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. ...

Winter was chilling. Summer will be brutal. Every season is perfect for murder. As the temperature in Sweden reaches a record-breaking 45-, forest fires break out. All those who have failed to escape Linkoping for the summer take shelter indoors, shocked & paralysed by the heat. However, when a teenage girl is discovered naked & bleeding in the local park, it is clear that the raging heat is not the only plague affecting the town. Then a second girl is found dead. Alarmed by the fact that the victims are the same age as her daughter, Tove, detective Malin Fors will work round-the-clock to capture the perpetrator. But as every lead comes to nothing, it is as though the oppressive heat is clogging up the wheels of her investigation. & time is not on Malin`s side.. . ...

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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This guide combines league tables of the best primary & secondary schools (both independent & state) in the UK with detailed profiles of over 1000 schools. Each year The Sunday Times publish two Parent Power supplements with Schoolsnet. The guide draws upon & expands the information available in these two supplements. The first part of the book covers the process of selecting a school, both in terms of a school's performance in league tables & how to undertake the selection process. It
Includes:: / The Sunday Times ranking tables for the top state primary schools, the top preparatory schools, the top state secondary schools & the top independent schools. / More specialized tables based, for example, best GCSE results, best A-level results, best boarding schools, best single-sex schools, best for dyslexic children, highest & lowest fees, best Sixth-form colleges, best schools for added value, best schools for languages, for arts, for technology, etc. / Advice on how to choose, looking both at the state & independent sector, from factors such as geography, examination performance, day or boarding. / Explanation of the application process./ Explanation of educational terms & advice on good websites to visit. / Introduction to the basic structure of secondary schools. The second part contains an alphabetical listing of profiles of around 350 primary/preparatory schools, 650 state & independent secondary schools & 10 sixth form colleges. The profiles for each school will contain contact details, staff & pupil numbers, performance indicators (such as examination performance), entrance details, school policies (on uniform, for example), & a 250-word profile of the school, including comments from Inspection reports.
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