” My name is Harriet Manners, & I am a geek.” A summer story from the award-winning Geek Girl series. Harriet Manners knows many facts. & she knows everything there is to know about Paris...except what to do when you`re the hottest new model at Fashion Week. Can Harriet find her je ne sais quoi or will it be sacre bleu on the runway? ...

” My name is Harriet Manners, & I am a geek.” A brand new summer story from the no. 1 bestselling & award-winning GEEK GIRL series! Harriet Manners knows many facts. & she knows everything there is to know about Paris...except what to do when you`re the hottest new model at Fashion Week. Can Harriet find her je ne sais quoi or will it be sacre bleu! on the runway? Find out in this hilarious summer special GEEK GIRL novella from the no. 1 bestselling author Holly Smale. ...

` Railway termini, ` wrote E.M. Forster, `are our gates to the glorious & the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure & sunshine...` Now, in this new collection of great journeys from the pages of the Daily & Sunday Telegraph, Michael Kerr follows up his bestselling anthology, Last Call for the Dining Car, with another feast for the armchair rail traveller. The train sliding out of the station can take you back into the past
- in the company of John Betjeman on the Great Western
- or into an ominous future, now that China has a line across the permafrost to Tibet. The sunshine may be the late-afternoon glow on a freight train between LA & Seattle, or the sea light bathing the Cornish coast alongside the branch line to St Ives. The adventure may even be dodging death on the train itself, as Dervla Murphy does on the antiquated rolling stock of Cuba. Sometimes, too, the train tracks people`s lives, on a journey into their deepest secrets. Nicholas Shakespeare, travelling around France, pieces together the story of what happened to his aunt, who was stranded there on the brink of war in 1937. Pamela Petro, rattling down the Pacific coast of the US, confronts the demons that have been haunting her since a train crash a quarter of a century ago. From Sandi Toksvig`s commuter train to Alexander Mc Call Smith`s night train; from the Indian Pacific to the Maharajas` Express; Sunrise on the Southbound Sleeper is a first-class ticket to ride all the best trains in the world.

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This concertina book presents a timeline of seventy of the world`s most iconic buildings from Neolithic times till today. Lucy Dalzell`s gorgeous illustrations bring to life buildings including La Sagrada Familia, Chrysler Building, Eames House, & the Salk Institute. Let the history of architecture unfold before you. ...

” Sunrise with Sea Monsters” is Paul Theroux`s immensely entertaining collection of his shorter writings, ranging from sketches to critical essays. Each piece marks a new `confrontation with the world` & throws new light on the political & social climate of diverse cultures such as those of New York, Singapore, Ireland & Malawi. Others give a lively portrayal of the people Theroux has met or books & landscapes which have inspired him. Above all, this is a fascinating perspective on two decades of travelling, writing & living away from home. ...

As the 19th century draws to a close, the politically disgraced Mahmoud Abd El Zahir takes up his post as District Commissioner of the remote & dangerous Egyptian oasis of Siwa, knowing he has no choice. The hostile, warring natives are no surprise
- but little did he expect to fall in love, his Irish wife to alienate the entire community, or a local beauty to prove a fatal ally. As the gulf between occupier & occupied, husband & wife, dreams & reality widens, tensions reach boiling point.
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In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father & step-mother in New York 7 years ago. What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father that he has been avoiding for years. Pulsing with the energy of Auster's previous novel, Invisible, Sunset Park is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love & forgiveness
- not only among men & women, but also between fathers & sons.
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In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father & step-mother in New York 7 years ago. What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father that he has been avoiding for years. Pulsing with the energy of Auster`s previous novel, ” Invisible”, ” Sunset Park” is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love & forgiveness
- not only among men & women, but also between fathers & sons.
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Our wood hand built flotilla of four sailing dinghies features fresh, bright & sunny colors. Display one or a whole set on the window or bookshelf. Precious & fun. The nicest part of a day on the water. Returning to port. Sun low over the horizon, red. A bit sleepy, ready to dock, take the sails down, stroll home, & enjoy a cold beer. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

” Sunset Song” is the first & most celebrated of Grassic Gibbon`s great trilogy, ”A Scot`s Quair”. It provides a powerful description of the first two decades of the century through the evocation of change & the lyrical intensity of its prose. It is hard to find any other Scottish novel of the last century, which has received wider acclaim & better epitomises the feelings of a nation. ...