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”. ...

After one year of being `buffered from single-motherhood` by her boyfriend, David, Venetia Summers suddenly finds her life unravelling as he is sent to the Brazilian jungle & she is left alone in Norfolk. As chaos reigns in her home & her three children run wilder than ever she finds her life further complicated by a bad-mouthed green parrot, a burgeoning fashion career designing demented cardigans & her brother`s outrageous wedding. As emails languish unanswered, phone lines cut out & long-distance relationships prove both vexing & bewildering, life & love take some very unexpected turns. ...

When poet Andrew Greig was asked by Scottish mountaineer Mal Duff to join his ascent of the Mustagh Tower in the Karakoram Himalayas, he had a poor head for heights & no climbing experience whatsoever. The result is this unique book. ” Summit Fever” has been loved by climbers & literary critics alike for its refreshing candour, wit, insight & the haunting beauty of its writing. Much more than a book about climbing, it celebrates the risk, joy & adventure of being alive. ...

Easy ascents of 100 mountains in Savoie & Haute-Savoie. A summary details the maps you will need, the height of the mountain, approximate time, & the terrain of each ascent, then there is a simple route map, a description of the route & access information. ...

Administrative provinces of the Ukraine on indexed road maps at 1:250, 000, each with a town centre street plan of its capital city. All place names are in Cyrillic only, but the map legend

Includes:: English. Coverage of the larger provinces is divided between the two sides of the map. Road network is presented in great detail, from international roads, shown with their E numbers, to dirt roads & country paths. Driving distances are marked on main, secondary & selected local roads; the maps also show border crossings, fuel stations, car service stations, & traffic patrol service points. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. The maps also show boundaries of districts into which each region (oblast) is subdivided, & indicate their administrative headquarters. Topography is indicated by spot height, plus boundaries of national parks & other protected areas, & colouring and/or graphics for forests, orchards, vineyards, swamps & salt marshes. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ & 15’ respectively, & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title also

Includes:: a local table of driving distances & a street plan of the region’s administrative capital annotated with locations of selected hotels, car parks & petrol stations, museums & monuments, etc. In some titles more street plans are included.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: supplies of all maps published by the Kartografija in Kiev are irregular & we cannot guarantee a definite delivery time for titles currently not in stock. To see the list of other titles in this series please click on the series link.






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A waterproof, topographic (lat/long, UTM grids) map that

Includes:: covers trails throughout Ketchum, Hailey,

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Taking his inspiration from Dylan Thomas` Under Milk Wood, Louis de Bernieres chose to celebrate his ten years of life in the south London suburb, living above a small shop that had been by turns an outlet for oversized naughty clothes for transvestites, a West Indian hairdressers & a junk shop, by writing of the people that he had known & come to love in his time there. Brilliantly capturing the myriad voices of modern Britain, with their different rhythms of speech & accents, their humour & their tragedy, jokes & gossip, de Bernieres` tour de force takes us to the heart of a community & its spirit
- the lives & loves, the tears & the laughter of its people.
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