Whether you`re looking for international music lineups, intimate encounters with literary greats or something altogether more alternative, there`s now a festival to suit every taste under the sun. Hip festival pioneers ” The Big Chill” are experts in the field, & in ” Summer Living” they have teamed up with the ” Guardian” to bring together a comprehensive directory of every event in the UK & across Europe. But ” Summer Living” is more than a simple festival guide
- it also contains month-by-month suggestions for keeping the party going long after the tents have come down & the stages have been dismantled. This title

Features: useful tips for places to camp, swim, walk, eat & drink when the festival is over; hilarious games to play all summer long, from toe-wrestling to human snail races; &, effortless recipes for refreshing cocktails & delicious festival food. With ” Summer Living” in your h&, you can keep the festival spirit alive all year round.


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In the three short weeks between the EU referendum on 23 June 2016 & Theresa May`s ascent to Downing Street on 13 July, Brexit morphed into a mass murderer, destroying everything it touched. As the Bullingdon boys, David Cameron & George Osborne, were sensationally whacked, Mafia-style, the Cabinet was drained of blue blood & the tight-knit Notting Hill Set torn asunder. Michael Gove stabbed fellow Brexit cheerleader Boris Johnson squarely in the back, while Jeremy Corbyn joined the ranks of the living dead, as twentythree shadow Cabinet members deserted him. Even Nigel Farage, the only victorious party leader in the referendum, resigned the UKIP leadership, days after the vote. So how did Brexit turn into this weapon of mass political destruction? In this compelling insider account, journalist Harry Mount reveals the plots, power struggles & personal feuds that brought down a government. Analysing the nationwide split between Europhiles & Eurosceptics, & reflecting on Brexit`s parallels with Donald Trump`s victory, Summer Madness is the ultimate guide to the biggest political coup of the century. ...

A5 hardback travel journal with an old London Transport poster on the cover entitled Summer Sales. The journal has lined pages, & a material page marker to help you keep your place. The artist, Mary Koop studied at the Croydon School of Art & the London School of Art. She exhibited three times at the Royal Academy & designed only one poster for the Underground Group in 1925. It is similar in style & typographical treatment to a series of posters of similar vintage by Horace Taylor. ...

This is a brand new summer title for 2007. Following the success of the ” Sticker Dolly Dressing” series, this exciting sticker book encourages children to fill in the fun summer holiday scenes using the colourful stickers provided. Scenes include the seaside, the jungle, a fun fair, a day at the zoo, the airport, under the sea, a mouse pirate ship, a garden & more. It features over 600 stickers to choose from. ...

A beautiful new cover reissue of this classic book, celebrating thirty years of the mice of Brambly Hedge It was such a hot summer. They sky was deep blue & the sun never faltered. All along Brambly Hedge, the mice did their best to keep cool. Poppy Eyebright sought refuge in the mossy shadows of the mill wheel; Dusty Dogwood took to walking by the banks of the cooling stream. Dusty & Poppy spent more & more time together, so no one was at all surprised when they announced their engagement. They decided on a very unusual setting for the wedding ceremony, but even they didn, t realise just how unusual it was prove to be! ...

Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose & diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer. Your voice woke me up around eight this morning, it sounded unusually close, since, as I discovered upon opening my eyes, you were lying in our bed. You smiled at me & began talking. I made coffee & had a smoke in the office before I ate breakfast with you, & when your mother got up, I came in here to write a new piece. In Summer, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about long days full of sunlight, eating ice cream with his children, lawn sprinklers & ladybirds. He experiments with the beginnings of a novel & keeps a diary in which the small events of his family`s life are recorded. Against a canvas of memories, longings, & experiences of art & literature, he searches for the meaning of moments as they pass us by. ...

Summer is a season of richness: gold against blue; sun dazzle on water; sweet fragrance, & the sound of insects, filling the air. We feel the sand between our toes, or the grass beneath our feet. In these long, warm days, languid & sensual, we reconnect with the natural world, revelling in light & scent & colour once more.; Capturing the high point of the year`s progress, Summer presents prose & poetry spanning eight hundred years. Featuring new contributions by Simon Barnes, Michael Mc Carthy & Esther Woolfson, classic extracts from the work of Charles Dickens, Mary Webb & Philip Larkin, & diverse new nature writing from across the UK, this vibrant & evocative collection will inspire you to go out & enjoy the pleasures of summer. ...

How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other
- a remote valley filled with the scent of hay, jazzing wasps, blackberries plucked & gobbled, & games played until the last drop of dusk. Lee`s joyful & stirring writing captures the very essence of England`s golden season. Selected from the book Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Liberty by Virginia Woolf; Eating by Nigella Lawson; Swimming by Roger Deakin; &, Drinking by John Cheever.
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Shortlisted for a 2016 Edward Standford Travel Writing Award. Summers Under the Tamarind Tree is a contemporary Pakistani cookbook celebrating the varied, exciting & often-overlooked cuisine of a beautiful country. In it, former lawyer-turned-food writer & cookery teacher Sumayya Usmani captures the rich & aromatic pleasure of Pakistani cooking through more than 100 recipes. She also celebrates the heritage & traditions of her home country & looks back on a happy childhood spent in the kitchen with her grandmother & mother. Pakistani food is influenced by some of the world`s greatest cuisines. With a rich coastline, it enjoys spiced seafood & amazing fish dishes; while its borders with Iran, Afghanistan, India & China ensure strong Arabic, Persian & varied Asian flavours. Sumayya brings these together beautifully showcasing the exotic yet achievable recipes of Pakistan. ...

J. M. Coetzee’s “ Summertime” is another example of why this author in particular has won both the Booker Prize & the Nobel Prize for Literature. A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was `finding his feet as a writer`. The biographer embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee – a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends & colleagues. Thus emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual, regarded as an outsider within the family. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair & beard, & rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time. “ Summertime” shows us a great writer as he completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with “ Boyhood” & “ Youth”. ...