup, he can do nothing but write letters to his family, & try to stay sane. Far away, his nine-year-old daughter Beatrice wonders at the marvels of 1970s Buenos Aires, but her grandpa & mother
- Santiago`s beautiful, careworn wife, Graciela
- struggle to adjust to a life in exile. Graciela fights to retain the fiery passion that suffused her marriage, her politics, her whole life, as day by day Santiago edges closer to freedom. But Santiago`s rakish, reckless best friend is a constant, brooding presence in the exiles` lives, & Graciela finds herself drawn irresistibly towards him.A lucid, heart-wrenching saga of a family torn apart by the forces of history, Springtime in a Broken Mirror tells with tenderness & fury of the indelible imprint politics leaves on individual lives. Generous & unflinching, it asks whether the broken bonds of family & history can ever truly be mended.

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