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.. . ...

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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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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Austin Palmer & his wife Kay had come, full of dreams & aspirations, to a school deep in the rain-forest of a newly independent West African state. But things had not worked out as they had hoped. When Kay returns to Engl&, Palmer moves away from the school compound into the nearby town of Ogun-Adoubia. Here he is confronted by a power far older than any government, & by his own inner darkness. When that confrontation is over nobody cares to talk about the Sunday Whiteman. ...

The Sunderbans, the world`s largest mangrove expanse, are nothing less than a hub for naturalists & scientists
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Sunderland Central in 1895 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. Coverage stretches from Sorley Street & the Workhouse eastward to Suffolk Street, & from Monkwearmouth station southward to Belvedere Road & Park Road. Features include Central station, Wearmouth Bridge, Monkwearmouth station, Millfield, Millfield station, Wear Flint Glass Works, Workhouse, Hospital, St Mark`s church, St Mary`s church, Trimdon Iron Works, Wear Glass Works, The Green, St George`s Square, Mowbray Park, section of the NER Painshaw Branch, section of Hetton Colliery Railway, Infirmary, tramways, museum, reformatory, etc. A section of the River Wear is included & along it are Lambton Drops, Hetton Staiths, Wear Dock, Palmers Hill Engine Works, Strand Shipbuilding Yard & Wearmouth Drops. A portion of Deptford is in the north-western corner, including St Andrew`s church, Lambton Railway. Part of Monkwearmouth around the station is on this map, including St Peter`s church. Street directory entries for Charles Street, Chester Road, Clanny Street, Hylton Road, John Street & John Candlish Road are on the back. Family historians should note that much of the historic Bishopwearmouth parish is on this map. 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. ...